Section 141(k) Mandatory Prohibition of For-Cause Removal of a Declassified Board

In a blog post written for the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, DJCL Staff Member Kendra Rodwell discusses the Delaware Court of Chancery ruling that Delaware corporations with provisions in their corporation’s bylaws and charters directly conflicting with Delaware law would be stuck down.  In In re Vaalco Energy Shareholder Litigation, the Court of Chancery was asked to determine whether the Vaalco Energy’s provision that made directors of a non-classified board removable only for cause was valid in light of DJCL section 141(k) that required non-classified boards to be removed without cause.

Read more at http://www.djcl.org/blog.

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