Inside Shareholder Activism with Wachtell Lipton’s Lina Tetelbaum

Inside Shareholder Activism with Wachtell Lipton’s Lina Tetelbaum

June 12, 2026 · 45 min · Season 2 · Episode 19

About this episode

Jonathan Boyar speaks with Lina Tetelbaum about shareholder activism and its implications for companies and boards.

Episode Overview: In this episode of The World According to Boyar, Jonathan Boyar speaks with Lina Tetelbaum, a corporate partner at Wachtell Lipton, one of the world’s most influential corporate law firms, where she heads the firm’s shareholder engagement and activism defense practice. Lina takes us inside the world of shareholder activism — how activists choose targets, the small universe of ideas they typically push, how companies and boards respond, and why so many activist campaigns ulti...

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