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Flawed sale process places directors, executives and acquirers in harm’s way

Harvard Corporate Governance

The recent Mindbody decision provides a useful refresher on the pitfalls to avoid when selling or buying a Delaware publicly traded company. The recent Delaware Chancery Court decision in In re Mindbody, Inc.

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Mindbody Ex-CEO, Vista Fail To Get $27M Damage Offset

Law 360 M&A

Fitness software platform Mindbody Inc., its former CEO, and the private equity firm that bought the company may not reduce the damages they owe shareholders in a Delaware Chancery Court class action by the $27 million other co-defendants paid to settle their claims, the court's top judge ruled on Wednesday.

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Chancery Awards $1 More Per Share In Mindbody Merger Suit

Law 360 M&A

Stockholders of fitness software company Mindbody Inc. who challenged its $36.50-per-share per-share acquisition in 2019 by Vista Equity Partners Management LLC should have gotten $1 more per share and are entitled to damages plus interest, Delaware's Court of Chancery ruled Wednesday.

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Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses the Mindbody Problem

Reynolds Holding

A recent decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery ( In Re Mindbody, Inc., March 15, 2023)) explores the risks to a target company’s management of giving a private equity sponsor pole position in a sale process, as well as the risks to the sponsor itself from pursuing an inside track. S’Holder Litig. , 2019-04420KSJM (Del.

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Mindbody Investor Attys Get $2.9M In Fees In Take-Private Suit

Law 360 M&A

Labaton Sucharow LLP attorneys representing a proposed class of Mindbody Inc. million settlement ending claims the wellness industry company misled the public to depress trading prices for its shares ahead of a 2019 take-private acquisition. investors will receive about $2.9

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Keeping Up With M&A Case Law – Spotlight on Recent Delaware Decisions

Cooley M&A

No Corwin for post-closing claims for injunctive relief In In re Edgio, Inc. Signal Companies , the Chancery Court said that the answer depended on “whether the sale of assets is quantitatively vital to the operation of the corporation and is out of the ordinary and substantially affects the existence and purpose of the corporation.”

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Cooley’s 2019 Tech M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

Be prepared for regulatory review of any tech deal – regardless of how a company may currently define the relevant competitive market. While In re Trulia, Inc. The overwhelming majority of these cases are resolved pre-close, with the target company filing supplemental disclosures with the SEC. Key takeaway? Data Privacy.