Rachelle Silverberg is a partner in the Litigation Department. She specializes in representing corporations and directors in litigation involving domestic and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions and other contests for corporate control, class and derivative actions involving fiduciary duties and other corporate governance issues, and claims under the federal securities laws. She also has represented corporations, boards of directors and audit committees in internal and Securities and Exchange Commission investigations involving complex accounting issues, mutual fund matters, insurance brokerage practices and insider trading claims.

Ms. Silverberg teaches a course in Deal Litigation at Columbia Law School. She also has given guest lectures at Harvard Business School on director duties; at New York University Law School on merger and acquisition litigation and securities class actions; and at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (“ICADE”) in Madrid, Spain, on U.S. merger and acquisition law. She is spending the 2007-08 academic year as a Lecturer in Law and Scholar from Practice at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University.

Ms. Silverberg received a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Barnard College, Columbia University, in 1988, and received her J.D. degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, in 1991. Following law school, Ms. Silverberg was a law clerk to the Honorable J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.