Steven R. Green is a partner in Wachtell Lipton’s Corporate Department. Green’s practice focuses on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, capital markets transactions, securities law, activism defense and general corporate governance. He has represented and advised a broad range of public and private companies, boards of directors and special committees of directors across multiple industries, including technology, financial services, fintech, media and telecommunications, pharmaceuticals & life sciences, healthcare, real estate, energy and private equity.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2026 | Corporate, M&A |
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2026 | Corporate |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2025 | Corporate, M&A |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2024 | Corporate, M&A |
Select representations include:
- Inari Medical in its $4.9 billion sale to Stryker Corporation
- Ziply Fiber in its C$7 billion acquisition by BCE
- Prologis in its $26 billion all-stock acquisition of Duke Realty
- Public Storage in its $2.2 billion acquisition of Simply Self Storage from Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust
- Marathon Petroleum Corporation in the $21 billion sale of its Speedway business to 7-Eleven
- BB&T Corporation in its $66 billion all-stock merger of equals with SunTrust Banks to create Truist
- Heartland Financial USA in its $2 billion acquisition by UMB Financial and its activist settlement with a 13D group of stockholders
- Cadence Bancorporation in its $6 billion all-stock merger of equals with BancorpSouth Bank
- Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. I in its initial public offering, and its business combination with Akili
- American Exceptionalism Acquisition Corp. A in its initial public offering
- Tech Data, a portfolio company of Apollo, in its $7.2 billion combination with Synnex
- The Carlyle Group in its sale of BenefitMall to Truist
- Fortress in its $130 million strategic investment in Nassau Financial Group
- PDC Energy in its $7.6 billion all-stock acquisition by Chevron
- PSEG in its $1.92 billion sale of its fossil generating portfolio to ArcLight Capital
- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in the $11.6 billion secondary stock offering and repurchase of its stock held by Sanofi
- PNC Financial Services Group in its $14.4 billion secondary offering and repurchase of BlackRock, Inc. stock
- Arlo Technologies and its parent NETGEAR in the separation, IPO and spin-off of Arlo
Green received a B.A. magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2015, where he was a forum editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Prior to joining Wachtell Lipton, Green served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Green also serves on the board of directors of the University Settlement Society, a nonprofit first established in 1888 as the first settlement house in the United States, which provides vital social services to New York City communities.