• BV Advisory Partners, LLC v. Quantum Computing Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-11
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Electronics | Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thaddeus J. Weaver, Dilworth Paxson LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Robert L. Burns, Kyle H. Lachmund, Craig K. Ferrere, Naseeba Saeed, Richards Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 2023-0768-SG

    Court declined to grant petition for appointment of receiver where petitioners potentially lacked standing and failed to demonstrate circumstances warranting a receivership.

  • City of Sarasota Firefighters' Pension Fund v. Inovalon Holdings, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-05-13
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: E-Commerce | Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ned Weinberger, Brendan W. Sullivan, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; John Vielandi, Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY; Jeremy Friedman, David Tejtel, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY; Lee D. Rudy, Eric L. Zagar, J. Daniel Albert, Geoffrey C. Jarvis, Grant D. Goodhart, III, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA for appellants.
    for defendant: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Kevin M. Gallagher, Craig K. Ferrere, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; William M. Lafferty, Ryan D. Stottmann, Alexandra M. Cumings, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Blair Connelly, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY; Kristin N. Murphy, Ryan A. Walsh, Latham & Watkins LLP, Costa Mesa, CA for appellees.

    Case Number: 2022-0698

    Court reversed dismissal of action challenging corporate acquisition where proxy statement failed to disclose advisors' conflicts of interest and erroneously described the advisors' roles in the transaction.

  • City of Dearborn Police & Fire Revised Ret. Sys. v. Brookfield Asset Mgmt. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ned Weinberger, Mark Richardson, Brendan W. Sullivan, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Jackson E. Warren, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; John Vielandi, Labtaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY; Jeremy Friedman, David Tejtel, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY; Douglas E. Julie, W. Scott Holleman, Garam Choe, Julie & Holleman LLP, New York, NY; Brian J. Robbins, Stephen J. Oddo, Robbins LLP, San Diego, CA for appellants.
    for defendant: Kevin G. Abrams, Eric A. Veres, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; John A. Neuwirth, Stefania D. Venezia, Amanda K. Pooler, Elizabeth M. Sytsma, Tanner S. Stanley, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY for appellees.

    Case Number: 241, 2023

    Chancery court erred in reviewing squeeze-out merger under business judgment review where proxy statement failed to disclose potential conflicts of interest of the special committee's financial and legal advisors.

  • April 2, 2024 | Legaltech News

    Luminance Raises $40 Million in Series B Funding, Plans U.S. Expansion

    Law firm Slaughter and May, a longtime Luminance investor, also participated in the round.

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  • March 25, 2024 | The American Lawyer

    The Law Firms and Lawyers That Benefit Most From Private Equity Designation

    An in-depth investigation featuring interviews with a wide range of market leaders has shown the law firms and lawyers that frequently get designated mandates on private equity transactions in the UK.

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  • March 22, 2024 | Legaltech News

    Compliance Startup SingleFile Raises $6.5M With Investments From Am Law 100 and TLTF

    SingleFile, a startup that offers a platform to automate the compliance filing process, is financially backed by a number of firms, including Wilson Sonsini, Cooley and others.

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  • Sec. and Exch. Comm'n v. Rashid

    Publication Date: 2024-03-21
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge John M. Walker, Jr.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee: Michael A. Conley, Acting General Counsel, on the brief, William K. Shirey, Counsel to the Solicitor, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Faith E. Gay, Ryan W. Allison, Selendy & Gay PLLC, New York, NY; Theresa Van Vliet, Genovese Joblove & Battista, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, on the brief, Caitlin J. Halligan, Selendy & Gay PLLC, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 20-4080-CV

    Equity Funds' Reimbursement of Their Manager's Expenses Not Reasonably Foreseeable

  • March 14, 2024 | Legaltech News

    DraftWise Announces $20 Million Investment, Plans to Expand Its Gen AI Contract Platform

    The new investment comes less than a year after DraftWise, which offers a generative AI-powered contract drafting, knowledge and collaboration platform, announced $5 million in seed funding.

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  • Murdick Capital Mgmt. L.P. v. QuarterNorth Energy Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-11
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley R. Aronstam, Roger S. Stronach, Benjamin M. Whitney, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jordan A. Goldstein, Lauren J. Zimmerman, Babak Ghafarzade, Selendy Gay PLLC, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew W. Murphy, John M. O’Toole, Edmond S. Kim, Spencer V. Crawford, Margaret Rockey, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Harry P. Susman, Susman Godfrey L.L.P., Houston, TX; Thomas W. Briggs, Jr., Kirk Andersen, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew K. Glenn, Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 2024-0106-LWW

    Court declined to preliminarily enjoin invocation of drag-along rights where the invocation was not inconsistent with the terms of the proposed merger agreement or the minority securityholders' agreements and the minority could obtain monetary relief if the court ultimately found an improper invocation.

  • February 27, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Current Issues for Estate Planners: The CTA, Rising Interest Rates and More

    There are a number of prominent issues on the horizon for estate planners this year. In this article, we provide a brief overview of some of those issues, including the Corporate Transparency Act, rising interest rates, Pennsylvania recognition of irrevocable grantor trusts, pandemic-related probate delays and upcoming scheduled sunset of the historically large federal gift and estate tax exemption.

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