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Education: Mr. de Chapeaurouge is a founding partner of the Germany-based corporate law firm DE CHAPEAUROUGE + PARTNERS, integrated with the Hamburg and New York corporate and litigation firms Brödermann Jahn RA GmbH and Guzov, LLC. He is admitted to practice in Frankfurt and New York. Having studied at Lausanne/Switzerland and Freiburg/Germany universities, he obtained his German law degrees at Frankfurt University, and earned degrees in the United States from Columbia Law School (LL.M.) and Harvard Law School (S.J.D.). Experience: Mr. de Chapeaurouge is engaged in a diversified global business practice and is concentrating in corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, capital markets, commercial lending, and workout-related matters from what is a distinct client life- and business-cycle perspective and vantage point on the Practice, he remains current in the respective German and U.S. – American corporate transactional and regulatory practices, and also follows UK and Asian legal and doctrinal developments, as such, he serves as trusted Consigliere to Governments and their sub-divisions, multi-lateral agencies, public and private corporations, technology companies, families and family offices, financial institutions, asset managers, trading houses, venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds. He counsels boards, supervisory boards, lead directors, disinterested directors, compensation, governance, nomination, audit committees, as well as management, stockholders and owners on Corporate Governance, international regulatory (such as EU institutional passporting for banks, financial services providers, and funds after Brexit), and shareholder-related matters, and advises on conflicts of interest and director fiduciary duties if and when their satisfaction is subject to critical review, Compliance and internal investigations, corporate structure adjustments to operational realities and strategy, extending to risk mitigation and prudent calibration of operational, regulatory and systemic risk (such as cybersecurity threats), he is known as a thoughtful architect of takeover and activist preparedness, marshaling the requisite cogent response plan repertoire to shareholder proposals, proxy contests and unsolicited bids for corporate control, and by encouraging effective on- and off-season shareholder dialogue. Additionally, he assists institutional investor Stewardship departments navigate Schedule 13D (of the 1934 Securities Exchange Act) or similar foreign law filings when they actively/directly engage with their portfolio company boards, and advises on their interaction with activist hedge funds, in turn, he assists activists coordinate their campaigns in jurisdictions with primarily widely held public companies (U.S. and UK), as opposed to those with higher blockholder concentration (Germany/Europe, India, Hong Kong/China), often with respect to companies overlooked or misunderstood by, or out of favor with, the market.