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George F. Schoen is Co-Head of the Global Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. He focuses his practice on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, including hostile and contested transactions. He also regularly counsels corporations and their directors on fiduciary duty and corporate governance matters. Mr. Schoen has also represented numerous companies in defending against hedge fund activism. Mr. Schoen has extensive deal experience in many industry sectors, particularly in the media and technology sectors. Mr. Schoen has been repeatedly recognized as a leading lawyer in M&A by, among others, Chambers USA, The Legal 500 US and IFLR1000. He has also been recognized by The Legal 500 US for his transactional work in the telecoms and broadcast industry, as well as for his work in activism defense and his transactional work in the technology industry. Mr. Schoen was named a “Dealmaker of the Year” by the New York Law Journal in 2022 and The American Lawyer in 2019, one of “Hollywood’s Top 20 Dealmakers” by The Hollywood Reporter in 2018 and one of “500 Leading Lawyers in America” by Lawdragon from 2016 through 2023. Additionally, he has been named by Lawdragon as one of the “500 Leading Dealmakers in America.” Mr. Schoen’s work on behalf of Olin Corporation in its $5 billion Reverse Morris Trust acquisition of the chlorine value chain business of Dow Chemical was featured by the Financial Times in its annual FT North America Innovative Lawyers 2016 report. He has also served on the Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate Control Contests Committee of the New York City Bar Association and has chaired the Practising Law Institute’s “Preparing for Shareholder Activism: What You Need To Be Doing Now” conference. Mr. Schoen joined Cravath in 1998 and was elected a partner in 2005. He is Co-Chair of the Firm’s Diversity Committee, and from 2011 to 2014, served as the Firm’s Corporate Hiring Partner.