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September 29, 2021 | The Recorder
Consistent with Newton's Third Law, the SPAC boom has seen an significant reaction from regulators, civil plaintiffs, academics and commentators of all stripes.
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March 22, 2021 | The American Lawyer
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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January 29, 2021 | Litigation Daily
Husch Blackwell convinced the Eighth Circuit a Missouri politician wasn't user her Twitter feed fo "official governmental activity," but as communication "akin to a campaign newsletter" leaving her free to select her audience as she sees fit.
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November 17, 2020 | The Recorder
This year, a number of decisions in both California and Delaware have traced the fault lines between the two states' approaches playing out across multiple areas of corporate law.
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October 7, 2020 | New York Law Journal
As derivative plaintiffs continue to seek to expand what constitutes mission critical corporate risk, these decisions provide practical guidance on how courts will: (i) identify the key compliance risks a company's business presents, and (ii) evaluate whether a particular company has implemented reasonable board-level monitoring and reporting procedures.
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July 24, 2020 | Litigation Daily
We have some really strong runners-up to shout out this week.
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February 11, 2020 | New York Law Journal
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently addressed a nearly unprecedented issue: the discovery and privilege implications of a special litigation committee's decision to hand over control of a company claim to a stockholder derivative plaintiff who initiated the claim and survived a motion to dismiss. As Joseph M. McLaughlin and Shannon K. McGovern discuss in this edition of their Corporate Litigation column, the framework established by the court to provide the plaintiff with the benefit of the SLC's work has expansive disclosure aspects and important boundaries to be understood by practitioners.
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February 11, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently addressed a nearly unprecedented issue: the discovery and privilege implications of a special litigation committee's decision to hand over control of a company claim to a stockholder derivative plaintiff who initiated the claim and survived a motion to dismiss. As Joseph M. McLaughlin and Shannon K. McGovern discuss in this edition of their Corporate Litigation column, the framework established by the court to provide the plaintiff with the benefit of the SLC's work has expansive disclosure aspects and important boundaries to be understood by practitioners.
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October 9, 2019 | New York Law Journal
In their Corporate Litigation column, Joseph M. McLaughlin and Shannon K. McGovern discuss the recent pair of federal court decisions—'House v. Akorn' and 'Scott v. DST Systems'—which highlight courts' willingness to probe supplemental disclosures to ascertain whether shareholders received a material benefit warranting an award of attorney fees, as part of a settlement or otherwise.
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June 12, 2019 | New York Law Journal
In their Corporate Litigation column, Joseph M. McLaughlin and Shannon K. McGovern discuss the Delaware Court of Chancery's decision in 'City of Tamarac Firefighters' Pension Tr. Fund v. Corvi', which reminds practitioners of the steep burden facing a derivative plaintiff seeking to plead that a board wrongfully refused its pre-litigation demand and provides guidance on several recurring aspects of board responses to demands
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