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Officers Face Personal Liability for Steering a Sale of Columbia Pipeline to a Preferred Buyer

The Delaware Court of Chancery in In re Columbia Pipeline Group, Inc. Merger Litigation  denied a motion to dismiss claims for fiduciary duty breach in the sale of Columbia Pipeline Group, Inc. (“Columbia”). The Court found that the plaintiff stockholders’ allegations supported the inference that Columbia’s CEO and Chairman Robert Skaggs, Jr. and CFO Steven Smith […]

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