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In an important decision interpreting the new Section 144 of the Delaware General Corporation Law—added by the adoption of SB 21 in 2025—the Court of Chancery last week preliminarily enjoined a proposed recapitalization of Cloudflare, Inc. designed to preserve founder …
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In March 2025, Delaware enacted sweeping changes to its General Corporation Law (DGCL) § 144, reshaping the treatment of transactions involving interested directors, officers, and controlling stockholders. Subsection (a) of § 144 provides safe harbors for transactions between a corporation …
On February 27, 2026, in a unanimous 37-page opinion, the Delaware Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of significant changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) enacted in March 2025 via Senate Bill 21 (SB 21). This decision permits …
The proposed amendments to Delaware corporate law have sparked intense debate among corporate legal scholars and practitioners. A flurry of commentary has focused thus far on the proposed changes to Section 144, which governs transactions with controlling shareholders. This post, …
The recently introduced Delaware Senate bill that would amend the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) provision dealing with conflict of interest transactions (SB 21) has blown up the financial news, corporate law blogosphere, and corporate law social media.[1]
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