Marty Lipton Of Wachtell Lipton: Age 85 And Still Going Strong

Early birthday wishes to Marty Lipton!

onJune 8, 2017 at 5:04 PMJune 8, 2017 at 3:02 PM

Martin Lipton (via YouTube/The Deal)

Lipton is royalty in the M&A bar. There is no immediate successor to the status that he has achieved. The fact that clients still ask for him at the age of 85 shows you that the most important assets of a lawyer are his experience and judgment.

— Professor Stephen Gillers of NYU Law School, commenting to Reuters about Marty Lipton of Wachtell Lipton, one of NYU Law’s most well-known and successful alumni (and a major contributor to NYU Law over the years). Lipton will celebrate his 86th birthday on June 22.

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David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at dlat@abovethelaw.com.