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Delaware Court of Chancery holds that a 17.3% Stockholder/CEO may be a Controlling Stockholder
December 11, 2014 download PDF
In In re Zhongpin Inc. S'holders Litig., the Delaware Court of Chancery denied motions to dismiss breach of fiduciary duty claims against an alleged controlling stockholder and members of the company's board of directors, holding that the plaintiffs had raised reasonable inferences that (i) although the stockholder held only 17.3% of the company's outstanding common stock, as CEO and Chairman of the Board, he possessed "both latent and active control" over the company, and (ii) the sales process was not entirely fair.