Writing for DealLawyers.com, John Jenkins yesterday took note of the Delaware Court of Chancery's decision in Pettry v. Gilead Sciences, (Del. Ch.; 11/20). Quoting this Cleary Gottlieb blog, John observes that Pettry "introduces a new element of...
In this recent post, UCLA Law School Professor Stephen Bainbridge discusses Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's recent ruling that "[s]tockholder inspection rights are a core matter of internal corporate affairs." 2020 Del. Ch. LEXIS 264. He notes...
Michael Corleone's greatest fear was that he would never be able to escape his life as a mafioso ("Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"). California's greatest fear is that it will not be able to dictate corporate governance...
Section 1601(a) of the California Corporations Code currently subjects to shareholder inspection the "accounting books and records and minutes of proceedings of the shareholders and the board and committees of the board". Professor Marsh's treatise...
Yesterday's post told of Dick Plantagenet's "winter of discontent" when learned of Henry Tudor's demand to inspect the books, records, and minutes of his small Delaware corporation, Cwmni Cyfyngedig, Inc. ("CCL"). Henry based his demand on Section...
Two years ago, I wrote about Justice Mark B. Simons' opinion in Innes v. Diablo Controls, 248 Cal. App. 4th 139 (2016) that California's shareholder inspection statute does not require that the records be brought to this state for inspection. This...
Corporations Code Section 1601 requires that records "be open to inspection . . . at any reasonable time during usual business hours . . .". The statute is silent on where the inspection must occur. In Innes v. Diablo Controls, Inc., 248 Cal. App....
This post on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation discusses Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's recent decision in Wilkinson v. A. Schulman, Inc., 2017 Del. Ch. LEXIS 798. The case involved a stockholder's...