Hannah Clark is a Partner in Wachtell Lipton’s Corporate Department, where she focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and corporate and securities matters. 

The American Lawyer named Hannah a Dealmaker of the Year in 2026 for her role advising Warner Bros. Discovery in its sale to Paramount Skydance.

Representations by Hannah include:

• Warner Bros. Discovery in its $110 billion acquisition by Paramount Skydance
• Publicis Groupe S.A. in its $2.2 billion acquisition of LiveRamp
• Anywhere Real Estate in its $10 billion combination with Compass
• AZEK in its $8.75 billion acquisition by James Hardie
• Smurfit Kappa in its $20 billion combination with WestRock
• LKQ in matters including its $2.1 billion acquisition of Uni-Select and $410 million sale of its Pick Your Part Business
• Gibraltar Industries in its $1.3 billion acquisition of OmniMax International
• Public Service Enterprise Group in matters including its offshore wind joint venture Ocean Wind with Denmark-based Ørsted, the $560 million sale of its solar generating fleet to LS Power, and the $1.9 billion sale of its fossil fuel generating fleet
• Vulcan Materials Company in matters including the sale of its California ready-mix business and its acquisition of Superior Ready Mix Concrete
• Sealed Air in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Liqui-Box from Olympus Partners
• The Independent Transaction Committee of the Board of Directors of Discovery in its acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction
• The Home Depot in its $8 billion acquisition of HD Supply
• Global Payments in matters including the $1 billion sale of its NetSpend consumer business and the $1.1 billion sale of its AdvancedMD business
• Nielsen in its $16 billion acquisition by a private equity consortium led by Elliott and Brookfield and the prior $2.7 billion sale of its Global Connect business to Advent
• Thomson Reuters Corporation in the $20 billion partial sale and strategic partnership with Blackstone for Thomson Reuters’ financial and risk business, and in the subsequent $27 billion sale of that business (Refinitiv) to the London Stock Exchange
• The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of International Speedway Corporation in its $2.0 billion acquisition by NASCAR
• Heartland Financial in its $2 billion acquisition by UMB Financial
• Warburg Pincus in matters including its $325 million equity investment in Banc of California in connection with Banc of California’s all-stock merger with PacWest Bancorp
• The Carlyle Group in matters including its acquisitions of CFGI Holdings, Edgewood Capital Partners Insurance Center (EPIC) and NSM Insurance Group, and the sales of a significant interest in CFGI to CVC Capital Partners, and of the NSM Insurance pet business to JAB Holding Company S.a.r.l.
• Santander Holdings USA in its acquisition of Amherst Pierpont Securities
• Assurance IQ in its $3.5 billion acquisition by Prudential Financial

Hannah received a B.Sc. with honors in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 2014, where she was a Hunter Rawlings III Presidential Research Scholar and a Dianne C. Rosen Undergraduate Research Scholar.  She received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2017, where she worked on the editorial staff of the Harvard Journal on Legislation and the Harvard Business Law Review, and was a member of the Harvard Association for Law and Business and Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project.

Hannah maintains an active pro bono practice and serves on the junior advisory board of Her Justice, a non-profit organization which provides free legal services to low-income women and children in New York City.