Atty. Robert K. Beste
Rob is a detail-oriented, hands-on trial attorney with a record of success in Delaware’s trial courts, including Delaware’s Court of Chancery, the Complex Commercial Litigation Division of Delaware’s Superior Court, and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Rob has extensive experience in trial work and focuses on business valuation, electronic discovery, brief writing, and deposition practice.
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Robert K. Beste is an attorney based in Wilmington, Delaware. They haand 26+ years of legal experience, licensed to practice since 2000. Admitted to practice in Delaware (2000) and Maryland United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit United States District Court for the D (2004). Educated at Widener University School of Law (J.D., 2000) and West Virginia University (B.A., 1997). Recognitions include BV Distinguished. Actiand member of Associations •Delaware State Bar Association Member. Serands clients in Wilmington, DE and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- Rob is a detail-oriented, hands-on trial attorney with a record of success in Delaware’s trial courts, including Delaware’s Court of Chancery, the Complex Commercial Litigation Division of Delaware’s Superior Court, and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware
- Rob has extensive experience in trial work and focuses on business valuation, electronic discovery, brief writing, and deposition practice
- Rob is well versed in all litigation, and particularly matters in the Court of Chancery, where he represents corporations, entities, fiduciaries, and stockholders in a wide range of corporate litigation, including fiduciary duty and class actions, governance disputes, appraisal actions, books and records actions, director election contests, contract disputes, and similar matters
- Rob has been practicing in Wilmington since 2000 and immersed in the legal field since working at law firms in his early teens
- Rob is the proud father of two and lives in Wilmington with his wife of over twenty years, and both Rob and his wife were raised by long-time Delaware attorneys
- Rob's Publications Rob's Experience •On April 12, 2024, Rob successfully defeated a claim seeking $85 million in lost profits, instead obtaining $2 million on counter-claims, in a breach of contract dispute
- Surf’s Up Legacy Partners v
- Virgin Fest, LLC, Del
- Super., 2024 WL 1596021, Wallace, J. (April 12, 2024)
- The parties bitterly disputed the matter, which required that Rob’s clients file nineteen discovery- and trial-related motions during the years-long dispute that started in November 2019 and went to trial in October 2024
- Rob personally took or defended twenty-three depositions, handled the financial experts of both parties, personally found all of the accounting-related wrongdoing at issue in the matter, and tried the case leading a team of two other attorneys. •On March 4, 2024, Rob secured a judgment for $931,293 on a breach of contract claim following a bench trial in the District of Delaware
- Bailey v
- Tektronix, Inc., D. Del., 2024 WL 748521, Williams, J. (February 23, 2024). •On July 31, 2023, Rob obtained a judgment-on the pleadings-for over $1.5 million on a breach of contract claim in Tygon Peak Capital Management, LLC v
- Mobile Investments Investco, LLC, Del
- Ch., 2023 WL 4857281, Zurn, V.C. (July 31, 2023), then successfully defended that judgment on appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court in March 2024. •On July 27, 2018, Rob obtained a judgment in an appraisal matter for sixty-six cents per share above the merger price, and the decision remains as a rare example of the Court of Chancery disregarding the merger price in an arm’s length, third party deal
- Blueblade Capital Opportunities LLC v
- Norcraft Companies, Del
- Ch., 2018 WL 3602940, Slights, V.C. (July 27, 2018)
- Rob crossed the company’s financial expert and presented the testimony of petitioner’s merger process and negotiation expert, which, in part, caused the Court to reject the merger price as not indicative of fair value
- Rob took or defended all but two of the sixteen depositions in the matter and tried the matter with David Jenkins. •In January 2016, the Court of Chancery approved a $4.6 million settlement obtained on behalf of a class of common stockholders of Trados, Inc. In re Trados Inc. Shareholder Litigation, Del
- Ch., C.A
- No. 1512, Laster, V.C. (February 8, 2016)
- That settlement followed the frequently-cited post-trial decision in July 2013, In re Trados Inc. Shareholder Litig., Del
- Ch., 73 A.3d 17, Laster, V.C. (2013)
- Rob took or defended most of the depositions in the matter and tried the matter on a team of three attorneys. •In InterDigital v
- Wistron, Rob obtained a temporary restraining order requiring Wistron to stay an action pending in Taiwan
- InterDigital, Inc. v
- Wistron Corp., Del
- Ch., 2015 WL 4055373, Noble, V.C. (July 2, 2015)
- InterDigital initiated the action in Delaware’s Court of Chancery on June 5, but Wistron removed the matter to the District of Delaware on June 11
- Rob then obtained, on an emergency basis seven days after the removal, an order remanding the matter to the Court of Chancery
- The Court of Chancery entered a temporary restraining order on July 2, 2015. •Rob tried the first contested matter to reach judgment under Delaware’s statute allowing the Court of Chancery to review and validate defective corporate acts, 8 Del
- C. 205, after which the Court retroactively validated several problematic stock issuances and re-established his clients’ voting control of the company
- In re Numoda Corporation Shareholders Litigation, 2015 WL 402265 (Del
- Ch
- Jan. 30, 2015)
Jurisdictional Context
Why local counsel matters in Delaware
Practforg law in Delaware. Legal matters in Delaware are governed by state-specific rules of civil and criminal procedure, statutes of limitations, and substantiand law. Cases originating in Wilmington are typically filed in the local municipal court or the appropriate Delaware state district court, depending on subject matter and amount in controversy. An attorney licensed in Delaware brings working knowledge of local procedural deadlines, judicial practices in this andnue, and the substantiand law that applies to cases brought here. Out-of-state attorneys generally cannot represent clients in Delaware courts without local counsel or pro hac vice admission.
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