Christina Ademola is counsel in the firm’s Litigation department and a member of the Securities Litigation and Private Investment Litigation groups. Christina has 15 years of experience defending corporations and their senior leadership teams in complex commercial disputes and corporate governance matters. Christina routinely guides clients through high-stakes M&A disputes, federal securities class actions, and internal investigations.
With her deep experience litigating complex corporate governance matters in the Delaware Court of Chancery, Christina is uniquely positioned to understand the challenges clients face across a wide range of corporate governance decisions and transactional disputes. With an emphasis on life sciences, technology, and private equity and venture capital, Christina routinely advises public and private companies, corporate boards, special committees and senior executives on litigation risk for buy-side and sell-side transactions, take-private deals, and controlling stockholder transactions, and handles any associated litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery and in courts across the country. Christina has successfully defeated preliminary injunction motions challenging multi-billion-dollar mergers, defeated hostile bidders, overcome post-closing breach of fiduciary duty claims, and obtained successful resolution of broken deal disputes short of trial. Christina works with clients to find practical solutions to high-stakes challenges.
Christina also litigates class actions under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. On the regulatory side, Christina advises clients on regulatory inquiries, conducts internal investigations for companies, corporate boards and board committees, and represents companies in SEC and FINRA investigations.
Representative Matters
Professional Activities
Christina serves on the Board of Trustees of the Women’s Bar Foundation and is a member of the American Bar Association and the National Bar Association. Christina is also an Ambassador for Goodwin’s Women of Color Collective.
In the past, Christina served on the Securities Litigation Committee of the New York City Bar Association and the Pro Bono Associate Advisory Board of Legal Services NYC and was a member of the New York Association of Black Women Attorneys.
Credentials
Education
JD
Columbia Law School
BAPolitical Science
Columbia University
Admissions
Bars
- Delaware
- New York
- Massachusetts
Courts
- U.S. District Court of Delaware
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Speaking Engagements
- Women in M&A, Harvard Law School, ABA’s Women in M&A Subcommittee, 2026
- Delaware Fiduciary Duties, CLE, 2026
- Building Successful Client Relationships, Ad Item Network CLE, 2025
- Delaware Law Lessons, Client CLE, 2024
- Trial Practice, Associate Bootcamp, Black BigLaw Pipeline, 2023, 2024
Publications
- Co-Author, Delaware Law Watch
- Co-Author, Delaware Creates More Corporate Clarity and Overhauls Rules Governing Conflicted Transactions, Goodwin Client Alert, Apr. 3, 2025
- Co-Author, What Are “Books and Records”? Delaware Reduces Uncertainty Surrounding Stockholder Inspection Rights, Goodwin Client Alert, Mar. 28, 2025
- Co-Author, Delaware Supreme Court holds that boards must satisfy the MFW framework in controller transactions to obtain business judgment deference, Westlaw Today, Apr. 24, 2024
- Co-Author, Delaware Supreme Court Holds That Boards Must Satisfy the MFW Framework in Controller Transactions to Obtain Business Judgment Deference, Goodwin Client Alert, Apr. 15, 2024
- Co-Author, Delaware Court of Chancery Rescinds Elon Musk’s $55.8 Billion Compensation Package in Cautionary Tale About Director Independence and Executive Compensation, Goodwin Client Alert, Feb. 6, 2024
- Co-Author, Shareholder Ruling Resolves Dual-Natured Uncertainty, Law 360, Sept. 30, 2021