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Portnoy v. Cryo-Cell International, Inc.
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Cryo-Cell International, Inc. is a small public company that has struggled to succeed. By 2007, several of its large stockholders were considering mounting a proxy contest to replace the board. A stockholder, Andrew Filipowski, used management’s fear of replacement to strike a deal for himself to be included in the management slate for 2007 annual meeting. Another stockholder, plaintiff David Portnoy, filed a dissident slate. Going into the annual meeting, Cryo-Cell’s chief executive officer, defendant Mercedes Walton, was desperate. In exchange for the alliance, Walton promised Filipowski that if their management slate prevailed, Cryo-Cell’s board would expand the board to add another seat that Filipowski’s designee would fill. In an effort to secure another key bloc of votes, Walton used a combination of threats and inducements to secure the vote of Saneron CCEL Therapeutics Inc.
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