Theodore N Mirvis
USA Guide 2023
Senior Statespeople : Litigation: Securities
Senior Statespeople
About
Provided by Theodore N Mirvis
Practice Areas
Focuses on litigation involving corporate governance and complex securities and securitization matters, and directors' fiduciary duties in mergers and acquisitions. He is an expert on corporate defense.
Career
Partner in the Litigation Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He has been with the firm for over 30 years, and, during that time, has litigated some of the landmark cases regarding corporate governance issues, mergers and acquisitions, stockholders' rights and numerous other matters involving corporate and securities litigation. He was a law clerk to the Honorable Henry J. Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Publications
He has written extensively on topics ranging from white-collar crime, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and stockholder derivative suits and is a regular lecturer at the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Law School.
Personal
Received a BA summa cum laude from Yeshiva University in 1973 and received a JD magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1976. During law school, he served as case officer and as a member of the Editorial Board of The Harvard Law Review.