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Peter P. Tomczak

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Peter Tomczak serves as Baker McKenzie's Co-Chair, Global Investigations, Compliance and Ethics. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Firm's Global Dispute Resolution practice, and also serves on the Firm's Global Professional Responsibility and Practice Committee and Cross-Alliance Pricing Committee. Peter previously served as Chair of the Firm's North America Litigation and Government Enforcement Practice Group, and on the Steering Committee of the Firm's Global Industrials, Manufacturing and Transportation Industry Practice Group. Peter joined Baker McKenzie in 2003 after having served as a law clerk for the Delaware Court of Chancery.

In 2010, public Delaware corporations began adopting forum provisions to require various types of “intra-entity” disputes — claims that directors breached their fiduciary duties in approving a sale transaction — be made solely in Delaware courts. However, over the past decade, this has now been shaped into a boilerplate provision under U.S. securities law.