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Delaware Chancery Court clarifies standard for pleading bad faith claims in challenge to stock repurchase

  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 9 2012

On December 9, 2011, the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a motion to dismiss a claim for breach of contract and breach of the implied duty of good faith brought by a plaintiff challenging a decision by the defendant's board of directors to repurchase some of its outstanding shares

Federal court dismisses U.S. investors' federal securities claims based on purchase of foreign corporation's stock

  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 24 2012

On February 23, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas dismissed the federal securities claims brought by a group of U.S. purchasers of a foreign company's stock on the London Stock Exchange based on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd., 130 S. Ct. 2869 (2010

Cornerstone Research releases report on securities class action settlements in 2011

  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 26 2012

Cornerstone Research recently released its annual report on securities class action settlements for 2011

Two say-on-pay related derivative suits recently dismissed

  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 26 2012

Recently, two say-on-pay related derivative suits were dismissed by courts in California and Maryland

SEC gets five years to seek civil penalties for fraud

  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 18 2013

On February 27, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that if the SEC wants to bring civil penalties against an investment adviser for fraud, there is

Federal Court keeps FHFA's mortgage-backed securities case against UBS alive

  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 22 2012

On May 4, 2012, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected UBS Americas, Inc.'s motion to dismiss federal securities claims brought against it by the Federal Housing Finance Agency