John F Savarese

John F. Savarese is currently Of Counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, after having been a partner in the Litigation Department for more than 30 years. His extensive experience includes major investigations concerning securities disclosure, accounting fraud, insider trading, environmental regulation, government contracts, criminal tax and criminal antitrust.

Mr. Savarese joined Wachtell Lipton in 1988, after working in the United States Attorneys’ Office for the Southern District of New York, where he tried numerous jury trials, received the Attorney General’s John Marshall Award for Outstanding Legal Achievement, and also served as Chief Appellate Attorney. Prior to his work with the United States Attorneys’ Office, Mr. Savarese served as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan of the United States Supreme Court, and to the Honorable Louis H. Pollak of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Savarese also formerly served as chair of the board of trustees of the Vera Institute of Justice and of the board of trustees of The Brearley School in New York, and he now serves on the advisory boards at Harvard Law School, Equal Justice Works, Vera Action, the Nature Conservancy, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Harvard University

A.B.

1977

Harvard Law School

J.D.

1981