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The Justice Insiders Podcast: The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Defendants Testifying (Poorly), FOMO, and How to Actually Blame Lawyers
Detecting Fraud in New Jersey Workers' Compensation
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 25 - An Investigative Journalist’s Insight Into the COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force
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By Jonathan H. Freiberger The Courts of New York will not aid in the enforcement of a contract when the subject matter is illegal. Cases standing for this seemingly unremarkable proposition are varied. For example, in...more
The organizers of an initial coin offering (ICO) recently won dismissal of an investor’s fraud claims by establishing that their public risk disclosures negated the investor’s claims of reliance on alleged misstatements. The...more
Contracting parties sometimes attempt to rely on merger clauses to avoid future claims arising from reliance on extra-contractual representations such as fraudulent inducement. But in Texas, the inclusion of a standard merger...more
Market Trends: What You Need to Know - As reflected in the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Point Studies: Over the time period covered by the nine ABA studies (2005-2021), the...more
On January 27, 2022, in Levy Family Investors, LLC v. Oars + Alps LLC the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Court”) released a memorandum opinion providing clarity with regard to Delaware’s infamous “Anti-Bootstrapping Rule”...more
It’s a situation that, at least theoretically, could happen many times every business day, all across the country, given how often businesses choose to have Delaware law apply to their contracts. A party (the seller or...more
The Delaware Court of Chancery in Online HealthNow, Inc., et al. v. CIP OCL Investments, LLC, et al., C.A. No. 2020-0654-JRS (Del. Ch. August 12, 2021) extended a recent line of cases declining to enforce seller-friendly...more
Aveanna Healthcare, LLC v. Epic/Freedom LLC, N20C-08-055 AML CCLD (July 29, 2021). Under Delaware law, parties may agree contractually to disclaim reliance – and potential liability for fraud – based on false...more
Express Scripts: Delaware Supreme Court holds that an otherwise undefined “deliberate fraud” carve-out to an indemnification provision is limited to intentional fraud and does not include recklessness. Specific provisions...more
In Agspring Holdco, LLC, et al v. NGP X US Holdings, L.P., et al, the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Court”) denied a motion to dismiss claims of fraud, aiding and abetting fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud against the...more
Market Trends: What You Need to Know - As reflected in the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Point Studies... Originally published by Bloomberg Law....more
Swift Acquisition Corp. v. Krauss, et al., Case No. 2019-0509-PAF (Del. Ch. Aug. 25, 2020)—The Delaware Court of Chancery may permit a purchaser to pursue claims for breach of contract and fraud against a seller and its...more
Infomedia Group, Inc. v. Orange Health Solutions Inc., C.A. No. N19C-10-212 AML CCLD (Del. Super. Ct. July 31, 2020) - This case is a strong reminder that Delaware will enforce anti-reliance clauses to bar claims for fraud...more
The Delaware Chancery Court in The Anschutz Corporation et. al. v. Brown Robin Capital, LLC ruled against dismissing several of Buyer’s claims in a dispute involving the $106 million acquisition of OnRamp Access, LLC...more
In CLC Roofing v. Helzer, a roofer purchased shingles from a seller and stored them on the seller’s property. No. 02-17-00229-CV, 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 5927 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth July 11, 2019, no pet. history). ...more
Three recent trial court decisions address issues that may be of interest to estate planning and administration lawyers, as well as probate and fiduciary litigators...more
In real estate cases—which frequently involve long purchase agreements, loan documents, personal guarantees, deeds of trust, etc.—we’ve likely all had a client or opposing party who trots out the line that they didn’t know...more
Crucial to any private equity seller is certainty: the certainty that a sale will be consummated at an agreed price and that any potential post-closing liability is fully understood in advance of distributing proceeds to...more
In early 2005, a subsidiary of listed Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (0003.HK) bought a controlling stake in a Chinese joint venture company. Initial payments were made, but then the audited financial statements...more
Faced with the rising costs of doing business in our increasingly litigious society, today's employers are looking at any way to manage fees and costs associated with resolving disputes over employment decisions. Some of the...more