Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Corporate/M&A

About

Provided by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

A Preeminent Corporate Practice

Wachtell Lipton enjoys a global reputation as one of the world’s leading business law firms. Our deep experience means we regularly handle many of the largest, most complex and demanding transactions in the United States and around the world. We counsel both public and private acquirors and targets, advising on a wide range of corporate matters, including:

U.S., Cross-Border and International Mergers and Acquisitions
Private Equity and Strategic Investments
Spin-offs and Split-ups
Securities Offerings and Other Capital-Raising Transactions

In addition, we are recognized as a leading firm for:

Takeover Defense
Shareholder Activism
Corporate Governance

What We Have Done

Wachtell Lipton consistently ranks near the very top of legal advisors by transaction dollar volume, notwithstanding that we are significantly smaller than all of our major competitors. Over the past five years, we have been a legal advisor on eight of the ten largest transactions in the United States and seven of the ten largest transactions globally, as well as numerous other acquisition and restructuring transactions across many industries and of every description.

Representative major U.S. M&A matters can be found here.

Representative major cross-border or non-U.S. M&A matters can be found here.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Corporate/M&A - Global: Multi-Jurisdictional

Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Wachtell is an outstanding US corporate firm with an enviable track record in cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The law firm offers:

• Experience handling high-value transactions from its New York office, often involving parties from Europe and Asia.

• An excellent non-exclusive network of relationships with top-end firms across the world, which it often instructs in the role of lead counsel.

• Experience advising elite US and overseas clients on transformational public deals.

• An excellent reputation acting for public companies and financial services clients in high-value transactional work, with particular expertise in bank mergers and hostile deal work.