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Delaware Court Of Chancery Dismisses Post-Merger Stockholder Challenge To Executive Incentive Compensation Stock Awards

On June 26, 2020, Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard of the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed breach of fiduciary duty claims brought against former officers and directors of Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (“Old Fox”) in connection with a transaction in which it spun off part of its business into a new public company, Fox Corporation (“New Fox”), and sold the rest of its business to The Walt Disney Company in a merger (the “Transaction”). Brokerage Jamie Goldenberg Komen Rev Tru U/A 06/10/08 Jaime...
By: Shearman & Sterling LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/delaware-court-of-chancery-dismisses-95040/

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