Scott B. Luftglass

Scott B. Luftglass is a litigation partner and is the Co-Head of the Securities and Shareholder Litigation Practice. His practice focuses on representing corporations, boards of directors, special committees, financial advisors, senior management, and private equity funds in connection with securities litigation, corporate governance matters, significant corporate transactions, hostile and friendly takeovers, shareholder and derivative litigation, activism defense, and crisis management. Mr. Luftglass also represents clients in complex civil litigation, internal investigations, and regulatory matters.

Mr. Luftglass has represented clients in more than 175 public company mergers and acquisitions transactions (and related litigation) across a wide range of industries, including representing Apollo Global Management, AEA, H.J. Heinz Company, Roche, Shire, AstraZeneca, PepsiCo, Comcast, Knight Transportation, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Coach, ConAgra, Tyson Foods, TE Connectivity, SS&C Technologies, Aetna, Bob Evans, ExxonMobil, and Warner Chilcott.

Mr. Luftglass also regularly counsels global investment banks in transactions and litigation, including JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Greenhill, Lazard, Centerview, Evercore, and Macquarie.

These representations include advising clients on critical corporate governance matters, strategy, and risk management and mitigation. Mr. Luftglass has extensive experience defending clients facing shareholder class actions and derivative actions in the Delaware Court of Chancery and in other state and federal courts. Mr. Luftglass also has extensive experience litigating matters under the federal securities laws, including 10b-5 stock-drop litigation.

Mr. Luftglass is a frequent speaker and participant at conferences and panels focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and the federal securities laws. He has been a regular panelist at the Tulane University Law School Annual Corporate Law Institute, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Roundtable, and PLI's Delaware Law Developments Seminar. He has also been a guest lecturer on mergers and acquisitions and litigation at Yale Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Boston College.

Mr. Luftglass serves on the Board of Advisors for the NYU Law Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance and on the Board of Advisors for the Penn Law Institute for Law and Economics.

Mr. Luftglass is one of the lead authors of Takeover Defense, Mergers and Acquisitions (Wolters Kluwer 9th edition), a treatise widely recognized as a definitive legal resource in this area. Mr. Luftglass also co-authored the chapter titled Mergers and Acquisitions in Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Fourth Edition, a treatise released by Thomson Reuters in December 2016 and updated annually. In addition, he often authors articles concerning significant developments in the Delaware courts, mergers and acquisitions litigation, and corporate governance.

Prior to joining Fried Frank in 2016, Mr. Luftglass was counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York.