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February, 2018

Delaware Supreme Court Refuses to Establish a Presumption Favoring Deal Price in Statutory Appraisal Proceedings

Feb. 19, 2018—Delaware-Supreme-Court-Refuses-to-Establish-a-Presumption-Favoring-Deal-Price-in-Statutory-Appraisal-Proceedings AUTHORS Robert S. Reder Professor of the Practice of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, has been serving as a consulting attorney at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York City since his retirement as a partner in April 2011. Blake C. Woodward Vanderbilt University Law School, JD Candidate, May 2018; B.A.,...

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Delaware Court Refuses to Enjoin Buyer From Terminating Merger Agreement Due to Failure of Closing Condition

Feb. 19, 2018—Delaware-Court-Refuses-to-Enjoin-Buyer-From-Terminating-Merger-Agreement-Due-to-Failure-of-Closing-Condition AUTHORS Robert S. Reder Professor of the Practice of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, has been serving as a consulting attorney at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York City since his retirement as a partner in April 2011. Nicole A. Dressler J.D./M.S. Finance Candidate at Vanderbilt University, will be starting...

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Delaware Court Refuses to Dismiss a “Material Adverse Effect” Claim Brought by an Unhappy Buyer

Feb. 7, 2018—Delaware Court Refuses to Dismiss a Material Adverse Effect Claim Brought by an Unhappy Buyer AUTHORS Robert S. Reder Professor of the Practice of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, has been serving as a consulting attorney at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York City since his retirement as a partner in...

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Delaware Court Rejects Claim that Directors Acted in Bad Faith By Selling Company Facing Activist Threat

Feb. 7, 2018—Delaware Court Rejects Claim that Directors Acted in Bad Faith By Selling Company Facing Activist Threat ABSTRACT Reaffirms high bar for proving that directors acted in conscious disregard of their obligations AUTHORS Robert S. Reder Professor of the Practice of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, has been serving as a consulting attorney at Milbank,...

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Legal Jurisdiction and the Deterritorialization of Data

Feb. 2, 2018—Legal Jurisdiction and the Deterritorialization of Data Response to Jennifer Daskal, Borders and Bits, 71 Vand. L. Rev. 179 (2018). AUTHOR Paul Schiff Berman Walter S. Cox Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School.

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