Title: Partner & Head of Wilmington Office
Workplace: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Alma Maters: Washington & Lee University School of Law, University of Maryland
Boards: Corporation Law Council of the Delaware State Bar Association, Delaware Chapter of the North American South Asian Bar Association
What’s something interesting about you that isn’t on your resume? “I was the nationwide top salesman for The Sharper Image over several different months and spent a summer teaching SAT math to students in Paris before I started law school. The skills I learned from both opportunities in providing exceptional customer service and conveying complex concepts plainly have been instrumental in my career as a lawyer.”
As head of Skadden Arps’ Wilmington office, partner Faiz Ahmad oversees one of the biggest and most sought-after firms in Delaware, especially for merger-and-acquisition work. He has personally been involved with multiple billion-dollar deals in his career and in some of the most consequential deals in Delaware history, including M&T Bank’s acquisition of Wilmington Trust and CSC’s acquisition of Intertrust. He is also active in firm management, including serving on Skadden’s governing body, the Policy Committee, the Global Diversity Committee and as co-chair of the Wilmington office’s Hiring Committee.
