On February 17, 2025, Delaware legislators introduced proposed Senate Bill 21, providing for amendments to Sections 144 and 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL)....more
Seva Holdings Inc. v. Octo Platform Equity Holdings, LLC, C.A. No. 2022-0437-PWR (Del. Ch. Aug. 29, 2024) -
In deciding limited cross motions for summary judgment, the Court of Chancery held that the absolute litigation...more
Medal v. Beckett Collectibles, LLC, C.A. No. 2023-0984-VLM (Del. Ch. Aug. 22, 2024).
In denying a motion to dismiss, the Court of Chancery held that the plaintiff pled reasonably conceivable claims for breach of...more
Rivera v. Angkor Capital Ltd., C.A. 2022-0671-MTZ (Del. Ch. Aug. 20, 2024) -
In this decision involving a plaintiff corporation’s action to rescind a stock purchase agreement involving the sale of a majority interest in...more
L-5 Healthcare Partners, LLC v. Alphatec Holdings, Inc., C.A. No. 2019-0412-NAC (Del. Ch. Aug. 21, 2024) -
In this post-trial decision, the Court found specific performance was the appropriate remedy for a breach of a...more
Seavitt v. N-able, Inc., C.A. No. 2023-0326-JTL (Del. Ch. July 25, 2024) -
Earlier this year, the Court of Chancery in West Palm Beach Firefighters’ Pension Fund v. Moelis (“Moelis”) invalidated a stockholders’ agreement...more
Bricklayers Pension Fund of W. Pa. v. Brinkley, C.A. No. 2022-1118-MTZ (Del. Ch. July 12, 2024) -
In derivative cases where a stockholder-plaintiff has not made a pre-suit demand on the board of directors, demand futility...more
In re Kraft Heinz Demand Refused Derivative Stockholder Litig., Consol. C.A. No. 2022-0398-LWW (Del. Ch. July 19, 2024) -
By making a demand, a stockholder-plaintiff tacitly concedes that the board can impartially consider...more
Hyde Park Venture Partners Fund III, L.P. v. FairXchange, LLC, C.A. No. 2022-0344-JTL (Del. Ch. July 30, 2024) -
In this post-trial appraisal decision, the Court of Chancery determined the fair value of a privately-held...more
Mitchell Partners, L.P. v. AMFI Corp., C.A. Nos. 2020-0985-KSJM, 2020-0986-KSJM (Del. Ch. July 3, 2024) -
In this case, in which the Chancellor reviewed a decision by a special master, the Court examined whether...more
Leon v. Orlando, C.A. No. 2024-0311-LWW (Del. Ch. June 5, 2024) -
In an action to determine the rightful manager of a Delaware limited liability company (“the Company”), the Court of Chancery required plaintiff to post a...more
Delaware corporations are not permitted to pursue profits by violating the law. Under Caremark and its progeny, directors’ fiduciary duties include the good faith obligation to oversee and monitor the corporation’s compliance...more
Tornetta v. Musk, C.A. No. 2018-0408-KSJM (Del. Ch. May 28, 2024) -
Following the Court of Chancery’s post-trial opinion concerning Elon Musk’s compensation from Tesla (summarized here), Tesla submitted stockholder...more
Harper v. Sievert, C.A. No. 2022-0819-SG (Del. Ch. May 31, 2024).
A stockholder plaintiff brought derivative claims alleging that current and former directors of T-Mobile US, Inc. were liable for aggregating customers’...more
City of Sarasota Firefighters’ Pension Fund v. Inovalon Holdings Inc., No. 305, 2023 (Del. May 1, 2024).
The Delaware Supreme Court’s decision in Khan v. M & F Worldwide Corp. (“MFW”) established a cleansing process for a...more
In re Columbia Pipeline Grp. Inc. Merger Litig., Consol. C.A. No. 2018-0484-JTL (Del. Ch. May 15, 2024) -
In this post-trial decision, the Court addressed an acquirer’s responsibility for damages suffered by a stockholder...more
Wong Leung Revocable Tr. v. Amazon.com Inc., C.A. No. 2023-1251-BWD (Del. Ch. May 1, 2024) -
In order to inspect books and records under Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, a stockholder-plaintiff must...more
The latest amendments (the “Amendments”) to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) went into effect today, August 1, 2024, to address, among other things, (i) stockholder agreements related to corporate governance;...more
As part of the annual process of reviewing and updating the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”), Delaware’s state legislature recently approved 2024 amendments. In summary, these include the following...more
Urvan v. AMMO, Inc., Consol. C.A. No. 2023-0470 PRW (Del. Ch. Feb. 27, 2024, corrected Mar. 14, 2024) -
It is an axiom of Delaware law that a corporation acts through its human agents. This principle informs the causes of...more
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PVH Polymath Venture Holdings Ltd. v. TAG Fintech Inc., C.A. No. 2023-0502-BWD (Del. Ch. Jan. 26, 2024) -
Under the “bad faith” exception to the American Rule, Delaware courts will consider shifting fees when aggressive...more
In re Oracle Corp. Deriv. Litig., Consol. C.A. No. 2017-0337-SG (Del. Ch. Feb. 7, 2024) -
Under the mootness rule, a stockholder plaintiff can be awarded attorneys’ fees when the plaintiff’s litigation efforts result in...more
Chordia v. Lee, C.A. No. 2023-0382-NAC (Del. Ch. Jan. 4, 2024) -
In this case, as part of a sale of a majority interest, a stockholder agreement granted the founders the ability to designate members to the board of...more
Allen v. Harvey, C.A. No. 2022-0248-MTZ (Del. Ch. Oct. 30, 2023) -
Delaware cases provide guidance on the standard for evaluating the “corporate benefit” from supplemental disclosures in advance of a stockholder vote – and...more
Paragon Tech., Inc. v. Cryan, C.A. 2023-1013-LWW (Del. Ch. Nov. 30, 2023).
In Delaware, a preliminary injunction is granted “sparingly and only upon a persuasive showing that it is urgently necessary, that it will result...more