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Lina Tetelbaum is a Corporate Partner at Wachtell Lipton, where she leads the firm’s efforts on shareholder and hedge fund activism defense and proxy fights. Ms. Tetelbaum also advises both public and private companies in a wide range of industries in connection with mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and capital markets transactions. Ms. Tetelbaum has been named a Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer, was recognized as one of The Deal's Top Women in Dealmaking and a Law360 Rising Star for M&A, among other honors. Ms. Tetelbaum received an A.B. magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard University and completed a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation and editor of the Yale Law Journal. Ms. Tetelbaum served as a law clerk to the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She frequently lectures and publishes on corporate governance, shareholder activism and M&A.