• Morrison v. Berry

    Publication Date: 2020-06-17
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris, Christopher P. Quinn and Bradley P. Lehman, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Randall J. Baron and Christopher H. Lyons, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP , San Diego, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Rudolf Koch, Matthew D. Perri and John M. O’Toole, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adam L. Sisitsky, Lavinia M. Weizel, Robert I. Bodian and Scott A. Rader, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., New York, NY and Boston, MA for independent director defendants. William B. Chandler III, Bradley D. Sorrels, Lindsay K. Faccenda and Daniyal M. Iqbal, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendant Duggan. Patricia L. Enerio, Jamie L. Brown and Gillian L. Andrews, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant Anicetti. Kevin G. Abrams, J. Peter Shindel, Jr. and Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew A. Schwartz and Joshua S. Levy, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY for J.P. Morgan defendants. William M. Lafferty, S. Mark Hurd, Thomas W. Briggs, Jr. and Elizabeth A. Mullin, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stuart W. Gold and Richard W. Clary, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY for defendant Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP. Kevin R. Shannon and Matthew F. Davis, Potter, Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jonathan Rosenberg and Abby F. Rudzin, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, NY for Apollo defendants. John L. Reed, Peter H. Kyle and David Clarke, Jr., DLA Piper LLP., Wilmington, DE and Washington, DC for Berry defendants.

    Case Number: D69017

    Plaintiff adequately alleged an aiding and abetting claim against a financial advisor, but the court dismissed the other aiding and abetting claims.

  • January 31, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

    New Year, New General Counsel: January 2020 In-House Moves

    With the new year push, many major companies such as Eli Lilly and Co., TikTok Inc. and MoneyGram International Inc. named new chief legal officers.

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  • Morrison v. Berry

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory | Retail
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris and Christopher P. Quinn, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Randall J. Baron and Christopher H. Lyons, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Rudolf Koch, Matthew D. Perri and John M. O’Toole, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adam L. Sisitsky, Lavinia M. Weizel, Robert I. Bodian and Scott A. Rader, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., New York, NY and Boston, MA for independent director defendants. William B. Chandler III, Bradley D. Sorrels, Lindsay K. Faccenda and Daniyal M. Iqbal, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendant Duggan. Patricia L. Enerio, Jamie L. Brown and Gillian L. Andrews, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant Anicetti. Kevin G. Abrams, J. Peter Shindel, Jr. and Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew A. Schwartz and Joshua S. Levy, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY for J.P. Morgan defendants. William M. Lafferty, S. Mark Hurd, Thomas W. Briggs, Jr., Richard Li and Elizabeth A. Mullin, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stuart W. Gold and Richard W. Clary, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY for defendant Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Kevin R. Shannon, Matthew F. Davis and Nicholas S. Prust, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jonathan Rosenberg and Abby F. Rudzin, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, NY for Apollo defendants. John L. Reed, Peter H. Kyle and David Clarke, Jr., DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE and Washington, DC for Berry defendants.

    Case Number: D68842

    The court granted defendant directors' motions to dismiss.

  • June 24, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Morgan Lewis Snags Phila. Private Equity Lawyer From Dechert

    Aaron Suh, a corporate lawyer who advises private equity sponsors and strategic acquirers, is now a partner at Morgan Lewis.

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  • October 31, 2018 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: Nov. 1, 2018

    • Baker Botts, Fried Frank act on Australian engineering group's $3.3B U.S. acquisition. • Cleary, Skadden advising a $825 million South Korean solar take-private deal. • Magic Circle trio on first Chinese company's $464 million listing in Germany.

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  • August 9, 2018 | Litigation Daily

    Daily Dicta: Why 23 Beer Drinkers Can't Un-Do a $107B Merger

    It's one of the quirkier corners of antitrust law: Private plaintiffs can sue to block mergers. But extracting a settlement is another matter.

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  • January 25, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Big Deals Fuel Value Rebound in NJ-Based M&A Market

    A trio of multibillion-dollar deals in three different industries led to a sharp increase in the total amount of value transacted in the 2017 mergers and acquisitions market in New Jersey, data shows.

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  • July 28, 2017 | The American Lawyer

    Deal Watch: Summer Sees Payment Systems Mergers Heat Up

    July was a busy month for billion-dollar M&A deals, as the European market began to show signs of recovery from a Brexit-induced shock, although the ensuing transactional trauma did not prove to be as devastating as initially feared. The sales of several payment systems companies this month generated key roles for nearly a dozen large firms.

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  • April 5, 2017 | International Edition

    Skadden and Sullivan lead as Krispy Kreme owner agrees $7.5bn Panera Bread takeover

    Germany's billionaire Reimann family to buy US sandwich chain

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  • February 20, 2017 | The American Lawyer

    Deal Watch: Two Big Firms Advise on Scuttled Unilever-Kraft Heinz Merger

    Linklaters and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison landed lead roles on a since aborted $143 billion takeover bid for London-based Unilever plc by Pittsburgh-based Kraft Heinz Foods

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