Rachelle Silverberg is a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s litigation department. Her practice focuses on representing directors and corporations in disputes involving mergers and acquisitions, contexts for corporate control and corporate governance matters, and in class and derivative litigation involving breaches of fiduciary duty and violations of the federal securities laws.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Litigators | 2026 | Global Litigation, esp. Financial |
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2026 | M&A, Corporate Governance, Class Action Litigation |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Litigators | 2025 | Global Litigation, esp. Financial |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2025 | M&A, Corporate Governance, Class Action Litigation |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Litigators | 2024 | Global Litigation, esp. Financial |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2024 | M&A, Corporate Governance, Class Action Litigation |
| Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Litigators | 2023 | Global Litigation, esp. Financial |
| Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2022 | M&A, Corporate Governance, Class Action Litigation |
Silverberg lectures and writes extensively on the subjects of corporate governance and merger and acquisition litigation. During the 2007-08 academic year she taught at Stanford Law School as a Scholar from Practice at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University, and continued to teach a course in deal litigation at Stanford Law School until 2020. She previously taught a course in deal litigation as an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School. She also taught a course in Advanced Corporate Governance in Europe and the U.S. at the Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid, Spain and has lectured at the Harvard Business School on director duties and at the New York School of Law on merger and acquisition litigation and securities class actions. Silverberg co-authored a case study for the Harvard Business School on the European takeover battle for Endesa, S.A. (Acciona and the Battle for Control of Endesa, October 13, 2009).
Silverberg received a B.A. magna cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1988, and received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1991. Following law school, Ms. Silverberg was a law clerk to the Honorable J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.