Nelson Fitts became partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in January 2008.  He practices in the firm's Antitrust Department, where he focuses on analysis of competition issues in mergers and acquisitions and advocacy before federal, state and foreign antitrust authorities.

Mr. Fitts joined the firm as an associate in 2000, following a clerkship for the Honorable John G. Heyburn II of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky in Louisville.  He received an A.B. in History cum laude from Princeton University in 1996 and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1999.  At Columbia, Mr. Fitts was a James Kent Scholar and an editor of the Columbia Law Review.

From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Fitts served on the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is a member of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section.  Mr. Fitts regularly publishes on transaction-related competition issues.  He served on the Advisory Council of Woodberry Forest School in Virginia from 2007 to 2009.