Scott M. Tucker is an Associate in the Firm’s Wilmington Office. Mr. Tucker is a member of the Firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Mismanagement and Shareholder Derivative Action practice areas. Together with the Firm’s Partners, Mr. Tucker assisted in the prosecution of the following actions:

• In re Kinder Morgan, Inc. Shareholders Litigation, Consol. C.A. No. 06-C-801 (Kan.) (action challenging the management led buyout of Kinder Morgan Inc., which settled for $200 million).
• J.Crew Group, Inc., et al. v. New Orleans Employees’ Retirement System, et al., C.A. No. 6479-VCS (action that challenged the fairness of a going private acquisition of J.Crew by TPG and members of J.Crew’s management which resulted in a settlement fund of $16 million and structural changes to the go-shop process, including an extension of the go-shop process, elimination of the buyer’s informational and matching rights and requirement that the transaction to be approved by a majority of the unaffiliated shareholders).
• In re Genentech, Inc. Shareholder Litigation, C.A. No. 3911-VCS (Del. Ch.), (action challenging the attempt by Genentech’s controlling stockholder to take Genentech private which resulted in a $4 billion increase in the offer).
• In Re Yahoo! Shareholders Litigation, Civil Action No. 3561-CC (Del. Ch.)  (action challenging Yahoo’s and its board of director’s actions to thwart a non-coercive takeover bid by Microsoft, which led to a settlement providing comprehensive changes to Yahoo’s change in control severance plans).

Mr. Tucker is an Associate Member of the Board of Bar Examiners of the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware. While attending law school, Mr. Tucker was a member of the Securities Arbitration Clinic and received a Corporate Counsel Certificate from the Center for Law and Business Enterprise.