NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Innisfree M&A Incorporated, the leading proxy solicitation/investor relations firm, today announced that Gabrielle E. Wolf has joined the firm as a Director. Ms. Wolf was previously an attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, specializing in shareholder activism, M&A transactions and corporate governance. While there, she advised clients in many significant proxy contests and M&A transactions.

Arthur B. Crozier, Chairman of Innisfree, said, “We are extremely pleased that Gabby has joined our team. Innisfree is widely known for providing sound advice in extraordinary circumstances, particularly in shareholder activism, proxy contests and contentious M&A transactions, such as the successful defenses at the contested meetings at ADP and General Motors, the historic Trian/Procter & Gamble proxy contest and the successful acquisition by Cigna of Express Scripts Holdings. Gabby’s wide-ranging experience and expertise will help us continue to provide the superior advice our clients expect.”

Ms. Wolf graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, with a B.A. in American History and a minor in Germanic Studies, and earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar as well as a Note Editor for the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.

About Innisfree

Founded in 1997, Innisfree M&A Incorporated (New York), along with its wholly-owned subsidiary Lake Isle M&A Incorporated (London), is a high-stakes shareholder engagement firm, delivering shareholder intelligence, strategic advice and proxy solicitation services to the world’s leading corporations and investors when it matters most. Its integrated approach and unsurpassed analytics--ActiveIQ™--set Innisfree apart as the firm of choice. Innisfree provides expert advice on a wide range of matters, including shareholder activism, executive compensation proposals, corporate governance issues and investor relations.

With an experienced professional staff in New York, London, and Pittsburgh, Innisfree has represented hundreds of companies in over 20 countries. www.innisfreema.com