David J. Margules

David J. Margules has 30 years' experience litigating a broad range of business disputes, including fiduciary duty claims, corporate valuation proceedings, corporate and partnership control fights, and insurance coverage defense. In 2010, David was appointed by the Delaware Court of Chancery as Special Master on discovery issues in the matter TR Investors, et al. v. Genger. In 2012, he was appointed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court as Special Counsel to the Trustee for Debtor Advance Nanotech, Inc., to investigate the events and conduct leading to the Debtor's insolvency.

David is an AAA-trained mediator. In 2014, he was appointed by the Court on the Judiciary of the State of Delaware to a four-year term as a member of the Preliminary Investigatory Committee. In 2015, he was appointed by the Delaware Supreme Court to the Permanent Advisory Committee on Supreme Court Rules.

Professional Activities

Presenter at the Delaware State Bar Association's Litigation Academy (Session II) in Wilmington, September 2018

Guest lecturer at Vanderbilt University and University of Pennsylvania Law Schools on corporate law litigation

Former Lecturer at Law (1997-1998 and 2000) and Grant Irey Lecturer at Law (1999) at University of Pennsylvania Law School, teaching mergers and acquisitions seminar

Recognition & Accomplishments

The Best Lawyers in America, corporate law, intellectual property litigation, and mergers and acquisitions litigation, 2010-2019

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Chancery (Delaware), 2016-2019

Named Delaware "Super Lawyer," business litigation, 2007, 2014-2017, 2019

AV Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell

Speaking Engagements

Panelist, "The Return of Appraisal Rights – Who Would Have Expected an Impact On Deal-Making in 2017?" 29th Annual Corporate Law Institute, Tulane, LA, March 2017

Panelist, "Hot Topics in Valuation Law," the American Society of Appraisers and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators joint conference, Toronto, October 2014

Community Activities

David is active in numerous national and local service organizations, including Jewish National Fund, AIPAC, Delaware Gratz Hebrew High School, and Chabad Lubavitch of Delaware, Inc.

New York University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1983)
Staff Member, New York University Law Review
Member, Order of the Coif

Columbia University (B.A. 1978)

Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit