Charles K. Whitehead

Charles K. Whitehead is a specialist in the law relating to corporate, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions transactions. After clerking for the Hon. Ellsworth A. Van Graafeiland, U.S. Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit), Professor Whitehead worked at a major U.S. law firm (in the New York, London, and Tokyo offices), before serving as a managing director and general counsel for the North and South American businesses of a global securities firm. Professor Whitehead also held senior legal and business positions with a multinational financial services company before joining Columbia Law School as a Research Fellow in Transactional Studies. He joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Law in 2006 and is visiting Cornell Law School during Fall 2008. Professor Whitehead's current scholarship focuses on the intersection between capital markets and corporate structure.

Education:

• B.A. magna cum laude, Cornell University, 1983
• J.D., Columbia Law School, 1986 (James Kent Scholar; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)