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22 May 2022, 9:05 pm by Caley Petrucci and Guhan Subramanian
Exhibit 2: Acting-in-Concert Structure (excludes NOL pills)   In the years leading up to the recent case, Williams Companies Stockholder Litigation, where the plaintiffs successfully challenged an anti-activist pill adopted by The Williams Companies, Inc. at the outset of the pandemic, practitioners were including third-generation pills with greater frequency. [read post]
19 Nov 2021, 5:57 am
Williams, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 Tags: Advanced notice, Boards of Directors, Delaware cases, Delaware law, Securities litigation, Shareholder nominations, Shareholder voting The Rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–Module F: Federal Reserve’s Large-Scale Asset Purchase (LSAP) Posted by Rosalind Z. [read post]
24 Oct 2021, 12:03 pm by Francis Pileggi
Blackrock, not Blasius The court rejected the plaintiffs’ contention that the incumbent board’s alleged self-serving conduct and mismanagement triggers review under former Chancellor William Allen’s seminal Blasius Indus., Inc. v. [read post]
20 Oct 2021, 6:11 am
  The dissident stockholders commenced expedited litigation in Delaware, arguing that the board was improperly interfering with the election process. [read post]
28 Sep 2021, 6:29 am
A Facebook stockholder sued current and former directors to recover costs the company had incurred in connection with a proposed stock reclassification. [read post]
25 Jul 2021, 7:19 pm by Francis Pileggi
Defendants owed fiduciary duties to the Company and its stockholders with respect to the corporate asset entrusted to them. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 6:27 am
Hopt (Max Planck Institute), on Monday, May 31, 2021 Tags: Banks, Compliance & ethics, Debt, Debtor-creditor law, Europe, Financial institutions, Financial regulation, International governance, Misconduct, Oversight, Whistleblowers Corwin Doctrine Remains Powerful Antidote to Post-Closing Stockholder Deal Litigation Posted by William Savitt, Ryan A. [read post]
21 May 2021, 5:54 am
Posted by William Savitt, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Friday, May 21, 2021 Editor's Note: William Savitt is partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. [read post]
21 Mar 2021, 7:28 am
The board of The Williams Companies (“Williams”), in March 2020, became the only S&P 500 company to respond to the volatility of the pandemic by adopting a shareholder rights plan (also known as a poison pill). [1] On February 26, 2021, Vice Chancellor McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery enjoined the Williams poison pill in her post-trial opinion in The Williams Companies Stockholder Litigation.… [read post]
20 Mar 2021, 6:45 am
On February 26, 2021, the Delaware Court of Chancery (McCormick, V.C.) issued a memorandum opinion in The Williams Companies Stockholder Litigation enjoining a “poison pill” stockholder rights plan adopted by The Williams Companies, Inc. [read post]
14 Mar 2021, 8:04 am
As the new leadership of the Securities and Exchange Commission considers the agency’s regulatory priorities, they might take note of the recent decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery in The Williams Companies Stockholder Litigation. [read post]
1 Mar 2021, 3:00 am by John Jenkins
On Friday, Vice Chancellor Kathleen McCormick issued an 88-page opinion in The Williams Companies Stockholders Litigation, (Del. [read post]
29 Jan 2021, 6:01 am
Cheffins and Richard Williams (University of Cambridge), on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 Tags: Boards of Directors, International governance, Shareholder primacy, Shareholder value, Stakeholders, UK Former CFTC Chair Gary Gensler to be Nominated as SEC Chair Posted by Cydney Posner, Cooley LLP, on Thursday, January 28, 2021 Tags: CFTC, Disclosure, Joe Biden, Political spending, SEC, Securities… [read post]
28 Jan 2021, 6:09 pm by Francis Pileggi
Those duties depend on the context of the communication, and whether the communication is to an individual stockholder or to a group of stockholders. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 6:24 am
A stockholder then filed this follow-on derivative lawsuit against the company’s directors, alleging that they had wrongfully caused the company to incur expenses—by considering the proposal and defending themselves in the ensuing litigation. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 6:05 am
Riesenberg, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, on Friday, October 2, 2020 Tags: Accounting, Accounting standards, Disclosure, Environmental disclosure, ESG, Materiality, Sustainability Stockholder Claims Dismissed Even After Corwin Defense Fails Posted by Roger A. [read post]