Our Wilmington office was established to provide clients with an unmatched
presence in Delaware, which is known as the US center for the formation of
business enterprises.
Our lawyers have a comprehensive understanding of the state’s business
entities, namely limited liability companies, general and limited partnerships,
and statutory trusts and corporations and their use in a wide range of
domestic and cross-border corporate and commercial transactions. This
robust experience is a crucial piece of our firm’s global Corporate
practice.
Our work encompasses a broad range of corporate and commercial transactions,
including financings, securitizations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures,
venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, real estate investment trusts,
master limited partnerships, preferred securities transactions, insurance
premium financing transactions, life settlement transactions, special purpose
and bankruptcy remote structures, and debt refinancing.
With respect to mergers and acquisitions, we regularly advise corporations on
hostile takeovers, proxy contests, asset sales, and other divestitures and
business combinations, as well as on traditional private and public company
mergers and acquisitions.
Our lawyers also have more than two decades of experience handling corporate
litigation, commercial disputes, and intellectual property matters, and
maintain a significant practice before Delaware’s state and federal
courts. We routinely appear before these courts on behalf of clients and
are well versed in jurists’ practices and processes.
We have extensive experience in both transactional and litigation
matters relating to the organization, operation, management, governance,
dissolution, and restructuring of alternative entities, corporations, and
captive insurance companies. Our team advises private and public
corporations, and alternative entities on fiduciary and statutory obligations
relating to directors, officers, general partners, managers, trustees, special
committees, and significant equity holders.
We also regularly advise financial institutions and service providers in the many
roles in which they serve, such as trustee, indenture trustee, collateral agent,
servicer, backup servicer, escrow agent, securities intermediary, paying agent,
and independent manager or director.
The Wilmington team also plays a significant role in Delaware law matters, both
within the state and nationally. Our involvement includes serving on the
Alternative Entities Subcommittee of the Delaware State Bar Association, which
is responsible for drafting the state’s preeminent partnership and limited
liability company statutes, and serving on the Delaware Statutory Trust
Committee of the Delaware State Bar Association, which is responsible for the
drafting of the state’s preeminent statutory trust statute. Our lawyers
also hold several important leadership positions within the American Bar
Association’s Business Law Section.
