The Delaware Supreme Court issued its highly-anticipated ruling today in the Dell appraisal case, reversing and remanding the trial court’s 28% premium awarded to the stockholders. In sum, the court held that where a company is sold in a pristine M&A auction process, the chancery court must give the merger price “heavy weight” in its
Today’s Law360 [[$$]] reported on the oral argument conducted yesterday before Chancellor Bouchard in the Solera appraisal case.
** This firm is among the counsel of record in Solera.
On Monday, Law360 [$$] reported that the stockholders in the Clearwire appraisal action filed their opening brief in support of their appeal of the Chancery Court’s ruling, which found the fair value of Clearwire Corp. to be $2.13 per share, well below the $5 per share deal price paid by Sprint Nextel Corp. As reported
The Delaware Supreme Court made its ruling this week in the ISN Software appraisal case. A three-judge panel (not the full bench) affirmed the Chancery Court’s decision awarding a premium that was more than 2.5 times the merger price, as reported in Law360 [$$]. The Supreme Court affirmed without rendering its own opinion, relying instead
As reported in Law360 [$$], on October 11, 2017 the Delaware Supreme Court heard argument appealing the Chancery Court’s ruling in the ISN Software appraisal case. We have previously posted on the trial court’s decision here, in which Vice Chancellor Glasscock awarded a premium to the merger price. The Supreme Court did not rule
As reported today in Law360 [$$], the Delaware Supreme Court heard argument yesterday on the chancery court’s ruling in the Dell appraisal case. The court did not render its decision and did not indicate when it would do so. We’ll continue to monitor the docket and post when the ruling comes down.
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As we previously posted, the Chancery Court appraised the fair value of Clearwire Corp. to be $2.13 per share, substantially below the $5 per share merger price paid by Sprint Nextel Corp in July 2013. This post will provide a more detailed breakdown of the ruling and the bases for Vice Chancellor Laster’s opinion.
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Today the Delaware Chancery Court issued its ruling in the Clearwire case, which included claims for breach of fiduciary duty as well as appraisal arising from its acquisition by Sprint. We’ll provide a more comprehensive breakdown of the decision in a later post.
In the meantime, as reported today by Reuters, Hedge fund stung
Further to our prior post about Delaware’s two new appraisal decisions, SWS Group was a small, struggling bank holding company that merged on January 1, 2015 into one of its own substantial creditors, Hilltop Holdings. Stockholders of SWS received a mix of cash and Hilltop stock worth $6.92 at closing. Vice Chancellor Glasscock rejected the
Further to our prior post on the recent PetSmart decision, we wanted to highlight some key factors that led the court to peg its fair value determination at the merger price. In PetSmart, the Delaware chancery court found that the sales process, while not perfect, was good enough to produce a reliable indicator of