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  • September 16, 2024 | The American Lawyer

    Vinson & Elkins Grabs 2 Cadwalader Securities Litigators, Including Global Litigation Group Chair

    Jason Halper, chair of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's global litigation group, joined Vinson & Elkins as a partner in New York on Monday, along with special counsel Sara (Bussiere) Brauerman.

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  • Smash Franchise Partners, LLC v. Kanda Holdings, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-31
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard I.G. Jones, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Tracy N. Betz, Neil Peluchette, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Indianapolis, IN for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Andrew L. Cole, Cole Schotz P.C., Wilmington, DE; Steven K. Fedder, Fedder & Janofsky LLC, Baltimore, MD for defendants.
    Case Number: 2020-0302-JTL

    Fraud claims preempted by Delaware Uniform Trade Secrets Act where the claims involved the alleged misappropriation of proprietary business information, but such claims would fail as any fraudulently obtained information would not have caused the claimed damages.

  • December 22, 2022 | Litigation Daily

    Curtain Call: One Last Look at 2022's Litigators of the Week

    With one more LOTW set to land tomorrow, the race to see which firm will land the most winners this year is already wrapped up.

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  • March 14, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

    New Partners 2022

    The Legal Intelligencer congratulates the new class of partners for 2022.

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  • March 22, 2021 | The American Lawyer

    The American Lawyer's 2021 Dealmakers of the Year

    As the business world went remote in 2020, getting a deal done became harder than ever. But there was still plenty of innovation, creativity and ingenuity in the deal space.

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  • Smash Franchise Partners v. Kanda Holdings, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-08-26
    Practice Area: Trade Secrets
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lauren Neal Bennet, Sarah P. Kaboly and D. McKinley Measley, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Tracy N. Betz and Neil Peluchette, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Indianapolis, IN for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Michael F. Bonkowski and Andrew L. Cole, Cole Schotz P.C., Wilmington, DE; Steven K. Fedder, Fedder & Janofsky LLC, Baltimore, MD for defendants.
    Case Number: D69100

    Although plaintiffs were not entitled to an injunction shutting down defendants' business, the court granted a limited temporary injunction regarding certain statements made by defendants on their website.

  • Gulf LNG Energy, LLC v. Eni USA Gas Mktg. LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Contracts | Damages
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor Bouchard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley R. Aronstam, S. Michael Sirkin, and R. Garrett Rice, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joseph S. Allerhand, Seth Goodchild, and Tania C. Matsuoka, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY; Mark W. Friedman, William H. Taft V, Carl Micarelli, and Lisa Wang Lachowicz, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Joseph B. Cicero and Gregory E. Stuhlman, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joseph J. LoBue and Helene Gogadze, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.
    Case Number: D68838

    Second arbitration enjoined to the extent it constituted collateral attack on damages award from prior arbitration between the parties, but plaintiff's claim pled but not decided in first arbitration could proceed to a determination on arbitrability.

  • September 19, 2019 | Delaware Law Weekly

    AG Moves to Dissolve Businesses Over Fraud Claims

    "We are proud of Delaware's central role in the business community," AG Kathy Jennings said. "Maintaining that privilege means that we have to protect it from abuse."

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  • Absalom Absalom Trust v. Saint Gervais LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-07-10
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Montgomery-Reeves
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin R. Shannon, Christopher N. Kelly, and Jay G. Stirling, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Nathan M. Bull, Adam K. Magid, and Ailsa H. Chau, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff
    for defendant: Davis S. Eagle and Sean M. Brennecke, Klehr Harrison Harvey Branburg LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kenneth E. Warner, Warner Partners, P.C., New York, NY; Richard A. Greenberg, Steven Y. Yurowitz, and William J. Dobie, Newman & Greenberg LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
    Case Number: D68623

    Plaintiff lacked standing to inspect defendant LLC's books and records where defendant's operating agreement expressly limited inspection to members and stated that any unapproved transfer of membership interest or status was null and void, meaning that plaintiff could not become a member of defendant through an unapproved transfer of interest.

  • Appellate Division, First Department:February 26, 2019

    Publication Date: 2019-02-28
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department, Cases Decided
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, First Department:February 26, 2019