Elizabeth M. McGeever
Director

Elizabeth M. McGeever is a member of the Corporate Litigation and Business Litigation groups.  Her corporate litigation practice concentrates on representing parties in litigation involving mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, fiduciary law and matters arising under the Delaware General Corporation Law.  She also handles complex business litigation and serves as Delaware counsel in commercial, intellectual property, antitrust and securities litigation in the Delaware District Court.

In 2007-08, Ms. McGeever was President of the Delaware State Bar Association.  She has served on its Executive Committee for several years and has held a number of leadership positions in the Association.  In June 2003, she received the Association's Women's Leadership Award.  From 1991 to 1999, Ms. McGeever was a member of the Council of the Association's Corporate Law Section.

Ms. McGeever is also active in the Section of Litigation Leadership Group of the American Bar Association.  She served on the Section’s Council from 2004-2007.  Other Litigation Section Leadership positions include Co-Director of Divisions, member of the Diversity Plan Implementation Working Group, member of the Judicial Intern Opportunity Program and Co-Chair of the Committee on Class Actions and Derivative Suits.  

Practice Areas

• Corporate and Commercial Litigation; Delaware local counsel in securities, anti-trust and intellectual property litigation.

Bar Admissions

• Delaware

Publications in Connection with ALI-ABA
Committee on Continuing Professional Education
Securities Litigation Programs

• Recent Delaware Case Law Regarding Fiduciary Duties to Creditors, Advancement and Indemnification and Deal Protection Devices (2008)
• Responding to Hostile Takeovers (April 2005)
• Injunction Practice in the Delaware Court of Chancery (April 2004)
• Legal Issues and Tactics in Hostile Takeovers (May 2003)
• Avoiding Entire Fairness Review:  The Tender Offer Followed By The Short Form Merger:  A Discussion Of Unocal Exploration and Siliconix (May 2002)
• Responding to Hostile Takeovers (May 2001)
• Fiduciary Outs:  Two Strikes and a Walk (May 2000)
• Gratefully Dead:  Delaware Dead Ends Dead Hand Pills (April 1999)
• Responding to Hostile Takeovers (May 1998)
• Scrutinizing Hostile Takeover Defenses (April 1997)

Education

• University of Connecticut (B.A. 1977)
• Villanova University (J.D. 1981)