A partner in the Corporate Department and member of the firm's Management Committee, Toby S. Myerson serves as co-head of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Group and practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, leveraged buyouts, corporate governance and advice to boards of directors. During the years 1989 and 1990, Mr. Myerson left the firm and served as a Managing Director of the investment banking firm, Wasserstein Perella & Co., residing in Tokyo and heading the operations of that firm in Japan and Asia.

For more than 30 years, Mr. Myerson has advised corporations, financial institutions and investment banks on some of the largest and most high profile merger and acquisition transactions of the day. A few of Mr. Myerson’s numerous corporate clients include Citigroup Inc., The Chubb Corporation, British Telecommunications plc, Abitibi-Bowater Corporation, the Agnelli Group companies, and Sumitomo Corporation; and investment banks such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Lazard Frères, Perella Weinberg Partners, Rothschilds, and others on their M&A matters. A few of his many transactions include Citigroup's purchase of Nikko Cordial for cash and stock with a value of $14 billion; Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co. Ltd.’s acquisition by tender offer of Sepracor Inc. for $2.6 billion in cash, Nextel Communications’ $35 billion cash and stock merger with Sprint Corporation, IFIL’s (an Agnelli Group company’s) acquisition of a controlling interest in Cushman & Wakefield for an enterprise value of $975 million, The Talbots Inc. merger with BP Acquisition Corp. and he advised Scottish Power plc on its sale of PacifiCorp Holdings Inc. to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company (a Berkshire Hathaway company) for $9.7 billion in cash.

During his legal career, Mr. Myerson has served as an adjunct faculty member at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School and the Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California, Berkeley). He has chaired the Committee on Foreign and Comparative Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is a frequent speaker on topics ranging from contested takeovers to corporate governance. Mr. Myerson is a member of the advisory board of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance, a member of the board of directors of Japan Society Inc., a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and he participates in the World Economic Forum; and he serves on the Lawyers Committee for the New York Public Library and other civic committees. Mr. Myerson is recognized as one of the leading Corporate/M&A lawyers in the United States by Legal 500 and by Chambers USA and was recently chosen by his peers for The Best Lawyers in America 2011 in banking, corporate law and mergers and acquisitions law.