Steven D. Guynn is a capital markets partner and practice leader in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He is also a leader of the Firm's international practice including its practice in the emerging markets, and has broad expertise in Asia, Eastern Europe, Russia, and Latin America. He specializes in capital markets transactions, advice on federal securities laws and regulations, and advice on cross-border transactional and compliance problems involving issuers, underwriters and capital providers. He advises members of senior management and boards of directors on corporate matters, including corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley issues.  He has broad experience in the telecommunications, energy, insurance, financial institutions and transportation industries.  Mr. Guynn has been involved in more than $100 billion of debt and equity capital markets transactions, including public and private matters in the U.S., Europe and the emerging markets for U.S. and non-U.S. companies. 

From 1989 to 2005, he was a partner in the New York and London offices of Jones Day and served in many law firm leadership positions, including Co-Chair of the International Securities Practice, Chair of the Latin America Practice, Supervisory Partner of the Sydney, Australia office, member of the Advisory Committee (the firm management committee) and member of the Practice Review and Development Subcommittee (the policy recommendations committee).

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 the valedictorian of his College.  He clerked on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Monroe G. McKay.  He is admitted in New York and Ohio.  He speaks French and Spanish.

Since 1998, Mr. Guynn has been listed in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers .  Recently, he was selected for the International Financial Law Review 2008 listing as a Leading Lawyer in US Capital Markets – Debt and Equity.  He is a frequent speaker on securities and corporate law topics.  He is the author of publications on securities and corporate matters, including Foreign Private Issuers of Equity Securities in the United States – Disclosure and Reporting Obligations , 2001, 2003 and 2004 editions; and "Latin America: Land of Opportunity," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel , October 2004.

Representative matters Mr. Guynn has handled recently include:

• Kuwait Investment Authority (Kuwait/Saudi Arabia) in the formation, $3 billion funding and establishment of the management structure of Kuwait Telecom Company among KIA, Saudi Telecom Company and others.
• Kuwait Investment Authority (Kuwait/U.S./Global) in its $3 billion investment in depositary shares representing 7% Non-Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock of Citigroup Inc. as part of a $19 billion equity offering by Citigroup. This transaction is one of the latest financial institution equity offerings involving sovereign and domestic wealth funds investing in banks since market volatility hit global banks' profits worldwide in recent months. Other investors in this offering included the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, Citi's former chairman and CEO, Sandy Weill and his family trusts, Capital Research mutual fund, and the New Jersey Division of Investment.
• OIL Insurance Group of Companies (Bermuda) in more than $6.0 billion of debt and equity securities offerings, London Stock Exchange and Luxembourg Stock Exchange listings, tender offers and consent solicitations, financings and transactions.
• Lazard (Singapore/U.K./Luxembourg/Germany/ India/ Canada) where it acted as dealer manager and financial advisor in connection with five tender or exchange offers:  Teksid Aluminum Luxembourg 240 million euros tender offer and consent solicitation for senior notes as part of a proposed acquisition by Tenedora Nemak, S.A. de C.V., of Teksid’s operations in North America, South America, China and Poland; Insight Health Services Holdings Corp. $60 million SEC-registered exchange offer of common stock for debt securities and a related NASD approval process; Connect Holdings Limited $200 million tender offer for all of Pacific Internet Limited in Singapore and on the Nasdaq Global Market, a related going-private transaction and an SEC review and comment process; and advice concerning two proposed tender and exchange offers in Germany, India, and Canada.
• Credit Agricole (France) in its $20 billion merger with Credit Lyonnais, including the U.S. securities aspects of a related private transaction under Rule 144A involving large U.S. institutions participating in the purchase of Credit Agricole shares in exchange for Credit Lyonnaise shares.
• TNK (Russia) in its $19 billion TNK-BP joint venture, involving the largest ever foreign investment in Russia; and in its $3.7 billion monetization by the Alfa Group and its partner the Access/Renova Group of their respective rights to the future delivery of newly issued, unregistered BP shares as partial payment for the two groups' contribution of certain oil and gas assets to the TNK-BP joint venture, with Deutsche Bank acting as the arranger and underwriter in monetizing BP's obligation to deliver the BP shares to the two groups through the issuance by a special purpose vehicle of zero coupon secured notes amortizing on the various settlement dates for delivery of the BP shares.
• Total S.A. (France) in its $11 billion merger with Petrofina, including an SEC-registered exchange offer; and in its $55 billion merger with Elf Aquitaine, including an SEC-registered exchange offer, creating the world's fourth largest oil group.
• Petrobras (Brazil) in its $4.33 billion initial public offering of shares and ADRs in the U.S., Brazil, and international capital markets, underwritten by Merrill Lynch, and initial listing on the NYSE; and in its $2 billion of debt and equity offerings in the U.S., Brazil and international capital markets, underwritten by several investment banks.
• Bridgestone/Firestone (U.S./Latin America) in its $3.2 billion Latin American and global recapitalization.
• Cascades Inc. (Canada) in its $550 million of senior notes in two related Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings with back-end SEC-registered exchange offers, with initial purchasers Salomon Smith Barney, Scotia Capital, NBC International (USA) Inc., and CIBC World Markets.
• Norampac Inc. (Canada) in its $250 million of senior notes in a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering with back-end SEC-registered exchange offer, with initial purchasers Deutsche Bank, CIBC World Markets, NBC International (USA) Inc. and Scotia Capital.
• Banc of America Securities (U.S./Latin America) in debt and equity securities purchases in Latin America.
• Virgin Group/Virgin Express Airlines (Belgium/U.K.) in its merger with SN Air and for more than five years all of its SEC filings, including its annual reports on Form 20-F and advice on U.S. and cross-border corporate and transactional matters.