Margaret L. Wolff '76

2005-2010

Margaret L. Wolff is a Partner at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. She concentrates in domestic and international transactional matters. She has extensive experience in both negotiated and contested acquisitions and divestitures. She also devotes significant time to general corporate and securities matters. Ms. Wolff includes among her clients Alcoa Inc., Cooper Industries, Inc., DaimlerChrysler AG, Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG, and The May Department Stores Company. In addition, she regularly handles matters for several of the firm’s investment banking clients and provides legal services to the National Down Syndrome Society.

During the last few years, Ms. Wolff has represented Alcoa in its successful unsolicited acquisitions of Alumax Inc. and Reynolds Metals Company as well as its negotiated acquisition of Cordant Technologies Inc. and the subsequent buy-out of the public minority in Cordant’s subsidiary, Howmet International Inc. Ms. Wolff also assisted Alcoa with the purchase of The Fairchild Corporation’s fastener business and the sale of Latasa S.A. to Rexam plc and Alcoa’s Thiokol propulsion systems division to Alliant Techsystems Inc.

After graduating cum laude from Mount Holyoke in 1976, Ms. Wolff went on to earn her J.D. at Case Western Reserve University Law School in 1979, where she also served as an Editor of the Law Review. In addition to serving on the Mount Holyoke Board of Trustees, she is a Trustee of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and The John A. Hartford Foundation. She is also Director of the National Down Syndrome Society and a member of both the Board of Visitors and the Society of the Benchers at Case Western Reserve University Law School.