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Sustainability In The Boardroom: Reconsidering Fiduciary Duty Under Revlon In The Wake Of Public Benefit Corporation Legislation, Rugger Burke
Rugger Burke
On July 17, 2013, Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed into law legislation establishing the public benefit corporation. This legislation redefines the law of corporate fiduciary duties in Delaware, home to more than 50% of all publicly-traded companies in the United States and 64% of the Fortune 500.
Particularly, this legislation redefines director fiduciary duties within the sale of control context. For the typical Delaware corporation, director fiduciary duties in a sale of control are governed by the seminal corporate law case Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc., which narrows the general fiduciary duties of loyalty and care …