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The Informed Board - Spring 2025

In this issue of The Informed Board, we go behind all the talk about companies reincorporating in states other than Delaware. In our lead article and our podcast, we point out that few companies actually moved, and we explain...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Significant DGCL Amendments Expand Protections for Corporate Insiders

Amendments to Section 144 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) broaden safe harbor protections for interested director and officer transactions and extend such protections to controlling stockholder transactions....more

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Delaware Amends General Corporation Law to Stanch Company Exodus

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On March 25, Delaware adopted significant amendments to §§ 144 and 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law which aim to provide greater clarity and predictability to corporate fiduciaries in light of certain recent...more

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Delaware Governor Signs Senate Bill 21 into Law, Significantly Amending Delaware Corporate Law

On March 25, 2025, Delaware Governor Matt Meyer signed into law Senate Bill 21, amending Sections 144 and 220 of Title 8 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL). The legislation responds to recent concerns over...more

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2025 DGCL Amendments Take Effect, Introducing Sweeping Safe Harbor Provisions for Conflict Transactions

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On March 25, 2025, sweeping changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the DGCL) took effect (the amendments). The amendments introduce new “safe harbor” provisions designed to cleanse conflict transactions involving...more

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Delaware Supreme Court: Permissive Business Judgment Rule Applies to Corporate Conversions

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everal 2024 decisions by the Delaware Court of Chancery led some prominent corporate leaders to express frustration over perceived increased liability standards for corporate officers and directors, even publicly advising new...more

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2025 Outlook: Key Delaware Court Appeals and Their Impact on Corporate Law

In 2024, Delaware courts continued to address important areas of corporate law, particularly regarding controlling stockholders. Several of those high-profile decisions were decided at the trial level and are now on appeal....more

Allen Matkins

Tornetta v. Musk - Too Many Words!

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After the premiere performance of Mozart's singspiel Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) in Vienna’s old Burgtheatert, Emperor Joseph II of Austria reportedly quipped "Too many notes, dear Mozart, too...more

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Delaware Court Awards Attorneys Nearly $18,000/Hour For Frustrating The Will Of The Stockholders

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Although parties in American litigation usually are responsible for paying their own attorneys' fees, there are many exceptions.  One of those exceptions is when someone confers a "common benefit".   A common benefit may, for...more

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Is Delaware Corporate Law Meant Only For The Oἱ Όλίγοι?

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Professor Stephen Bainbridge has offered a rebuttal to my observation that Delaware's corporate law is inaccessible to everyday observers.  He posits that inaccessibility is a "feature not a bug".  As an example, he describes...more

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Delaware's Problem Isn't That It's Pro-Plaintiff And Anti-Business, It's That Its Corporate Law Is Too Labyrinthine And...

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Professor Stephen Bainbridge recently took note of a draft essay by Yale Law School Professor Jonathan R. Macey, Delaware Law Mid-Century: Far From Perfect but Probably Not Leaving for Las Vegas.  Professor Macey posits that...more

Allen Matkins

If Delaware Wants To Stay On Top, It Should Loose The Ties That Bind

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In a lengthy post yesterday, Professor Stephen Bainbridge advanced the following argument...more

Allen Matkins

Will This Effluence Ever End? One More Public Company Proposes To Leave Delaware For Nevada

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Gaxos.ai Inc. lists its corporate headquarters as Roseland, New Jersey, but like many companies it is incorporated in Delaware.  Last week, it joined several other companies that are proposing to reincorporate in Nevada.  In...more

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Where Corporations Most Often Propose To Reincorporate

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Recently, I wrote that The Trade Desk, Inc. is proposing to reincorporate from Delaware into Nevada.  An appendix to the company's definitive proxy statement includes a table of Proposed Reincorporations, Proxy Filings from...more

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Yet Another Corporation Proposes Move From Delaware To Nevada

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Regular readers of this blog will know that Nevada corporate law has been a long-time interest for me.  That interest began several decades ago when I wrote the first treatise on Nevada corporate law.  That treatise was...more

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Has Professor Solomon Rebutted Vice Chancellor's Theory Of Damages In Palkon v. Maffei?

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Palkon v. Maffei, 311 A.3d 255 (Del. Ch. 2024), cert. denied, No. 2023-0449-JTL, 2024 WL 1211688 (Del. Ch. Mar. 21, 2024) involved a challenge to the proposed reincorporation of TripAdvisor, Inc. from Delaware to Nevada. ...more

Allen Matkins

In Proposing Move From Delaware To Nevada, This Corporation Cites The Burden Of MFW

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Earlier this week, The Trade Desk, Inc. filed preliminary proxy materials for a special meeting of stockholders.  The purpose of the meeting is to approve the reincorporation of the corporation from the State of Delaware to...more

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Another Delaware Publicly Traded Company Proposes A Nevada Move

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Last week, Chromocell Therapeutics Corporation filed preliminary proxy materials that included a proposal to reincorporate in Nevada.  Rather than convert, the company is proposing to effect the reincorporation by means of a...more

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After More Than A Year, Questions Remain Regarding Caremark and Officers

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Last year, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster famously held that officers could be subject to liability under the Caremark doctrine.  In re McDonald’s Corp., 289 A.3d 343 (Del. Ch. Jan. 26, 2023).    The Caremark doctrine...more

Allen Matkins

When Two Corporate Laws Diverge, Does Choosing One Make All The Difference?

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In a new article, professor of law Wendy Gerwick Couture aims for "a fuller understanding of Nevada corporate law, both substantively and theoretically, as compared with Delaware corporate law".  For the title and them of her...more

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The Delaware General Assembly Approves Amendments to the DGCL – Effective August 1, 2024

On June 20, 2024, the Delaware General Assembly passed legislation to amend certain provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) in order to address recent decisions of Delaware’s Court of Chancery and bring...more

Allen Matkins

Cave Delaware Aut Bene Dormi Delaware?

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I began writing about Nevada Corporate Law more than three decades ago with an article entitled "The Nevada Corporation: Is It A Good Bet?".  14 CEB California Business Law Reporter 259 (1992).  In the ensuing decades, I have...more

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Professor Bainbridge Queries Whether SB 313 Eviscerates Omnicare, But Does That Question Have Any Relevance To California...

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Delaware practitioners and legal scholars are digesting the implications of SB 313 which adds a new Section 122(18) to the Delaware General Corporation.  According to the bill's synopsis, this new provision...more

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Israel Headquarted Company Approves Move From Delaware To Nevada

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As the debate continues regarding DExit, I have been on the lookout for companies making the move from Delaware to Nevada.  Recently, I came across this information statement filed by Viewbix Inc., a digital advertising...more

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Officer Exculpation and the Silicon Valley 150: Year Two

Last year, we reviewed proxy statements filed by companies in the Silicon Valley 150 (SV150) to see whether they included an officer exculpation proposal in their proxy statements for stockholder meetings held from August 1,...more

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