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Elina (Lina) Tetelbaum is a corporate partner and head of shareholder engagement and activism defense at Wachtell Lipton. Lina regularly counsels on proxy fights, corporate governance, takeover defense, crisis management and mergers and acquisitions. Lina has been named a Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer, one of The Deal’s Top Women in Dealmaking, a Law360 Rising Star for M&A, and one of the 500 Leading Dealmakers in America by Lawdragon, among other honors. Lina has advised companies in numerous industries navigating activist situations across an array of established and new activists. Lina 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. After law school, Lina served as a law clerk to the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.