Mark Richardson > Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP > Wilmington, United States > Lawyer Profile
Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP Offices
300 DELAWARE AVENUE
SUITE 1340
WILMINGTON, DE 19801
DELAWARE
United States
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Mark Richardson
Work Department
Corporate Governance and Shareholder Rights Litigation
Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation
Derivative Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Mark D. Richardson is a Partner in the Delaware office of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP. Mark focuses on representing shareholders in corporate governance and transactional matters, including class action and derivative litigation.
Mark is recommended by The Legal 500 for the excellence of his work in the Delaware Court of Chancery and Dispute Resolution. Clients highlighted his team’s ability to “generate strong cases and take creative and innovative positions.” Lawdragon has recognized him as one of the country’s Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers and Next Generation Lawyers. Benchmark Litigation also named him to their “40 & Under List.”
Mark has litigated numerous matters through trial, including in the Delaware Court of Chancery, FINRA and AAA arbitrations, and a five-month jury trial in New Jersey state court. Mark served as co-lead counsel in the following matters that recently were tried or settled: In re Dell Technologies Inc. Class V Stockholders Litigation ($1 billion settlement); In re Columbia Pipeline Group, Inc. ($400 million post-trial judgment, appeal pending); In re Coty Inc. Stockholder Litigation ($35 million settlement); In re Straight Path Communications Inc. Consolidated Stockholder Litigation (trial verdict pending); In re Amtrust Financial Services Stockholder Litigation ($40 million settlement); In re AGNC Investment Corp. ($35.5 million settlement); In re Stamps.com ($30 million settlement); In re Homefed Corp. ($15 million settlement); and In re CytoDyn Corp. (rescission of over $50 million in director and officer stock awards).
Prior to joining Labaton Keller Sucharow, Mark was an Associate at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, where he gained substantial experience in complex commercial litigation within the financial services industry and advised and represented clients in class action litigation, expedited bankruptcy proceedings and arbitrations, fraudulent transfer actions, proxy fights, internal investigations, employment disputes, breaches of contract, enforcement of non-competes, data theft, and misappropriation of trade secrets.
In addition to his active caseload, Mark has contributed to numerous publications and is the recipient of The Burton Awards Distinguished Legal Writing Award for his article published in the New York Law Journal, “Options When a Competitor Raids the Company.” Mark also serves on Law360’s Delaware Editorial Advisory Board.
Education
Emory University School of Law
Juris Doctor, 2009
Cornell University
Bachelor of Science, 2006
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: plaintiff
Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP‘s Delaware office is home to ‘a first-rate stockholder litigation practice‘ and clients note that the lawyers led by the highly esteemed Ned Weinberger ‘identify good cases, discover the facts, and know the law as well as anyone on either side of the stockholder litigation bar‘. Weinberger, up-and-coming partner Mark Richardson, and newly promoted Brendan Sullivan are ‘extremely hardworking and knowledgeable, have good judgement and are tremendous oral advocates‘. All three, along with Michael Wagner recently served as co-lead counsel in a consolidated class action brought by investors in Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores challenging the take-private of the company by controlling stockholders, principally Edward S. Lampert. The firm’s most recent flagship result for was the award of a $1bn as settlement from Dell in a class action arising from a $23.9bn transaction involving the conversion of Dell Class V Common Stock. Led by Weinberger, plaintiffs alleged that Dell’s controlling stockholders– Michael Dell and Silver Lake Group – breached their fiduciary duties and expropriated billions of dollars in value from Class V stockholders.