Corporate Governance

The Top Five Delaware Cases of 2007

By Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance

Professor J. Robert Brown of the University of Denver College of Law (and a Guest Contributor on this Blog) recently provided a “Top Five” list of Delaware cases that–in his view–show why Delaware is “anti-shareholder and anti-plaintiff.” I realize that there are many experts who can rebut the professor’s arguments far more persuasively than I, and I am well aware that the Delaware bench certainly does not need my help to defend it.

Nonetheless, having just completed my review of key 2007 Delaware corporate decisions, I offer my own “counter-list” of the Top Five Cases of 2007 that show that the Delaware courts take shareholder rights and director duties very seriously. I could easily provide a longer list–but, for starters, here is an alternative list of the Top Five Delaware Cases of 2007.

Full post as published by The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog on January 08, 2008 (boomark / email).