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Partner

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Christopher D. Sheaffer is a partner in the Corporate practice at Paul Hastings in the Chicago office. His practice is focused on representing private equity firms in leveraged buyouts, minority investments, add-on acquisitions, divestitures and recapitalizations. In addition, he provides general corporate counseling to their portfolio companies from initial investment through liquidity event, advising on corporate governance and other general transactional matters. He also regularly represents public companies, closely held businesses, entrepreneurs and senior management teams in connection with mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions. Prior to joining Paul Hastings, Mr. Sheaffer was a partner at a multinational law firm. He earned his J.D. degree (cum laude) from Northwestern University School of Law. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame (cum laude) with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering.