Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz maintains a preeminent shareholder activism practice, advising boards and senior management on ESG positioning, corporate purpose, and shareholder engagement strategy. The team is regularly engaged on activism preparedness, investor outreach, and defense against public campaigns, including contested proxy solicitations, settlement negotiations, and board reconstitution matters. The practice is led by New York-based Elina Tetelbaum, a trusted advisor to CEOs, general counsel, and boards on complex proxy contests and unsolicited bid defenses, including overall campaign coordination and negotiation strategy. Loren Braswell focuses on investor engagement and crisis response mandates arising from activist pressure. The group acts across the oil and gas, technology, chemicals, retail, and TMT sectors.