William J. Haubert

William J. Haubert focuses on counseling 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 arising in a wide variety of transactional and operational contexts, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, defensive planning, capital-raising transactions and stockholder meetings. A director in the Corporate Department and a member of the Corporate Transactional Group, Bill's practice also includes representing special committees in transactional matters and rendering legal opinions on Delaware corporate law issues.

Bill has authored numerous articles and has lectured frequently on Delaware corporate law issues.

Representative Experience

• Representation of the board of directors of a public government services provider in connection with its sale to a private equity firm
• Representation of a public health-care service and technology provider in connection with its sale to a private equity firm which involved the allocation of merger consideration between common and preferred stockholders
• Representation of a private manufacturing company in connection with its consideration of competing cash offers, including a hostile cash offer
• Representation of 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
• Representation of 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
• Representation of 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
• Representation of 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
• Representation of 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
• Representation of a majority stockholder in connection with its tender offer and short-form merger acquisition of its public media subsidiary
• Representation of a special committee of a private drug development company in connection with its consideration of refinancing alternatives
• Representation of a public media and entertainment company in connection with its consideration of an amendment to its stockholder rights plan for a significant institutional stockholder
• Representation of 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
• Representation of a public pharmaceutical company in connection with a legal opinion as to the need for stockholder approval of an asset sale under Delaware law

Professional and Community Activities

• Member, American Bar Association, Business Law Section
• Member, Delaware State Bar Association, Corporate Law Section 
  

Professional Recognition

• The Best Lawyers in America (Corporate Law), 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009
• Chambers USA (Corporate/M&A), 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
• Super Lawyers, 2011, 2010