David M. Adlerstein is counsel in the Corporate Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. His practice focuses on mergers & acquisitions, corporate, securities law and regulatory matters, with a focus on financial institutions. Mr. Adlerstein has worked on a broad array of public and private company acquisitions, divestitures, proxy contests, securities offerings and corporate governance matters.

Prior to joining Wachtell Lipton as a corporate associate in 2005, Mr. Adlerstein was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Mr. Adlerstein served as a sergeant in the 35th Paratroop Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces from 1996 to 1997.

Born in Cambridge, England, Mr. Adlerstein received a B.A., cum laude, in Philosophy and History from Brandeis University in 1994 and a M.A. in European Politics from Lund University in Lund, Sweden in 1999. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2002, where he was a Notes Editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Mr. Adlerstein is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.