Delaware, of course, did successfully discourage such suits by denying lucrative fees for worthless, disclosure only settlements.
Or they may go elsewhere for management of the company's retirement accounts, which generate lucrative fees for fund families.
Behind the scenes, they were fighting over the lucrative fees for handling Mr. Kerry's television advertising.
They also generate lucrative fees for both the firms that organize them and the outside brokers who find investors for them.
The lawsuit says that Andersen overlooked Enron's true financial picture "to continue earning lucrative fees for the auditing, tax, financial and other consulting services it had provided".
The mortgage business boomed from 2002 to 2006, generating lucrative fees for mortgage brokers, lenders, credit rating firms, investment banks and many investors.
In addition, they are also expecting an increase in the number of complicated deals, a source of lucrative fees for the investment bankers who put the deals together.
Investors in the company, including Corvex and Related, blame a corporate structure that allows its president, Adam D. Portnoy, and his father, Barry M. Portnoy, a director at the company, to get paid lucrative fees for managing the company's real estate.
[C1.] Questions Raised About Payout in North Fork Takeover The compensation advisory firm behind an estimated $135 million that will be paid to the chief executive of North Fork Bancorp, John A. Kanas, left, when that company is sold to Capital One, has also received lucrative fees for other services it provided to North Fork in recent years.
As Duquesne University law professor Ken Gormley told the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, Thomas Jefferson was suspected of favoring his Anti-Federalist supporters, while Abraham Lincoln was accused of granting a disproportionally large number of pardons to friends from Kentucky, with "pardon brokers" extracting lucrative fees for their supposed services in obtaining pardons.
And with these billion dollar deals come lucrative fees for services like EY that advise acquirers.
