Times of India | Who is William Savitt? Sam Altman hires lawyer who beat Elon Musk once before
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William Savitt, a senior partner at the prestigious firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, is now leading Sam Altman’s legal team in a high‑stakes federal lawsuit in Oakland that pits OpenAI against Elon Musk, who claims Altman turned the originally nonprofit venture into a profit‑driven company. Savitt, renowned for his courtroom skill, previously forced Musk to complete the multibillion‑dollar Twitter acquisition in 2022 after Musk tried to back out, and he is leveraging that experience to argue that Musk’s suit is competitive rather than principled, aimed at weakening OpenAI to benefit his own AI firm, xAI. Aside from his landmark corporate work, Savitt’s unconventional background includes playing in rock bands, driving a taxi, and writing for magazines before earning a Columbia degree, clerking for Judge Pierre Leval and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and spending three decades handling complex mergers, shareholder disputes, and Delaware corporate law—all while keeping guitars in his office and recording music in his spare time.
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