Profile: Theodore N Mirvis

Corporate Governance

Biography: Corporate Governance

Theodore Mirvis is a partner in the litigation department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Mr Mirvis has been with the firm for over 25 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 is an expert on corporate defence. He has written extensively on topics ranging from white-collar crime, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and stockholder derivative suits.

Mr Mirvis 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. At the Law School, he served as case officer and as a member of the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation, Mr Mirvis was a law clerk to the Honorable Henry J Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a member of the American Law Institute and of the planning committee of the Tulane Corporate Law Institute, and regularly lectures on corporate governance at the Harvard Business School.