Steven D. Guynn is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  Mr. Guynn’s practice focuses on a wide variety of capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, restructurings, joint ventures, and sovereign wealth fund transactions.  He has extensive experience with U.S. and cross-border transactions for corporations, underwriters, private equity firms, and sovereign wealth funds.  He has advised clients in many industries including telecommunications, energy, insurance, financial institutions, transportation, retail and real estate.  Mr. Guynn has led more than $150 billion of transactions in the U.S., Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America for U.S. and non-U.S. clients.

Mr. Guynn received his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia and served as Notes Editor of the Virginia Law Review .  He is a graduate of Brigham Young University where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English summa cum laude and was Valedictorian of his College.  He clerked on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Monroe G. McKay.  He is admitted in New York, Ohio and Utah. He is proficient in French and Spanish.

Since 1998, Mr. Guynn has been listed in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers .  From 1989 to 2005, he was a partner at Jones Day where he served as a member of the Advisory Committee (the firm’s board of directors) and of the Practice Review and Development Subcommittee, Co-Chair of the Capital Markets Practice, Chair of the Latin America Practice, Supervisory Partner of the Sydney, Australia Office, and a cross-border transactions practice leader resident in London and active throughout Europe.

• Kuwait Investment Authority (Kuwait/U.S./Global) in its $3 billion investment in depositary shares representing 7% Non-Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock of Citigroup Inc. as part of a $19 billion equity offering by Citigroup.  Other investors in this offering included the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal; and in follow-on conversion price adjustments and a $62 billion private and public exchange offer by Citigroup.  
• Kuwait Investment Authority (Kuwait/Saudi Arabia) in the formation, $3 billion funding and establishment of the management structure of Kuwait Telecom Company among KIA, Saudi Telecom Company and others.
• Kuwait Investment Authority (Kuwait/U.S./Global) in its $1 billion investment in Dow Chemical Co. to facilitate finance Dow's strategic acquisition of Rohm and Haas Co. for $17 billion.
• OIL Insurance Group of Companies (Bermuda) in more than $6.0 billion of debt and equity securities offerings, London Stock Exchange and Luxembourg Stock Exchange listings, tender offers and consent solicitations, financings and transactions.
• Lazard Capital Markets / Lazard Freres & Co.  (U.S./Singapore/U.K./Luxembourg/Germany/India/ Canada) where it acted as dealer manager and financial advisor in connection with rights offerings, tender offers or exchange offers:  Griffon Corporation $250 million SEC-registered rights offering for common shares to all shareholders, a related backstop and additional purchase commitment from GS Direct, LLC, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs, and a purchase of shares by Griffon's CEO; Teksid Aluminum Luxembourg €240 million tender offer and consent solicitation for senior notes as part of a proposed acquisition by Tenedora Nemak, S.A. de C.V., of Teksid’s operations in North America, South America, China and Poland; Insight Health Services Holdings Corp. $60 million SEC-registered exchange offer of common stock for debt securities and a related NASD approval process; Connect Holdings Limited $200 million tender offer for all of Pacific Internet Limited in Singapore and on the Nasdaq Global Market, a related going-private transaction and an SEC review and comment process; and advice concerning proposed tender and exchange offers in Germany, India, and Canada.
• Bed Bath & Beyond (Mexico/U.S.) long-term strategic joint venture with a Home Products Retailer in Mexico that operates stores in Mexico City offering domestics merchandise, home furnishings and giftware.
• Credit Agricole (France) in its $20 billion merger with Credit Lyonnais, including the U.S. securities aspects of a related private transaction under Rule 144A involving large U.S. institutions participating in the purchase of Credit Agricole shares in exchange for Credit Lyonnaise shares.
• TNK (Russia/U.K.) in its $19 billion TNK-BP joint venture, involving the largest ever foreign investment in Russia. 
• TNK (Russia/U.K.) in its $3.7 billion monetization by the Alfa Group and its partner the Access/Renova Group of their respective rights to the future delivery of newly issued, unregistered BP shares as partial payment for the two groups' contribution of certain oil and gas assets to the TNK-BP joint venture, with Deutsche Bank acting as the arranger and underwriter in monetizing BP's obligation to deliver the BP shares to the two groups through the issuance by a special purpose vehicle of zero coupon secured notes amortizing on the various settlement dates for delivery of the BP shares.
• Total S.A. (France) in its $11 billion merger with Petrofina, including an SEC-registered exchange offer.
• Total S.A. (France) in its $55 billion merger with Elf Aquitaine, including an SEC-registered exchange offer, creating the world's fourth largest oil group.
• Petrobras (Brazil/U.S.) in its $4.33 billion initial public offering of shares and ADRs in the U.S., Brazil, and international capital markets, underwritten by Merrill Lynch, and initial listing on the NYSE. 
• Petrobras (Brazil/U.S.) in its $2 billion of debt and equity offerings in the U.S., Brazil and international capital markets, underwritten by several investment banks.
• Bridgestone/Firestone (U.S./Latin America) in its $3.2 billion Latin American and global recapitalization.