Our Wilmington office was established to provide clients with deep experience and unmatched presence in Delaware, which is known as the U.S. 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, statutory trusts and corporations, and their use in a wide range of domestic and cross-border corporate and commercial transactions — and this expertise 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/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 have maintained a significant practice before Delaware’s state and federal courts. They routinely appear before these courts on behalf of clients and are well versed in jurists’ practices and processes.

In addition, we have extensive experience in advising on issues, both in the transactional and litigation context, relating to the organization, operation, management, governance, dissolution, winding up, and restructuring of alternative entities, corporations, and captive insurance companies, including advising 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/director.

The Wilmington team also plays a leading 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 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.