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Guidance for Directors of Financially Troubled Companies from Delaware Bankruptcy Court


by Kathryn McKenna Pytlewski
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Philadelphia Office

September 11, 2008

Previously published on September 2008

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on May 30, 2008, issued a memorandum opinion in which it refused to dismiss claims of breach of fiduciary duty against directors and officers of a company who approved the sale of the company's assets on the eve of its filing for bankruptcy protection.


 

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