Is Delaware Corporate Law Meant Only For Oἱ Όλίγοι?

Professor Stephen Bainbridge has offered a rebuttal to my observation that Delaware's corporate law is inaccessible to everyday observers. He posits that inaccessibility is a "feature not a bug". As an example, he describes a merger transaction rife...

Where Corporations Most Often Propose To Reincorporate

Recently, I wrote that The Trade Desk, Inc. is proposing to reincorporate from Delaware into Nevada.  An appendix to the company's definitive proxy statement includes a table ofProposed Reincorporations, Proxy Filings from January 1, 2021 to August...

Stockholders Fail To Approve Proposal To Reincorporate Nevada Corporation In Delaware

Although much attention of late has been devoted to proposals to reincorporate in Nevada from Delaware, not every corporation is swimming in the same direction.  Last May, Kintara Therapeutics, Inc., a Nevada corporation, filed a registration...

Israel Headquartered Company Approves Move From Delaware To Nevada

As the debate continues regarding DExit, I have been on the lookout for companies making the move from Delaware to Nevada.  Recently, I came across this information statement filed by Viewbix Inc., a digital advertising company headquartered in Ramat...

Another Public Company Announces Plan To Decamp To Nevada - Is Delaware's Dam About To Burst?

The Delaware dam may not be bursting but there are signs that it is leaking.  In an earlier post, I observed that despite all of the talk, I had not found many recent examples of publicly traded companies reincorporating in Nevada. Recently, I...

Are Delaware Corporations "Rolling Down Hill, Like A Snowball Headed For . . ."?

For Delaware, are the good times really over for good? 

Sundering Noncompetes From The Internal Affairs Doctrine

Last week, I wrote about a recent Delaware case involving an attempt to enforce a non-compete provision in a limited liability company agreement.  Sunder Energy, LLC v. Jackson,2023 WL 8166517. The case was brought in the Delaware Court of Chancery...

Delaware's Definition Of "Officer" Fails To Define "Officer"

In yesterday's post, I posited that Delaware does and doesn't define "officer".   For the proposition that Delaware defines the term, I cited Delaware's deemed consent statute - 10 Del. Code § 3114. That statute, however, only appears to furnish a...

Delaware Special Litigation Committee Review "Could Stand A Good Tweaking"

UCLA Law School Professor Stephen Bainbridge recently critiqued the Nevada Supreme Court's decision to follow Auerbach v. Bennett, 419 N.Y.S.2d 920 (1979) rather than Delaware's Zapata Corp. v. Maldonado, 430 A.2d 779 (Del. 1981).  He concludes:

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