Attorneys

Practice Areas: Corporate, Commercial and
Bankruptcy Litigation

Rebecca L. Butcher concentrates her practice in the area of corporate, commercial and bankruptcy-related litigation. Within the Court of Chancery, Rebecca has represented entities and individuals in connection with breach of fiduciary duty actions, dissolution of partnerships and limited liability companies, enforcement and confirmation of arbitration clauses and awards, enforcement of contracts and corporate agreements, receivership and sale of a corporate entity, requests for corporate books and records, shareholder interests in sale of stock exchange, and third party discovery responses and objections.

Rebecca also regularly represents creditors, lenders and official and unofficial committees in contested matters and adversary proceedings in the federal courts.  On a federal level, Rebecca has represented individuals and entities in connection with certification of class action, claim or lease disputes for both creditors and debtors, employment disputes for municipal employer, enforcement of contracts and corporate agreements, enforcement of sale agreements and valuation of assets, representation of defendants in preference actions in numerous bankruptcy cases, representation of estate in adversary proceedings for preferences and collections, and third party discovery responses and objections.

Rebecca is the former Chair of the Litigation Section for the Delaware State Bar Association.  Rebecca actively participates in both the Delaware State Bar Association and Business Litigation section of the American Bar Association.

Education
Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1999
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Editorial Board

University of Virginia, 1996
B.A. with distinction, History and Spanish

Admissions to Practice
Supreme Court of Delaware
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Memberships & Associations
Delaware State Bar Association
Former Chair of the Litigation Section

American Bar Association

Phi Delta Phi

Representative Opinions:

American International Group, Inc. v. Greenberg, 965 A.2d 763 (Del. Ch. 2009)

Ashall Homes Ltd. v. ROK Entertainment Group, Inc., 992 A.2d 1239 (Del. Ch. 2010)

CME Group, Inc. v. Chicago Bd. Options Exchange, Inc., 2009 Del. Ch. LEXIS 116 (June 25, 2009)

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC v. Investment Hunter, LLC, 2010 Del. Ch. LEXIS 121 (May 27, 2010)

US Bank, N.A. v. US Timberlands Klamath Falls, LLC, 864 A.2d 930 (Del. Ch. 2004)

Best Drywall v. Feeheley, 2005 Del. Super. 429 (Jan. 6, 2005)

Burtch v. Wendel (In re Allpoints Warehousing in Liquidation, Inc.), 259 F. Supp. 2d 824 (D. Del. 2001)

In re Garden Ridge Corp., 323 B.R. 136 (Bankr. D. Del. 2005)

Monahan v. City of Wilmington, 2001 U.S. Dist. Lexis 10554 (D.Del. July 23, 2001) aff’d 49 Fed. Appx. 383 (3d Cir. 2002)

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