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Associate
Business Practice Group
Richmond
(804) 788-7217 Phone
(804) 343-4864 Fax
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Corporate &
Securities Law
Corporate Governance
and Compliance
Mergers &
Acquisitions
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Practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, including friendly and hostile transactions, securities laws and corporate governance matters. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Haas practiced with a corporate law and litigation boutique in Wilmington, DE.
Relevant Experience 
- Represented numerous companies, special committees and controlling shareholders in connection with various going-private and third-party change of control transactions involving strategic and financial buyers.
- Represented a target company board of directors in a merger involving a "go-shop" provision leading to a favorable reported decision in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
- Assisted in the representation of a NYSE-listed company in its $1.25 billion stock-for-stock merger with a NASDAQ-listed company.
- Represented a public manufacturing company in the sale of substantially all its assets to two hedge funds under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.
- Assisted in the representation of a NYSE-listed company in its successful defense to an unsolicited hostile tender offer and consent solicitation.
- Assisted in the representation of the former directors and officers of a insurance company leading to first-impression decisions in the Delaware Supreme Court and Delaware Court of Chancery rejecting the doctrine of "deepening insolvency" as a theory of director liability.
- Represented a private equity fund in a transaction dispute resulting in a landmark decision by the Delaware Court of Chancery in ABRY Partners V, L.P. v. F&W Acquisition, LLC, 891 A.2d 1032 (Del. Ch. 2006).
- Advised numerous companies and boards of directors with respect to a wide variety of corporate governance issues, including shareholder meeting disputes, demands for advancement and indemnification, and internal investigations.
Additional Experience
Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law (Mergers & Acquisitions) Chairman, ABA Corporate Governance Subcommittee on Current Developments and Emerging Issues
Background
Membership
- Member, Virginia State Bar and Delaware State Bar
- Member, American Bar Association, Business Law Section
Awards and Professional Recognition
Education - J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, Notes Editor, Virginia Law Review
- B.A., Hampden-Sydney College, Economics
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