William Savitt is a partner in the Litigation Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He focuses on representing corporations and directors in litigation involving mergers and acquisitions, proxy contests, corporate governance disputes, class actions involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duty, and regulatory enforcement actions relating to corporate transactions. Mr. Savitt writes and speaks extensively on corporate and securities law topics and has developed and teaches a course at Columbia Law School on transactional litigation.

Mr. Savitt graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and received the M.Phil. degree from Columbia University in European Legal History. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1997, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law Review. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Savitt served as a law clerk to the Honorable Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for the 1997 Term, and to the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court for the October 1998 Term. Mr. Savitt is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Columbia Law Review, Inc. and is a past Executive Director of Interfaith Hunger Appeal, a New York-based international hunger relief organization.