This post is by Theodore Mirvis and Paul Rowe of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. This post is part of the Delaware law series, which is cosponsored by the Forum and Corporation Service Company; links to other posts in the series are available here.
Here is a short Memorandum from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz on Chancellor Chandler‘s recent decisions on stock option backdating. The decisions, In re Tyson Foods, Inc. Consol. S’holder Litig., and Ryan v. Gifford, repay reading, even if you read them well after they were written.