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In the Boardroom With Resnick and Fuller - Episode 1
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CorpCast Episode 2: Advancement 101
Class Action Trends – Interview with Stephen Gulotta, Managing Member, Mintz Levin's New York Office
Private companies do not typically suffer the same level of scrutiny as public companies, but they can still be sued and investigated, and sometimes with considerable press. The risks range from derivative suits to government...more
In re Santander Consumer USA Hldgs. Inc. S’holders’ Litig., C.A. No. 2022-0689-LWW (Del. Ch. Mar. 31, 2025) - This class action challenged the fairness of a buyout. The case settled on the eve of trial after years of...more
On June 26, 2025, in In re The Boeing Co. Deriv. Litig., Vice Chancellor Morgan Zurn of the Delaware Court of Chancery ordered a stay of all discovery pending the Court’s resolution of Defendants’ motion to dismiss...more
The North Carolina General Assembly recently passed House Bill 388 (the “Act”), which was subsequently signed into law by Governor Josh Stein on June 30, 2025. Originally published on the NCBA's Bar Blog, Business Law...more
On August 8, 2025 in Kim, et al. v. FemtoMetrix, Inc., the Delaware Court of Chancery permitted the amendment of a stockholders agreement without the consent of an adversely impacted investor, even though both the intent and...more
The tariffs that President Donald Trump has imposed on foreign countries have raised myriad questions on how import restrictions and elevated costs resulting from the president’s tariff policies will impact business for U.S....more
We often remark anecdotally that disputes over ownership status—whether one is or is not an owner—seem far more common in the context of LLCs than corporations. The contrast between the often-permissive structure of the...more
The take-private REIT and Real Estate M&A market has remained active throughout the first half of 2025 as increased and persistent volatility in the stock market, coupled with private funds and others having vast amounts of...more
In our March article ‘O-H!’ ‘I-N-C!’, we explored why several well-known companies, including Tesla and TripAdvisor, are leaving Delaware and why Ohio presents a compelling alternative. Since then, Delaware has responded with...more
John’s of 12th Street in the East Village is one of Manhattan’s oldest and most storied red-sauce Italian restaurants. Founded in 1908, John’s hosted a speakeasy and was favored by gangsters during Prohibition. In 1922, it...more
In In re Dura Medic Holdings, Inc. Consolidated Litigation, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that Revlon review (i.e., the obligation of the board of directors of a Delaware corporation to seek the best price reasonably...more
Most federal private securities litigation is brought under Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Section 11 of the Securities Act. These two provisions are responsible for most of the big-ticket securities class actions that...more
On March 25, 2025, Delaware Governor Matt Meyer signed into law significant amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL). The changes—specifically to Sections 144 and 220—introduce new safe harbor protections for...more
This page provides an update on Cornerstone Research’s analysis of settlement outcomes for parallel derivative lawsuits, in which a shareholder derivative action features the same or similar allegations as a securities class...more
In re Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc. S’holder Litig., Consol. C.A. No. 2019-0798-JTL (Del. Ch. Mar. 21, 2025) After the Court awarded damages post-trial of $.87 per share to stockholders whom the Court found had been...more
In Ban v. Manheim, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that the exercise of a call right against a stockholder of a Delaware corporation was invalid under Section 202 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) because the...more
The conventional path to a fair value appraisal proceeding under Section 623 of the Business Corporation Law (the “BCL”) involves deliberate invocation of the statute by the business entity, the dissenting owner, or both....more
On June 5, 2025, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered a major address at the International Center for Insurance Regulation Digital Insurance Forum. In a pointed critique of what has been an accelerating march of...more
Campanella v. Rockwell, C.A. No. 2021-1013-LWW (Del. Ch. Feb. 18, 2025) - Under the Corwin doctrine, the business judgment rule will apply when a transaction is approved by a fully informed uncoerced vote of disinterested...more
The first half of 2025 saw numerous developments in the strategies and counterstrategies between corporations and their stockholders in efforts to find the most favorable law and courts to decide disputes between them....more
On August 8, 2025, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed an action in which a stockholder challenged an amendment to a FemtoMetrix Inc. voting agreement as invalid because the amendment allegedly did not apply “in the same...more
Two recent judicial decisions have brought long-standing assumptions about the so-called “Shareholder Rule” under critical scrutiny. In Aabar Holdings S.à.r.l. v Glencore plc & ors, the English High Court held that companies...more
The Shareholder Rule is a legal doctrine under which a company is generally precluded from asserting legal professional privilege to withhold documents from a shareholder in the course of litigation involving both the company...more
Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) executives have reached a settlement with a group of Meta shareholders. The parties reached this settlement at the beginning of the second day of an...more
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