Steven R. Green is a partner in Wachtell Lipton’s Corporate Department.  Steve’s practice focuses on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, capital markets transactions, securities law, activism defense and general corporate governance.  He has represented and advised a broad range of public and private companies, boards of directors and special committees of directors across multiple industries, including technology, financial services, fintech, media and telecommunications, pharmaceuticals & life sciences, healthcare, real estate, energy and private equity.

The American Lawyer named Steve a Dealmaker of the Year in 2026 for his work on Pfizer’s $10 billion acquisition of Metsera following a successful public takeover battle.  The American Lawyer also named Steve Young Laywer of the Year (Corporate) in 2025.  Steve has also been named an MVP in Telecommunications by Law360 and has featured in Lawdragon’s  500 X – The Next Generation.

Select representations include:

• Charter Communications in its:
  • $34 billion merger with Cox Communications
  • $15 billion acquisition of Liberty Broadband
• Pfizer in multiple transactions, including:
  • $10 billion acquisition of Metsera following Pfizer’s high profile successful takeover battle against an interloping bid by Novo Nordisk
  • $48 billion combination of Upjohn, its off-patent branded and generic established medicines business, with Mylan in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction
• Nasdaq in its:
  • $10.5 billion acquisition of Adenza from Thoma Bravo
  • $2.8 billion secondary stock offering and repurchase of its stock held by Thoma Bravo
  • $1.6 billion secondary stock offering by Borse Dubai
• Adobe in multiple transactions, including:
  • $1.9 billion acquisition of Semrush
  • Proposed but terminated $20 billion acquisition of Figma
  • $1.5 billion acquisition of Workfront
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise in multiple transactions, including:
  • $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks
  • $9 billion public offering of senior notes
  • $1.35 billion public offering of mandatory convertible preferred stock
  • $1.3 billion acquisition of Cray
  • $1 billion acquisition of Nimble Storage
• Diamondback Energy in its:
  • $28 billion merger with Endeavor Energy Resources
  • $5.5 billion public offering of senior notes
  • $2.2 billion secondary stock offering and stock repurchase
  • $1.2 billion public offering of senior notes
• Viper Energy in its:
  • $4.1 billion acquisition of Sitio Royalties
  • $1.6 billion public offering of senior notes
• AbbVie in its:
  • $10.1 billion acquisition of ImmunoGen
  • $15 billion public offering of senior notes in connection with its acquisitions of ImmunoGen and Cerevel
  • $4 billion public offering of senior notes
• Inari Medical in its $4.9 billion sale to Stryker Corporation
• Salesforce in its
  • $27.7 billion acquisition of Slack
  • $15.7 billion acquisition of Tableau Software
• Ziply Fiber in its C$7 billion acquisition by BCE
• Prologis in its $26 billion all-stock acquisition of Duke Realty
• Kimco Realty in multiple transactions, including:
  • $2.3 billion acquisition of RPT Realty
  • merger with Weingarten to an create open-air shopping center and mixed-use real estate owner with a pro forma total enterprise value of $20.5 billion
• Public Storage in its $2.2 billion acquisition of Simply Self Storage from Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust
• Marathon Petroleum Corporation in the $21 billion sale of its Speedway business to 7-Eleven
• BB&T Corporation in its $66 billion all-stock merger of equals with SunTrust Banks to create Truist
• Independent Bank Group in multiple transactions, including:
  • $2 billion acquisition by SouthState
  • Proposed but terminated $5.5 billion merger of equals with Texas Capital Bancshares
  • $130 and $175 million public offerings of subordinated notes
• Heartland Financial USA in its $2 billion acquisition by UMB Financial and its activist settlement with a 13D group of stockholders
• Cadence Bancorporation in its $6 billion all-stock merger of equals with BancorpSouth Bank
• BGC Partners in multiple transactions, including:
  • Creation of FMX
  • Conversion of the BGC entities from an Umbrella Partnership/C-Corporation to a Full C-Corporation
  • Separation, initial public offering and spin-off of Newmark
• Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. I in its initial public offering, and its business combination with Akili
• American Exceptionalism Acquisition Corp. A in its initial public offering
• Warburg Pincus in multiple transactions, including:
  • Acquisition of K2 Insurance Services from Lee Equity Partners
  • Investment in Varo
  • Investment in Facet Wealth
• Tech Data, a portfolio company of Apollo, in its $7.2 billion combination with Synnex
• The Carlyle Group in its sale of BenefitMall to Truist
• Fortress in its $130 million strategic investment in Nassau Financial Group
• PDC Energy in its $7.6 billion all-stock acquisition by Chevron
• PSEG in its $1.92 billion sale of its fossil generating portfolio to ArcLight Capital
• IAC in multiple transactions, including:
  • Spin-off of its Vimeo business
  • $300 million equity investment by T. Rowe Price and Oberndorf Enterprises in Vimeo
  • $450 million public offering of exchangeable notes
• Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in the $11.6 billion secondary stock offering and repurchase of its stock held by Sanofi
• PNC Financial Services Group in its $14.4 billion secondary offering and repurchase of BlackRock, Inc. stock
• Capital One in multiple transactions, including:
  • $17 billion sale of mortgages to DLJ Mortgage Capital in connection with exiting the home loan business
  • Exclusive private label and co-branded credit card program agreement with Walmart and $9 billion acquisition of Walmart private label and co-branded credit card receivables from Synchrony Bank
• Arlo Technologies and its parent NETGEAR in the separation, IPO and spin-off of Arlo

Steve received a B.A. magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2015, where he was a forum editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Prior to joining Wachtell Lipton, Steven served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Steve also serves on the board of directors of the University Settlement Society, a nonprofit first established in 1888 as the first settlement house in the United States, which provides vital social services to New York City communities.