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McDermott Will & Emery

Don’t Be Caught Dead Handed: Avoiding Legal Challenges to Dead Hand Proxy Puts in Loan Agreements

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A number of public companies have become the target of shareholder books and records inspection demands and litigation related to certain “change of control” provisions in their loan agreements. The type of provisions at...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Dead Hand Proxy Puts Create Litigation Risk for Lenders

Why it matters - In a noteworthy decision, the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that a lender could be held liable for aiding and abetting a breach of fiduciary duty by directors of a public company borrower by including...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Are “Proxy Puts” Kaput?

“Proxy put” provisions, which have been widely used in credit agreements and indentures since the 1980s, have recently garnered the attention of shareholders and plaintiffs lawyers, calling into question their value and the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

“Dead Hand Proxy Puts” Garner Increased Stockholder Scrutiny In Delaware

A ruling last fall by the Delaware Chancery Court has prompted a wave of 8 Del. C. § 220 books and records inspection demands on (and threatened litigation against) Delaware corporations that have entered into credit...more

Morris James LLP

Proxy Puts: Consider With Caution

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Directors of a Delaware corporation that enters into a financing agreement with a lender may breach their fiduciary duties if the financing agreement contains a common provision allowing the lender to accelerate and demand...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Board Enjoined from Impeding Hostile Consent Solicitation Without First Approving Rival Director Slate under Credit Agreement...

The Delaware Chancery Court recently enjoined a board of directors from impeding a stockholder’s solicitation of written consents to replace the board, unless the board first approved the stockholder’s nominees for purposes...more

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