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Directors Trigger Entire Fairness Review by Approving Merger to Extinguish Potential Liability for Derivative Claims

Directors Trigger Entire Fairness Review by Approving Merger to Extinguish Potential Liability for Derivative Claims

By  Lisa Stark and Claire White

In In Re Riverstone National, Inc. Stockholder Litigation, C.A. No. 9796-VCG (July 28, 2016), the Delaware Court of Chancery held that  a board’s approval of a merger agreement containing a release of claims against the directors and entered into while a potential derivative suit for usurpation of corporate opportunity was threatened against such directors warranted entire fairness review.

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