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Peter B. Ladig

Peter B. Ladig

Director

pladig@bayardlaw.com
  • Tel: +1 302-429-4219
  • Fax: +1 302-658-6395
Biography

Peter B. Ladig is a director and co-chair of the litigation group at Bayard. Pete is a seasoned litigator with over 25 years of experience litigating corporate and commercial disputes in Delaware courts.  Pete has litigated corporate governance matters, commercial disputes, business divorces, breach of fiduciary duty actions, statutory claims under the Delaware General Corporation Law, partnership and limited liability company disputes, and class action and derivative cases.  

In addition to Pete’s litigation experience, he has served on the Rules Committee of the Court of Chancery since 2011 and was one of the principal drafters of Rule 5.1, which prescribes procedures related to public access and confidentiality of documents filed with the Chancery Court. Pete also uses his litigation experience to advise special committees of boards of directors in analyzing conflict transactions or investigating alleged wrongdoing, and he has represented several of each type of committee.

Pete also has extensive experience in the growing area of the “business divorce,” particularly requests for judicial dissolution of limited liability companies and corporations. In addition to representing parties to a business divorce, Pete has served as a trustee of a dissolving entity and as counsel to a Chancery Court-appointed custodian charged with selling an operating company to resolve a business divorce. He co-chaired the Business Divorce Subcommittee of the Business and Corporation Litigation Committee of the Business Law Section of the ABA; has spoken on panels about business divorce; and has made substantial contributions to Litigating the Business Divorce, a publication from BNA. 

Because of the breadth of Pete’s experience, he has served as a Special Master selected by the Court or at the request of the parties.  Most recently, Pete the Court of Chancery appointed Pete to be the Discovery Facilitator in the In re Viacom Inc. Stockholders Litigation and In re CBS Corporation Stockholder Class Action and Derivative Litigation actions, assisting the parties in coordinating discovery between the two actions and mediating discovery disputes.  Pete also acts as a mediator for corporate and commercial disputes. In 2022, Pete completed the Mediating Disputes class at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

Awards & Rankings

  • Chambers USA, Business 2008 - 2009, Chancery 2011 - 2024
  • Super Lawyers®, Business Litigation, Delaware, 2013 - 2024
  • Best Lawyers®, Corporate Law, 2013 - 2025 Editions 
  • Delaware Today Top Lawyers Edition, Corporate Law, 2014, 2016 - 2019, and 2021
  • Benchmark Litigation "Local Litigation Star", 2020 
  • Martindale-HubbellAV® Peer Review Rated*
     
     
     
    *Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories: legal ability and general ethical standards: CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards, and policies.