George T. Conway III has been a partner in the Litigation Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz since January 1994. He joined the firm in 1988.

His litigation experience has included a variety of high-profile matters spanning many areas of law in federal and state courts throughout the country. He has extensive experience in securities litigation, mergers-and-acquisitions litigation, contract litigation, antitrust litigation, and other litigation. In the area of securities litigation, he has successfully represented National Australia Bank in Morrison v. National Australia Bank, the first United States Court of Appeals case to address the federal courts' authority to hear a so-called "f-cubed" fraud-on-the-market class action, involving claims of foreign plaintiffs against a foreign issuer for trading on foreign markets. He also played a substantial role in the defense of Kenneth Langone’s Invemed Associates in a disciplinary proceeding before NASD (now FINRA) that resulted in what the New York Times called a "withering," "high-profile defeat" for the regulators. His work in mergers-and-acquisitions litigation includes the recent Delaware Chancery Court trial in Valassis Communications v. ADVO, a "material adverse change" case on the enforceability of a merger agreement, as well as two historic cases in the development of Delaware corporate law governing mergers and acquisitions, QVC v. Paramount Communications and Paramount Communications v. Time Inc. and Warner Communications, in addition to many other cases involving contests for corporate control in the Delaware courts and elsewhere.

In addition, Mr. Conway played a substantial role in prosecuting one of the most prominent defamation cases in recent memory (Philip Morris v. American Broadcasting Cos.). He has extensive experience in merger-related private antitrust litigation and government antitrust investigations, including the defense of Cardinal Health in the preliminary injunction proceedings before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in FTC v. Cardinal Health. He also defended the National Football League against treble-damage civil antitrust claims in NFL Properties v. Dallas Cowboys Football Club. His pro bono work includes his current representation of the Chief Judge of the State of New York and the New York Unified Court System in constitutional litigation over the State of New York's continuing failure to adjust judicial salaries, his representation of the renowned Swiss installation artist Christoph Büchel in highly-publicized litigation concerning the artist's moral rights under the Visual Artists Rights Act, and his representation of crime victims and public-interest groups as amici curiae in successfully opposing claims that federal law requires the State of New York to allow currently incarcerated felons to vote.

Mr. Conway is a graduate of Harvard College, where in 1984 he received an A.B. magna cum laude in Biochemical Sciences. He received his J.D. in 1987 from Yale Law School, where he was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal. In 1987 and 1988, he served as a law clerk to Circuit Judge Ralph K. Winter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.