Professor Steven Davidoff provides scholarly commentary here on a lecture that Professor Joseph Grundfest recently presented to the Delaware Bench and Bar, as described here, that provides corporations a method to choose Delaware as the forum for intracorporate disputes. Several major corporations have recently included enabling provisions in their organizational documents in connection with what appears to be an

Weygandt v. Weco, LLC, Del. Ch., No. 4056-VCS (May 14, 2009), read opinion here

Issue Presented

The question in this case is whether a non-signatory defendant can be required to appear in a forum chosen in an agreement executed by an affiliate.

In this Chancery Court decision, the court determined that a party was

In Greetham v. Sogima L-A Manager, LLC, et al., 2008 Del. Ch. LEXIS (Nov. 3, 2008), read opinion here, the Delaware Chancery Court addressed three legal issues that are of substantial practical importance in many corporate and commercial litigation cases, and the court’s rulings are also useful tools for the toolbox of those who labor