Christina Ademola

Christina Ademola is counsel in the firm’s Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice in Boston. Christina’s practice focuses on defending corporations and their officers and directors in M&A litigation, corporate governance disputes, securities class actions, derivative suits, and other complex commercial litigation.

Christina has particular experience in the nation’s preeminent business court, the Delaware Court of Chancery, and continues to practice there and in courts across the country. Christina understands the complex business considerations clients face across a range of corporate transactional disputes. Christina has been involved at every stage of the private and public company M&A transaction lifecycle, including advising on pre-closing litigation risk mitigation measures, successfully overcoming preliminary injunction motions challenging multi-billion dollar mergers, defeating hostile takeover attempts and would-be topping bidders, and obtaining successful resolution of post-closing disputes.

An experienced trial attorney, Christina recently won a $15.5 million jury verdict, including $11 million in punitive damages, on behalf of three Haitian citizens, who were the victims of torture and heinous crimes at the hands of the former mayor of in their Haitian community. Christina has also argued motions in federal and state courts and conducted evidentiary hearings.

Christina’s representative matters include:

• Argued motion to dismiss independent committee facing minority stockholders’ challenge to private company squeeze-out merger with controlling stockholder in the Delaware Court of Chancery*
• Defended software company and app creator in expedited proceedings challenging multi-billion dollar merger with an Israeli technology firm in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Resolved claims one day prior to preliminary injunction hearing clearing the path for deal closure*
• Defended Japanese investor in expedited challenge to investor’s decision to terminate tender offer for stock of co-working office space and real estate company in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Defended dual challenge from company’s founder and special committee. Achieved favorable settlement for client just short of trial*
• Represented major U.S. telecommunications corporation in litigation challenging its sale of a controlling interest to a Japanese company. Voluntarily dismissed and no preliminary injunction issued*
• Defended major telecommunications corporation against claims for breach of fiduciary duty and demand for statutory appraisal in the Delaware Court of Chancery challenging a multi-billion dollar all-cash merger*
• Represented major investor in PIPE financing transaction related to de-SPAC transaction involving home mortgage service provider. Advised on litigation risk mitigation*
• Defended Canadian smartphone manufacturer and former c-suite executives in S.D.N.Y. in a securities fraud class action that settled one day prior to jury selection on terms favorable to the client*
• Defended the former CEO and CFO of Canadian telecom in securities class action related to the company’s bankruptcy. Won motion to dismiss all claims with prejudice*
• Represented independent directors of Maryland REIT in a stockholder derivative suit against alleged violations of Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act and claims for breach of fiduciary duty arising from alleged related-party transactions. Also represented independent directors in a related investigation by a special litigation committee*
• Represented technology company and several officers and directors in a federal securities class action after a stock drop, which allegedly relates to misleading statements about the company’s cloud services segment*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin Procter LLP.

Christina is an active member of The Black BigLaw Pipeline, an organization dedicated to promoting positive outcomes for Black attorneys working at large law firms. Christina is a member of the Black BigLaw Pipeline’s Associate Bootcamp faculty where she co-leads a panel on best practices at trial with a partner from another major law firm. Christina is also a member of the Women’s Bar Foundation’s Board of Trustees, an organization dedicated to ensuring access to justice for low-income women, and a member of the American Bar Association and the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest network of Black attorneys and judges.

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.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Christina was a securities litigation associate in the Wilmington, Delaware office of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, and in both the New York and Boston offices of Morrison Foerster LLP.

During her time at Columbia Law School, Christina was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, received the Clinical Legal Education Association’s Outstanding Student Award, and served as production editor of the Columbia Journal of Gender & Law.

Christina has been named to the National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 since 2020.

Co-Author, “Shareholder Ruling Resolves Dual-Natured Uncertainty,” Law 360, September 30, 2021