Trevor Norwitz

Practice Areas

Trevor S. Norwitz focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and securities law matters.

Career

Trevor Norwitz is Of Counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. During his 30 years at the Firm (25 as a partner) his practice focused primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and securities law matters. During his career he advised public and private entities in a wide variety of industries in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, hostile takeover bids and defenses, proxy contests, joint ventures, financing transactions and corporate governance matters.

Professional Memberships

Mr. Norwitz is active on committees of the International Bar Association and the American Bar Association, and a member of the American Law Institute, and served as a member of an international advisory group to the South African government on company law reform. A regular speaker and panelist at professional conferences, he has chaired and participated in numerous continuing legal education programs and contributes regularly to professional publications on topics relating to M&A and corporate governance.

Personal

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Trevor received his Bachelor of Business Science with first class honors from the University of Cape Town in 1986. On a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, he read law at Keble College, graduating with first class honors in 1989, and then completed an LL.M. at Columbia University in 1990.

Mr. Norwitz served as a member of an international advisory group to the South African government on company law reform. He chairs the University of Cape Town Fund and Friends of Ikamva Labantu.