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New York T: +1 212 848 8787 F: +1 646 848 8787 Add to Outlook George A. Casey Partner Education Boston University, J.D., 1994, cum laude University of Kiev, Diploma in International Law (with honors), 1984 Practice Mr. Casey is deputy head of the firm’s global Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Mr. Casey has extensive experience in U.S. domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, venture capital financing, strategic investments and joint venture transactions, representing U.S. and non-U.S. corporate and investment banking clients. From September 2002 until August 2005, Mr. Casey was based in the firm’s London office. Recent Experience Thomson Reuters in its pending sale of a copy of Fundamentals database and related assets to FactSet required by the European Commission and DOJ to approve the Thomson/Reuters transaction Nokia in its pending acquisition of NAVTEQ Thomson in its divestiture of Thomson Learning to funds managed by Apax and OMERS Thomson in its divestiture of Prometric to ETS Novartis in its divestiture of the Medical Nutrition business to Nestlé Thomson Learning in its divestiture of NETg to SkillSoft Alcan in its acquisition of the cathodes business of GrafTech International Ltd. ABN AMRO as a financial advisor to Euronext in a business combination transaction with NYSE Novartis in the sale of its Nutrition & Santé business Arcelor in an unsolicited offer for Dofasco in Canada Credit Suisse as a financial advisor to The McClatchy Company in its acquisition of Knight-Ridder Arcelor in connection with the acquisition of additional interest in CST in Brazil Axel Springer in connection with the proposed acquisition of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG ABN AMRO as a financial advisor in the restructuring of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Novel Denim in its going private transaction Novartis in its white knight offer for Aventis Pechiney in connection with an initially unsolicited and later recommended tender offer by Alcan ebookers plc in its acquisition by Cendant AngloGold in its business combination transaction with Ashanti, a Ghanaian gold mining company France Telecom in the acquisition of shares held by minority shareholders of Orange Instrumentarium, a Finnish medical equipment company, in connection with its acquisition by General Electric Anglo American in the acquisition of De Beers by a consortium that included Anglo American Scaw Metals, a division of Anglo American, in the acquisition of the worldwide grinding media business of GS Industries through a U.S. bankruptcy reorganization process Scaw Metals in the acquisition of shares held by minority shareholders of Moly-Cop Adesur, a Peruvian company Bell Canada International in the sale of its equity interest in Hansol M.com, a Korean wireless company, to Korea Telecom BT Group in its acquisition of Control Data Systems from Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe Sandoz in its business combination transaction with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis Sandoz in its divestiture of its corn herbicide business to BASF Sandoz in its divestiture of certain animal health assets to Central Garden & Pet Company BASF in an asset swap transaction with PPG Industries Quest Diagnostics in its acquisition of MedPlus Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse as financial advisors in various transactions Selected Professional & Business Activities Speaker, “Change of Control Transactions,” SEC International Institute for Securities Market Development, April 2006 Member, International Advisory Committee, Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier/Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Law Review, Paris, France Publications “Expanding Borders: The SEC’s Proposed Amendments to its Cross-Border M&A Rules Acknowledge the Increasing Global Nature of Dealmaking,” The Deal, June 2-8, 2008 “Proportionality Between Ownership and Control: Comparative Legal Study (United States),” External Study Commissioned by the European Commission, 2007 “US Securities Law Issues in Tender Offers for Foreign Companies that are not ‘Foreign Private Issuers,’” M&A Focus, Winter 2006 “US Securities Law Issues in Non-US M&A Transactions,” CorpFin Worldwide, December 2004 “Using tracking stock to unlock Internet valuations,” co-author, Internet Finance Review 2000-2001, a Euromoney publication Bar Admissions New York

Mergers & Acquisitions SEC Proposes Amendments to the Cross-Border Tender Offer, Exchange Offer and Business Combination Rules and Beneficial Ownership Reporting Rules for Certain Foreign Institutions SEC Approves Amendments to Tender Offer "Best-Price" Rule View All Shearman & Sterling Represents Nokia in Acquisition of NAVTEQ for $8.1 Billion Shearman & Sterling Advises Novartis in the Sale of Medical Nutrition Unit to Nestlé View All

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