Joseph Cicero is a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig's Delaware office. Joe is an experienced corporate attorney and litigator who practices primarily in Delaware. Joe's corporate practice involves counseling clients on a broad range of matters such as hostile acquisitions, going-private transactions, corporate restructuring, mergers and other negotiated transactions, proxy contests, dividends, preferred stock designations, stock repurchases, dissolutions, and charter and bylaw amendments. Joe's corporate litigation practice involves the representation of corporations, directors, and stockholders in litigation involving mergers and acquisitions, fiduciary duties, statutory proceedings under Delaware's General Corporation Law, and general corporate law issues.
Areas of Concentration
ˇ Corporate litigation
ˇ Mergers & acquisitions
ˇ Corporate restructuring
Significant Representations
ˇ Represented and advised corporations, directors and stockholders in litigated actions commenced in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving stock issuance and demands for the registration of stock transfers
ˇ Represented and advised corporations, directors and stockholders in litigated actions commenced in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving mergers and acquisitions
ˇ Represented and advised corporations, directors and stockholders in litigated actions commenced in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving the interpretation of charter provisions and bylaws
ˇ Represented and advised corporations, directors and officers in litigated actions commenced in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving directors' and officers' requests for advancement and/or indemnification
ˇ Represented and advised corporations, directors and stockholders in litigated actions commenced in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving dissolution of various business entities
ˇ Represented and advised corporations, directors and stockholders in litigated actions commenced in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving stockholder appraisal actions
ˇ Represented and advised corporations, directors and stockholders in litigated actions commenced in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving demands for inspection of corporate books and records
ˇ Represented and advised corporations, directors and stockholders in litigated actions commenced in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving demands to compel meetings of stockholders
ˇ Represented and advised corporations, directors and stockholders in litigated actions commenced in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving stockholder voting rights
ˇ Represented limited liability companies in a litigated action commenced in the Delaware Court of Chancery and appealed to the Delaware Supreme Court involving an asset sale
ˇ Represented a stockholder in a litigated action commenced in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving a non-competition agreement
Professional & Community Involvement
ˇ Member, American Bar Association
ˇ Member, Delaware State Bar Association
ˇ Member, Federal Civil Panel, U.S. District Court, District of Delaware
ˇ Guardian Ad Litem, Delaware Office of the Child Advocate
Clerkship
ˇ Wolcott Law Clerk, Honorable Randy J. Holland, Delaware Supreme Court, 2002-2003
Articles, Publications, & Lectures
Articles
ˇ Co-Author, "Inside Gheewalla," Boardroom Briefing: The Legal Issue, Fall 2007
ˇ Co-Author, "Court Rejects Direct Creditor Claims for Breach of Directors' Fiduciary Duty," International Law Office, June 29, 2007
ˇ Co-Author, "Books And Records Litigation: The Precursor To Derivative And Class Actions," Class Actions & Derivative Suits, Vol. 15, No. 1, Winter 2005
Books
ˇ Contributing Author, "Annual Review of Developments in Business and Corporate Litigation," ABA Section of Business Law, 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009 Editions
Miscellaneous
ˇ Panelist, "Corporate Governance 101," PBI Thirteenth Annual Business Lawyer's Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2007