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5/26/2023 4:13:31 PM Court of Chancery holds Ex-CEO waived indemnification and advancement rights in stock repurchase agreement By Brian Rostocki Benjamin Chapple Justin Forcier The Delaware Court of Chancery recently held that Mikhail Kokorich (Kokorich), the co-founder and former CEO of space infrastructure...
5/18/2023 4:57:22 PM No express right, no class vote: The current state of Section 242(b)(2) By Brian Rostocki Benjamin Chapple John Miraglia As summarized in an earlier post, a recent bench ruling from Vice Chancellor Laster (in the coordinated Fox & Snap actions) contained a...
5/5/2023 9:11:26 PM Delaware Court of Chancery approved $1.65 million mootness fee in WWE bylaw dispute By Brian Rostocki Benjamin Chapple Justin Forcier World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Chairman Vincent K. McMahon agreed to pay $1.6 million to class attorneys as a mootness fee for his...
4/17/2023 4:42:22 PM Books and records actions are being assigned to Masters in Chancery: Here's the Chancellor's guidance By Brian Rostocki Benjamin Chapple John Miraglia In light of its status as a court of equity, the Delaware Court of Chancery sometimes needs to move fast—very fast. And a crowded docket...
4/5/2023 9:36:00 PM Personal jurisdiction proper over de facto managers of Delaware “shell” LLC By Brian Rostocki Benjamin Chapple Anne Steadman In Next Level Ventures, LLC v. AVID USA Technologies, LLC, C.A. 2022-0699-MTZ (Del. Ch. Mar. 16, 2023), Vice Chancellor Zurn found...
3/17/2023 3:30:30 PM Inside the circle of confidentiality: The Court of Chancery reaffirms the status of board designees as joint clients By Brian Rostocki Benjamin Chapple John Miraglia In Hyde Park Venture Partners Fund III, L.P. v. FairXchange, LLC, C.A. No. 2022-0344-JTL (Del. Ch. Mar. 9, 2023), the Court of Chancery...
3/16/2023 5:26:45 PM The duty of oversight for officers and directors of Delaware Corporations By Brian Rostocki Benjamin Chapple Justin Forcier Delaware law has long held that directors of Delaware corporations have a duty to be “reasonably informed concerning the corporation,”...
3/16/2023 12:55:51 AM Court of Chancery finds Revlon liability By Brian Rostocki Change of control situations such as a sale of a corporation give rise to Revlon duties, which require a corporation's board of directors...