Peter C. Hein has been a partner in the Litigation Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz since 1981. Mr. Hein's practice has included securities, corporate, real estate, insurance and other complex commercial litigation. Mr. Hein has argued in the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Seventh and Ninth Circuits, and the New York appellate courts.

Mr. Hein graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee (B.A., summa cum laude, 1972) and Columbia Law School (J.D., 1975). At Columbia, Mr. Hein was a James Kent scholar, Harlan Fisk Stone scholar and served as an editor of the Columbia Law Review (1974-75).

Mr. Hein serves as a Trustee of the Citizens Budget Commission, a non-partisan civic watch-dog group for New York City and New York State.

Mr. Hein is admitted to practice in the State of New York, as well as the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh and District of Columbia Circuits, and various federal district courts. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (where he has served on the Federal Legislation, State Legislation and Election Law Committees), New York State Bar Association and American Bar Association. Mr. Hein authored Business Information: Protection and Disclosure, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983, as well as other publications.