PDF Button Ashby & Geddes is pleased to announce that it has once again been named to U.S. News and Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” List (2019 ed.) in six practice areas.  Notably, Ashby & Geddes’s “Litigation – Mergers & Acquisitions” practice has been recognized on a national level with a National Tier 3 ranking.  In addition, its rankings for Metropolitan Tier 1 include three practice areas:  “Commercial Litigation,” “Corporate Law,” and “Litigation – Securities.”  Metropolitan Tier 2 includes two practice areas – “Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency a ..read more

PDF Button Ashby & Geddes is pleased to congratulate Randall J. Teti, who has been selected as the 2018 winner of the Bruce M. Stargatt Legal Ethics Writing Competition. This annual writing competition is sponsored by the Delaware Bar Foundation and is open to Delaware attorneys who have been admitted to practice for five years or less. Mr. Teti’s article will be published in an upcoming edition of “Delaware Lawyer” magazine, a quarterly publication distributed by the Delaware Bar Foundation ..read more

PDF Button Ashby & Geddes is pleased to announce that its attorneys were again selected by their peers for inclusion in the 24th edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. The attorneys and their respective fields of practice recognized include:  Steven J. Balick (Litigation – Patent), Stephen E. Jenkins (Commercial Litigation and Corporate Law), and William P. Bowden (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law). Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence.  Best La ..read more

PDF Button Ashby & Geddes is pleased to congratulate Karen B. Skomorucha Owens and Katharina Earle, who have been selected as 2018 winners of Lawyer Monthly magazine’s Women in the Law Awards for their insolvency and restructuring work in the United States.  The annual Women in the Law Awards celebrates and highlights, among other things, the achievement of women in the legal profession across the globe and recognizes female legal experts that have influenced the wider legal profession in their jurisdiction.  You may access the publication and learn more about Ms. Owens and Ms ..read more

PDF Button The 2018 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has recognized nine Ashby & Geddes attorneys as “Leading Individuals” in their respective areas of practice: Steven J. Balick (Intellectual Property), William P. Bowden (Bankruptcy/Restructuring), John G. Day (Intellectual Property), Catherine A. Gaul (Chancery), Stephen E. Jenkins (Chancery), Andrew C. Mayo (Intellectual Property), Ricardo Palacio (Bankruptcy/Restructuring), Karen B. Skomorucha Owens (Bankruptcy/Restructuring), and Philip Trainer, Jr. (Chancery).  In addition, the firm was ran ..read more

PDF Button Following the recall of millions of vehicles equipped with malfunctioning Takata air bag inflators (the so-called “PSAN Inflators”), TK Holdings, Inc. and certain of its affiliates (the “Debtors”) filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June 2017 to effectuate the sale of substantially all of their non-PSAN Inflator assets to Joyson KSS Auto Safety, S.A. and certain of its subsidiaries or affiliates as part of a global sale of the non-PSAN Inflator assets of the Debtors’ ultimate parent, Takata Corporation.  The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of D ..read more

PDF Button Ashby & Geddes helped a major Delaware law firm defeat a motion to disqualify it during expedited litigation.  Working with the law firm’s general counsel, an A&G team helped to brief, and argued, the expedited motion in front of Delaware Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard. Defendants in the case claimed that the law firm was conflicted because of work previously done for their financial consultant, and on September 29, 2017 they and the consultant filed a motion to disqualify the firm. A&G was asked to represent the law firm and together with the firm’s general c ..read more

PDF Button Ashby & Geddes is proud to announce that its attorneys were once again selected by their peers for inclusion in the 24th edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. The attorneys and their respective fields of practice include:  Steven J. Balick (Litigation – Patent), Stephen E. Jenkins (Commercial Litigation and Corporate Law), and William P. Bowden (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law). Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence.  Best Lawyers li ..read more

PDF Button The 2017 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Businesshas recognized eleven Ashby & Geddes attorneys as “Leading Individuals” in their respective areas of practice: Andrew D. Cordo (Chancery), Steven J. Balick (Intellectual Property), William P. Bowden (Bankruptcy/Restructuring), John G. Day (Intellectual Property), Catherine A. Gaul (Chancery), Stephen E. Jenkins (Chancery), Tiffany Geyer Lydon (Intellectual Property), Andrew C. Mayo (Intellectual Property), Ricardo Palacio (Bankruptcy/Restructuring), Karen B. Skomorucha Owens (Bankruptcy/Restruct ..read more

PDF Button Ashby & Geddes is proud to announce that it has once again been named to U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” list (2017 ed.) in six practice areas.  Notably, Ashby & Geddes’s “Litigation – Mergers & Acquisitions” practice has been recognized on a national level with a National Tier 3 ranking.  In addition, it’s rankings for Metropolitan Tier 1 include five practice areas:  “Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law,” “Commercial Litigation,” “Corporate Law,” “Litigation – Securities,” and “Litigation – Mergers & Acq ..read more