Overview
Paul Altman is “one of the deans of the Delaware bar” (Chambers USA).
Paul’s practice involves alternative entities, including partnerships and limited liability companies, and focuses primarily on the formation of private investment funds. Before becoming Richards Layton’s senior vice president, Paul was chair of the firm’s Business Department and head of the Limited Liability Company and Partnership Advisory Group for nearly 20 years.
A “fabulous” practitioner who is “very knowledgeable, very thoughtful and very methodical” (Chambers USA), Paul is an active member of the state and national bar, serving on several committees related to alternative entity law. Paul co-authored and continues to update Lubaroff & Altman on Delaware Limited Partnerships. He has also co-authored numerous journal articles, and often lectures on the subject of limited partnerships and limited liability companies at continuing legal education seminars.
PRACTICES
- Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 1983
Villanova Law Review - Lehigh University, B.S., 1980
Education
Publications
Lubaroff & Altman on Delaware Limited Partnerships
updated annually
This is the first complete guide containing everything a lawyer needs to know from the birth to the death of a limited partnership. This important book, revised annually, includes complete coverage and in-depth discussion of the Delaware limited partnership law, plus over 50 useful forms prepared by the authors. The text of every section of the…
The Delaware Law of Corporations and Business Organizations | October 23, 2019
Business Law Today | February 2013
The Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, 6 Del. C. §§ 18-101, et seq., makes certain statutory rules applicable only by default (i.e., only in situations in which members of a Delaware limited liability company have not otherwise provided in their limited liability company agreement).
Leadership
- American College of LLC and Partnership Attorneys, Initial Board Member and Founding Fellow
- Delaware State Bar Association, Committee responsible for drafting amendments to the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act and the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, Past Chair and Current Emeritus Member
- Delaware State Bar Association, Commercial Law Section, Past Chair
- American Bar Association, Committee on LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities, Editorial Board
- Joint Editorial Board on Uniform Unincorporated Organization Acts of the American Bar Association and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, Past Chair and Current Emeritus Member
Recognition
- The Martin I. Lubaroff Award, American Bar Association, 2024
- Chambers USA, Band 1
- The Legal 500, 2023
- The Best Lawyers in America, since 2003; Wilmington, DE Business Organizations Lawyer of the Year, 2017
- Delaware Today Top Lawyer, Top Vote Getter, Private Equity Law, 2014
- The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers
- Super Lawyers
Bar Admissions
- Delaware, 1983
