A counsel in the Litigation Department, Sabrina Hendershot specializes in complex corporate and commercial litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Her practice focuses on bet-the-company M&A litigation, corporate governance disputes, stockholder class and derivative actions, high-stakes commercial litigation, and statutory proceedings such as stockholder and director books and records disputes arising under Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL), and actions concerning the removal or election of directors or officers arising under Section 225 of the DGCL. She has represented major Delaware corporations and alternative entities, as well as their directors, officers and investors spanning the technology, private equity, financial services, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals sectors.
In addition to her significant Chancery practice, Sabrina has litigated in all of Delaware’s state and federal courts, including appeals to the Delaware Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Sabrina also has significant corporate governance experience, having assisted boards of directors, special committees, special litigation committees and stockholder demand review committees through investigations, litigation and other business matters. Sabrina is recognized in the 2024 and 2025 editions of The Best Lawyers in America “Ones to Watch” in the Commercial Litigation category and was named a “Rising Star” in Business Litigation by Delaware Super Lawyers (2022-2025).
In 2023, Sabrina was appointed to the Delaware Supreme Court’s Board of Bar Examiners. She is also a member of the Delaware State Bar Association’s Corporation Law and Women and the Law sections, and the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section and M&A subcommittee, contributing to the Annual Survey of Judicial Developments Pertaining to Mergers and Acquisitions, published in the Summer 2022 edition of The Business Lawyer. She is also an active member of the Women Chancery Lawyers group.
Before joining the firm, Sabrina was an associate in the corporate and business litigation department of a prominent Delaware law firm, where she gained extensive business litigation experience. Sabrina also gained valuable experience as a judicial law clerk and fellow to the Honorable Collins J. Seitz, Jr. of the Delaware Supreme Court and as a judicial extern to the Honorable Abigail LeGrow, then of the Delaware Court of Chancery. In law school, Sabrina served as the external managing editor of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.
Sabrina also has an active pro bono practice. She volunteers her time with the Office of the Child Advocate and is appointed to represent minor children as a guardian ad litem in the Delaware Family Court. She also has experience representing tenants, earning a pro bono trial victory in an expedited eviction case during the height of the pandemic.
