• Harbour Antibodies BV v. Teneobio, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-05
    Practice Area: Intellectual Property
    Industry: Biotechnology | Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian A. Biggs, Stephanie O’Byrne, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Michael Sitzman, DLA Piper LLP (US), San Francisco, CA; Susan Krumplitsch, DLA Piper LLP (US), East Palo Alto, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Jeremy A. Tigan, Megan E. Dellinger, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Nicholas Groombridge, Eric Alan Stone, Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP, Cold Springs, NY; Jennifer Gordon, Peter Sandel, Tanya S. Manno, Chih-wei Wu, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Wendy A. Whiteford, J. Drew Diamond, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA for defendant.

    Case Number: 21-1807 (MN)

    Court denied motion to disqualify plaintiffs' counsel due to its prior representation of defendant's parent company finding a lack of overlap between the present case and counsel's prior representation of the parent company.

  • In re: The Weinstein Co. Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-08-23
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Crain Martin, Matthew S. Sama, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Brett Ingerman, DLA Piper LLP (US), Baltimore, MD; Rachel Ehrlich Albanese, DLA Piper LLP (US), New York, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert S. Chapman, Sauer & Wagner LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Adam G. Landis, Kerri K. Mumford, Landis Rath & Cobb LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: D69931

    Bankruptcy court correctly interpreted asset purchase agreement as entitling affiliate to payment on his participation interest where APA expressly identified the interest as a permitted lien that purchaser remained subject to, and thus the broader, general exclusion of obligations to debtor's affiliates did not control.