Paul Harter is a New York and California qualified partner in the London and Dubai offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he has practiced since 1989.  He has particular experience in handling transnational corporate investment and finance transactions.  He was based in the firm's Los Angeles office from 1984 through 1989.

Mr. Harter has advised on a broad range of transnational acquisitions and other major corporate investment transactions.  He is experienced in all facets of acquisition structuring, deal negotiation and documentation, including tax planning, corporate structuring, transaction financing, arrangements with management and shareholders and procurement of antitrust and other governmental licensing and approvals. Mr. Harter combines knowledge of U.S. and European acquisitions with experience in coordinating lawyers on a worldwide basis in connection with multi-national acquisitions.

Mr. Harter also has substantial experience in corporate finance and has represented major corporate clients in both commercial borrowings and capital markets transactions, as well as investment and commercial banking clients in connection with many types of cross-border financings.

Mr. Harter has advised clients on the establishment and restructuring of their international business operations.  He has negotiated and documented worldwide distributorship, sales agency, franchise and licensing arrangements for multi-national clients.  In addition, working closely with the firm's tax lawyers, he has orchestrated complex multi-jurisdictional corporate restructurings designed to restructure the corporate balance sheet, as well as to enhance tax and operational efficiency, while addressing the particular corporate governance concerns and business objectives that are necessarily important to company management, shareholders and other corporate constituencies.

Mr. Harter is acknowledged by UK Legal Experts 2008 as a leading lawyer in the field of Corporate/M&A.

Mr. Harter represents clients engaged in a wide range of businesses and his experience covers a broad geographical scope.

He speaks French and Russian.