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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001486159-23-000023"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHRD"
cik: "0001486159"
company_name: "Chord Energy Corp"
filed_at: "2023-05-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T12:50:21.731833+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.05
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.05
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chord Energy resolves shareholder litigation related to Whiting merger for $75,000 fee settlement

## Summary
- Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed Siegfried v. McCarthy et al. as moot after supplemental disclosures.
- Chord, as successor to Whiting, agreed to pay $75,000 in attorneys' fees; no liability admitted.
- Court retained jurisdiction only for fee award; final order entered May 12, 2023, contingent on this notice.
- Original complaint challenged proxy disclosures in Whiting-Oasis merger that closed July 1, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001486159-23-000023
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHRD
- cik: 0001486159
- company_name: Chord Energy Corp
- filed_at: 2023-05-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.05
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.05
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486159/000148615923000023/0001486159-23-000023-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486159/000148615923000023/oas-20230526.htm

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