Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation

Frank Reynolds, who has been covering Delaware corporate decisions for various national publications for over 40 years, prepared this article


The Delaware Supreme Court recently reversed a Chancery decision to let shareholders of TripAdvisor Inc. and its parent continue their suit against their directors over their boards’ reincorporation of the world’s largest travel guidance purveyor 

A recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision provides useful guidance regarding the requirements to preserve evidence in litigation and the potential penalties for spoliation. In the matter styled: In re Facebook, Inc. Derivative Litigation, C.A. Cons. No. 2018-0307-JTL (Del. Ch. Jan. 21, 2025), the court addressed spoliation in litigation involving allegations that Facebook sold personal

Frank Reynolds, who has been covering Delaware corporate decisions for various national publications for over 35 years, prepared this article

A recent Delaware Court of Chancery opinion clarifies how and when a majority of directors may lack independence from its CEO, and finds Rupert Murdoch’s financial or personal influence could have skewed the objectivity of

Sean Brennecke, a partner in the Delaware office of Lewis Brisbois, prepared this post.

In LKQ v. Rutledge, 2024 WL 5152746 (Del. Supr. 2024), the Delaware Supreme Court recently responded to questions certified by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit by confirming that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Cantor Fitzgerald

This is the 20th-anniversary edition of Francis Pileggi’s annual list of key corporate and commercial decisions of the Delaware Supreme Court and the Delaware Court of Chancery. This year’s list does not attempt to include all important decisions of those courts that were rendered in 2024, and eschews some of the cases already extensively discussed