Stephen Glover
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Stephen I. Glover is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm's Corporate Transactions Practice Group.  He has an extensive practice representing public and private companies in complex  mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity and debt offerings and corporate governance matters.

Mr. Glover previously practiced with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in Washington, D.C., where he was Co-Chair of the Corporate Department.  He is a former member and has served as co-chair of the Steering Committee for the D.C. Bar Association's Corporation, Finance and Securities Law Section.  He is a member of the advisory board of BNA's Mergers & Acquisitions Law Report and a member of the editorial board of The M&A Lawyer.  He has also served as D.C. representative to the New York Tribar Opinion Committee.  He is a member of the Securities Regulation Committee, the Negotiated Acquisitions Committee and the Venture Capital Committee of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section.  He has served as chair of the Venture Capital Committee's Government Regulation Task Force.  Mr. Glover has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Glover has been ranked one of the top five corporate/commercial transactions attorneys in Washington, D.C. for the past five years (2005 – 2009) by Chambers USA America’s Leading Business Lawyers.  In August 2009 he was named as a finalist for the top Washington Corporate M&A lawyer by The Washington Business Journal.  He was selected as the top Commercial/Corporate Transactions attorney in Washington, by The Washington Business Journal in their inaugural 'Top Washington Lawyers' Awards in September 2004 and was nominated for this award again in 2005 and 2007.  Mr. Glover was named as a Leading Lawyer in US Mergers & Acquisitions in the 2008, 2007 and 2006 IFLR 1000 Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms.  In 2006, he was identified among "Ten of the D.C. Area's Top Deal-Making Attorneys" by Legal Times.  He is the author or co-author of several books, including Business Separations Transactions: Spin-Offs, Subsidiary IPOs and Tracking Stock (revised 2009); Partnerships, Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances (revised 2009); and M&A Practice Guide (2008).  He has written more than 60 articles and speaks frequently on corporate and securities law issues.

Mr. Glover is the DC Bar Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year for 2004.  He served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall in the United States Supreme Court from 1981 to 1982 and to J. Skelly Wright, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1980 to 1981.  He earned his law degree cum laude in 1980 from Harvard Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  He received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in 1977 from Amherst College.

PRACTICES
EDUCATION
  • Harvard University, 1980
  • Juris Doctor
  • Amherst College, 1977
  • Bachelor of Arts
ADMISSIONS
  • District of Columbia Bar