Greg Williams primarily represents corporations and their directors and officers. He provides non-litigation advice and counseling to his clients and represents them in courts in Delaware and across the country. Greg also represents committees of boards of directors formed to negotiate transactions or investigate alleged corporate wrongdoing.
Greg is chair of the firm’s Corporate Department, which includes the Corporate Litigation Group. He served as president of the firm from July 2006 to June 2008 and as executive vice president from July 2003 to June 2006.
The author of numerous articles regarding corporate law, Greg serves on the boards of editors of Insights and M&A Lawyer. In law school, he was a member of the William and Mary Law Review.
Representative Experience
Recently, Greg successfully represented Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio in a trial in the Court of Chancery involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duty in connection with a proxy contest. Greg's recent representations also include:
- A special committee of Crown Media (a Hallmark affliliate)
- Nvidia in litigation against Intel
- Dell in litigation regarding its acquisition of Compellent
- A special committee of the board of Norfolk Southern
- A special committee of J. Crew
- 3G in litigation regarding its acquisition of Burger King
- Bucyrus in litigation regarding its acquisition by Caterpillar
- GE Healthcare in litigation regarding its acquisition of Clarient
- Unilever in litigation involving its acquisition of Alberto Culver.
Prior Years Representative Experience
- Represented directors of The Walt Disney Company in a 2½-month successful trial in the Court of Chancery and successfully arguing the appeal before the Supreme Court of Delaware.
- Successfully defended an application to enjoin the $4 billion acquisition of Checkfree Corporation by Fiserv, Inc.
- Successfully defended an application to enjoin the acquisition of WCI Steel, Inc.
- Successfully defended Citigroup Inc. CEO and directors from personal liability for the disastrous consequences of their heavy investments in subprime loans and securities. Since Citigroup and most of the banks and financial services industry firms that have foundered in the recent fiscal storm are chartered in Delaware and play by its corporate governance rules, the decision of the influential Chancery Court is expected to have a wide impact.
- Successfully represented the Insurance Commissioner of Delaware in proceedings in the Court of Chancery challenging the Commissioner's ability to implement, through workers' compensation insurance rate-making, legislatively created medical care cost savings.