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George
A.
Casey
Partner
Education
Boston University, J.D., 1994, cum laude
University of Kiev, Diploma in International Law (with honors), 1984
Practice
George Casey is Co-Head of Shearman & Sterling’s Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group and an elected member of the firm’s Policy Committee. Mr. Casey has extensive experience in U.S. domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, venture capital financings, strategic investments and joint venture transactions, representing many of the largest U.S. and non-U.S. corporate and investment banking clients. Mr. Casey has been recognized and recommended as a mergers and acquisitions practitioner by Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Legal 500, IFLR 1000 U.S. and PLC Which Lawyer? Mr. Casey is also a Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he teaches a course in mergers and acquisitions. From September 2002 until August 2005, Mr. Casey was based in the firm’s London office.
Experience
- Anglo American plc in its $5.4 billion sale of a 24.5% interest in Anglo American Sur, comprising certain of Anglo American’s copper assets in Chile, to Mitsubishi
- Dow Chemical in its divestiture of the global polypropylene business to Braskem
- Thomson Reuters in its sale of the BarBri business to a private equity buyer
- Anglo American plc in its sale of Moly-Cop and AltaSteel businesses to OneSteel Limited
- American Sugar in its acquisition of the EU sugar refining business of Tate & Lyle
- Dow Chemical in its divestiture of Styron to Bain Capital
- Dow Chemical in its divestiture of Morton Salt to K+S Aktiengesellschaft
- Dow Chemical in its divestiture of the Calcium Chloride business to Occidental Petroleum
- Dow Chemical in its negotiations of the K-Dow joint venture with PIC of Kuwait
- Thomson Reuters in its sale of a copy of Fundamentals database to FactSet
- Nokia in its 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
- 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
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Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, Member of the Board of Advisors
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Thomson Reuters Accelus, Member of the Business Law Partner Advisory Board
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Practical Law Company (PLC), Member of Advisory Board
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Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier/Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Law Review, Paris, France, Member of International Advisory Committee
Conferences and Publications
- “Shareholders and Boards of Directors in US Mergers and Acquisitions,” chapter in The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Fifth Edition, Law Business Research, 2011
- “What to Do When an Acquiror Knocks?”—led a panel on how the Board of Directors and senior executives should respond to an unsolicited takeover proposal at the Seventh Annual Boardroom Summit 2010.
- “Special Committees of the Board in M&A Transactions”—featured in a Corporate Board Member “Board Member Series” 2010 video interview.
- “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
- “Change of Control Transactions,” presentation at the 2006 SEC International Institute for Securities Market Development
- “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,” Internet Finance Review 2000-2001, a Euromoney publication
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
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