Pat A. Robinson is Of Counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.  Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Robinson was an Assistant General Counsel in the Legal Division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.  She managed the Legal Division's evaluation of merger and acquisition applications subject to Federal Reserve Board review under the Bank Holding Company Act, Bank Merger Act, Change in Control Act or Federal Reserve Act, and other applications filed under these statutes.  Before joining the Federal Reserve Board in 1993, Ms. Robinson was an associate at Sidley & Austin, in the law firm's Washington, D.C. office. 

Ms. Robinson received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1987.  Prior to going to law school, she was a teacher in middle school and for homebound students, and a meeting and convention manager.

**Admitted in Washington, D.C.