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Corporate & Commercial Litigation

Position

A partner at Morris Nichols, John’s practice includes representing investors, directors and officers, corporations, limited liability companies and general and limited partnerships in litigation concerning mergers and acquisitions and other complex commercial disputes.

John routinely defends corporate defendants against stockholder lawsuits and has significant experience with takeover litigation. 

He also routinely represents both individual and corporate clients who need to prosecute or defend corporate governance disputes including, for example, contests for board control, demands for appraisal or similar valuation disputes, demands for books and records, advancement and indemnification, requests for dissolution and receiverships, and a broad variety of other corporate governance disputes.  

John’s litigation practice is complimented by his advisory work and he also routinely advises boards of directors and special committees in internal investigations, and stockholder derivative demands.

For more, visit his bio at https://www.morrisnichols.com/lawyers-john-p-ditomo.

Education

J.D., 2004, University of Pennsylvania Law School Associate, 2002-2003 and Research Editor, 2003-2004, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Certificate of Study in Business Economics and Public Policy, 2004, University of Pennsylvania B.A., 1997, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

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