Elaine Golin is a counsel in the Litigation Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Her practice includes contracts, corporate governance, and securities litigation, as well as other types of complex commercial litigation.

Ms. Golin was a litigation associate at Wachtell Lipton from 1997-2003. During that time, she worked on several of the firm’s high-profile matters, including its representation of IBP in IBP v. Tyson and of Larry Silverstein in insurance litigation arising out of the destruction of the World Trade Center.

Since returning to Wachtell Lipton as counsel in September 2007, Ms. Golin has been significantly involved in a number of expedited litigations in Delaware Chancery Court and elsewhere. Recent representations include: J.C. Flowers, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase in material adverse change litigation with Sallie Mae; IAC in litigation with Liberty Media; Rohm and Haas in its suit to enforce its merger agreement with Dow Chemical; and senior secured lenders in the Spectrum Brands bankruptcy litigation. Ms. Golin has also participated in the pro bono representation of artist Christoph Buchel in a First Circuit appeal involving the Visual Artists Rights Act.

Ms. Golin received a B.A. from Yale College, a Diploma in Literature from the University of Edinburgh, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was an Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review and a James Kent Scholar. She clerked for the Hon. Judge Sandra Lynch of United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.