Avi Sutton is the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of LionTree. He joined LionTree in 2022 as Senior Principal & Special Counsel to the Office of the Chairman & CEO. Avi is also a member of the Banking Management Committee.
Prior to LionTree, Avi was a corporate attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz where he focused on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures and IPOs. He also served as a summer Judicial Law Clerk to the Deputy Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court.
Avi received his J.D. from Yale Law School and his B.A. in Ethics, Politics & Economics, summa cum laude, from Yale College.