The Delaware Court of Chancery sustained in part the claims of a plaintiff investor challenging a company's sale of its primary asset based upon allegations that the vote of the individual director defendants approving the sale was tainted by bonuses they received tied to that sale.

In December 2005, individual director defendants of nominal defendant Winmill & Co., Inc., a 22% shareholder in Bexil Corporation, a holding company, voted in favor of a transaction by which Bexil would sell its interest in a third company, its primary asset. In April 2006, Bexil's shareholders approved the sale, resulting in pre-tax proceeds to Bexil of approximately $38.5 million. Two of the individual director defendants who had approved the transaction received bonus compensation directly tied to the sale totaling $2.5 million.