Legal Opinion
F5 Capital v. Pappas
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 26, 2017No. Docket 16-530-cvPublishedCited by 259 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:
F5 Capital (“F5”) brought this shareholder derivative action on behalf of Star Bulk Carriers Corp. (“Star Bulk”), alleging that individual members of Star Bulk’s board and affiliated entities improperly exploited their control over the corporation in executing three separate transactions. Those transactions, according to F5, were infected with self-dealing and were not undertaken to serve the corporation’s best interests. F5’s complaint included four causes of action, three of which were derivative and one of which purported to be a direct class-action claim for…
2Cases cited57 opinions
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