Aneliya Crawford is a managing director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of UBS Investment Bank and co-leads UBS’s activist defense efforts globally.

Prior to joining UBS Investment Bank, Aneliya was a partner leading the shareholder activism practice at Schulte Roth & Zabel. She is one of the leading attorneys representing activist investors globally, with hundreds of major shareholder activism contests, including campaigns in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Latin America. These include Trian Fund Management in the largest proxy contest to date, Trian’s successful campaign at Procter & Gamble; Elliott Management at Marathon Petroleum; Voce Capital at Argo Group International; Acacia Research in connection with multiple acquisitions; Altai Capital at MobileIron; and UBS as advisor to Elliott Management with regard to a campaign at NXP.

Aneliya received a juris doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law as a Dean’s Scholar and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, MLA.