Mark S. Lahive is a partner in the Century City office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is a member of the firm's Corporate Transactions Department. Mr. Lahive’s practice includes advising public and private companies, as well as private equity groups, on mergers and acquisitions, registered offerings and private placements of securities and distressed situations investments.  He also advises companies and boards of directors on a variety of corporate governance matters.

Representative Transactions

• Represented Vivendi S.A. in the $18 billion combination of its video games business with Activision.
• Represented Ameristar Casinos in its $675 million acquisition of the Resorts East Chicago casino-hotel.
• Represented Computer Sciences Corporation in its $1 billion acquisition Covansys.
• Represented Aurora Capital Group in its acquisitions of K&F Industries, Axia Holdings and Mitchell International.
• Represented Green Equity in its $1.3 billion leveraged buy-out of The Sports Authority.
• Represented RIG Holdings (a joint venture between J.F. Lehman & Co. and Tailwind Capital Partners) in its $125 million sale of Racal Instruments to EADS and its $54 million sale of Racal’s wireless solutions group to Aeroflex, Inc.
• Represented Casden Properties in $1.5 billion stock sale to AIMCO.
• Various merger and acquisition and capital markets transactions for Computer Sciences, Ameristar Casinos, Aurora Capital Group, Evercore Partners, Green Equity, J.F. Lehman & Company and GE Capital.

Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Mr. Lahive practiced as a corporate associate with Cravath, Swaine & Moore.  He earned his law degree with honors in 1996 from Rutgers Law School-Newark, where he was a member of the Rutgers Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.  He received a B.A. degree in economics in 1989 from Middlebury College.  Mr. Lahive is admitted to practice law in California and New York.  Mr. Lahive is a member of the board of directors of the California Academic Decathlon and advisor to the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.