Issue Archive
The VC Litigation Docket is a weekly review of litigation shaping the venture capital and private company world — a lead matter examined in depth, docket entries, a significant written ruling, and a doctrinal question each week. Matters are selected for structural significance, not recency, and are described without taking sides. Select an issue by date. To subscribe to the free newsletter, send an email to info@vcexpertservices.com.
- Issue No. 9 October 5, 2026 This week: the gates and the gaps — the new safe harbors held unavailable at the pleading stage, an early reading of the new independence presumption, a voting-agreement amendment that unseated an investor's designee, and what the amended statute says about designated directors.
- Issue No. 8 September 28, 2026 This week: control, exercised — a controller who blocked his board and answered for the deal that followed, minority holders whose vetoes could make them controllers, a deadlock broken by dilution, and the appraisal waiver upheld.
- Issue No. 7 September 21, 2026 This week: the price of process — the Cloudflare recapitalization argued and awaiting decision, a fund's cross-portfolio conflict, two venture-backed rivals in federal court, and the decision holding that a fair price does not by itself establish entire fairness.
- Issue No. 6 September 14, 2026 This week: governance by agreement — the Moelis arc and what it means for investor rights, the Supreme Court's controller-transaction roadmap, the safe harbors' transition rule, and the enforcement path for advancement.
- Issue No. 5 September 7, 2026 This week: the investor's own vehicle — a Supreme Court decision on SPV-manager conduct, the next phase of a cross-border fund fight, a handshake deal tested on appeal, and redemption rights and duties to common stockholders.
- Issue No. 4 August 31, 2026 This week: the limits of structure — a closely watched trial verdict, two Chancery decisions enforcing LLC governance as written, a covenant not to sue tested, and the doctrine of control without a majority.
- Issue No. 3 August 24, 2026 This week: the fund itself in the dock — a fight over who owns a track record, a fund leader's contested exit, a contested board-removal right, the canonical exit ruling, and Delaware's new statutory framework for controller transactions.
- Issue No. 2 August 17, 2026 This week's theme: financing structure as the battleground — a recapitalization challenge argued and awaiting decision, a derivative suit's committee ruling, a fund-marketing enforcement action, and a decision on dilutive inside rounds.
- Issue No. 1 August 10, 2026 Welcome to the first issue. Each week: a lead matter, docket entries, a significant written ruling, and a doctrinal question — selected for structural significance, not recency, and described without taking sides.
Issues are dated as of their masthead Monday; the archive was first published on September 25, 2026.
Corrections
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