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Provided by Richards, Layton & Finger PA

“Super sophisticated and pragmatic” as well as “smart, creative, and expert in the field of corporate litigation,” Richards, Layton & Finger is considered the “gold standard in Delaware” (The Legal 500, 2022). Backed by their extraordinary breadth and depth of experience, the firm’s corporate litigators have exceptional insight into the Court of Chancery’s judges, practices and procedures. Delaware corporations and alternative entities, from large publicly traded companies to private entities, turn to Richards Layton when they face complex corporate disputes.

• The firm’s corporate litigators work on many of the most high-profile cases arising in Delaware, including complex appraisal matters, high-value mergers and acquisitions, breach of fiduciary duty claims, corporate governance and control disputes, stockholder litigation, books and records demands, and more.
• “Richards, Layton & Finger has been the pre-eminent Delaware corporate law firm for decades. They have a deep bench of very smart, very sophisticated lawyers” (The Legal 500).
• The firm has long been involved in many of the landmark corporate cases in the Court of Chancery and Delaware Supreme Court.
• Richards Layton attorneys have for decades been instrumental in crafting, amending and adjudicating Delaware’s corporate law and practice.
• They are Fellows of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers, American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, American College of Governance Counsel and Litigation Counsel of America.