Bio

David Shapiro is a partner in the Corporate Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. David focuses on mergers and acquisitions and complex securities transactions. He has been involved in numerous major corporate merger, acquisition and buyout transactions, strategic defense assignments, hostile bids and proxy contests. He also counsels boards of directors and board committees on corporate governance matters. David was named by The American Lawyer as a Dealmaker of the Year and has been featured in The New York Times’ Facebook of Wall Street’s Future. He is a frequent author and speaker on topics relating to mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance and is the contributing editor of Getting the Deal Through: Banking Regulation. David is actively engaged in numerous philanthropic and pro bono pursuits and is currently a member of the Boards of the Jewish Museum and the Penn Institute for Urban Research and was for many years on the Boards of The Door, a not-for-profit comprehensive youth services agency and also University Settlement, a not-for-profit settlement house located in New York City. David received a B.S. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. He completed a J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1999 where he was awarded the Peter McCall Prize for being first in his class.