Karessa Cain

Karessa's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and corporate and securities matters. She has worked on a wide range of transactions, including domestic and cross-border acquisitions, private equity transactions, spin-offs, takeover defense, shareholder activism and proxy contests, joint ventures and capital market transactions.

Karessa Cain joined Wachtell Lipton in 2005 and has been a partner in the Corporate Department since 2012.

Following graduation from law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Karessa is a Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel and the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the New York and American Bar Associations. She serves on the Corporation Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association.

Karessa is a member of the Board of Trustees of Prep for Prep, a non-profit organization that prepares promising students of color in New York City for success at independent schools, and she was a Fellow in the Partnership for New York City’s David Rockefeller Fellows program.

Yale University

B.A.

2000

Columbia Law School

J.D.

2004