Daily Compliance News: August 6, 2025, The Spanking Banks Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: Navigating Corporate Scandals: Insights on Governance, Compliance, and Recovery with Steve Vincze
FCPA Compliance Report: 10 Core Principles for Effective Internal Investigations with Michelle Peirce
Data Driven Compliance: Understanding the UK’s New Failure to Prevent Fraud Offense with Sam Tate
Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 23, 2025 the Pardon in the Wind? Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 21, 2025, The More Reasons Not to Go to China Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 16, 2025, The Corruption Comes to Cannes’ Edition
All Things Investigation: Due Diligence and Drama: A Deep Dive into Art World with Daniel Weiner
Daily Compliance News: July 10, 2025, The Loyalty Oath Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Lessons from Internal Control Failures
Daily Compliance News: July 7, 2025 the Disaster on the River Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 28, 2025
The Dark Patterns Behind Corporate Scandals
Compliance into the Weeds: Boeing’s New Safety Initiatives and Compliance Reforms
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 21, 2025
Daily Compliance News: June 13, 2025. The All Boeing Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels: The Sign of Four – Applying Sherlock Holmes’ Methods to Modern Corporate Compliance
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 53 – The AI as a Whistleblower Edition
Great Women in Compliance: From Hotline to Headline: The DOJ’s Whistleblower Awards Reboot with Mary Inman and Liz Soltan
The In re Columbia Pipeline Group Merger Litigation decision clarifies that a buyer may not be found liable for aiding and abetting a seller-side breach of fiduciary duty unless the buyer had actual knowledge—not merely...more
On January 29, 2025, in State of Rhode Island Office of the General Treasurer v. Paramount Global (the “Decision”), the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a post-trial opinion, broadening the types of sources a stockholder may...more
Our Securities Litigation and Securities Groups examine a Delaware bill (SB 21) that would enhance the state’s legal protections for corporations and their directors, officers, and controlling stockholders....more
In Seavitt v. N-able, 321 A.3d 516 (Del. Ch. 2024), decided prior to the amendment of the Delaware General Corporate law to add Section 122(18), the Delaware Court of Chancery held that the “public nature of a charter” means...more
In this issue, we discuss recent Delaware court developments regarding officer liability, who can recover “lost-premium” damages, and trends in books and records actions, among other topics....more
On August 25, 2023, Magistrate Bonnie W. David of the Delaware Chancery Court issued a post-trial report denying stockholder requests for supplemental productions of emails from Zendesk, Inc. (the “Company”) pursuant to a...more
On June 27, 2023, Vice Chancellor Lori W. Will of the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a judgment in favor of a “leading media and entertainment” company with a “substantial presence in Florida” (the “Corporation”),...more
In the landmark case In re Caremark International Inc. Derivative Litigation (1996), the Delaware Court of Chancery clarified the standard of liability for oversight failures by directors. Specifically, the Delaware Court of...more
Effective August 1, 2022, Delaware amended Section 102(b)(7) of its General Corporation Law to allow a Delaware corporation to include in its certificate of incorporation a provision exculpating certain of its officers. ...more
Effective August 1, 2022, the Delaware General Corporation Law (the DGCL)—the statutory code that governs Delaware corporations—has been amended to make several significant changes. Among other things, the amendments will...more
This issue covers important, developing areas of Delaware corporation law and deal litigation, including two recent Court of Chancery opinions discussing Caremark claims, Delaware's expansion of plaintiffs' rights in Section...more
Yesterday's post concerned, a recent ruling by Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock in Lacey v. Mota-Velasco, C.A. No. 2019-0312-SG (Del. Ch. Feb. 11, 2021). In finding that a director's duties are fiduciary, not contractual, the...more
On October 30, 2020, Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock III of the Delaware Court of Chancery upheld breach of fiduciary duty claims brought by former stockholders of TerraForm Power, Inc. (the “Company”) against its majority...more
In Salladay v. Lev, the Delaware Chancery Court elaborated on how early a corporate board must take protective measures to shield a conflicted transaction from entire fairness review. Salladay involved a motion to dismiss a...more
In a recent post-trial opinion, Vice Chancellor Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery issued an important decision regarding stockholder books and records demands under Section 220(b) of the Delaware General Corporation...more
What legal standard applies to assess a corporate board’s refusal to pursue litigation in response to a shareholder’s demand to take “all necessary actions” to correct alleged director misconduct?...more