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For over 25 years, Cal Smith has advised companies and their boards of directors on numerous high profile M&A and other complex corporate transactions for public companies, including spin-offs, buyouts and other special situations.
Cal also has extensive experience counseling boards of directors, CEOs and other C-Suite executives with respect to shareholder and stakeholder activism, proxy fights and preparedness, takeover defense and corporate governance as well as fiduciary duties and risk oversight, including as to ESG, cybersecurity and engaging with institutional investors and other key governance constituencies. Cal was Corporate Secretary of Georgia-Pacific Corporation when it was acquired by Koch Industries, Inc. in a deal valued at $21 billion. Cal’s practice also involves significant capital markets-related work and counseling regarding SEC reporting requirements.
Cal co-leads King & Spalding’s Public Companies Practice Group and is recognized by Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America and Legal 500 as a leading lawyer in the Corporate/M&A/Governance categories. He also has been twice named a BTI Client Service All-Star, as well as a winner of Lexology’s U.S. Client Choice Award for M&A and General Corporate.
Presentations and Speaking Engagements
- Presenter, “Understanding the “E” in ESG: What Public Company Directors Need to Know,” National Association of Corporate Directors, 2021 (Atlanta, GA)
- Co-Chair, “Negotiated Corporate Acquisitions,” Georgia Bar/ICLE Seminar, 2016 (Atlanta, GA)
- Presenter, “Special Committee Overview: A Guide for Corporate Counsel,” Corporate Counsel Institute, December 2008 (Atlanta, GA)
- Presenter, “Corporate Governance Update” and “Form 8-K and other Disclosure Issues,” Glasser Legal Works' SEC Hot Topics Institute, Winter 2006 (Atlanta, GA)
- Presenter, “The Continuing Quest for the Risk-Free MD&A in the Sarbanes-Oxley Environment”, SEC Institute's 20th Annual National Reporting Conference, August and November, 2004 (San Francisco, CA and San Diego, CA)
- Presenter, “Accelerated and Enhanced 8-K Current Disclosure” and “Preparing the New MD&A”, Glasser Legal Works' SEC Hot Topics Institute Fall 2004 (Atlanta, GA)
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