David C. Karp is a corporate partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. His practice concentrates on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and corporate and securities law matters.

Mr. Karp has been involved in many major merger and acquisition transactions. He was named a "Dealmaker of the Year" by the American Lawyer in 2006 for his work advising the New York Stock Exchange in its acquisition of Archipelago Holdings and the NYSE's subsequent initial public offering. In 2008, the International Financial Law Review recognized the cross-border merger of the NYSE Group and Euronext, in which Mr. Karp advised the NYSE Group, as the "M&A Deal of the Year."

In the area of corporate governance, Mr. Karp served as counsel to the New York Stock Exchange Corporate Accountability and Listing Standards Committee and advises the NYSE in connection with revisions to, and interpretations of, the NYSE Listed Company Manual's corporate governance provisions.

Mr. Karp earned a J.D., with honors, from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993, where he was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review, and an A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard in 1990. Following graduation from law school, he clerked for the Honorable J. Daniel Mahoney of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Mr. Karp is a member of the American Bar Association, where he was Vice-Chair of the International Securities Transactions Committee in the Section of International Law and Practice for the 2002-2003 term. He also is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.