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Damien R. Zoubek is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. His practice primarily encompasses mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism defense, corporate governance and general corporate matters. Mr. Zoubek has broad mergers and acquisitions experience spanning numerous industries. Mr. Zoubek has been repeatedly recognized as a leading lawyer in mergers and acquisitions by, among others, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business from 2014 through 2018, Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business in 2017 and 2018, The Legal 500 in 2010, 2013, 2017 and 2018, IFLR1000 from 2013 through 2018, Lawdragon’s list of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” from 2011 through 2018, and Who’s Who Legal: M&A and Governance. Mr. Zoubek’s work was featured by the Financial Times in its annual FT North America Innovative Lawyers 2016 report. In 2012, Mr. Zoubek was recognized by Law360 as one of five outstanding attorneys in the nation under the age of 40 for his Corporate/M&A work. He was also recognized by The Legal 500 for his transactional work in the technology industry in 2013 and 2014 and for his transactional work in the telecoms and broadcast industry in 2012, 2013 and 2017. Mr. Zoubek was born in Summit, New Jersey. He received a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1995 and a J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1999, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He joined Cravath in 1999 and became a partner in 2007.