DELAWARE COURT OF CHANCERY LIMITS MEMBER’S SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO CAUSE COMPANY TO UNDERTAKE A QUALIFIED IPO TO MERE RIGHT OF APPROVAL
By: Scott Waxman & Ernest Simons
In Williams Field Services Group, LLC v. Caiman Energy II, LLC, et al., C.A. No. 2019-0350-JTL (Del. Ch. Sep. 25, 2019), the Delaware Court of Chancery considered the parties’ competing requests for declaratory judgments. The dispute reduced to disagreements over the parties’ respective rights under an LLC agreement with respect to a proposed initial public offering. In this post-trial decision, the Court ruled that the defendants had the authority to implement certain steps in the proposed IPO, but not others, and ordered the parties to prepare a form of final order consistent with its rulings.
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