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2 Feb 2015, 5:00 am by Steve Brachmann
Currently, the company is accepting entries for its 2015 DuPont Packaging Awards, which the corporation boasts is the longest-running awards ceremony in that industry since its inception in 1986. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 8:53 am
The Guardian, one of the world’s leading newspapers, recently interviewed Womble Carlyle attorney Press Millen about a landmark trade secrets judgment.A Virginia jury awarded the DuPont corporation $920 million from a South Korean company after allegations that the competitor stole trade secrets concerning DuPont’s Kevlar body armor technology.Read more… [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 3:49 pm
It looks like the Dupont Corporation was recently slammed by a Florida judge for allegedly providing inaccurate and misleading discovery responses. [read post]
6 May 2015, 2:30 am by Steve Brachmann
It looks like DuPont is busy trying to find ways to pay back investors so that the corporation can keep one group in particular from forcing a corporate split to break away from what those investors see as unprofitable business activities. [read post]
The ISS Report on the DuPont-Trian proxy contest calls attention to a number of important insights into ISS policies and practices and those of many of its institutional investor clients. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 9:52 am by Lawrenz Fares
[JURIST] DuPont and Chemours Co [corporate websites] settled [Reuters report] approximately 3,550 personal injury claims for $671 million on Monday. [read post]
Although the two most influential proxy advisory firms, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and Glass Lewis & Co., both supported Trian’s slate of director nominees, DuPont’s three largest institutional shareholders, The Vanguard Group, Blackrock, Inc. and State Street Corporation, all voted in favor of DuPont’s slate. [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 10:19 am
The way things have been going in West Virginia for corporate defendants in punitive damages cases, DuPont is unlikely to obtain any relief from the appellate courts.UPDATE (2/26/08 at 1:52): DuPont plans to appeal. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 4:51 am
DuPont de Nemours Corporation (DuPont) in December 2002, in the matter of Govan v. [read post]
DuPont’s defeat of Trian Partners’ proxy fight to replace four DuPont directors is an important reminder that well-managed corporations executing clearly articulated strategies can still prevail against an activist, even when the major proxy advisory services (ISS and Glass-Lewis) support the activist. [read post]
19 Jul 2005, 8:31 am
[JURIST] A lawsuit was filed Tuesday against US chemical company DuPont [corporate website] by two law firms in Florida representing 14 people who say that the company did not sufficiently warn the public about the health hazards associated with its product, the non-stick coating Teflon. [read post]
18 Jul 2021, 2:03 pm by Stuart Kaplow
And all of this a prime example of the judicial branch of government working well, using existing laws, to make bad corporate actors pay those who have been wronged. [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 5:00 am by Steve Brachmann
Currently, the company is accepting entries for its 2015 DuPont Packaging Awards, which the corporation boasts is the longest-running awards ceremony in that industry since its inception in 1986. [read post]
7 Jun 2009, 1:53 pm
DuPont - big, big legal budget, and big on operational improvements, is the company most written about on this blog. [read post]
9 Sep 2004, 9:18 am
In Thursday's corporations and securities law news, chemical giant DuPont has agreed to a settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit alleging the company contaminated a West Virginia community's water supply with chemical PFOA, a key ingredient used in its Teflon products. [read post]
Recent statements by the CEOs of BlackRock and Vanguard rejecting activism and supporting investment for long-term value creation and their support of DuPont in its proxy fight with Trian, prompt the thought that activism is moving in-house at these and other major investors and a new paradigm for corporate governance and portfolio oversight is emerging. [read post]
14 Dec 2005, 7:22 am
[JURIST] Chemical giant DuPont [corporate website] has agreed to pay over $10 million in fines and another $6 million for environmental projects in order to settle allegations [press release] that the company hid information about the dangers of a chemical used in the manufacturing of Teflon, the US Environmental Protection Agency [official website] said Wednesday. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 8:50 am by Matthew Marin
It’s not merely a financial recompense; it’s a clear message to corporations about the undeniable importance of responsible environmental stewardship. [read post]
27 Nov 2006, 11:55 am
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit today issued an opinion affirming the entry of summary judgment against a consortium of Florida farmers, plant nurseries, and corporations who sued DuPont alleging fraudulent inducement to settle, spoilation, and racketeering. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 8:13 am by Greenberg & Bederman
If you happen to be a corporation, there is nothing “flawed” or “broken” about this system. [read post]