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Corporate/M&A

Delaware

18 Years Ranked

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Provided by William J Haubert

USA

Practice Areas

  • Corporate Transactions
  • Corporate Governance
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Special Committees & Investigations
  • Career

    Bill Haubert is “a master of Delaware M&A case law” with “great judgment in very difficult and tricky situations” (Chambers USA). “The man to have in Delaware” (The Best Lawyers in America), Bill counsels corporations, officers, directors, board committees, stockholders, and investors on matters involving the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and related issues of fiduciary duty, corporate governance, and corporate law arising in a wide variety of transactional and operational contexts.

    Backed by his “encyclopedic knowledge of Delaware law” (Chambers USA), Bill advises clients on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, defensive planning, capital-raising transactions, and stockholder meetings. He also represents special committees in transactional matters and renders legal opinions on Delaware corporate law issues.

    Bill has authored numerous articles and lectures frequently on Delaware corporate law and served as co-chair of the firm’s Corporate Department from 2017 through 2020.

    Work Highlights

    • Represented a public pharmacy services company in connection with a hostile tender offer and the company’s adoption of a stockholder rights plan
    • Represented the board of directors of a public government services provider in connection with its sale to a private equity firm
    • Represented a special committee of a public natural gas and oil company in connection with the negotiation of a PIPE investment to fund an acquisition by the company
    • Represented a public health-care service and technology provider in connection with its sale to a private equity firm involving the allocation of merger consideration between common and preferred stockholders
    • Represented a private manufacturing company in connection with its consideration of competing cash offers, including a hostile cash offer
    • Represented a special committee of the board of directors of a public drug development company in connection with its consideration of competing cash and stock transactions and other strategic alternatives
    • Represented a public electronic payment processing company in connection with the nomination of two short slates of directors submitted by dissident stockholders at the annual meeting of stockholders
    • Represented a hedge fund stockholder in connection with the nomination of persons for election and other proposals at the annual meeting of stockholders of a public offshore oil and gas support services company
    • Represented a TIDE committee of the board of directors of a public automotive parts manufacturing company in connection with its consideration of the company’s stockholder rights plan
    • Represented a private self-regulatory organization in connection with various governance issues, including the election and removal of persons to and from the governing body and board process issues
    • Represented a majority stockholder in connection with its tender offer and short-form merger acquisition of its public media subsidiary
    • Represented a special committee of a private drug development company in connection with its consideration of refinancing alternatives
    • Represented a public media and entertainment company in connection with its consideration of an amendment to its stockholder rights plan for a significant institutional stockholder
    • Represented a public food and beverage company in connection with the payment of a significant dividend to the stockholders of the company from the proceeds of a new credit facility
    • Represented a public for-profit post-secondary education company in connection with a legal opinion as to the need for stockholder approval of an asset sale under Delaware law
    • Expert in these Jurisdictions

      • Delaware, 1992
      • United States District Court, District of Delaware
      • Education

        Cornell Law School

        J.D., cum laude

        1991

        Villanova University

        B.S., summa cum laude

        1988

        Awards

      • Chambers USA
      • The Legal 500
      • The Best Lawyers in America, including Wilmington, DE Lawyer of the Year
      • Super Lawyers
      • IFLR1000
      • Who's Who Legal
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