Concessions and Particularity: How a Derivative Challenge to a Discounted Insider Financing Failed at the Pleading Stage

In the recent decision Marstrand Partners, L.P. v. Israel Biotech Fund I, L.P., C.A. No. 2024-0421-KSJM (Del. Ch. May 27, 2026), Chancellor McCormick dismissed a derivative challenge to a steeply discounted insider financing after holding that the plaintiff failed to plead demand futility under Court of Chancery Rule 23.1. Although the plaintiff disputed the ability of only two directors to consider a demand impartially, the plaintiff failed to plead particularized facts showing either director was conflicted.

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