Ronald C. Chen is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He teaches a course on Mergers & Acquisitions in the Technology Sector and Beyond at Stanford Law School. During his legal career, Ron has advised on a wide range of significant merger and acquisition transactions in the technology and other sectors, involving private and public companies, and including domestic and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, divestitures, spin-offs and other complex transactions, as well as corporate governance and shareholder activism matters.

Ron received his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard College, where he received the John Williams Prize as the top graduate in economics. Ron has also served as a Staff Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and was the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, where he received an M.Sc. in Economic and Social History and an M.B.A. While at Oxford, Ron was also a Lecturer in Economics at Keble College, Oxford. After completing his M.B.A., Ron was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Ron received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was the recipient of a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. After law school, he was a Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow at Harvard Law School and a law clerk to the Honorable Robert D. Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Ron has been a Visiting Attorney on the M&A Legal team of Google and a Visiting Attorney at Hengeler Mueller in Frankfurt, Germany. He has also taught a course on Mergers & Acquisitions in the Technology Sector at Harvard Law School and a course on Mergers & Acquisitions and Other Complex Transactions at Stanford Law School. He has been named a Technology MVP by Law360 and is Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s annual Mergers & Acquisitions in the Technology Sector conference.