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BREAKING: Dell Settles 2016 Stock Swap Suit For $1B In Chancery

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billion conversion of Dell stock in 2016. Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell and other controlling investors have agreed to settle for $1 billion in cash a more-than four-year-old Delaware Court of Chancery stockholder suit seeking damages in connection with a $23.9

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Top 5 SEC Enforcement Developments

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As alleged, AT&T’s selective disclosures of MNPI prompted these analysts to significantly reduce their revenue estimates for Q1 2016, and AT&T ended up exceeding these projections by 0.1%. According to the complaint, AT&T’s conduct came on the heels of missed consensus revenue estimates in two of the previous three quarters.

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Second Circuit (re)opens the door to offshore M&A litigation being filed in the U.S.

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This is the latest in the long-running litigation concerning the 2016 going-private transaction of E-Commerce China Dangdang. The prevalence of mandatory forum selection clauses in depositary agreements means this decision is likely to have a significant impact. Background. Our prior summary of the case can be found here. more…).

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Superstar CEOs and Corporate Law

Harvard Corporate Governance

One lawsuit attacks Tesla’s 2016 acquisition of SolarCity—a public company in which Musk and his brother were the largest shareholders. Elon Musk is often described as a visionary, leading Tesla in its disruption of the car industry to become the world’s most valuable car manufacturer.

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Board Gatekeepers

Harvard Corporate Governance

In September of 2016, news broke that employees at Wells Fargo had been moving customers’ funds into newly created fake accounts—without customer consent—in order to boost their sales figures. For outsiders, the aftermath was shocking; regulators fined Wells Fargo $3 billion and Wells Fargo fired 5,300 employees.

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Larry Fink’s Annual Letters to Investors

Harvard Corporate Governance

This is the conception of corporate purpose articulated in The New Paradigm (issued by the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council in 2016), supported by the Business Roundtable beginning in 2019, and widely accepted by corporate leaders, investors, companies, and practitioners.

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The Market for CEOs: Evidence from Private Equity

Harvard Corporate Governance

companies (enterprise value greater than $1 billion) purchased by private equity firms between 2010 and 2016. We augment the work on public company CEOs by studying the market for CEOs among larger U.S. We find that 71% of those companies hired new CEOs under private equity ownership.

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