Bio

Benjamin Roth joined Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Corporate Department in 2001 and was elected to the partnership in 2009. He serves as the assigning partner for the Corporate Department and is a member of the Firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee and Associate Development Committee. His practice focuses on advising boards of directors, management teams and financial sponsors in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions, capital markets transactions, including IPOs and spinoffs and other forms of securities offerings, and general corporate governance, ESG, and securities law matters, including proxy fights and activism preparedness and defense. He has advised a broad range of public and private companies and financial sponsors in the United States and abroad in a variety of industries, including technology, health care, pharmaceuticals, retail, energy, industrials and financial institutions. Ben spends a significant amount of time advising public and private clients in the technology sector on transactional and governance matters, as well as advising other companies seeking to acquire high-tech assets. He spends a significant amount of his time on the West Coast. In 2013, Ben was selected as a winner of the “40 Under 40” Awards for legal advisors by The M&A Advisor. He also has been featured three times as Dealmaker of the Week by AmLaw Daily, included several times as a “Super Lawyer” in the area of mergers and acquisitions by Super Lawyers magazine, and recognized as an expert in mergers and acquisitions by ExpertGuides. He was selected as one of the Top 10 M&A lawyers in North America by MergerLinks for 2022 and by Lawdragon as a Leading Dealmaker in America for 2024. Ben also speaks and writes frequently on both transactional and governance-related topics. Ben received a B.S. in Foreign Service, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. with honors from Stanford Law School, where he served as co-editor-in-chief of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance. He is a member of the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors. He established the Wachtell Lipton Running Team and is an avid runner.