BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The CWPA Remote series continues as Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Hall of Fame member George Gross, Jr., talks with Amherst College alumnus and Chairman of the Board of Trustees Andrew Nussbaum.
An attorney and partner at the firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Nussbaum talks about his time playing collegiate club water polo at Amherst, and the lessons it taught him. They discuss his time as a clerk for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, as well as his time with the Honorable Antonin Scalia in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Nussbaum joined the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Corporate Department in 1993 and became a partner in 1999. His practice involves a wide range of merger and acquisition-related matters, including cross-border transactions, spin-offs, divestitures, carve-out IPOs, private equity transactions and joint ventures. He also handles related work in public offerings, financings, corporate governance and takeovers, and has completed a number of multibillion dollar cross-border transactions involving mergers between U.S. and European companies, acquisitions in Latin America, investments in China, a public company transaction in Russia and a major transaction involving one of Australia’s largest listed companies. While involved with a wide range of industries, he has extensive experience with international companies in media and entertainment, cross-border matters and private equity transactions.
A summa cum laude graduate of Amherst (1985) with a a master’s degree from Oxford University (1992), where he was a Rhodes Scholar, he attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he received his J.D. with high honors (1991), was a member of Order of the Coif and served as editor-in-chief of The University of Chicago Law Review.
A member of the New York State and American Bar Associations, he is active in various nonprofit organizations and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Amherst. Further he is a member (previously Chairman) of the Board of Directors of Asphalt Green, a New York City sports and fitness organization promoting wellness, water safety and health for New Yorkers of all ages, and previously served on the Board of Governors of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
