George F. Schoen is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. His practice focuses primarily on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate advice.
Mr. Schoen’s clients have included IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Credit Suisse, United Airlines, EMBARQ, Jones Group and Pepsi Bottling Group. He has represented IBM in many public and private acquisitions, including in its acquisitions of Unica Corporation and Netezza Corporation, as well as its divestiture of its Printing Systems Division to Ricoh. Other recent transactions include representing EMBARQ in its merger with CenturyTel; Johnson & Johnson in the takeover contest for Guidant Corporation and in its acquisition of Pfizer’s consumer healthcare business; United Airlines in its strategic alliance with Continental Airlines; Credit Suisse in its capacity as financial advisor for Reynolds Group’s “interloper bid” for Graham Packaging and for Varian Semiconductor in its pending acquisition by Applied Materials; Jones Group in its sale of Barneys to Istithmar PSJC and its acquisition of Stuart Weitzman; and Pepsi Bottling Group in connection with its acquisition by PepsiCo. Mr. Schoen also recently represented Casey’s General Stores, Inc. in connection with the unsolicited acquisition proposal by Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. and is representing Nalco in its pending acquisition by Ecolab.
Mr. Schoen was recognized for his Corporate/M&A work by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in 2011. He was also recognized by The Legal 500 for his work in M&A: Mega-Deals in 2009 and 2010, for his transactional work in the telecoms and broadcast industry in 2010 and 2011 and for his transactional work in the technology industry in 2011. Mr. Schoen also serves on the Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate Control Committee of the Bar of the City of New York.
Mr. Schoen was born in Queens, New York. He 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 currently serves as the Firm’s Corporate Hiring Partner.
Mr. Schoen may be reached by phone at 212-474-1740 or by email at gschoen@cravath.com.