May A Board Give All The Corporate Assets To Charity?

Yesterday, I listed to a talk by Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery entitled "Purpose, Power, and Fiduciary Duty: Dimensions of Delaware's Corporate Law Regime".  The webinar was presented by the University of Delaware's John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance.  Vice Chancellor Laster took a very deferential view of a board's decisions to donate corporate assets - applying a standard of rationality, not reasonableness.  Notably, he did not reference the...
By: Allen Matkins

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