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Fraud Anti-Reliance Clauses

Fraud is the making of false representations or engaging in deceptive behavior in order to unlawfully secure financial or personal gain. 
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Online HealthNow, Inc., et al: Anti-fraud provisions can be “too much dynamite” - Quarterly Corporate / M&A Decisions update...

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The Delaware Court of Chancery in Online HealthNow, Inc., et al. v. CIP OCL Investments, LLC, et al., C.A. No. 2020-0654-JRS (Del. Ch. August 12, 2021) extended a recent line of cases declining to enforce seller-friendly...more

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Chancery Applies Contractual Shortening of Limitations Period for Breaches of Representations, Finds it Inapt to Fraud Claims and...

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Pilot Air Freight, LLC v. Manna Freight Systems, Inc., C.A. No. 2019-0992-JRS (Del. Ch. Sept. 18, 2020) - In a familiar fact pattern, an acquirer of a business brought suit against sellers claiming, inter alia, that the...more

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CCLD Applies Anti-Reliance Provisions, Dismisses Buyer’s Fraud Claims

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Infomedia Group, Inc. v. Orange Health Solutions Inc., C.A. No. N19C-10-212 AML CCLD (Del. Super. Ct. July 31, 2020) - This case is a strong reminder that Delaware will enforce anti-reliance clauses to bar claims for fraud...more

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Preserving or Eliminating Fraud Claims in M&A Transactions (Update)

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In this April 2016 post, we addressed preserving or eliminating extra-contractual fraud claims in M&A transactions. In this follow-up, we discuss a recent Delaware Chancery Court decision that further clarifies the framework...more

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Delaware Chancery Court Provides Further Insights into the Validity of Anti-Reliance Clauses

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On November 30, 2016, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued another opinion in a growing body of decisions defining the parameters of extra-contractual fraud claims in M&A transactions. In IAC Search LLC v. Conversant LLC,...more

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Delaware Law Updates - FdG Logistics LLC v. A&R Logistics Holdings, Inc., C.A. No. 9706-CB (Del. Ch. Feb. 23, 2016)

Anti-reliance disclaimer by buyer in M&A transaction: Delaware law enforces clauses which identify the specific information on which a party has relied and foreclose reliance on other information - Upon the consummation...more

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Superior Court Explains Reliance Disclaimer Clauses

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A party to a contract may try to limit any future claims of fraudulent inducement by providing an anti-reliance clause in its contracts. As this decision explains, such clauses need to be carefully drafted and particularly...more

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