About DLA Piper in Delaware.

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DLA Piper's Wilmington, Delaware office is an integral part of the firm's national and international practice and significantly enhances the firm's capacity to provide full-service solutions to our clients in all significant areas of business law. DLA Piper's Delaware lawyers are established trial and transactional lawyers recognized by Chambers USA, with substantial experience in handling matters in multiple venues focusing on the core areas for which Delaware is nationally and internationally renowned.

The corporate lawyers in DLA Piper's Delaware office represent corporations, boards of directors, individual officers and directors, special board committees and large investors. In addition to counseling on corporate and governance issues, this practice involves advising on deal structure and compliance with fiduciary duties as well as representation in the Delaware courts.

The litigation aspect of the corporate practice covers class actions and derivative breach of fiduciary claims, corporate control disputes, merger and acquisition litigation, actions involving the interpretation of charter provisions and bylaws, actions by directors and/or officers seeking advancement and/ or indemnification, stockholder appraisal actions, stockholder requests for books and records, internal corporate investigations, litigation arising out of transactions involving subsidiaries, tender offers, asset sales, capital restructurings, stockholder meetings and votes, dissolutions, corporate reporting and compliance programs and other matters involving corporate governance and the Delaware General Corporation Law.

Also resident in DLA Piper's Wilmington office is a former Delaware Supreme Court Justice, Henry duPont Ridgely, and a former two-term governor and nine-term congressman of Delaware, Michael N. Castle, whose extensive state and federal experience provides understanding of a wide array of issues faced by businesses that are either incorporated in Delaware or deal with Delaware entities.

OUR CORPORATE LITIGATION PRACTICE

DLA Piper has vast experience in US corporate litigation, including stockholder class actions and derivative claims, disputes concerning the governance of limited liability companies, contests for corporate control and the handling of board committee matters and investigations.

DLA Piper has a successful track record in stockholder and corporate litigation in jurisdictions throughout the US, including Delaware, where emerging business...