Profile
George Sampas is a partner in Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher’s New York office. He is the co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Mergers and Acquisitions practice and Head of Cross-Border M and A. George’s practice focuses on cross-border transactions, unsolicited U.S. and non-U.S. acquisitions and private equity transactions with a specific emphasis in the aviation, aerospace and defense and energy and minerals sectors.
George is regularly recognized as a leading advisor having been previously named by Global Counsel as one of its “Highly Recommended M&A Practitioners” and is regularly ranked in legal publications such as New York Super Lawyers, The Legal 500 United States, Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal.
George represents leading global corporations on their largest, most complex and transformative deals including representations of Alcan, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Aventis, BBA Aviation, BCE, Columbia Pipeline Group, Enbridge, Inco, KPMG, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group and Vodafone Group as well as private equity firms and investment advisors.
Historic transactions include representing Vodafone on the largest M&A transaction in history, its acquisition of Mannesmann, Elf in its Pac-Man defense and merger with Total, Aventis in its use of a Plavix poison pill warrant to secure better terms from Sanofi, Alcan in its use of new French regulations to allow an unsolicited acquisition of Pechiney and in selling Alcan to Rio Tinto, InBev in its unsolicited acquisition of Anheuser-Busch and subsequently AB InBev in its acquisition of Modelo, Inco in many transactions including its combination agreement with Phelps Dodge and Falconbridge and its sale to Vale.
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