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Strine
Vice Chancellor Leo Strine is one of our favorites here at PB.com. Smart, engaged, active, able to interact seemingly effortlessly with both academics and practitioners. The Deal recently gave him a glowing write up...

VC Strine Validates Naked No-Vote Termination Fee
VC Strine Validates Naked No-Vote Termination Fee Here is a guest blog from Steven Haas of Hunton & Williams: Last Tuesday, Delaware Vice Chancellor Leo Strine upheld a “naked no-vote termination fee” in the Lear litigation (2008 WL 4053221)...

Leo Strine’s Marvelous Adventures
(Editor’s Note: The article below, just published in The Deal, came to us from its author David Marcus.) Leo E. Strine Jr. doesn’t have any time to waste as he settles in behind the lectern for his first mergers and acquisitions class of the year at Harvard Law School...

V.C. Strine's Path to Greatness
David Marcus has a tremendous article up about V.C. Leo Strine. Lots of tidbits I didn't know, including the influence of Third Circuit Judge Stapleton on Strine's views. Plus, there is this pretty fun quote from David Skeel: "I have to imagine that what Strine learned from Stapleton was carefulness and judicial responsibility, and those are not the things you think of when you think of Leo," says David Skeel, himself a former Stapleton clerk and now a corporate law professor at Penn...

VC Strine Blesses Accommodation with Dissident Shareholder - But Emphasizes Need for Disclosure
VC Strine Blesses Accommodation with Dissident Shareholder - But Emphasizes Need for Disclosure Here is some analysis of a recent Delaware case from Davis Polk & Wardwell: In light of surging shareholder activism, boards and issuers may be interested in...

Strine and Lipton on Directors and Delaware Law
Professor Bainbridge flags a panel on which Vice Chancellor Leo Strine, Jr. of the Delaware Chancery Court and the iconic lawyer Marty Lipton talk about directors and Delaware law. From the professor's post, an excerpt:Having just finished the final round of edits on an article on good faith in Delaware corporate law, I was struck by Strine’s comment that: He stressed the interconnectedness between good faith and loyalty...