This guide provides a high-level summary of the circumstances, under Sections 204 and 205 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL), where a corporation, its shareholders and/or the Court of Chancery can ratify or validate defective corporate acts that would be void or voidable due to a failure of authorization.1 Defective Corporate Acts are acts or transactions that are within the corporation’s powers to effect but are “defective” because management failed to obtain proper...