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Mr George Karafotias

+1 212 848 4536 gkarafotias@aoshearman.com View profile View profile

Work Department

Mergers & Acquisitions

Position

Partner

Career

George focuses on U.S. and cross-border M&A transactions, advising clients on public company transactions (negotiated and unsolicited/hostile), spin-offs, going private transactions, consortium bids, private M&A transactions, joint ventures and strategic investments, as well as on SEC, corporate governance and general corporate matters.

He regularly works closely with boards, special committees and senior management on their most complex and strategically significant transactions.

He has experience across a wide range of industry sectors, including mining and metals, chemicals, industrials, infrastructure, healthcare, food and agriculture, shipping and transportation, sport and financial services.

Top Tier Firm Rankings

• Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense

Firm Rankings

• Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
• Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
• Environment > Environment: transactional
• Tax > Financial products
• Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
• Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
• Dispute resolution > International litigation
• Tax > International tax
• Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
• Finance > Project finance
• Energy > Renewable/alternative power
• Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
• Finance > Structured finance: securitization
• Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
• Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
• Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
• Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
• Antitrust > Merger control
• Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
• Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
• Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
• Antitrust > Cartel
• Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
• Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
• Finance > Fintech
• Real estate > Real estate finance
• Finance > Financial services regulation
• Dispute resolution > International arbitration
• M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
• Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
• Real estate > Real estate
• Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
• Tax > US taxes: contentious
• Finance > Commercial lending
• Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
• Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
• Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)