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.