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Brian L. Colborn focuses his practice on a broad range of transactional matters, with an emphasis on transactions involving Delaware limited liability companies and limited partnerships. Brian routinely assist with numerous aspects of structured finance transactions and routinely advises on secured transactions, commercial lending, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital investments. He has wide-ranging experience in alternative entity investments, including Delaware statutory trusts, general partnerships, limited partnerships and limited liability companies and renders third-party and nonconsolidation opinions on Delaware corporations, limited liability companies, and limited partnerships.

Concentrations

  • Delaware opinions
  • Non-consolidation opinions
  • Chapter 11 debtors'/creditors' rights

Capabilities

Experience

  • Judicial Extern, Hon. Mary F. Walrath, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

Recognition & Leadership

  • Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law, 2021-2025
  • Selected, Delaware Today, “Top Lawyers – Business Law,” 2023-2024
  • Team Member, Corporate Board Member magazine and FTI Consulting Inc., one of "America’s Best Corporate Law Firms," 13th Annual Legal Industry Study, 2013
  • Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, Delaware Bar Association

Credentials

Education
  • J.D., cum laude, Widener University School of Law
    • Board Member, Delaware Journal of Corporate Law
    • Business Organizations Law Certificate, with honors
    • Phi Kappa Phi
    • Widener Scholar
  • B.A., Criminal Justice/Sociology, Widener University
Admissions
  • Delaware
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware