Practice
George Casey is head of Shearman & Sterling’s Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group and between May 2009 and May 2013 was 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. From 2002 through 2005, Mr. Casey was based in the firm’s London office.

Mr. Casey has been recognized and recommended as a leading M&A practitioner by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Legal 500 US, IFLR1000 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. He has also given guest lectures on US M&A at l’École de Droit de la Sorbonne – Université Paris I.

• Liberty Global in its $23.3 billion acquisition of Virgin Media in a stock and cash merger transaction
• ArcelorMittal in its $1.1 billion sale of a 15% interest in a joint venture comprising ArcelorMittal’s Labrador Trough iron ore mining and infrastructure assets in Canada to a consortium led by POSCO of Korea and China Steel Corporation of Taiwan
• Anglo American plc in its $5.39 billion sale to Mitsubishi of a 24.5% interest in Anglo American Sur, a Chilean copper mining company, and its subsequent settlement of a dispute and $2.8 billion sale of an interest in AA Sur to CODELCO, a Chilean state-owned company, and Mitsui; and its $1.0 billion auction sale of Moly Cop and AltaSteel businesses to OneSteel Limited
• Dow Chemical in its negotiations of the $17.4 billion K-Dow joint venture with PIC of Kuwait and in the ensuing arbitration over PIC’s refusal to close in which Dow was awarded and was paid $2.2 billion in damages and costs; in its $1.63 billion auction sale of Styron to Bain Capital; its $1.67 billion auction sale of Morton Salt to K+S Aktiengesellschaft; its auction sale of the global polypropylene business to Braskem; and its divestiture of the Calcium Chloride business to Occidental Petroleum
• Thomson Reuters in $7.75 billion auction sale of Thomson Learning to Apax and OMERS; its acquisition of MarkMonitor; its auction sale of BarBri to a private equity buyer; divestiture of NETg to SkillSoft; divestiture of Prometric to ETS; and auction sale of a database to FactSet
• Nokia in its $8.1 billion acquisition of NAVTEQ
• Novartis in “white knight” offer for Aventis in connection with an unsolicited offer for Aventis by Sanofi; $2.5 billion auction sale of the Medical Nutrition business to Nestlé; and auction sale of its Nutrition & Santé business to a private equity buyer
• Pechiney in connection with an initially unsolicited and later recommended $6.7 billion tender offer by Alcan
• Arcelor in its $4.7 billion unsolicited offer for Dofasco in Canada; and in connection with the acquisition of additional interest in CST in Brazil
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Novel Denim in its going-private transaction
• Instrumentarium in its $2.3 billion acquisition by GE
• AngloGold in its $1.9 billion acquisition of Ashanti, a Ghanaian gold mining company
• Bell Canada International and other shareholders in the $1.0 billion sale of their interest in Hansol M.com to Korea Telecom
• Axel Springer in connection with the acquisition of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG
• Alcan in its acquisition of the cathodes business of GrafTech International Ltd.
• Ebookers plc in its acquisition by Cendant

• University of Pennsylvania Law School, Lecturer in Law
• Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, Member of the Board of Advisors
• Practical Law Company (PLC), Member of Advisory Board
• Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier/Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Law Review, Paris, France, Member of International Advisory Committee
• Thomson Reuters, Member of the Business Law Partner Advisory Board

• Q&A interview with Bloomberg on the global M&A market, cross-border transactions and key Delaware case law developments, April 2013
• “Current Trends in M&A,”—featured in the NYSE Corporate Board Member “The Boardroom Channel Series” 2012 video interview
• “Current Trends in US Mergers and Acquisitions,” Global Reference Guide: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financier Worldwide, 2012
• “Shareholders and Boards of Directors in US Mergers and Acquisitions,” chapter in The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Fifth and Sixth Edition, Law Business Research, 2011 and 2012
• “Special Committees of the Board in M&A Transactions”—led a panel discussion on when a Board of Directors should consider forming a special committee to review a corporate transaction at the Eighth Annual Boardroom Summit 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