One late fall day in 1964, Herbert Wachtell called his law school friend Martin Lipton to ask what he was doing. As a junior partner at corporate boutique Seligson & Morris, Lipton often referred ...

Not only did he develop a tactic to ward off hostile takeovers when M&As were transforming the business landscape, he also helped to build one of the most profitable law firms in the world. There are ...

Although NYU is making some changes in a bid to win over critics, including a faculty group that called on Martin Lipton, a key ally of president John Sexton, to give up his post as chairman of NYU's ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Martin Lipton, the famed corporate lawyer who for years advised companies to fight activist hedge funds, now says some companies could do well to listen to some of these dissident ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Martin Lipton, arguably the best-known U.S. mergers and acquisitions lawyer, on Monday said the growing importance of private equity firms and availability of capital is fueling a ...

NEW YORK, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is again at the center of a massive and controversial CEO payout, representing the board of Home Depot Inc. that gave its departing ...