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William Savitt is an American attorney and Co-Chair of the Litigation Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, specializing in high-stakes corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, and securities disputes across U.S. and Delaware courts. A graduate of Brown, Columbia M.Phil & J.D., he clerked for Judge Leval and Justice Ginsburg before becoming a sought-after litigator—most notably securing Twitter’s $44 b billion merger and representing OpenAI and Coinbase.
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