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Board of Directors Ratification Appeals

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Insights: The Delaware Edition - December 2024

In this issue, we explore ongoing corporate law issues involving controlling stockholders, with significant decisions anticipated from the Delaware Supreme Court in 2025; the rise in litigation over earnout provisions in...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

LLC Members May Ratify Prior Defective Actions

Actions taken within business entities are sometimes deemed invalid due to procedural defects.  For corporations, section 119 of the Corporations Code establishes a clear procedure by which defective actions can be ratified...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Knee Deep in the Big Muddy of Director Compensation and Stockholder Ratification

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• The Delaware Supreme Court delivered a gift to the plaintiffs' bar with its recent opinion reversing the Court of Chancery's In Re Investors Bancorp, Inc. Stockholder Litigation decision. • This decision, the first...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Delaware Supreme Court Reins in Stockholder Ratification of Director Compensation

• Directors were not entitled to stockholder ratification defense where stockholders only approved the general parameters of director and employee bonuses • This marks the first time in nearly 60 years that Delaware’s...more

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