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Corporate Divorce – Preventing and Managing the Break-Up of a Business Partnership
Compliance into the Weeds: Of Wal-Mart, Tariffs and Stakeholder Capitalism
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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
Last Friday, California headquartered Affirm Holdings, Inc. filed preliminary proxy materials for a special meeting of stockholders to consider a proposal to reincorporate from Delaware to Nevada. Affirm is joining several...more
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., a Delaware corporation, operates Truth Social and its securities trade on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC. The company's largest stockholder is Donald J. Trump, Jr. Given...more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In a recently released article, Professor Stephen Bainbridge tackles the question of just how real the DExit phenomenon might really be. Among other things, he responds to my argument that Nevada eschews Delaware law...more
Yesterday's post highlighted Professor Stephen Bainbridge's recently posted article, DExit Drivers: Is Delaware's Dominance Threatened? His article analyzes the reasons that companies give for leaving Delaware for other...more
I recently came across another publicly traded Delaware corporation with plans to reincorporate in Nevada. Interestingly, this corporation, Sonoma Pharmaceuticals, Inc., originally began as a California corporation and then...more
In news that should cheer hearts in Delaware, the stockholders of Fidelity National Financial, Inc. last week failed to approve a proposal to convert the corporation from a Delaware to a Nevada corporation. I characterize...more
In 2019, the Nevada legislature added a provision to the state's corporate law permitting the articles of incorporation or bylaws to require, to the extent not inconsistent with any applicable jurisdictional requirements and...more
Both Delaware and Nevada require corporations to indemnify certain persons against expenses (including attorneys' fees) to the extent that they have been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or...more
For Delaware, are the good times really over for good? University of Virginia School of Law Professor Michal Barzuza fears that they might in a recently posted a draft of her upcoming article entitled "Nevada v....more
TYPES OF BUSINESS ENTITIES - In the Netherlands, there is a distinction between entities which qualify as legal entities (‘rechtspersonen’) and partnerships (‘personenvennootschappen’) which do not. Legal entities are...more
1. Types of Business Entities - Italian law provides multiple forms of organizational structures to do business in Italy. They differ from one another due to the extent of liability undertaken by its members. In...more
I have recently written about TripAdvisor's proposal to redomesticate, by conversion, from Delaware to Nevada. The first reason given for the move in TripAdvisor's proxy statement is saving money...more
1. Types of Business Entities - 1.1 Premises - The Italian law provides multiple forms of organizational structures in order to do business in Italy, which differ from one another due to the extent of the liability...more
1. Types of Business Entities - 1.1 Description of the types of entities available in India through which to conduct business: A foreign entity may establish a business presence in India by: • opening a liaison...more