March 11, 2024
Towers Watson has been hit with another roadblock on its long and winding road to reach coverage for $90 million in settlements of two lawsuits related to its merger with broker Willis in 2016. A Virginia federal district judge in …
January 5, 2021
A Delaware judge ruled this week that former Viacom shareholders may pursue a lawsuit accusing Shari Redstone of engineering a “patently unfair” merger that created ViacomCBS Inc. so she could become a media magnate like her late father, Sumner Redstone. …
June 19, 2018
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. sued Xerox Corp. on Monday for well over $1 billion, faulting the printer and copier company for succumbing to pressure from activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason in calling off a proposed merger. In a complaint …
March 18, 2014
Shareholders challenged more than 94 percent of U.S. merger and acquisition (M&A) deals valued over $100 million in 2013, according to a new M&A report by Cornerstone Research. Deals worth $100 million or more attracted an average of five lawsuits, …
January 23, 2013
Fewer investors are taking corporate America to court for fraud. The number of new federal securities fraud lawsuits seeking class-action status fell to a 7-year low in 2012, according to a study by Stanford Law School and Cornerstone Research released …
February 14, 2011
Lawyers are pushing for a $4.5 million fee for their work for investors challenging a corporate merger. The recovery for shareholders? Probably zero. The requested fee in a lawsuit challenging Unilever NV’s $3.7 billion takeover of Alberto Culver Co. is …