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Delaware corporations headquartered in California can now successfully move to dismiss investor suits filed in California when the corporations’ governing documents contain forum selection clauses mandating the Delaware Court...more
On June 17, 2025, the Delaware Supreme Court (Court), sitting en banc, reversed a Court of Chancery ruling that had held a bidder liable for aiding and abetting fiduciary breaches of the target’s management....more
The Supreme Court of Delaware reversed the Court of Chancery's application of the entire fairness standard to a company's decision to redomesticate. In the proceedings below, the minority shareholders of TripAdvisor, Inc. and...more
On an interlocutory appeal from a decision denying a motion to dismiss, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed, holding that stockholder challenges to TripAdvisor’s decision to reincorporate in Nevada were governed by the...more
The Delaware Supreme Court’s June 17, 2025 decision in In re Columbia Pipeline Group Merger Litigation reversed a $199 million damages award against TC Energy for aiding and abetting breaches by fiduciaries of Columbia...more
On June 17, 2025, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a post-trial finding of aiding and abetting liability against a third-party arm’s-length buyer. In doing so, the court built upon another recent decision and reaffirmed...more
In Drulias v. 1st Century Bancshares, Inc. 30 Cal. App. 5th 696 (2018), the plaintiff was a shareholder in a Delaware corporation whose board of directors approved a merger agreement and at the same time adopted a forum...more
Gunderson v. The Trade Desk Inc., C.A. No. 2024-1029-PAF (Del. Ch. Nov. 6, 2024) - The board of a Delaware corporation recommended that the corporation reincorporate as a Nevada corporation subject to a majority vote...more
Ravindran v. Glas Trust Co. LLC, No. 463, 2023 (Del. Sept. 23, 2024) - In affirming the Court of Chancery’s determination in a Section 225 action that Timothy Pohl (“Pohl”) was the sole director and officer of a Delaware...more
In re Dell Techs. Inc. Class V S’holders Litig., No. 349, 2023 (Del. Aug. 14, 2024) - After an appeal of the second-largest fee award in Delaware history, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that the Court of Chancery had...more
The Supreme Court of Delaware, applying Delaware’s “meaningful linkage” standard, has held that wrongful acts alleged in a securities class action were meaningfully linked to wrongful acts alleged by the SEC, such that the...more
Opinions by the Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, construing the state’s LLC Law enacted 30 years ago are almost but not quite as rare as hen’s teeth. The great majority of important rulings under the statute...more
In its unanimous decision rendered on February 4, 2025, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Delaware Court of Chancery’s ruling in the widely followed “TripAdvisor” case (Palkon v. Maffei) regarding the standard of review...more
Controlled companies and their directors appealed the denial of their motions to dismiss claims by stockholder-plaintiffs challenging the conversions of the companies from Delaware to Nevada corporations....more
On February 4, 2025, the Delaware Supreme Court, on interlocutory appeal, reversed the decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery to deny defendants’ motion to dismiss breach of fiduciary duty claims against directors and a...more
Delaware corporations contemplating conversion to another state should take note of the Delaware Supreme Court’s recent decision in Maffei, et al. v. Palkon, et al., in which the court ruled that Tripadvisor’s decision to...more
This case stems from the proposed reincorporations of Tripadvisor, Inc. and Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. from Delaware to Nevada, which were first presented to the corporations’ respective stockholders for approval in...more
I recently questioned the basis for Delaware' assertion of personal jurisdiction over controlling stockholders. I noted that there is no "deemed consent" statute for controlling stockholders as there is for directors and...more
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
In Tola v. Bryant, No. 16150, 2022 Cal. App. LEXIS 241 (Cal. App. Mar. 24, 2022), the First Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal applied Delaware’s new formulation of the test for determining whether a...more