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Igor Kirman

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Corporate/M&A - New York
Band 4
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Practice Areas
Focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, activism and takeover defense, corporate governance and general corporate matters. He has advised public and private companies, as well as private equity funds, in connection with mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, cross-border deals, shareholder activism, takeover defenses and corporate governance matters.
Career
Partner in the Corporate Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Igor is the author of a book, “M&A and Private Equity Confidentiality Agreements” (Thomson Reuters). He was twice named as Dealmaker of the Year by American Lawyer (2006 and 2015).
Professional Memberships
Igor is the chair of the Practising Law Institute’s annual “Doing Deals” program in New York and teaches a course on M&A as an adjunct at Columbia Law School. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Practical Law Company and on the Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory Board of Strafford Publications.
Personal
Igor received a B.A. in Ethics, Politics and Economics magna cum laude from Yale University in 1993. He completed his J.D. at Columbia Law School in 1996, where he was notes editor of the Columbia Law Review. He was born in Ukraine and speaks Russian.
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