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...for large corporations thanks in part to a transparent corporate law regime, years of legal precedent and a community of lawyers....
...A hard-to-replicate combination of decades of legal precedent and an established legal community make the state attractive to corporations....
...Michela Tindera So Delaware’s court system is fast and effective. But that’s not the only reason corporations love it. It’s also because of how long it’s been in operation....
...Nor did it file in Delaware, where most of its entities are incorporated....
...Judge Eric Davis is overseeing the case in Delaware, where Fox is incorporated, and will question the prospective jurors....
...in Delaware....
...Late on Sunday, Judge Eric Davis — who is overseeing the case in Delaware, where both Fox and the plaintiff, voting machine maker Dominion, are incorporated — said the court had decided to delay the start...
...One example, any retailer which has incorporated its gift card business in Delaware will have unspent balances on these cards....
...A judge in Delaware, where two-thirds of Fortune 500 businesses are incorporated, found shareholders could sue Fairhurst for allegedly failing to attempt to prevent pervasive sexual harassment at the company...
...On the day the case was brought, the Trump Organization created another company called Trump Organization II, incorporated in Delaware, lawyers for New York attorney-general Letitia James told the court,...
...The majority of Spacs are based in the Cayman Islands, the Caribbean tax haven, but a minority are incorporated in the US state of Delaware....
...The document also showed that in October Chobani had incorporated as a public benefit corporation in Delaware, which tasks the business with balancing the interests of its stockholders with other stakeholders...
...The document also showed that in October, Chobani had incorporated as a public benefit corporation in Delaware, which tasks the business with balancing the interests of its stockholders with other stakeholders...
...It is a disrupter in another way, too. Rather than being classed as a C or S Corp, as is usual for large US companies, Lemonade is incorporated as a public benefit corporation (PBC)....
...It runs as a public benefit corporation, “creating open-source software that medical regulators can use to rapidly understand how a study design operates and form confident opinions”, per its website....
...Chris Coons, a Democratic senator from Delaware and a member of the Senate foreign relations committee, says “Putin has already lost in a larger strategic sense”....
...The vast majority of large US companies are incorporated in Delaware, which is perceived as shareholder-friendly and where the courts have been clear that a corporation’s reason for existence is to serve...
...One approach is for companies to reincorporate as Delaware public benefit corporations wherein the public benefit company “shall be managed in a manner that balances the stockholders’ pecuniary interests...
...Mr Strine retired from the bench last year after a 21-year stint as a judge that spanned the lower Delaware Court of Chancery and then the Delaware Supreme Court....
...Most major US corporations are incorporated in Delaware or other shareholder primacy states where directors owe fiduciary duty to the company and its shareholders....
...Boards may feel comfortable giving themselves a pass because the top court in Delaware, where most US companies are incorporated, ruled in the 2000 case of White v Panic that an all-male corporate board’...
...Some states have enacted “constituency statutes” that specifically reference stakeholder interests; others, including Delaware, where most big US companies are incorporated, have not....
...As chief justice of Delaware’s supreme court until last year, Mr Strine held sway over the state where most US companies are incorporated, while Mr Lipton has been campaigning against corporate short-termism...
...Liz Claydon has been appointed to lead KPMG’s deal advisory business....
...In an interview with the Financial Times, he launched a broadside against Delaware’s judges and legislators for kowtowing to corporations and against recent decisions that now shield most M&A from litigation...
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