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George F. Schoen is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. His practice focuses primarily on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, including hostile and contested transactions. He regularly counsels corporations and their directors on fiduciary duty and corporate governance matters, and has also represented numerous companies in defending against hedge fund activism. Mr. Schoen has extensive deal experience in many industry sectors, particularly in the technology sector. He has represented IBM in acquisitions and dispositions aggregating more than $25 billion in value. Mr. Schoen has been repeatedly recognized as a leading lawyer in M&A by Chambers USA, The Legal 500, IFLR1000 and Lawdragon. He was named one of “Hollywood’s Top 20 Dealmakers” by The Hollywood Reporter in 2018. Mr. Schoen has also served on the Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate Control Contests Committee of the New York City Bar Association and chaired the Practising Law Institute’s 2017 “Preparing for Shareholder Activism: What You Need To Be Doing Now” conference. Mr. Schoen received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1994 and a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1998. He joined Cravath in 1998 and was elected partner in 2006. Mr. Schoen is Co-Chair of the Firm’s Diversity Committee.