Marla Norton

Practice Areas

Marla H. Norton is a director at Bayard. She concentrates her practice on business entity law (corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and statutory trusts), business law and third-party legal opinions. Marla has over thirty (30) years of experience in corporate and commercial transactions, including securitization transactions, corporate and alternative entity formation and governance, mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiation and drafting, and secured lending.

Marla participates in the American Bar Association Business Law Section, including the LLC, Partnership and Unincorporated Entities Committee, the Legal Opinions Committee, the Middle Market and Small Business Committee, and the Forum on Franchising. She chairs the ABA Model Shareholders Agreement Task Force. She was an ABA Advisor to the Uniform Law Commission (formerly NCCUSL) Series Study Committee in 2012 and the Drafting Committee for the Limited Liability Company Protected Series Act from 2013-17. As a member of the Commercial Law and Corporation Law Sections of the Delaware State Bar Association, Marla is active on the Delaware State Bar Association’s Partnership and LLC Committee and the Statutory Trust Committee.

Career

Marla has been named a leading lawyer in “Corporate/M&A” by Chambers USA since 2008. She was also named as a Delaware Super Lawyer in the field of business/corporate law in the June 2007 issue of “Philadelphia” magazine and was named as a “Top Lawyer” in Delaware Today magazine.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

Delaware State Bar Association

National Association of Women Business Owners – Delaware Chapter

New Castle County Chamber Business Development Advisory Council

The Forum of Executive Women

Publications

Co-author of “Liquidation Trusts,” Lawyer Monthly (March 2014); Co-author of “Lands of Opportunity--Why Cayman and Delaware Entities Rule in Structured Finance,” International Securitization & Finance Report, Vol. 9, No.18, (October 15, 2006).