Amr Razzak, Partner at Skadden

Today, my guest is Amr Razzak, a Partner at Skadden whose practice encompasses transactions involving public and private companies, private equity funds, friendly and unsolicited situations, and U.S. and cross-border transactions. He has significant experience handling transactions in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. Amr has been recognized annually as a leading lawyer by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, which ranks Skadden’s Palo Alto M&A practice as the only Band 1 Corporate/M&A practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Amr has been named repeatedly as one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Dealmakers in America and has been recognized in the IFLR1000 and The Best Lawyers in America. He also was a key member of the Skadden deal teams recognized in The Recorder’s 2019 California Leaders in Technology Law contest, as well as in the publication’s 2017 Corporate Department of the Year contest, in which Skadden took top honors in the U.S. M&A and Cross Border M&A categories. Prior to law school, Amr spent nearly 4 years in Cameroon serving in the Peace Corps. Amr holds a JD from Georgetown Law School.