Thursday, October 06, 2005

United States: Practical Steps for Directors to Consider After Disney


On August 9, 2005, after a 37-day trial, the Delaware Chancery Court issued an important decision in the eight-year-old shareholder derivative lawsuit against the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company. That lawsuit had challenged Disney’s hiring and later no-fault termination of one-time Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz. The principal take-aways from this decision include the following:

See full Article as well as Goodwin Proctor Report, in pdf format.