Delaware’s Court of Chancery confirmed that company directors are entitled to privileged company communications. In a Jan. 16 ruling, Vice Chancellor Paul A. Fioravanti, Jr. concluded that plaintiffs Icahn Partners LP, Icahn Partners Master Fund LP, and Matsumura Fishworks LLC wrongly included confidential and privileged information on life sciences company Illumina,…

The New York State Bar Association held its annual Presidential Summit 2024 on Wednesday, titled “AI and the Legal Landscape: Navigating the Ethical, Regulatory and Practical Challenges.” The two panels that comprised the summit were split by the tongue-in-cheek designation of “Fun Parents,” and “Non-Fun Parents.” The former focused on…

The oil giant said that it will be selling Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) to Renaissance, a consortium of five companies, for $2.4 billion. The transaction, contingent on approval from regulators, will end Shell’s over 80 years of exploration in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region as the…

Timothy Mungovan, a 12-year veteran of Proskauer Rose and most recently the chair of its litigation department, has been elected by partners as the new chair of the firm, effective April 2024. Steven Ellis was slated to stay in the firm chair role until the firm’s normal election cycle, which…

Since 2020, back when she was a seventh-year associate, Desmarais LLP partner Kerri-Ann Limbeek, 36, has represented Maryland prenatal testing company Ravgen against some of the giants of the diagnostic industry. That effort has included litigating eight patent infringement cases in district courts across the country, as well as defending…

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