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  • Garfield v. Blackrock Mortgage Ventures, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-01-08
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jason M. Leviton, Joel A. Fleming, Amanda R. Crawford, Block & Leviton LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kenneth J. Nachbar, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE; Deborah S. Birnbach, Jennifer B. Luz, Katherine B. Dacey, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA; Kevin R. Shannon, Berton W. Ashman, Jr., Callan R. Jackson, Potter Andersoon & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; John P. Coffey, Adina C. Levine, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, NY; David E. Ross, S. Michael Sirkin, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68832

    Corporate restructuring transaction was subject to entire fairness review rather than receiving the benefit of the business judgment rule where two large stockholders formed controller group who received special benefits from the reorganization that ordinary stockholders did not receive.

  • 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.