Private equity funds investors sign a subscription agreement, promising to deliver cash when the fund makes a capital call. In a recent Delaware case, investors sought to revoke their subscription agreements and recover their capital contribution. They were investors in a Lehman Brothers sponsored investment fund. In 2007 the three plaintiffs became limited partners in … Read more »
Tag: Francis G.X. Pileggi
Zubulake Revisited: Six years Later
A new treatise has been written on field of electronic stored information and sanctions for spoliation. In the Amended Opinion and Order for The Pension Committee of the University of Montreal Pension Plan et al., v. Banc of America Securities, LLC, et al. Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York, addressed … Read more »
Imposing Caremark Fiduciary Duty on Corporate Officers
I previously posted on the Midland Grange case [Delaware Imposing Same Fiduciary Duty on Officers as Directors] where the Delaware Chancery Court imposed the same obligations on officers as directors, including the duty of loyalty and the duty of care. In Miller v. McDonald, et al., ( D. Del., Bankr., April 9, 2008), the Bankruptcy Court … Read more »