Newsletters & Legal Updates
Business Reorganization and Restructuring
Clear Signal Beacons and Brightly Lined Channel Markers For Directors of Financially Troubled Delaware Corporations
Donna L. Culver, S. Mark Hurd
May 25, 2007
Commercial Law Counseling
Commercial Law Counseling - CLIENT ALERT
September 8, 2009
Commercial Law Counseling - CLIENT ALERT
July 14, 2009
Commercial Law Counseling - CLIENT ALERT
June 18, 2009
Commercial Law Counseling Legislative Update
February 1, 2008
Commercial Law Counseling Legislative Update
July 31, 2006
Commercial Law Counseling Legislative Update
August 12, 2005
Commercial Law Counseling Legislative Update
March 2005
Corporate and Business Litigation
Section 102(b)(7) Charter Provisions Remain Potent Weapons, William M. Lafferty, Jay N. Moffitt, Kenneth J. Nachbar, Leslie A. Polizoti
September 5, 2008
The Delaware Court of Chancery Concludes Directors' Action To Reschedule A Stockholder Vote Satisfies Blasius' Compelling Justification Standard, S. Mark Hurd, Jay N. Moffitt, A. Gilchrist Sparks III
August 22, 2007
Clear Signal Beacons and Brightly Lined Channel Markers For Directors of Financially Troubled Delaware Corporations, Donna L. Culver, S. Mark Hurd
May 25, 2007
Delaware Supreme Court Recognizes Expanded Scope of Direct Shareholder Claims, William M. Lafferty, R. Judson Scaggs, Jr., Jeffrey R. Wolters
April 20, 2007
Delaware Court of Chancery Disapproves Class Action Settlement Based on Concerns Over Timing of Presentation and Investigation of Claims, William M. Lafferty
December 20, 2006
Delaware Court of Chancery Prohibits a Financially Healthy Company From Agreeing to Sell Substantially All Of Its Assets Through a Bankruptcy Filing Without Approval of the Company's Common Stockholders Under 8 Del. C. ยง 271(a), William M. Lafferty, Gregory W. Werkheiser
December 12, 2006
Delaware Supreme Court Addresses Director Oversight Liability, Clarifies the Obligation to Act in Good Faith, Andrew M. Johnston, Angela Priest, Christine Dealy Haynes
November 13, 2006
The Walt Disney Company Derivative Litigation - Delaware Supreme Court Affirms Court of Chancery Decision, S. Mark Hurd, A. Gilchrist Sparks III
June 13, 2006
Regal Entertainment Group v. Amaranth LLC, (Del. Ch. Apr. 12, 2006)
May 16, 2006
Newcastle Partners, L.P. v. Vesta Insurance Group, Inc.,
December 15, 2005
Delaware Corporate Law Counseling
Delaware Legislature Approves Important Amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law
July 10, 2009
Delaware Supreme Court Recognizes Expanded Scope of Direct Shareholder Claims, William M. Lafferty, R. Judson Scaggs, Jr., Jeffrey R. Wolters
April 20, 2007
The Nuts and Bolts of Majority Voting, Frederick H. Alexander
December 2006
Delaware Supreme Court Addresses Director Oversight Liability, Clarifies the Obligation to Act in Good Faith, Andrew M. Johnston, Angela Priest, Christine Dealy Haynes
November 13, 2006
Amendments Adopted to the Delaware Corporation Law
July 26, 2006
Court of Chancery Refuses to Dismiss Contract Claim Based on Board Policy
December 28, 2005
Thoughts on Deal Protection in Light of Toys "R" Us, James D. Honaker, John F. Johnston
July 25, 2005
Delaware Court of Chancery Declines to Enjoin Locked-Up Merger, Frederick H. Alexander, Lewis S. Black
December 3, 2002
Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Locked-Up Merger Decision, Frederick H. Alexander, Lewis S. Black
Vice Chancellor Strine Proposes Changes in Going-Private Standards of Review, John F. Johnston, Eric Wilensky
Intellectual Property Litigation
Intellectual Property In Delaware, April 2009
Intellectual Property In Delaware, February 2008
Intellectual Property In Delaware, January 2008
Intellectual Property In Delaware, June 2007
Intellectual Property In Delaware, March 2007
Intellectual Property In Delaware, October 2006
Intellectual Property In Delaware, February 2006
Trusts, Estates and Tax
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