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  • Terrell v. Kiromic Biopharma, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2025-02-04
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Biotechnology | Consulting
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott James Leonhardt, The Rosner Law Group LLC, Wilmington, DE; Alexander Klein, Donna Aldea, Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & Loturco, LLP, Garden City, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Laurence V. Cronin, Kelly A. Green, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert S. Friedman, Joshua Schlenger, Katherine Anne Boy Skipsey, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, New York, NY for appellee.
    Case Number: 131, 2024

    Chancery court erroneously dismissed complaint for specific performance of stock option agreements where there were multiple reasonable interpretations as to whether the parties' latest agreement included a waiver of options from prior agreements.

  • October 17, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Four Delaware Supreme Court Arguments to Pay Attention to This Fall

    Closely-watched cases could have implications for areas of corporate law that have come up repeatedly in attorneys' conversations this year and in 2023, including controlling shareholders, out-of-state incorporations and how much leeway the Court of Chancery has in reviewing arbitration awards and non-competes.

    6 minute read

  • Gulf LNG Energy LLC v. Eni S.p.A.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-02
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Construction | Energy
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department
    Judge: Justice Jeffrey K. Oing
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Respondents: Mark W. Friedman, William H. Taft V. and Lisa Wang Lachowicz of counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York.
    for defendant: For Appellant: Helene Gogadze of counsel, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, New York.
    Case Number: 654819/18

    Contract Breach Claims Precluded By Contested Arbitral Award, Frustrated Purpose Doctrine

  • March 28, 2024 | The American Lawyer

    Revenue Rises Again at Sheppard Mullin, Along With Demand in Countercyclical Practices

    Marking 32 years straight of higher revenue, rising 6.5% in 2023, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton also saw even healthier increases in net income and profits per equity partner.

    5 minute read

  • Terrell v. Kiromic Biopharma, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-16
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Consulting | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott James Leonhardt, Jason A. Gibson, The Rosner Law Group LLC, Wilmington, DE; Alexander Klein, Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & Loturco, LLP, Garden City, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Laurence V. Cronin, Kelly A. Green, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert S. Friedman, Joshua I. Schlenger, Katherine Anne Boy Skipsey, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP, New York, NY for appellee.
    Case Number: 299, 2022

    Chancery court erred in accepting corporate board committee's interpretation of stock option agreement provision without further review or offering the parties the opportunity to provide supplemental briefing or oral argument. Reversed and remanded.

  • June 24, 2022 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

    Our first runner-up this week is Roy Black of Black, Srebnick, Kornspan & Stumpf who won the first trial acquittal for a defendant in the government's Varsity Blues probe into elite college admissions practices.

    6 minute read

  • December 23, 2021 | Litigation Daily

    Run It Back! One Last Look at the 2021 Litigators of the Week

    Here's one last 'huzzah!' for this year's winners.

    20 minute read

  • October 1, 2021 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

    A pair of talc trial wins for J&J and important appellate wins for Hogan Lovells and Wachtell lead the way this week.

    4 minute read

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

    Publication Date: 2020-12-02
    Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley R. Aronstam, S. Michael Sirkin, R. Garrett Rice, Esquire, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joseph S. Allerhand, Seth Goodchild, Tania C. Matsuoka, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY; Mark W. Friedman, William H. Taft V, Carl Micarelli, Lisa Wang Lachowicz, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
    for defendant: Joseph B. Cicero, Gregory E. Stuhlman, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joseph J. LoBue, Helene Gogadze, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, Washington, DC for appellee.
    Case Number: D69208

    Court could enjoin party from filing second arbitration whose purpose was to effectively appeal a prior arbitration award where the award was subject to the exclusive review under the FAA.

  • September 9, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Del. Supreme Court Mulls Intent of Second Round of Arbitration in Case That Yielded $371M Award

    Joseph Allerhand of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, representing Gulf LNG Energy LLC, argued the Delaware Court of Chancery got it wrong by failing to keep ENI USA Gas Marketing LLC from a "second bite at the arbitral apple."

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