Ryan McLeod

Ryan A. McLeod is a Partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Litigation Department. His practice focuses on representing corporations and directors in litigation involving mergers and acquisitions, proxy contests, corporate governance disputes, and class and derivative actions involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duty.

Ryan has significant experience litigating corporate matters in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the Delaware Supreme Court, and other courts around the country. Ryan has been named a Future Star by Benchmark Litigation, called a Rising Star by the New York Law Journal, was recognized by Bloomberg Law in the inaugural edition of They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40, and designated by Legal500 as a “next generation” leading lawyer in M&A Litigation Defense.

Ryan is also Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School and guest lectures on corporate litigation and governance at schools throughout the country, and he is admitted to practice in New York and Delaware.

Upon graduation from law school, Ryan clerked for the Honorable William B. Chandler III, the former Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery. Ryan maintains an active LGBT-related pro bono practice, is a Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, and is the co-chair of the firm’s Equal Opportunity & Inclusion Committee.

Ryan received his J.D. magna cum laude from the Duke University School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was awarded the Faculty Prize for Achievement in Business Law and Finance.