Sarah Ennis

Sarah focuses her practice within the firm’s Corporate and Commercial Litigation, and Bankruptcy and Restructuring groups.

Her practice includes litigating corporate and commercial matters in the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Complex Commercial Litigation Docket of the Delaware Superior Court. Sarah also has extensive experience in the Delaware District Court and the Delaware Bankruptcy Court in matters involving business restructuring and insolvency.

Sarah is experienced with fiduciary duty claims, contract disputes, and summary proceedings under Delaware’s business statutes and has represented Chapter 11 debtors, insurers in all facets of bankruptcy-related issues, creditors committees, liquidating trustees, trade creditors and financial institutions, purchasers of assets, and both plaintiffs and defendants in numerous avoidance actions, including preference and fraudulent transfer actions. She counsels clients on commercial bankruptcy, restructuring, and insolvency matters, as well as matters involving corporate and fiduciary litigation.

Prior to joining Morris James, Sarah worked as an associate for seven years in Wilmington handling corporate and commercial litigation and bankruptcy matters where she gained significant experience in various courts in Delaware.

Experience

• Counseling current and former directors, officers, and advisors of debtors relating to fiduciary duties
• Counseling official committees of unsecured creditors and equity committees
• Advising indenture trustees, agents, and lending groups in complex restructurings
• Advising and representing managers and members of Delaware limited liability companies regarding disputes and dissolution
• Assisting secured creditors seeking to enforce rights against debtors, including through foreclosure, liens, execution, and replevin.
• Advising clients in complex cross border insolvency and asset recovery issues
• Advising matters regarding D & O insurance coverage claims
• Advising and defending restrictive and non-compete covenants
• Inspection of books and records

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Network Newsletter, Chair, 2018-2023, Women Business and Commercial Advocates Committee of the Business Law Section, Vice Chair, 2018 – 2023
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• Delaware State Bar Association, Litigation Section, Chair, 2022 – Present
• Richard S. Rodney American Inn of Court

CCX, Inc., Counsel to the Debtor

Dohmen v. Goodman, Delaware Counsel to Appellant in certification of question of law before the Delaware Supreme Court regarding a general partner’s duty of disclosure to a limited partner in a Delaware limited partnership

Juno USA, LP, Counsel to Settlement Trustee

Punch Bowl Social (PBS BrandCo LLC), Lead Counsel to Debtors

SportCo. Holdings, Inc., Delaware Counsel to the Creditors’ Litigation Trustee

Synergy Pharmaceuticals Inc., Counsel to the Litigation Trustee

Latest Blog Posts

Delaware Business Litigation Report

• Chancery Decides Scope of Expert’s Authority in Valuation Dispute Resolution Mechanism
• Chancery Declines to Shift Costs to Derivative Plaintiffs
• Chancery Awards Mootness Fee Applying Recently Adopted Standard
• Chancery Upholds Removal of Board Members
• Chancery Refuses to Enforce Nationwide Noncompete
• Chancery Finds Non-Compete Unenforceable by Subsidiaries Unless Identified in Agreement
• Chancery Adopts Heightened Standard for Supplemental Disclosure Mootness Fee Awards in M&A Litigation
• Chancery Finds for Defendants in Challenge to Oracle Acquisition of NetSuite

Community

Delaware State Bar Association, Women and the Law Section, Roxana C. Arsht Fellowship Committee, Chair, 2019 – 2022

Honors

Delaware Today Top Lawyers, Bankruptcy Business, 2021 
Delaware Today Top Lawyers, Appellate Law, 2022 

Academic Appointments

The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Bluebook Editor (Widener University Delaware Law School)