Richards, Layton & Finger Names New President and Executive Vice President
July 1, 2008
Firm News
WILMINGTON, Delaware – Richards, Layton & Finger has named C. Stephen Bigler president and William J. Wade executive vice president of the firm. Recently elected by the firm’s board of directors, Bigler and Wade assume their offices July 1 for a three-year term. Bigler succeeds Gregory P. Williams, who is the immediate past president and remains on the firm’s executive committee. Williams will continue to chair the firm’s Corporate Department.
Bigler is a member of the firm’s corporate transactional group. He counsels corporations, officers, directors, committees of boards of directors, 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 entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, defensive planning, capital-raising transactions and stockholder meetings. Bigler received a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law and a BS, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Washington & Lee University.
Wade is chair of the firm’s Litigation Department. His practice includes representing local and national clients in Delaware’s state and federal courts with an emphasis on various areas of civil litigation, including intellectual property and commercial law matters. Wade also represents and advises health-care clients, including the Christiana Care Health Care System, the state’s largest health-care system. He graduated with a JD from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of Delaware.
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Richards, Layton & Finger provides legal services to its clients in Delaware, the U.S. and throughout the world. The firm provides counsel on sophisticated financial transactions involving Delaware corporations and alternative entities, as well as advice and guidance to local clients. Richards, Layton & Finger attorneys have been leaders in cases decided in Delaware courts addressing corporate law and governance, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, fiduciary relations, commercial and other general civil matters.