Jenna E. Levine is a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Corporate Department. She focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestiture transactions (including carveout transactions, spin-offs and Reverse Morris Trust transactions), corporate governance and capital markets matters.
Levine was among the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America. Levine is a Lecturer-in-Law on public company mergers and acquisitions at Columbia Law School and is a member of the M&A Committee of the New York City Bar Association.
Levine received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 2001. She completed a J.D. in 2008 at Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, received the Paul R. Hays Prize in Civil Procedure and served as online editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2027 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers | 2027 | M&A, Corporate Governance, Capital Markets |
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2026 | M&A, Corporate Governance, Capital Markets |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2025 | M&A, Corporate Governance, Capital Markets |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2024 | M&A, Corporate Governance, Capital Markets |
| The 2022 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2022 | M&A, Corporate Governance, Capital Markets |
| Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2021 | M&A, Corporate Governance, Capital Markets |
Selected publicly-disclosed representations include:
Public & Private M&A
- United States Steel Corporation in its $14.9 billion merger with Nippon Steel Corporation
- Cooper in its $9.4 billion all-stock acquisition by Rocket Companies
- The Special Committee of WOW!’s board of directors in its $1.5 billion take private transaction by DigitalBridge and Crestview
- Herman Miller in its $1.8 billion cash and stock acquisition of Knoll to form MillerKnoll
- HP Inc. in its successful defense against the $34 billion unsolicited exchange offer and associated proxy fight by Xerox
- Chicago Bridge & Iron in its $6 billion merger of equals with McDermott International
- AbbVie in its $21 billion acquisition of Pharmacyclics
- Saks Inc. in its $2.9 billion sale to Hudson’s Bay
- Berry Petroleum Company in its $4.9 billion sale to Linn Energy, the first ever sale of a public corporation to an upstream LLC or MLP
- Adobe in its $1.275 billion acquisition of frame.io
- Sysco in its proposed $8.2 billion acquisition of US Foods
Spin-Offs, Separations, Reverse Morris Trust Transactions and Carveouts
- Unilever in the pending $44.8 billion combination of its Foods business with McCormick through a Reverse Morris Trust
- CNX Resources Corporation in its $700 million spin-off of its coal business
- The Clorox Company in the divestiture of its Better Health Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements (VMS) business
- Thomson Reuters in multiple transactions, including its:
- $27 billion sale of Refinitiv to the London Stock Exchange Group
- strategic partnership with Blackstone for Thomson Reuters Financial and Risk (F&R) business valued at $20 billion