William J. Schrenk Jr. retired from Cravath’s Corporate Department in 1987. He was a corporate partner. Among the Firm’s clients whom he represented were Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Eastman Dillon, Chemical Bank and Westinghouse.

Mr. Schrenk has had memberships with the American Bar Association and the New York City Bar Association.

From 1949 to 1950, Mr. Schrenk served in the Economic Cooperation Administration, established by President Truman in 1948 to administer the Marshall Plan, and from 1950 to 1952, in the Office of the General Counsel to the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. He then served on the American Committee on United Europe from 1952 to 1953.

Mr. Schrenk was born in Sandusky, Ohio. He received a B.S. from Case Institute of Technology in 1943, where he was elected to Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi, then served in the navy from 1943 to 1946, as a junior grade Lieutenant and an Engineering Officer. Mr. Schrenk received a J.D. from University of Michigan in 1949, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. After graduation, Mr. Schrenk served as a law clerk to Hon. Frank Murphy of the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Schrenk joined Cravath in 1953 and became a partner in 1961.

Mr. Schrenk may be reached by phone at 212-474-1666 or by email at wschrenk@cravath.com.