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Carl Sanchez is a partner in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings and is the chair of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions practice. He is based in the firm's San Diego office. Mr. Sanchez's practice is focused in the area of mergers and acquisitions, where he represents public and private companies in a wide variety of merger and acquisition transactions, including stock acquisitions, divisional asset acquisitions and divestitures, tender offers, and share exchange offers, restructurings, dissolutions, going-private transactions, joint ventures, distressed company acquisitions, cross-border acquisitions, and other business combination transactions. He has represented numerous public and private companies in the technology, telecommunications, semiconductor, software, computer hardware, defense, entertainment, and financial services industries. Between 1988 and 1990, Mr. Sanchez was an auditor and consultant in Deloitte & Touche's New York office, specializing in investment banking and broker-dealer activities. From 1980 to 1986, Mr. Sanchez served in the United States Air Force Intelligence Division as a Russian crypto-linguist, where he received numerous awards for his service, including the Air Force Commendation Medal.