Bio

Amr Razzak represents clients in a broad range of corporate transactions and corporate governance matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investment and capital markets transactions, and situations involving shareholder activism. Mr. Razzak’s 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. Before joining the firm’s Palo Alto office in 2004, Mr. Razzak was resident in Skadden’s New York and Singapore offices, where he worked on many transactions recognized by industry publications in their annual reviews of the year’s largest and most innovative deals. Mr. Razzak 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. He 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. Mr. Razzak is one of the lead attorneys in Skadden’s award-winning pro bono initiative “Know Your Rights and Know the Law: Sex, Bullying and Social Media,” which provides high school students with critical tools and information for navigating their legal rights and responsibilities in the realm of social media. He serves as chair of the Palo Alto office’s Diversity Committee and is a member of Skadden’s Global Women’s Initiative Committee.