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Delaware Pleading Requirements Not Met in Shareholders’ Derivative Action

The Second Department determined the shareholders’ derivative action alleging breach of a fiduciary duty was properly dismissed for failure to meet the pleading requirements of the controlling Delaware law:

As the parties agree, the laws of Delaware, the State of incorporation, govern the issues raised on this appeal … . Delaware Chancery Court Rule 23.1(a) provides that every shareholders’ derivative complaint shall “allege with particularity the efforts, if any, made by the plaintiff to obtain the action the plaintiff desires from the directors or comparable authority and the reasons for the plaintiff’s failure to obtain the action or for not making the effort.” A plaintiff’s demand on the directors pursuant to Rule 23.1(a) will be excused “if the derivative complaint pleads particularized facts creating a reasonable doubt that (1) the directors are disinterested and independent or (2) the challenged transaction was otherwise the product of a valid exercise of business judgment” … . Demand may also be excused in certain circumstances “where particularized factual allegations create a reasonable doubt that, as of the time the complaint was filed, the board of directors could have properly exercised its independent and disinterested business judgment in responding to a demand” … . Here, the allegations of the amended complaint were insufficient to satisfy the pleading requirements of Rule 23.1(a). Walter v FalconStor Software, Inc., 2015 NY Slip Op 02112, 2nd Dept 3-18-15

 

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