Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz‘s New York practice is a leading defender of shareholder activism, providing service to clients across a broad range of industries, with many of the firm’s deals having billions of dollars at stake. The firm’s approach to the shareholder activist defense stakes out a unique position, maintaining a ratio of associates to partners significantly below that of other firms, focusing on matters that require the attention, extensive experience and sophistication of their partners, emphasizing quality over quantity. Practice leader Elina Tetelbaum takes charge of the practice, with her expertise covering both proxy fights and counselling on corporate governance issues and crisis management, with experience against the largest and most prominent activist investor funds. The highly experienced David Katz is involved in both domestic and international M&A, buyout transactions, and complex public and private offerings, integrating shareholder activism into a broader transactional service, and Adam Emmerich specializes in hostile takeover defense and contested acquisition matters.