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  • Walsh v. White House Post Prod., LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-04-08
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Andrews, Law Office of Joseph Andrews, Dover, DE; Joseph K. Jones and Anand A. Kapasi, Jones, Wolf & Kapasi, LLC, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: S. Mark Hurd, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Antony S. Burt and Jin Yan, Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, IL for defendants.
    Case Number: D68940

    An LLC buyout provision was a form of option contract, so the court denied defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiffs' breach of contract claim.

  • Neurvana Med., LLC v. Balt USA, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-03-11
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason A. Cincilla, Amaryah K. Bocchino, Ryan W. Browning and Tye C. Bell, Manning Gross + Massenburg LLP, Wilmington, DE; John M. Pierce, Michael M. Pomerantz, Elizabeth C. DeGori and Matthew J. Kokot, Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Lori W. Will, Phillip R. Sumpter, Daniyal M. Iqbal, Jeremy W. Gagas, Dylan J. Liddiard, Charles A. Talpas and Brian J. Levy, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE, Palo Alto, CA and New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: D68907

    The court denied a motion to dismiss regarding a director's pre-resignation conduct, but it dismissed the remainder of plain-tiff's contract and tort claims.

  • In re: Towers Watson & Co. Stockholders Litig.

    Publication Date: 2019-08-07
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Consulting
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Barry and Christine M. Mackintosh, Grant & Eisenhoffer P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs Alaska Labor-ers-Employers Retirement Trust and City of Fort Myers Gen. Employees' Pension Fund. Lee D. Rudy, Geoffrey C. Jarvis, J. Daniel Albert and Stacey A. Greenspan, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA for City of Fort Myers Gen. Em-ployees' Pension Fund. Bradley R. Aronstam and Roger S. Stronach, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE
    for defendant: John A. Neuwirth, Joshua S. Amsel, Matthew S. Connors, Amanda K. Pooler and Sean Moloney, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY for defendants Ganzi, Haley, Heisz, O'Neill, Rabbitt, Ray, Thomas and Zeller. Raymond J. DiCamillo and Sarah T. Andrade, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Richard S. Horvath, Jr., Paul Hastings LLP, San Francis-co, CA for defendants Ubben and ValueAct Capital Management, L.P.
    Case Number: D68658

    Stockholders failed to rebut the business judgment rule, because they did not present sufficient evidence of a conflict of inter-est.

  • Shareholder Representative Services LLC v. RSI Holdco, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-06-19
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Aerospace | Investments and Investment Advisory | Legal Services
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rudolf Koch, Susan M. Hannigan and Matthew W. Murphy, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Christopher F. Robertson and Alison K. Eggers, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff and third-party defendants.
    for defendant: John P. DiTomo and Jarrett W. Horowitz, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Roberto M. Braceras, Adam Slutsky and Ezekiel L. Hill of Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA for defendants.
    Case Number: D68604

    The parties' merger agreement contained a provision which preserved the attorney-client privilege regarding pre-merger communications between sellers and their attorney.

  • Shareholder Representative Serv. LLC v. RSI Holdco, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-06-05
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rudolf Koch, Susan M. Hannigan and Matthew W. Murphy, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Christopher F. Robertson and Alison K. Eggers, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiffs and third-party defendants
    for defendant: John P. DiTomo and Jarrett W. Horowitz, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Roberto M. Braceras, Adam Slutsky and Ezekiel L. Hill, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA for defendants/third-party plaintiffs
    Case Number: D68588

    In this merger litigation, defendants named only some stockholders in their third-party complaint, but the court dismissed de-fendants' request for rescission because all of the stockholders were indispensable parties. Defendants' unjust enrichment claim survived a motion to dismiss.

  • Silver Management Group, Inc. v. AdvisorEngine Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-03
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Fee Disputes
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Jeffrey L. Moyer and Nicole K. Pedi, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilming-ton, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David J. Teklits and Coleen W. Hill, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Gene W. Lee, Perkins Coie LLP, New York for defendant.
    Case Number: D68515

    The plain language of the parties' agreement excluded certain items from the licensing fee calculation and a party's attempt to terminate a contract was ineffective, so the court granted summary judgment on those matters.

  • Ray Beyond Corp. v. Trimaran Fund Mgmt., L.L.C.

    Publication Date: 2019-02-20
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Education | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth J. Nachbar and Sabrina M. Hendershot, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Phillip A. Geraci, Aaron F. Miner and Harry K. Fidler, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff and third-party defendant.
    for defendant: Robert S. Saunders, Jenness E. Parker, Lauren N. Rosenello and Jessica M. Jones, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68467

    A party was not entitled to specific enforcement of a provision for expert determination where the parties' dis-pute involved an issue outside the expert's area of expertise.