Dennis J. Friedman is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a member of the Executive Committee, a member of the International Management Committee and Co-Chair of the Firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group. He is a widely recognized corporate lawyer with extensive experience in the mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and capital markets areas.  In addition to his 30-year-plus legal career, Mr. Friedman was an investment banker at several major Wall Street firms, where he was a senior M&A banker and also the head of a merchant banking group (1986 to 1992).  Mr. Friedman is listed in The International Who's Who of Merger & Acquisition Lawyers 2008, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2008 in the area of Corporate/M&A (New York), in New York Magazine's 2008 Best Lawyers in New York, in the International Financial Law Review 2008, and as a leading lawyer in the 2007/08 PLC Cross-border M&A Handbook as one of the recommended lawyers in M&A. Mr. Friedman was also recently ranked in The Legal 500 US 2008 edition and in The Best Lawyers in America, 2009.

Mr. Friedman represents both domestic and foreign entities, boards of directors, special board committees and investment banks in many of the world's largest mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions and unsolicited takeover offers.  He also represents hedge funds and private equity funds in their M&A activity. Mr. Friedman advises clients in connection with board governance issues, conflicts of interest, restructurings and recapitalizations and advises individuals with respect to their investment activities.

Mr. Friedman is a frequent speaker at seminars in the United States and abroad on issues relating to corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and securities offerings. He also has co-authored numerous publications on SEC rules addressing issues such as disclosure requirements, audit committees, cross-border tender offers, and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Friedman earned his Juris Doctor in 1969 from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as Articles Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance, in 1966.