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Practice Areas: Mergers and acquisitions and securities law matters. Practice includes a broad and varied representation of public and private corporations and other entities in a variety of industries throughout the United States and globally, in connection with mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, and financing transactions. Also has extensive expertise and experience in takeover defence and corporate governance issues. Among the many transactions in which he has taken a leading role are representing: Deutsche Telekom in its US$39 billion sale of T-Mobile to AT&T; AMB Property Corporation in its US$15 billion merger with ProLogis, to create a REIT with combined assets owned and under management of US$46 billion; Google in its participation in the Nortel patent auction; Grupo Prisa in its US$1.5 billion transaction with Liberty Acquisition Holdings Corp.; the board of directors of Wyeth in its US$68 billion acquisition by Pfizer; Simon Property Group in connection with its offer to acquire General Growth Properties for US$31 billion; Swarth Investments in the sale of its controlling interest in GVT (Holding) SA, Brazil to Vivendi in a transaction valuing GVT at US$4.2 billion; Alcoa in the US$14 billion investment in Rio Tinto by Chinalco and Alcoa; the US$4.7 billion acquisition of Constellation Energy by MidAmerican Energy; Iscar in its US$5 billion acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway, and Iscar in its US$1 billion acquisition of Tungaloy of Japan; Acciona in its €43.7 billion acquisition with Enel of Endesa and in relation to EON's prior proposed transaction; Tishman-Speyer and Lehman Brothers in their US$22.2 billion acquisition of Archstone-Smith; Vornado Realty Trust, Starwood Capital and Walton Street in their US$39 billion bid to acquire Equity Office Properties Trust; Man Group's acquisition of Refco' s regulated futures business through Refco' s bankruptcy proceeding; Taubman Centers', Dana Corporation' s and Circuit City's successful defences of hostile takeover attempts by Simon Property Group, ArvinMeritor and Highfields Capital, respectively; the acquisition by Wal-Mart of an interest in Seiyu in Japan and in transactions in Brazil, China, Puerto Rico and the UK; MacAndrews & Forbes in its recapitalisation of Revlon; Cable & Wireless in its exit from its US activities; the successful US $6 billion unsolicited offer by Public Storage for Shurgard; the Mills in its US $7.8 billion sale to a partnership of Simon Property Group and Farallon; the acquisition by Morgan Stanley and Onex of Town & Country; Lend Lease in the sale of its US businesses; MetLife in a variety of transactions; the acquisition by Raytheon of the defence business of Hughes Electronics from General Motors, and Raytheon's acquisition of Texas Instruments defence business and sale of its Amana appliance unit; the Cisneros family of Venezuela in transactions with Coca-Cola and Bell South; Seagram/Universal's acquisition of Viacom's interest in USA Network; and MCA's sale to Matsushita.

Professional Memberships: Co-Chair of the International Institute for the Study of Cross-Border M&A, Co-Chair of the advisory board of New York University's REIT Center for the Study of Public Real Estate Companies and served as Co-Chair of the NYU Real Estate Institute's Annual Symposium on REITs for the last 16 years. Member of the Corporate Academic Bridge Group of the NYU Center for Law and Business and a frequent guest contributor to the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, serves on the board of directors of the American Friends of the Israel Museum and the Ramaz School, President of the Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority and of the Friends of Rambam Medical Center. Previously served on the board of directors of the Lawyers Alliance for New York, the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Law School, and as Co-Chair of its capital campaign, and as Co-Chair of the Young Lawyers Division of the UJA-Federation in New York.

Career: Joined Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in 1986 and named a Partner in 1991. BA, Swarthmore College and JD with honours, University of Chicago. Topics and comments editor of the University of Chicago Law Review; Order of the Coif; Olin Fellow in law and economics. Law clerk to Hon Abner J Mikva, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A frequent speaker at bar and professional conferences on topics relating to mergers and acquisitions.

Personal: Born 15 December 1960. Married with three children.