The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Thu, 14 May 2026 15:03:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Improving Multi-Jurisdictional, Merger-Related Litigation – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Improving Multi-Jurisdictional, Merger-Related Litigation https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/05/19/improving-multi-jurisdictional-merger-related-litigation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=improving-multi-jurisdictional-merger-related-litigation https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/05/19/improving-multi-jurisdictional-merger-related-litigation/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 13:44:34 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=17226?d=20150115115305EST Posted by Mark Lebovitch, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, on Thursday, May 19, 2011
Editor's Note:

Mark Lebovitch is a partner at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP specializing in corporate governance litigation. This post is based on an article by Mr. Lebovitch, Jerry Silk and Jeremy Friedman. 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.

In the past two years, the court system has seen a sharp increase in the volume of merger-related class-action lawsuits, particularly (but by no means exclusively) in the Delaware Court of Chancery. See John W. Molka III, Advisen Ltd., Securities Suits Abound in a Harsh 2009: An Advisen Quarterly Report—2009 Review 9–10; John W. Moka III, Advisen Ltd., 2010 a Record Year for Securities Litigation: An Advisen Quarterly Report—2010 Review 3–4 (noting that the number of M&A-related lawsuits filed nationwide increased dramatically from 159 in 2008 to 398 in 2010). The increased case volume has led to unusual behavior by shareholders’ and defense counsel alike, particularly in connection with the organization of parallel actions in different jurisdictions and the appointment of lead class counsel.

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