Joshua Cammaker

Joshua R. Cammaker is a corporate partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions, activism, corporate governance and securities law matters. Mr. Cammaker has been involved in many major domestic and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions, takeover defenses, joint ventures and private equity transactions.

Josh was named an M&A MVP by Law360 in 2019 and Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer in 2017.  He frequently speaks and writes on shareholder activism, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.

Josh is the former co-chair of the M&A and Joint Venture Committee of the International Section of the American Bar Association and a Member of the American Law Institute. He earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Tufts University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from New York University Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.

• United Technologies in the merger of equals of its Aerospace business with Raytheon Company
• United Technologies in its separation into three independent public companies
• Michael Kors Holdings Limited (now renamed Capri Holdings Limited) in its €1.83 billion acquisition of Gianni Versace S.p.A. and in its in its $1.35 billion acquisition of Jimmy Choo PLC
• Hubbell in its $1.1 billion acquisition of Aclara Technologies from Sun Capital Partners
• Colgate-Palmolive Company in its acquisition of Laboratoires Filorga Cosmetiques SAS, its acquisition of the EltaMD skin care brand and its acquisitions of the PCA Skin brand
• Harman International Industries, Incorporated in its $8.8 billion acquisition by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
• Danone in its $12.5 billion acquisition of The WhiteWave Foods Company
• Lexmark International, Inc. in its $3.6 billion acquisition by a consortium led by Apex Technology Co., Ltd. and PAG Asia Capital
• United Technologies in its $9 billion sale of its Sikorsky Aircraft Business to Lockheed Martin, its $18.4 billion acquisition of Goodrich, its $1.5 billion buyout of Rolls-Royce’s joint venture interest in International Aero Engines AG and its $1.82 billion acquisition of GE Security from General Electric
• Hubbell Incorporated in the reclassification of its dual class common stock into a single class
• Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. in its $1.2 billion investment in Univision Communications and renegotiation of commercial arrangements
• ANN INC. in its $2.2 billion sale to ascena retail group, inc.
• Colgate-Palmolive Company in its sales of various businesses
• Saks Inc. in its $2.9 billion sale to Hudson’s Bay

• Tufts University, B.A. 1991, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
• New York University School of Law, J.D. 1994, Order of the Coif (Editor, New York University Law Review)