Mr. Tumas is the chairman of the firm's corporate group.  He concentrates his practice in the area of corporate law with specific emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, issues of internal governance, and commercial transactions involving Delaware corporations.  Mr. Tumas's practice often involves counseling boards of directors and special committees of boards of directors regarding their duties, fiduciary and otherwise.  Mr. Tumas also has extensive experience in representing both sellers and buyers in negotiated acquisitions of divisions, assets and businesses.

Mr. Tumas is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Lawdragon's 500 Leading Dealmakers and The Best Lawyers in America, and has received an AV® rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review certification.

Recent publications include "The 2008 Amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law" (click here to read the full article), "Rethinking the Blasius Standard of Review:  The Implications of Mercier v. Inter-Tel (Delaware), Inc.," first presented at the 20th Annual Corporate Law Institute at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 3-4, 2008 (click here to read the full article),  "The Disclosure of Projections Under Delaware Law," published in Deal Points (click here to read the full article) and "The Last Word on Disclosure of Projections Under Delaware Law," published in The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (click here to read the full interview).

AV® is a registered certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc. and is used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.

Education

• University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 1984
• The State University of New York at Binghamton, B.A., 1981

Representative Matters

Mr. Tumas has advised on a number of recent transactions including representation of the Board of Directors of Anheuser-Busch in connection with the unsolicited proposal by InBev, the Board of Directors of NRG Energy in connection with a proposed combination with Calpine Corporation, IntercontinentialExchange in connection with its bid for the Chicago Board of Trade, T-Mobile in connection with its acquisitions of SunCom Wireless, ev3 in connection with its merger with Fox Hollow Technologies, Mark West Energy in connection with its merger with Mark West Hydrocarbon, Morgan Stanley in connection with its spin-off of Discover Financial Services, Walter Industries, Inc. in connection with the IPO of Mueller Water Products, Inc., Cadbury Schweppes in connection with its acquisition of Control of Dr. Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group, the Board of Directors of NRG in connection with its acquisition of Texas Genco, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in connection with the formation of GreenLeaf Genetics LLC, special committee of the Board of Directors of Dreamworks Animation in connection with the sale of Dreamworks Studios to Paramount Studios.

Seminars & Speeches

Tulane University's 12th Annual Corporate Law Institute, "Delaware Developments," April 3-4, 2008

UCLA M&A First Monday Forum, "Recent Developments in Delaware: Caremark, Netsmart, Stone Energy, Ryan and Tyson Foods," sponsored by the UCLA School of Law, April 2, 2007

UCLA M&A First Monday Forum, "The Omnipresent Spectra of the Duty of Good Faith: Do Directors Have Reason to Worry?", sponsored by the UCLA School of Law, March 6, 2006

Professional Activities

• Delaware State Bar Association; serves on Council of the Corporation Law Section
• American Bar Association; Business Law Section