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On April 23, 2025, the Fourth Appellate District Court of Appeal of the State of California affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action asserting claims under the Securities Act of 1933 against an electric vehicle...more
In Buzzfeed, Inc. v. Hannah Anderson, C.A. No. 2022-0357-MTZ (Del. Ch. Oct. 29, 2022), the Delaware Court of Chancery held that “New Buzzfeed,” the company that emerged following Buzzfeed’s SPAC transaction and subsequent...more
In the first nine months of 2022, plaintiffs filed 157 securities class action lawsuits, according to Cornerstone Research — a figure only slightly lower than the 162 filings in the same period in 2021. Looking behind the...more
In the first published decision of a court of appeal outside Delaware, on April 28, 2022, the California Court of Appeal in Wong v. Restoration Robotics, Case No. A161489, affirmed the trial court’s decision to enforce a...more
On April 28, 2022, the California Court of Appeal issued a much-anticipated decision in Wong v. Restoration Robotics, Case No. A161489, enforcing a forum selection clause contained in a corporate charter provision that...more
As previously discussed in our Sept. 10, 2020, client alert, in Wong v. Restoration Robotics, Inc., Case No. 18-CIV-02609 (Cal. Super. Ct. Sept. 1, 2020), the Superior Court of California for the County of San Mateo dismissed...more
On March 18, 2020, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Delaware Court of Chancery and held that Delaware corporations can adopt federal forum selection provisions for claims arising under the Securities Act of 1933 (the...more
Ruling suggests a new means of stemming the flood tide of state-court Securities Act claims that followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s Cyan decision in 2018. But uncertainty lingers as to whether post-IPO public companies can...more
Last week, the Delaware Supreme Court issued an important decision upholding the validity of "Federal Forum Provisions" in corporate charters requiring that claims under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "'33 Act") be brought...more
The Delaware Supreme Court recently ruled that corporations may require stockholders to litigate claims under the Securities Act of 1933 (Securities Act) in federal court, holding that such forum provisions in corporate...more
On March 18, 2020, in a landmark ruling in Salzberg v. Sciabacucchi, No. 346, 2019 (Del. Mar. 18, 2020), the Delaware Supreme Court upheld the validity of provisions of corporate articles of incorporation that require...more
The decision is a positive development for Delaware corporations seeking to reduce duplicative state court litigation arising from public securities offerings. On March 18, 2020, the Delaware Supreme Court issued its...more
In Sciabacucchi v. Salzberg, No. 346, 2019 (March 18, 2020 Del. Sup. Ct), the Delaware Supreme Court has strengthened the use of forum selection clauses in bylaws and other governance documents by holding that corporations...more
In 2017, courts across this country were split on whether plaintiffs could assert a class action alleging claims under the Securities Act of 1933 (which provides a private right of action against issuers and others for...more
In Sciabacucchi v. Salzberg, C.A. No. 2017-0931-JTL, 2018 WL 6719718 (Del. Ch. Dec. 19, 2018), the Delaware Court of Chancery (Laster, V.C.) held that a forum-selection provision in a Delaware corporation’s charter or bylaws...more
The Delaware Court of Chancery today ruled that a provision in the certificate of incorporation requiring any claim under the Securities Act of 1933 to be filed in federal court is invalid. ...more
Sciabacucchi v. Salzberg, C.A. No. 2017-0031-JTL (Del. Ch. Dec. 19, 2018) - Delaware law permits a Delaware corporation to include a forum-selection provision in its certificate of incorporation governing all “internal...more
In March 2018, in Cyan Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund, SCOTUS held that state courts continue to have concurrent jurisdiction over class actions alleging only ’33 Act violations by private plaintiffs and that...more
On September 5, 2018, Judge Marie Weiner of California Superior Court, San Mateo County, granted defendants’ motion to stay a putative class action on grounds of forum non conveniens in order for plaintiff to pursue the...more
Here is a look back at the top M&A developments that affected deal-making last year and a look forward to our expectations for 2016....more