Profile: Craig M Wasserman

Banking

Biography: Banking

Craig Wasserman joined Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in 1986 and became a partner on 1 January 1993. Mr Wasserman graduated summa cum laude with a BA/MA in economics from Yale University in 1982, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated with a JD in 1986 from the Yale Law School, where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal, as well as editor and senior articles editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. In 1986, Mr Wasserman served as law clerk to Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Mr Wasserman specialises in mergers and acquisitions and complex corporate, securities, regulatory and compliance matters. He has extensive experience in the field of banking and financial institution mergers and acquisitions transactions and has worked on numerous public company acquisitions, corporate control contests, corporate governance and compliance matters and private equity and joint venture transactions both in and outside the financial services sector.

Mr Wasserman speaks and writes extensively on topics of corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, banking, financial services and securities law matters. He is editor and co-author of Partnerships, Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances and is a member of the board of advisers of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law.