Appraisal Rights
JUNE 23, 2017
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation recently carried a post by Theodore Mirvis of Wachtell Lipton, “Delaware Appraisal at a Crossroads?” This HLS Forum post discusses the recent DFC argument – which we’ve posted about – and lays out a variety of thoughts on future questions in appraisal and appraisal arbitrage.
Appraisal Rights
JUNE 8, 2017
The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday from DFC Global and its dissenting stockholders. The court has not yet ruled, and nobody can predict how it will decide the case; the following questions and observations are just some of the points that different members of the full five-justice panel raised during argument: The court asked DFC Global why they did not introduce an economics expert to corroborate the reliability of the merger price as the measure of the company’s fair value; the Chief J
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Appraisal Rights
JUNE 6, 2017
In anticipation of tomorrow’s oral argument before the Delaware Supreme Court, Law360 published this piece offering insights into what may lie ahead for appraisal rights after the DFC Global and Dell appeals are decided.
Appraisal Rights
JUNE 5, 2017
Further to our prior post on the recent PetSmart decision, we wanted to highlight some key factors that led the court to peg its fair value determination at the merger price. In PetSmart , the Delaware chancery court found that the sales process, while not perfect, was good enough to produce a reliable indicator of PetSmart’s fair value. The court recognized that its statutory obligation to consider “all relevant factors” did not end with its finding that the merger price was a reliable indica
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Appraisal Rights
JUNE 5, 2017
Further to our prior post about Delaware’s two new appraisal decisions, SWS Group was a small, struggling bank holding company that merged on January 1, 2015 into one of its own substantial creditors, Hilltop Holdings. Stockholders of SWS received a mix of cash and Hilltop stock worth $6.92 at closing. Vice Chancellor Glasscock rejected the sale price as an unreliable indicator of fair value and performed his own DCF analysis, setting the fair value at $6.38, a price 7.8% below the merger pric
Appraisal Rights
JUNE 1, 2017
The Delaware Chancery Court just issued two significant appraisal rulings, the PetSmart opinion on Friday — awarding petitioners the merger price — and the SWS Group decision on Monday, which actually awarded stockholders less than the merger price. We will post separately about our observations on these rulings. In the meantime, one immediate reaction is that these decisions might factor into the Supreme Court’s approach to the DFC Global appeal and the upcoming argument in that case on June
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