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Washington, DC 20036-5306
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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 has been ranked one of the top five corporate transactions attorneys in Washington, D.C. for the past six years (2005 – 2010) 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 also a finalist in 2007 and 2005, and won the award in 2004. In 2006, Mr. Glover was identified among "Ten of the D.C. Area's Top Deal-Making Attorneys" by Legal Times.

His clients include large public corporations, emerging growth companies and middle market companies in a wide range of industries. He also advises private equity firms, individual investors and others. Selected representations include the following:

Watson Wyatt in its $3.5 billion merger of equals with Towers Perrin
United Therapeutics in a transaction in which Eli Lilly acquired a significant equity stake and entered into an intellectual property licensing arrangement.
United Defense in its $4.6 billion sale to BAE
Neustar in its approximately $700 million initial public offering

Mr. Glover is the author or co-author of several books, including M&A Practice Guide (2009); Business Separations Transactions: Spin-Offs, Subsidiary IPOs and Tracking Stock (revised 2010); and Partnerships, Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances (revised 2010). He has written more than 60 articles and speaks frequently on corporate and securities law issues.

Mr. Glover is a member of the DC Bar Board of Governors, as well as a former co-chair of the Steering Committee for the D.C. Bar’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 served as D.C. representative to the New York Tribar Opinion Committee. Mr. Glover has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Glover was 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.

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EDUCATION

Harvard University, 1980
Juris Doctor
Amherst College, 1977
Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

District of Columbia Bar