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Shareholder Demands Business Judgment Rule Board of Directors

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

A Pipe Is Indeed a Pipe: Delaware Court of Chancery Provides Important Guidance to Companies by Dismissing Excessive Director Pay...

On October 30, 2019, the Delaware Court of Chancery struck a major blow against the plaintiffs’ bar’s efforts to lower the statutory hurdle to maintaining stockholder derivative claims. A stockholder of Ultragenyx...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Refusal of Stockholder Demand Entitled to Presumption of Business Judgment Rule

In Oliveira v. Sugarman, No. 1980 September Term 2014 (Jan. 28, 2016), the Maryland Court of Special Appeals held that the decision of a board of directors of a Maryland corporation to refuse a stockholder demand is entitled...more

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