Martin Lipton

Martin Lipton is a founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a major law firm in the United States. He specializes in advising major corporations on mergers and acquisitions. Lipton and his firm are generally credited with having invented the poison pill, a common takeover defense used by public companies in the US to delay and deter hostile tender offers and other unsolicited acquisitions.

Lipton served as Special Counsel to the City of New York during its fiscal crisis from 1975 to 1978. He holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an L.L.B. from the New York University School of Law. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees at New York University.

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