George Kern

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name = George Kern

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birth_date = 1927
birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland
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alma_mater = Princeton University
Yale Law School
employer = Sullivan & Cromwell
occupation = Corporate lawyer
nationality = flag|United States

George C. Kern, Jr. (born in 1927), a native of Baltimore, Maryland, was a leading New York corporate lawyer in the 1970s and 80s. After graduating from Princeton (1947) and Yale Law School (1952) [ [http://www.sullcrom.com/lawyers/detail.aspx?attorney=308 George C. Kern, Jr.] ] , Kern joined Sullivan & Cromwell where he became a partner in 1960. Kern was widely viewed among the legal professional as a uniquely colorful figure who dabbled in all aspects of corporate law. When the mergers & acquisitions boom started in the 1970s, most established corporate law firms refused this sort of work and left it to upstarts such as Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Kern, alone among elite Wall Street corporate lawyers, understood that mergers would change the face of corporate America and relished in the takeover battles of the day. Kern was widely viewed as one of the early leaders at the M&A bar together with Joe Flom and Martin Lipton. Kern retired from active practice in 1994.

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* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7D8163AF935A15751C0A96E948260 The New York Times — THE LAW; AT THE BAR]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DF1431F93AA35755C0A96F948260 The New York Times — S.E.C. Hears Arguments In Lawyer Case]