William T. Allen

Career

Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery Allen was the Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery from 1985 to 1997.

As Chancellor Allen observed that: "The judges of that court spend most of their time adjudicating cases of alleged breaches of fiduciary duty by corporate officer or directors."

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Allen served as counsel in the Corporate Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Cases In re Caremark International Inc. Derivative Litigation 698 A 2d 959 (Del. Ch. 1996) Lacos Land Co v Arden Group, Inc

Publications

He coauthored with Han Shen, "Assessing China's Top-down Securities Market” in Morck Randall & Bernard Yeung eds. "Capitalizing China", The University of Chicago Press 2012;

His wrote Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization, which was first published in 2003 and is now in its fifth edition.

His January 2008 Davies Fund for Business Law Lecture delivered at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto was centitled "Modern Corporate Governance and the Erosion of the Business Judgment Rule in Delaware Corporate Law".