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Board of Directors Director Removal Delaware General Corporation Law

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Proposed 2025 Amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law

For decades, Delaware has been widely regarded as the leading forum for incorporation in the United States. More than half of all publicly traded U.S. companies, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 500, have made...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Companies Amend Bylaws in Response to Activist ‘Placeholder Slate’ Tactic

In the past year, more than 50 publicly traded companies, including 19 on the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, have amended their bylaws to address the potential for a so-called “placeholder slate” of directors. The bylaw...more

Allen Matkins

Is Section 141(d) Truly Oxymoronic?

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Section 141(d) of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that the directors of any corporation may “be divided into 1, 2, or 3 classes”. It’s hard to make sense of this statement. First, I don’t believe that Delaware...more

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