Seven years ago, I addressed the question of whether the board of directors of a California corporation could remove a fellow director:
In Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc.,506 A.2d 173, 182 (1986), the Delaware Supreme Court famously held that when the sale of a corporation becomes inevitable, the board of directors' duty changed from the preservation of the...
The line between a direct and derivative action is often indistinct and hence the object of controversy.
In 2019, the Nevada legislature added a provision to the state's corporate law permitting the articles of incorporation or bylaws to require, to the extent not inconsistent with any applicable jurisdictional requirements and the laws of the United...
In a recent post, I took note of another Delaware corporation that had disclosed plans to convert to a Nevada corporation. The Form 8-K filed by this company included the following statement:
NRS 78.585 provides that dissolution does not impair any remedy or cause of action against a dissolved Nevada corporation or its directors, officers, or stockholders if it is commenced within:
A great deal of attention, including in this blog, has been focused Delaware corporations reincorporating in Nevada and other states. See, e.g., Reasons To Quit Delaware Are Gettin' Bigger Each Day and Are Delaware Corporations "Rolling Down Hill,...
In Palkon v. Maffei, 2024 WL 678204 (Del. Ch. Feb. 20, 2024), the plaintiffs sought to enjoin the proposed conversions of TripAdvisor, Inc. and Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. into Nevada. As noted in this post, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster...
Over the last few months, I have been following the saga of the lawsuit challenging TripAdvisor's plan to change its corporate domicile from Delaware to Nevada. The stockholders approved the proposed redomestication last spring, but the proposed...