Charlotte Newell

Practice Areas

CHARLOTTE NEWELL, a partner in the firm’s Securities and Shareholder Litigation and Corporate Governance groups, focuses her practice on the representation of companies, boards of directors, and senior management in litigation concerning mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism, corporate governance disputes, and class and derivative actions alleging breaches of fiduciary duty. She regularly collaborates with members of the firm’s activism and corporate defense, M&A, and private equity teams, and counsels boards of directors on a variety of corporate governance and litigation issues. After law school, Charlotte was a law clerk for the Honorable J. Travis Laster, Vice Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Charlotte is a frequent speaker at conferences and panels focused on M&A, shareholder activism, and corporate governance matters, is a regular author on such matters, and has taught classes on M&A litigation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the New York University School of Law. In addition to her client work, Charlotte is a member of the Recruiting Committee for the firm’s New York office.