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Elected Member

Blake
Rohrbacher

Location
Wilmington, DE, USA
Affiliation
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Education
Yale University
Yale Law School

Blake Rohrbacher is a Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in the M&A Litigation practice group, where he focuses on litigation relating to Delaware corporations and alternative entities. He litigates corporate control, governance, M&A, stockholder class action, derivative, fiduciary, statutory and contractual disputes in the Delaware courts, principally in the Court of Chancery.

He has particular expertise in Delaware law regarding nonprofit and nonstock corporations, having served on the drafting subcommittee responsible for the 2010 nonstock amendments to Delaware's General Corporation Law. He also assisted in drafting the Delaware Rapid Arbitration Act.

Mr. Rohrbacher serves on the Court of Chancery Rules Committee, by appointment of the Chancellor. He is a frequent speaker on topics of Chancery litigation and Delaware corporate law. He has been recognized in Benchmark Litigation, The Legal 500, and Chambers USA.

The author of numerous other publications, Mr. Rohrbacher has co-edited The Delaware Law of Corporations and Business Organizations, co-authored Delaware Nonstock Corporations, co-authored Fundamentals of Corporate Governance: A Guide for Directors and Corporate Counsel, and co-authored The Practitioner's Guide to the Delaware Rapid Arbitration Act. He also authored Delaware Uniform Citation, which has been adopted as an authority in the Court of Chancery Rules. In law school, he served as an executive editor of The Yale Law Journal.