Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Corporate

Daniel A. Neff served for 20 years (through October 2023) as the co-chairman of the Executive Committee in the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.  He continues to serve as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He is a corporate and securities lawyer, and has focused on mergers and acquisitions and advice to boards of directors and board committees. 

Throughout his career, Mr. Neff has been extensively involved in negotiated as well as hostile acquisitions, and has represented bidders and targets, public and private companies, private equity firms, leveraged acquirers and special committees of directors.  He has represented companies in divestitures, cross-border transactions and proxy contests, and has counseled managements and boards of directors concerning acquisition matters, responses to shareholder activism, conflict transactions, corporate governance and other significant issues.

Mr. Neff lectures frequently on topics relating to his professional interests, was featured in American Lawyer’s “Dealmaker of the Year” article in 2001, 2012 and 2015 and is listed in Chambers Global Guide, Chambers USA Guide, The Best Lawyers in America and Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers of America.

He is a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Mount Sinai Health System and of the Economic Club of New York and served for many years as a member of the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Greater New York and as Chair of that organization’s Branch Chair Council.

• Brown University, A.B. 1974, magna cum laude

• Columbia Law School, J.D. 1977, (Notes and Comments Editor, Columbia Law Review)