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Daniel A. Neff 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.
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, which he joined in 1977. He continues to serve as a member of the firm’s six-person Executive Committee.
Mr. Neff has served for many years as a member of the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Greater New York, where he is a member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Branch Chair Council and is a trustee of the Economic Club of New York. He has been actively involved with Brown University, and with Columbia Law School, where he is a member of the Board of Visitors.
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