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Stockholder agreements granting pre-approval veto rights over board decisions violate DGCL § 141(a). Led directly to the landmark 2024 DGCL § 122(18) statutory amendment.
Rescinded $55.8B CEO compensation package under entire fairness review. Controlling stockholder transactions require fully informed independent committee and uncoerced majority-of-the-minority vote under MFW.
When the break-up or sale of control of a corporation becomes inevitable, directors' duty shifts from corporate preservation to maximizing immediate stockholder value via an auction.
Directors face personal liability for breach of duty of loyalty for bad-faith failure to implement an oversight reporting system or conscious failure to monitor mission-critical risks.
Two-prong test for demand futility in derivative litigation. Overruled by Delaware Supreme Court in United Food & Commercial Workers Union v. Zuckerberg (2021).
First Delaware decision upholding buyer's termination of a public company merger agreement based on a Material Adverse Effect (MAE) and breach of regulatory compliance covenant.
Intermediate scrutiny standard for defensive measures adopted by board in response to hostile takeover. Requires reasonable perception of danger and proportional defensive response.
Controlling stockholder buyouts evaluated under deferential business judgment standard if conditioned ab initio on negotiation by empowered independent special committee and majority-of-the-minority stockholder vote.
When a transaction not subject to entire fairness is approved by a fully informed, uncoerced majority of disinterested stockholders, business judgment rule standard of review irrebuttably applies.
In statutory appraisal proceedings under DGCL § 262, the deal price generated through an open, robust, and uncoerced market check is the best evidence of fair value.