Michael W. Blair

Presiding Partner
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Michael Blair is Presiding Partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. Mr. Blair has served as lead counsel in a host of major M&A transactions, advised senior executives and boards of directors on governance matters and handled securities transactions for clients across a range of industries.  He is recommended by The Legal 500 US (2009), with sources noting that “it is difficult to get any better than Michael Blair.”

Mr. Blair joined Debevoise in 1981 and became a partner in 1989.  He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1977 and his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1981.  Mr. Blair is a Director of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.  He is also a Trustee of the Smith Richardson Foundation and the Secretary of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.