In MCG Capital Corporation v. Maginn, Civil Action No. 4521-CC, 2010 Del. Ch. LEXIS 87 (Del. Ch. May 5, 2010), the Delaware Court of Chancery granted in part and denied in part the defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff preferred stockholder’s complaint alleging both derivative and direct claims. In doing so, the court, for the first time, set forth a rule allowing preferred stockholders to bring derivative suits absent an express limitation in the company’s articles of incorporation or other appropriate document.
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