Latham & Watkins LLP

Christopher Drewry, a corporate partner in the Chicago office and Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Shareholder Activism & Takeover Defense Practice, regularly represents multinational corporations across industries and jurisdictions in their highest-stakes M&A transactions and shareholder activism defense matters.

Christopher has built a leading cross-border practice that spans the full spectrum of M&A and shareholder activism defense matters, with a focus on complex transactions and board-level advice for leading global companies. His extensive experience includes:

• • Transformational “merger of equal” and other strategic M&A transactions
  • Multijurisdictional global business separations
  • Cutting-edge shareholder activism and takeover defense counseling
  • Specialized special committee and board governance advice

Christopher regularly speaks and writes on new developments in the field, including editing the M&A chapters in the updated third edition of Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A and IPOs and on evolving shareholder rights plan (poison pill) technologies.

Christopher is a member of the firm's Finance Committee and the Women Enriching Business Committee. He is a former member of Latham’s Pro Bono Committee.