Craig M. Wasserman joined Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in 1986 and became a partner on January 1, 1993. Mr. Wasserman graduated summa cum laude with a B.A./M.A in economics from Yale University in 1982, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated with a J.D. in 1986 from the Yale Law School, where he served as Editor of The Yale Law Journal, as well as Editor and Senior Articles Editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. In 1986, Mr. Wasserman served as Law Clerk to Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Mr. Wasserman specializes in mergers and acquisitions and complex corporate, securities and banking and financial services regulatory and compliance matters. He has extensive experience in the field of banking and financial institution mergers and acquisitions transactions, and has worked on numerous public company acquisitions, corporate control contests, corporate governance and compliance matters and private equity and joint venture transactions both in and outside the financial services sector. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law.

Mr. Wasserman speaks and writes extensively on topics of corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, banking, financial services and securities law matters. He is editor and co-author of "Partnerships, Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances" (Law Journal Press, 2007). Other selected publications also include, "Dear Prudence: Finding a Proper Balance in the Post-Enron Regulatory and Enforcement Arena" (Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 325, Oct. 18, 2005); "Financial Institutions M&A 2008: Deal Activity Continues In A Diverse M&A Market" (2008); and "Promises to Keep: Metaphors and Meta-Strategies for Corporate Practitioners To Raise the Bar in Achieving Excellence as Gatekeepers and as Lawyer-Statesmen" (available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1134813).