Albert Manwaring

Albert H. Manwaring, IV is a Partner of Morris James, where he Chairs the firm's litigation department and corporate and commercial litigation group. Albert also serves on the Executive Committee. Albert concentrates his practice in corporate governance, fiduciary, and business litigation. He represents companies, boards, special committees, directors, officers, managers, and stockholders in Delaware state and federal courts. Albert's experience includes Defense of directors of an international mining company in a stockholder challenge to a merger asserting control, stockholder coercion, and disclosure claims to avoid deal cleansing under a Corwin stockholder vote Representation of private-equity controlling stockholders and their director designees in a stockholder challenge to a sale of the company under entire fairness review Defense of a defense contractor in a proxy-contest for control of the board initiated by a shareholder activist Representation of a manufacturer in a high-profile, political 220 books and records action to support potential stockholder derivative claims against the board Representation of independent directors of a nitrogen company in a proposed transaction by a controller to buy out the limited partners under a Master Limited Partnership Agreement Before Morris James Albert began his legal career in the City of Boston’s Law Department, where he defended the City and its employees in civil rights and tort actions in federal and state courts of Massachusetts. Subsequently, he served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Franklin S. Van Antwerpen in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before joining Morris James, Albert was a partner at an AmLaw 200 firm, where he managed its corporate and commercial litigation practice in Delaware. Before law school Before law school, Albert served on active duty as a field artillery officer in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, and then served as a judge advocate general officer