Biography • Corporate Governance

Steven A Rosenblum has been a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz since 1989, and serves as co-chair of the firm's corporate group. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, takeover defence, shareholder and hedge fund activism, proxy fights, joint ventures, corporate governance and securities law. Mr Rosenblum has extensive experience representing major companies in each of these areas. He has been recognised by Chambers Global as one of the world's leading transactional lawyers.

Mr Rosenblum received his JD from Yale Law School in 1982 and his BA from Harvard College magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1978. Prior to joining the firm, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph L Tauro, United States District Court Judge for the District of Massachusetts.

Mr Rosenblum is a member of the American Law Institute, the ABA committee on corporate laws, and the board of advisers of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. He has written and participated in panels on a number of topics, including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder and hedge fund activism, corporate disclosure, proxy reform and corporate governance, and has served as co-chair of the Annual Federal Securities Institute in Miami since 2005.