The emerging venue battle in El Paso/Kinder Morgan

Cite this Article
Larry Ribstein, The emerging venue battle in El Paso/Kinder Morgan, Truth on the Market (October 22, 2011), https://truthonthemarket.com/2011/10/22/the-emerging-venue-battle-in-el-pasokinder-morgan/

T-R’s Alison Frankel writes (HT Pileggi) about dueling suits in Texas and Delaware challenging the El Paso/Kinder Morgan merger: Three class actions in Texas state court and two class actions and a shareholder derivative suit in Delaware Chancery.

It looks like this merger may bring to a head the “escape from Delaware” phenomenon I discussed a year ago.