Robert Greco Bio

Rob Greco advises corporations, boards and committees on M&A transactions and corporate governance matters involving public and private corporations. Rob advises clients on a broad range of transactions and corporate governance matters involving Delaware corporations, including mergers, acquisitions, de-SPAC transactions and other business combinations, hostile takeovers, rights plans, proxy contests and stockholder meetings, charter and bylaw amendments, internal restructurings, equity and debt financings, dividends, stock repurchases and redemptions, and dissolutions. As part of his practice, Rob renders legal opinions on various matters of Delaware law. Rob is a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the ABA Business Law Section and frequently writes and presents on emerging Delaware corporate law issues. Rob’s works include A Corporate Governance Solution to the Inefficiencies of Entire Fairness, a recent article in The Business Lawyer proposing a novel solution to address recent Delaware cases confirming the entire fairness standard’s broad application to controller transactions through standing demand review committees of independent directors. Rob has written on corporate law issues in numerous other publications, including as a contributor to the leading Delaware corporate law treatise The Delaware Law of Corporations and Business Organizations. As co-author of chapter 7 of this prominent treatise, Rob has written extensively on all aspects of stockholder meetings under Delaware law. Rob’s other articles have been published in The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Insights, The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Business Law Today, Directors & Boards, The CLS Blue Sky Blog and other legal publications. Among them are Drafting Minutes and Preparing Disclosures in the Post-Corwin Era, which reviews modern best practices for corporate minute taking in light of Delaware law developments and trends, and Determining and Disclosing the Effect of Broker Non-Votes, which provides important technical guidance for corporate practitioners on an often-scrutinized part of proxy statements. While Rob principally counsels on transactional matters, he is frequently involved in litigation before the Delaware Court of Chancery as part of his practice. Rob’s involvement in Delaware litigation has included assistance with post-transaction litigation support and advising and developing litigation strategy on complex issues of corporate and contract law. In the widely covered appeal Moelis & Co. v. West Palm Beach Firefighters’ Pension Fund, Rob represented an esteemed group of law professors who filed an amicus brief in favor of reversal based on Delaware’s traditional ripeness principles. Rob has also prepared and overseen petitions in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeking the validation of defective corporate acts pursuant to Section 205 of the DGCL. Outside of court, Rob has extensive experience ratifying defective corporate acts pursuant to Section 204 of the DGCL. A graduate of Columbia Law School, Rob received Columbia’s Parker School Certificate for Achievement in International and Comparative Law after studying at the University of Oxford during law school. Rob attended Oxford as part of the Columbia-Oxford Alliance in Law and Finance, where he participated in a program taught jointly by Oxford’s Faculty of Law and Saïd Business School. While a law student, Rob worked as an intern for the Honorable Paul A. Crotty of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Investor Protection Bureau of the New York State Office of the Attorney General.