Philip Stamatakos is a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Chicago office.

He is a seasoned corporate lawyer with extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, recapitalizations, corporate governance and foreign investment transactions. He has been the principal lawyer on many complex, multi-country acquisitions and has advised several public companies on corporate governance matters, including charter amendments, committee charters, takeover preparedness, shareholder activism and shareholder proposals, shareholder rights plans, internal investigations, whistleblower claims and board education and orientation. Mr. Stamatakos counsels several prominent U.S. companies on their non-U.S. operations and non-U.S. companies on their U.S. operations.

Some of his recent transactions include the successful hostile takeover defense of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan against a $43.1 billion bid from BHP Billiton, Saputo’s $1.45 billion acquisition of Morningstar Foods from Dean Foods, the sale of Viking Group to Minimax in a complex multi-country transaction that created a $1.5 billion company, and the subsequent purchase by Klister of Minimax Viking GmbH, a company with over $1.6 billion in revenue.