Eleazer Klein

Ele is the Global Head of Shareholder Activism and member of the firm’s Management Committee. Advises on shareholder activism, mergers and acquisitions, securities law and regulatory compliance.

Ele represents activists, investment banks and companies in matters ranging from corporate governance and control to proxy contests and defensive strategies.

He works on numerous activist campaigns and related transactions every year for some of the largest private investment groups and investment banks in the United States and abroad.

In addition, Ele advises on private investments in public equity (PIPEs), initial public offerings and secondary offerings, venture capital financing, and indenture defaults and interpretation, and he counsels clients in the regulatory areas of insider trading, short selling, Sections 13 and 16, Rule 144, insider trading and Regulation M/Rule 105.

Ele is recognized as a 2022 American Lawyer “Dealmaker of the Year” for his work at Exxon Mobil for Engine No. 1, the largest proxy fight in history, which resulted in the addition of three directors to the ExxonMobil board of directors.

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• Yale Law School (J.D., 1991)

• Senior Editor, The Yale Law Journal

• Yale University Graduate and Professional Senate - Law School Senator

• Brooklyn College, CUNY (B.S., summa cum laude, 1987)