Kyle provides Delaware law advice on matters of corporate governance and transactions involving publicly traded, as well as privately held, corporations.

He regularly advises on all aspects of corporate governance, including governing document amendments, initial public offerings and other equity issuances, contests for control and stockholder activism. Having successfully represented both issuers and contestants in proxy contests, Kyle is able to provide valuable insight when advising clients in such situations.  

He also counsels corporations, directors, officers, stockholders and investors on fiduciary duty and transactional issues arising under Delaware law, including in connection with M&A, financing, and restructuring transactions, dissolutions, and statutory ratifications of defective corporate acts. In his practice, Kyle also provides formal legal opinions.

Kyle has been included in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for his work in corporate governance and compliance, corporate, and mergers & acquisitions law, and is a contributor to the Wolters Kluwer treatises Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts and Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions. He is also a member of the Morris Nichols Recruiting Committee.

Experience

Counseling on governing document amendments, including provisions on advance notice of nominations and business, stockholder-requested special meetings, indemnification and advancement rights, and forum selection.

Advising issuers and contestants in proxy contents concerning board representation and business proposals other than nominations.

Counseling public and private company boards of directors and committees on mergers, acquisitions, spin offs, financings, restructurings and other types of transactions, including conflict transactions.

News & Insights

Professional & Civic

American Bar Association (Business Law Section)

Delaware State Bar Association (Corporation Law Section)

Society for Corporate Governance (Middle Atlantic Chapter)

Clerkships

  • Extern to the Honorable Eduardo C. Robreno, US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2014

Education

Villanova University School of Law, JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2015
Villanova Law Review, staff writer and articles editor, 2013-2015

University of Delaware, BA, history, 2012

Admissions

  • Delaware, 2015
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