Highlights & Analysis of Key Decisions from Delaware's Supreme Court & Court of Chancery
Delaware Supreme Court Justice Karen L. Valihura recently presented the 2026 Weinburg Distinguished Lecture entitled “Legacies, Lessons and Launch Pads: Charting Delaware’s Course in a New Era, now available in an article format.
My own paraphrasing of a few takeaways: (i) the scholarly presentation included references to icons among prior court decisions in…
The Delaware Senate approved the nomination of Vice Chancellor Morgan Zurn to become a Justice on the Delaware Supreme Court. Congratulations to Her Honor.
She takes over for Justice Valihura who did not seek re-appointment when her term ends this month. The process to fill the new opening for Vice Chancellor of the Court…
In addition to the Annual Review of Key Delaware Corporate and Commercial Decisions that I have compiled on these pages for the last 21 years, I periodically select cases for a semi-annual review. We recently presented these selected cases in a webinar with a PowerPoint.
The selection of these cases is necessarily subjective, and I…
As the Editor-in-Chief of the National Law Review‘s publication called the Delaware Corporate and Commercial Law Monitor, I’m pleased to share the latest edition that has now been published. The newsletter includes articles from authors around the country on the titular topic. My role for this publication is in addition to…
As the Editor-in-Chief of the National Law Review‘s publication called the Delaware Corporate and Commercial Law Monitor, I’m pleased to share the latest edition that has now been published. My role for this publication is in addition to my full-time practice and maintaining this blog–now in its 21st year–as well as…
Frank Reynolds, who has been covering Delaware corporate decisions for various national publications for over 40 years, wrote this article.
The full Delaware Supreme Court recently ruled that the federal Employee Retirement Income Act of 1974 does not automatically bar the managers of an investment fund from accessing ERISA assets to defend themselves from state…
Frank Reynolds, who has been covering Delaware corporate decisions for various national publications for over 40 years, prepared this article.
The majority of a divided Delaware Supreme Court recently affirmed a Chancery decision holding that reliance on post-demand, confidentially sourced news stories of alleged director wrongdoing could be a “credible basis” for an investor’s books-and-records…
Over the last 21 years that I have been writing this blog I have often posted about an annual corporate law seminar in New Orleans called the Tulane Corporate Law Institute, that I am attending again this year. Started by the late great Delaware Supreme Court Justice Andrew G.T. Moore over 30 years ago…
Volume 2, Edition 2 of the National Law Review‘s Delaware Corporate and Commercial Law Monitor has been published. I’m the Editor-in-Chief. It is published monthly and emailed to a select few from the mailing lists the NLR has for their 25 other newsletters, as well as the existing subscribers of this blog who read…
Frank Reynolds, who has been covering Delaware corporate decisions for various national publications for over 40 years, prepared this article.
The full Delaware Supreme Court recently issued a guidepost decision that found a challenge by Moelis & Company investors of the investment bank’s 2014 stockholder agreement—after a delay of nine years—was barred by a laches…