About Ele Klein

Ele Klein is co-chair of McDermott Will and Schulte’s M&A and securities group, co-chair of the firm’s global shareholder activism group and a member of the firm’s executive committee. He advises on shareholder activism, M&A, securities law and regulatory compliance, private investments in public equity (PIPEs), initial public offerings and secondary offerings, venture capital financing, and indenture defaults and interpretation. He counsels clients in the regulatory areas of insider trading, short selling, Sections 13 and 16, Rule 144 and Regulation M/Rule 105. Ele is ranked as a leading lawyer, and is recognised for his work at Exxon Mobil for Engine No 1, the largest proxy fight in history, which resulted in the addition of three directors to the ExxonMobil board of directors.