• In re: TransPerfect Global, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-19
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Consulting
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor Bouchard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin R. Shannon, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Philip S. Kaufman, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, NY for petitioner.
    for defendant: Jeremy D. Eicher, Eicher Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; David B. Goldstein, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., New York, NY for respondent Shawe. Frank E. Noyes, II, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adam K. Bult, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, Las Vegas, NV for nominal party TransPerfect Global.

    Case Number: D69399

    Court-appointed corporate custodian was entitled to reimbursement of fees and expenses incurred in responding to majority owner's frivolous litigation challenging custodian's fee petitions.

  • Fisher v. Sanborn

    Publication Date: 2021-04-14
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | E-Commerce | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor Bouchard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blake A. Bennett, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Brian J. Robbins, Stephen J. Oddo, Emily R. Bishop, Robbins LLP, San Diego, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, Joseph A. Sparco, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; James N. Kramer, Alexander K. Talarides, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, CA for defendants.

    Case Number: D69359

    Derivative complaint dismissed for failure to make pre-suit demand where lack of evidence that a majority of directors acted knowingly and deliberately in permitting the company to violate consumer protection laws or providing false and misleading information to the public meant that directors were exculpated from bad faith claims and therefore faced no substantial likelihood of personal liability and could independently evaluate a litigation demand.

  • The Cirillo Family Trust v. Moezinia

    Publication Date: 2018-07-25
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor Bouchard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Jenkins, Neal C. Belgam and Clarissa R. Chenoweth for plaintiff
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, Adam K. Schulman, E. Wade Houston and Richard W. Reinthaler for defendants.

    Case Number: D68229

    The court validated written consents to a merger even though they were incorrectly dated.