Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Chairman of the Corporate Department

Michael J. Aiello is Chairman of the over 600-lawyer Corporate Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Chair of the Firm’s Global Leadership and Strategy Committee, and a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. Michael regularly represents companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions and divestitures involving public companies. He also advises clients on corporate governance issues. Michael regularly represents acquirors, targets, buyout groups, boards of directors, special committees, investment banks, investors and shareholder groups in complex domestic and international negotiated and unsolicited merger and acquisition transactions, including Aéropostale, Dow Chemical, Goldman Sachs, Herbalife, The Home Depot, Kroger, Ontario Teachers', Procter & Gamble, Sanofi, Thomas H. Lee and Willis Group Holdings.

New York University (B.A., 1991); Widener University (J.D., 1994).