Valuation firm Willamette Management Associates has put out a pair of articles discussing the calculation and treatment of synergies in appraisal actions. At least in Delaware, the value of an appraisal petitioner’s shares is to be fixed as the fair value of the company less synergies. Synergies can thus become a significant battleground in
By a July 19, 2019 ruling, Vice Chancellor Slights set the fair value of Jarden Corporation at its unaffected market price of $48.31, below the $59.21 per share value of cash and stock that Newell Rubbermaid had paid to acquire it. The court also performed a DCF analysis that corroborated its valuation. The court
Vice Chancellor Slights has decided the Jarden appraisal case, a claim stemming from the 2016 sale of Jarden to Newell Rubbermaid Corp. In the opinion, the Vice Chancellor ultimately awarded below merger price, relying on a number of factors and discussing the interplay of merger price, unaffected stock price, discounted cash flow analysis and
The Delaware Supreme Court has a few appraisal cases on its docket in 2019, including a case regarding what constitutes a robust – “Dell Compliant” – sales process as well as a case regarding how to understand synergies in appraisal. For a view of 2019 cases of note, see this coverage by law.com [$$$].
The Delaware Court of Chancery just issued two new appraisal rulings:
On April 23, 2018, the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed last July’s Chancery court ruling in the Clearwire case. This decision ends the appeal by Clearwire shareholders looking to overturn the lower court decision finding that Clearwire was worth $2.13 per share, below the $5 merger price. When the Supreme Court, or any appellate court,
We’ve written before about how appraisal-style valuation methodology–with direct reference to Delaware appraisal cases–is sometimes used in non-appraisal cases. In December 2017, Vice Chancellor Glasscock, of the Delaware Chancery court, handed down Wright v. Phillips, No. CV 11536-VCG, 2017 WL 6539383, at *1 (Del. Ch. Dec. 21, 2017), a case involving the valuation
On Monday, Law360 [$$] 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
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.
Continue Reading Breaking Down The Clearwire-Sprint Appraisal Ruling
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