Jim Langston is a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and global co-head of M&A. He has significant experience advising companies, boards and committees on public company mergers, private equity transactions, private acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, activist defense, hostile takeover defense and corporate governance matters.

Langston also specializes in cross-border and domestic transactions, including conflict of interest transactions, mergers-of-equals, LBOs, joint ventures and carve-out transactions. He frequently represents companies and their boards in activist defense situations.