A recent post on the Harvard Law School Corporate Law Blog, (on which I have published several articles as a contributing author), reviewed the Court of Chancery’s decision in Olenik v. Lozinski, C.A. 2017-0414-JRS (Del. Ch. July 20, 2018), in which a modification of the “ab initio” requirement of the MFW framework was applied in order for the challenged transaction to enjoy the benefit of the business judgment rule’s presumption. The MFW framework, and the cases that explain it, have been discussed in several posts on these pages. As the above-linked post describes it:

MFW provides for judicial review of a merger between a controller and the controlled company under the deferential business judgment rule standard (rather than “entire fairness”) if, among other things, “from the outset of negotiations” (the so-called “ab initio requirement”), the controller conditioned the transaction on approval by both an independent special committee and a majority of the minority stockholders