Susan Hannigan Cohen

Richards, Layton & Finger director Susan Hannigan Cohen focuses on litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware Supreme Court. Representing Delaware corporations and alternative entities and their officers, directors, and managers, Sue handles disputes involving mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate control, fiduciary duties, and statutory and contractual issues. She is particularly experienced in stockholder derivative and class actions, as well as in representing committees of boards of directors formed to perform internal investigations. PRACTICES Investigative & Demand Committees Corporate & Chancery Litigation Mergers & Acquisitions · Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

United StatesInvestigative and Demand Committees, Corporate and Chancery Litigation

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Susan Hannigan Cohen is a director at Richards, Layton & Finger focusing on litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware Supreme Court, representing Delaware corporations and alternative entities in disputes involving mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, fiduciary duties, and stockholder derivative and class actions.

Practice areas

Investigative and Demand CommitteesCorporate and Chancery LitigationMergers and Acquisitions

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United States

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. · Richards, Layton & Finger director Susan Hannigan Cohen focuses on litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware Supreme Court. Representing Delaware corporations and alternative entities and their officers, directors, and managers, Sue handles disputes involving mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate control, fiduciary duties, and statutory and contractual issues. She is particularly experienced in stockholder derivative and class actions, as well as in representing committees of boards of directors formed to perform internal investigations. PRACTICES Investigative & Demand Committees Corporate & Chancery Litigation Mergers & Acquisitions

United States

Expertise

Delaware corporate litigationCorporate governanceFiduciary dutiesStockholder derivative and class actionsInternal investigationsMergers and acquisitions

Education

Villanova University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2009; Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal; Order of the Coif
Loyola College in Maryland, B.A., summa cum laude, 2004

Admissions

Delaware, 2009
District of Delaware, 2010