Christina Thompson brings more than twenty years of experience across a diverse yet interconnected range of practice areas, including commercial real estate, finance, bankruptcy, state and local government and Delaware opinion work. Her practice reflects the full lifecycle of real property and business transactions—from structuring and financing to compliance, restructuring, and resolution.

Christina regularly represents property owners, lenders, landlords, tenants, developers, state agencies and municipalities in transactions involving land acquisition and disposition, construction and permanent financing, and the negotiation of commercial leases for office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use properties. As a title insurance agent, she provides clients with an informed, efficient approach to every phase of a transaction.

Christina represents commercial landlords, secured and unsecured creditors, and other stakeholders in complex Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 proceedings nationwide. She has extensive experience handling lease assumption and assignment, lease modifications and terminations, and the purchase and sale of assets through bankruptcy sales, as well as claims litigation, preference and fraudulent transfer actions, relief from stay motions, and adequate protection disputes.

Christina also advises clients on vendor relationships, reclamation rights, setoff and recoupment issues, and other challenges arising when counterparties file for bankruptcy protection. Her work across multiple industries—including retail, manufacturing, and services—gives her a deep understanding of how financial distress affects operations, contractual obligations, and long-term business strategy.

Christina’s work also extends to Delaware legal opinions and entity matters. She regularly issues non-consolidation opinions and provides guidance concerning the formation, governance, and operation of Delaware corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and statutory trusts in connection with complex commercial and securitized financing transactions.

Christina also counsels municipalities and governmental bodies on a wide range of issues that intersect with real estate, governance, and public policy. Her work includes advising on land use and zoning, comprehensive plan amendments, annexations, and development regulation compliance, as well as contract negotiation, intergovernmental agreements, and public-private development initiatives. She regularly assists with matters involving constitutional and regulatory law, ordinance drafting and interpretation, public procurement and bidding, right-of-way and easement issues, and compliance with open meeting and public records laws. This broad experience allows Christina to provide practical, well-rounded counsel that balances the legal, operational, and political considerations facing local governments and public entities.

Christina brings a collaborative and balanced approach to leadership and client service.  She is a member of the firm’s Associate Review and Development Committee and has been repeatedly recognized among Delaware Today’s Top Lawyers for Real Estate, Real Property and Personal Property as well as Land Use.

Speaking Engagements

• Quick Sales & Credit Bids, ABI Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop, Cambridge, Maryland (2010)

Publications

• Opinion Clients: 2019 Amendments to the Delaware Alternative Entity Statutes and Delaware General Corporation Law
• N. Christopher Griffiths and Christina Thompson, Subsequent New Value Defense: Delaware Weighs in on “Paid New Value” Debate, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, (December/January 2010).