Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Corporate Advisory

Nate Stuhlmiller, director at Richards, Layton & Finger, focuses his practice on transactional matters involving Delaware corporations, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and corporate finance, and providing advice on a variety of fiduciary duty issues.

While his practice involves the full spectrum of Delaware corporate law advice, Nate’s deep expertise and experience in areas requiring specialized skills and knowledge have made him an invaluable counselor to corporations, boards of directors, and investors. These areas include extensive experience in negotiating merger agreements, ratifying and validating defective corporate acts and putative stock issuances, implementing and administering stockholder rights plans, and dissolving corporations under Delaware law.
Nate is a trusted advisor to special committees and has substantial experience guiding committee members through the process of negotiating and evaluating controlling stockholder and other conflict transactions.

Nate has published numerous articles and delivered presentations throughout the country on matters involving Delaware corporate law and corporate governance.

PRACTICES

Legal Opinions

Transactional Committees

Corporate Transactions

Corporate Governance

Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate & Chancery Litigation

Select Experience 

Represented the special committee of Comscore, Inc. in connection with its $260 million recapitalization of Series B Preferred Stock

Represented the special committee of Squarespace, Inc. in connection with its acquisition by Permira for $7.2 billion

Represented the special committee of the board of directors of Coty Inc. in connection with a tender offer from JAB valued at approximately $1.75 billion

Represented the special committee of the board of directors of Papa John’s International, Inc. in connection with a $200 million strategic investment with Starboard Value LLP

Represented the independent committee of the board of directors of T-Mobile US Inc. in connection with the $26.5 billion acquisition of Sprint Corp.

Represented Alaska Air Group in connection with its acquisition of Hawaiian Holdings for approximately $1.9 billion

Represented Encore Wire in connection with its acquisition by Prysmian for approximately $4.2 billion

Represented Vista Outdoor in connection with its $3.4 billion sale to Revelyst and Czechoslovak Group

Represented USG Corporation in connection with its acquisition by Gebr. Knauf KG for approximately $7 billion

Delaware counsel to numerous investors in Altaba, Inc. regarding court-supervised dissolution under Delaware law

Represented Owens-Illinois, Inc. in connection with a 251(g) holding company restructuring transaction and related bankruptcy proceedings

Represented GoHealth, Inc. in its $914 million initial public offering

Represented Vertex, Inc. in its $401 million initial public offering

Represented Casper Sleep, Inc. in its $100 million initial public offering

Represented Herman Miller, Inc. in connection with the ratification and validation of defective corporate acts under Sections 204 and 205 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware

Represented NII Holdings, Inc. in connection with court-supervised dissolution under Delaware law

Represented Swisher Hygiene, Inc. in connection with court-supervised dissolution under Delaware law

Represented Geomet, Inc. in connection with court-supervised dissolution of the company under Delaware law

Represented MedCath Corporation in connection with administration of its stockholder rights plan, asset sales, and court-supervised dissolution of the company under Delaware law

Bar Admissions 

Delaware, 2010

University at Buffalo Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 2010; Buffalo Law Review, Articles Editor

Syracuse University, B.S., 2006