CHARLOTTE NEWELL focuses her practice on stockholder class and derivative actions, M&A litigation, shareholder activism matters, securities class actions, and investment fund matters. After law school, Charlotte was a law clerk for the Honorable J. Travis Laster, Vice Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Charlotte is a frequent speaker at conferences and panels focused on M&A and corporate governance matters, and taught classes on M&A litigation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and New York University School of Law. She is a senior editor of the Enhanced Scrutiny blog, in which the Sidley team provides timely updates and thoughtful analysis on M&A and corporate governance matters from the Delaware courts and, on occasion, from other jurisdictions.
Charlotte received her B.A. from the Schreyer Honors College at The Pennsylvania State University and her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was an associate editor for the Journal of Business Law and received the Oscar Bregman Prize for Excellence in the Field of Business Law.