Alison Zieske Preiss Bio

Alison Zieske Preiss is a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Corporate Department. Her practice focuses primarily on advising both public and private companies in a wide range of industries in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, complex restructuring deals, cross-border transactions, securities offerings and joint ventures. Ms. Preiss also advises boards of directors and board committees with respect to proxy contests, takeover defense strategies and other corporate governance matters. Ms. Preiss earned a J.D. with honors from The University of Chicago Law School in 2006 and a B.S./B.A. summa cum laude from The Ohio State University in 2003. Ms. Preiss is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.