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New York

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Eric Schiele is co-chair of Paul Hastings' Mergers & Acquisitions practice and is based in the firm’s New York office. He focuses on M&A and public company board and special committee advisory work. He has advised on approximately $1.5 trillion in announced deals.

His over 25 years of experience representing leading multinational corporations, boards of directors and special committees on a wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and split-offs, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, activism defense and takeover defense, spans diverse industries such as food and beverage, healthcare and life sciences, industrials, media/sports, real estate and hospitality, technology and telecom, retail and insurance.

Corporate clients that Eric has represented include AbbVie, Amcor, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Carlisle Companies, Constellation Brands, Disney, DreamWorks Animation, Fox Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline, H.J. Heinz, Honeywell, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kellanova, McDonald’s, Northrop Grumman, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, Taubman Centers, The Washington Post Company, Time Warner, Toll Brothers, Wynn Resorts, Xerox, Yahoo! and Zale Corporation. He also has extensive experience in hedge fund activism defense, including against Carl Icahn, Elliott Management, Greenlight Capital, Relational, Starboard Value and Trian.

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University of Texas School of Law, J.D. (Highest Honors, Associate Editor, The Texas Law Review)

Ohio Wesleyan University, B.A. (summa cum laude)

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Eric Schiele is routinely engaged to advise a clientele of market-leading corporates on heavyweight M&A and related corporate governance matters.

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