David Lam

Practice Areas

David K. Lam is Co-Chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, securities transactions, corporate governance, and activism and takeover defense. He has advised on a broad range of matters, including domestic and international transactions, carve-out IPOs, spin-offs, split-offs, joint venture transactions and private equity transactions, across multiple industries.

Career

David received his B.A. (economics and molecular biophysics & biochemistry) summa cum laude from Yale University, where he was awarded the Arthur Twining Hadley Prize and Russell Henry Chittenden Prize for the highest GPA. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as managing editor of the Yale Law Journal and articles editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Lam served as a law clerk to the Honorable José A. Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Education