Highlights & Analysis of Key Decisions from Delaware's Supreme Court & Court of Chancery
I recently attended a seminar in New York on D&O litigation developments called the PLUS Symposium. The topics lean towards the concerns of those who defend D&O cases and provide D&O coverage.
I listened to a panel entitled: “Hot Topics in D&O 2025”. None of the panel members were Delaware lawyers or members of…
For the last 20 years, I have highlighted selected decisions from the Delaware Supreme Court and the Delaware Court of Chancery on these pages, as well as related topics, including legal ethics. Recently, the National Law Review, a publication that is over 100 years old and boasts over 2 million readers, asked me to…
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 …
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…
Fanta Toure, a law clerk in the Delaware office of Lewis Brisbois, prepared this post.
The Supreme Court of Delaware issued a significant ruling in Kellner v. AIM Immunotech Inc., No. 2023-0879 (Del. Supr. July 11, 2024), addressing a legal challenge related to advance notice bylaws adopted by AIM Immunotech’s board in response…
The current issue of Delaware Today magazine published this month a list of “Top Lawyers” in Delaware for various areas of the law. Yours truly was included in the list under the category of “corporate law”. (There was no separate category for corporate litigation.) Congrats to my fellow Delaware lawyers who were included in the…
The Delaware Supreme Court recently affirmed a Chancery decision that was highlighted on these pages, which described the limited scope of a summary proceeding under DGCL Section 225 to determine who properly holds a corporate office.
In Barby v. Young, No. 391-2023 Order (Del. June 11, 2024), the high court described that among…
Frank Reynolds, who has been covering Delaware corporate decisions for various national publications for over 35 years, prepared this article.
The full Delaware Supreme Court recently reversed the dismissal of a shareholder challenge to a private equity consortium’s acquisition of Inovalon HoldingsInc. after finding the cloud-based healthcare industry support provider’s directors did not fully…
Frank Reynolds, who has been covering Delaware corporate decisions for various national publications for over 35 years, prepared this article.
The full Delaware Supreme Court recently revived part of an investor challenge to IAC/InterActive Corp’s spinoff of its internet dating subsidiary after finding that the deal that controller IAC imposed on minority shareholders did not…
Frank Reynolds, who has been covering Delaware corporate decisions for various national publications for over 35 years, prepared this article.
Vice Chancellor Travis Laster recently denied the TripAdvisor Inc. directors’ request for a quick appeal of his decision one month earlier to let shareholders press their charge that the board’s charter change move to Nevada…