
Daniel D. Matthews
Dan advises public and private corporations on a wide range of Delaware corporate law matters, including corporate governance issues as well as the Delaware aspects of corporate transactions.
Dan’s work involves a variety of complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, preferred stock investments and other financing transactions, as well as counseling boards of directors and committees of independent directors on their fiduciary duties. Dan also provides formal legal opinions on issues involving Delaware corporate law.
In addition, Dan counsels corporations on the technical requirements of the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL). Drawing on that experience, Dan has guided hundreds of corporations through Delaware’s statutory ratification process under Section 204 of the DGCL and has provided corporate related advice in several of the key cases involving application of Delaware’s validation procedures before the Court of Chancery under Section 205 of the DGCL.
Dan has been recognized by The Legal 500 US for his M&A corporate and commercial Delaware counsel work and selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for corporate law. A frequent writer on Delaware corporate law, Dan is the lead editor of the treatise Drexler, Black and Sparks, Delaware Corporation Law and Practice and is the author of the Bloomberg BNA Corporate Practice Series Portfolio The Delaware Corporation: Legal Aspects of Organization and Operation.
News & Insights
- Media Mention, The Best Lawyers, 08.17.2023
The Best Lawyers in America has released its 2024 edition, listing 39 attorneys from Morris Nichols. The results are based on peer-review evaluations from more than 76,000 eligible attorneys.
Professional & Civic
American Bar Association (Business Law Section)
Delaware State Bar Association
Society for Corporate Governance
Education
College of William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, JD, Order of the Coif, 2009
The William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Senior Articles Editor, 2008-2009; Member, 2007-2008
Pennsylvania State University, BA, Classics, Phi Beta Kappa, with high distinction, 2005
Admissions
- Delaware, 2009
Dan is the author of the Bloomberg BNA Portfolio The Delaware Corporation: Legal Aspects of Organization and Operation.