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Eduardo Gallardo is a partner in the New York office of Paul Hastings. Mr. Gallardo is Global Co-Chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, takeover defense, shareholder activism defense and corporate governance matters. Mr. Gallardo has extensive experience representing public and private buyers and sellers in connection with mergers, acquisitions and takeovers, both negotiated and contested. He has also represented public and private companies in connection with proxy contests, leveraged buyouts, spinoffs, divestitures, restructurings, recapitalizations, joint ventures and other complex corporate transactions. Mr. Gallardo has substantial experience in the technology, financial services, telecommunications, energy, real estate, healthcare and life sciences industries. Mr. Gallardo is tier-ranked by Chambers USA in Corporate/M&A and Corporate/M&A: Takeover Defense. Mr. Gallardo has been named a “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer. The National Law Journal has also named him among its Mergers & Acquisitions and Antitrust Trailblazers – people “who have moved the needle in mergers and acquisitions and antitrust law.” He is also recognized as a leading M&A attorney by The International Financial Law Review. Mr. Gallardo is a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School, a member of the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Law & Economics of the University of Pennsylvania, a member of the Advisory Board of Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets, a member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, and was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel. In 2018 Mr. Gallardo was honored with a Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Columbia Law School Latin American Law Student Association “in recognition of his outstanding legal achievements and invaluable service to the Latino community.” Mr. Gallardo received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 1999, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 1996. Mr. Gallardo is admitted to practice in the State of New York.