Directors' College 2023
Mark I. Greene
Partner and Head of the Corporate Practice, Cravath, Swain & Moore
Mark I. Greene is Head of the Corporate Department and Leader of the International Practice. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and securities matters, including advising on cross-border and domestic transactions, private equity deals, complex restructuring transactions, proxy fights, takeover defense and hedge fund activism.
Mr. Greene has been named “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer and The Deal, “Cross-Border Dealmaker of the Year” by The Deal, a Mergers & Acquisitions Trailblazer by The National Law Journal and a “Mergers & Acquisitions MVP” by Law360. He has been repeatedly recognized as a leading M&A practitioner by, among others, Chambers USA, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 US, The Legal 500 Latin America, IFLR1000 and Lawdragon. Mr. Greene has also been named to The Legal 500 US Hall of Fame in the M&A Large Deals ($1bn+) category.
Mr. Greene is a Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel and serves as Co-Chair of the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania; he is a frequent guest lecturer on M&A and corporate governance matters, and has served as Adjunct Professor at Cornell Law School. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Additionally, Mr. Greene serves as a Trustee of the Randall’s Island Park Alliance in New York City and the Dwight-Englewood School in New Jersey.
Mr. Greene was born in Rockaway Beach, New York. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1989 and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1993. Before joining Cravath, Mr. Greene served as a law clerk to Hon. Charles Legge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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