Nick Mozal is counsel in the firm's Corporate Litigation Group and focuses his practice on corporate and commercial litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery and Supreme Court. His experience includes litigating stockholder class and derivative claims, and statutory proceedings under the Delaware General Corporation Law, such as actions concerning advancement, appraisal, and contested board elections. He also counsels directors and special committees regarding issues of corporate governance and fiduciary duties.
Nick is an active member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Business Law. He currently serves as chair of the Annual Survey Task Force for its M&A Jurisprudence subcommittee, overseeing the publication of the Annual Survey of Judicial Developments Pertaining to Mergers and Acquisitions in The Business Lawyer.
Before joining Potter Anderson, Nick was a law clerk for Vice Chancellor Morgan T. Zurn of the Delaware Court of Chancery. Prior to his clerkship, Nick was an associate in private practice in Wilmington and also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Franklin S. Van Antwerpen of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Publications
- Winter 2022
- Business Law Today, November 5, 2021
- Fall 2021
- Delaware Supreme Court Resuscitates Suit Challenging Decision to Value Pending Litigation Claims at Zero in MergerThe M&A Lawyer, Issue 3, March 2021
- Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, May 27, 2020
- Business Law Today, March 26, 2020
- Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, October 14, 2019
- Court of Chancery Extends M&F Worldwide Framework to Controller/Third-Party TransactionsThe M&A Lawyer, Issue 8 at 1
- The Limits of “The Corwin Effect"Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, July 28, 2018
- Delaware Supreme Court Limits Ratification Defense for Director Compensation AwardsThe Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, January 3, 2018
- Supreme Court Increases Delaware's Role as Forum for Patent LitigationThe Temple 10-Q, June 19, 2017
- In re Saba Software: Court of Chancery Allows First Plaintiffs to Escape Corwin DismissalThe M&A Lawyer, Issue 5 at 1, May 2017
- Saba Software, Inc. – Eluding Corwin DismissalHarvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, April 5, 2017
- Proposed Amendments to Delaware Appraisal Statute Attempt to Curb, not End, Appraisal ArbitrageDeal Points, Volume XX, Issue 2, at 5, Spring 2015
- Why The Delaware Courts Express Two, And Only Two, Fiduciary Duties: A Response To How Many Fiduciary Duties Are There in Corporate Law?83 S. CAL. L. REV. 1231 (2010), 87 S. CAL. L. REV. Postscript 154 (2014)
News
- August 19, 2021
- July 12, 2021
- March 25, 2021
- May 28, 2020
- Nicholas D. Mozal, former clerk for Vice Chancellor Morgan T. Zurn, joins Delaware law firm as counsel to expand corporate litigation practiceSeptember 10, 2019
Events & Speaking Engagements
- March 31, 2022
- April 19, 2021
- December 1, 2020
- January 31, 2020
Education
Temple University Beasley School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 2011; Lead Research Editor, Temple Law Review
Bucknell University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2008; Phi Beta Kappa
JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS
- Law clerk to the Honorable Morgan T. Zurn of the Delaware Court of Chancery, 2018-2019
- Law clerk to the Honorable Franklin S. Van Antwerpen of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2011-2012
Bar & Court Admissions
- Delaware, 2013
- U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, 2013
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2017
Practices
Professional Activities and Honors
Delaware State Bar Association; Member At-Large of Executive Committee
Richard S. Rodney Inn of Court
Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Corporate Law, most recently in the 2022 edition
Super Lawyers, Rising Star, Business Litigation (2020, 2021)