Marwan Elaraby has joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as a partner based in the Dubai office.
Press Releases | October 24, 2022
Euromoney named 16 Gibson Dunn lawyers among its 2022 Rising Stars in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific regions.
Firm News | October 12, 2022
German publication Kanzleimonitor 2022/2023 listed Gibson Dunn among the top 50 law firms in Germany and among the top law firms by range of service, recommended by in-house lawyers, and ranked Munich partner Ferdinand Fromholzer among the top 100 lawyers in Germany.
Firm News | October 7, 2022
Expert Guides has named 22 Gibson Dunn lawyers to its 2022 Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law, which recognizes top female legal practitioners advising on business law.
Firm News | October 6, 2022
Expert Guides has named 39 Gibson Dunn partners to the 2022 edition of its Banking, Finance and Transactional Guide, which recognizes the top legal practitioners in the industry.
Firm News | October 6, 2022
Expert Guides has named eleven Gibson Dunn lawyers to its Rising Stars 2022 Guide, which recognizes the brightest and most talented practitioners under 40 in the area of business law and related practices.
Firm News | October 6, 2022
The Deal named New York partner Saee Muzumdar its Dealmaker of the Year in the Consumer, Retail, Food & Beverage category.
Firm News | October 4, 2022
The Deal named Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware for $61 billion and Victor Capital’s sale of PrimaLoft to Compass Diversified for $530 million among its Outstanding Deals of the Year.
Firm News | October 4, 2022
Gibson Dunn earned 18 practice area rankings in the 2023 edition of The Legal 500 UK.
Firm News | September 29, 2022
In its 2022 M&A rankings, which recognizes the best firms in Asia for M&A work, Asian Legal Business recognized Gibson Dunn in Singapore: International, China: International and in Hong Kong.
Firm News | September 20, 2022
Best Lawyers® named 11 Gibson Dunn partners as the 2023 Lawyer of the Year in their respective practice areas and cities.
Firm News | August 18, 2022
This Client Alert provides an update on shareholder activism activity involving NYSE- and Nasdaq-listed companies with equity market capitalizations in excess of $1 billion and below $100 billion (as of the last date of trading in 2021) during 2021.
Client Alert | August 9, 2022
In this webcast, lawyers from Gibson Dunn and Morris Nichols talk about what to consider when deciding if being a Public Benefit Company is right for you.
Webcasts | June 28, 2022
Best Lawyers and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Germany 2023 have recognized 26 Gibson Dunn attorneys, and 18 Gibson Dunn attorneys have been recognized as leading lawyers in their respective practice areas.
Firm News | June 24, 2022
Best Lawyers and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in France 2023 have recognized 18 Gibson Dunn attorneys, and 16 Gibson Dunn attorneys have been recognized as leading lawyers in their respective practice areas.
Firm News | June 23, 2022
Seven Gibson Dunn partners were featured by Who’s Who Legal in its Energy 2022 guide.
Firm News | June 16, 2022
In its list of the most renowned law firms and lawyers in M&A and Antitrust, German publication WirtschaftsWoche has recognized Gibson Dunn as a Top Law Firm in both practices.
Firm News | June 13, 2022
Best Lawyers and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in the United Kingdom 2023 have recognized 18 Gibson Dunn attorneys, and 15 Gibson Dunn attorneys have been recognized as leading lawyers in their respective practice areas.
Firm News | June 9, 2022
The Deal named Managing Partner Barbara Becker and New York partner Saee Muzumdar to its annual Top Women in Dealmaking list, which “honors exemplary women in the legal profession” and “identifies attorneys who have displayed excellence in their respective legal fields including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity, restructuring and activist investing.”
Firm News | May 16, 2022
Dallas partner Jonathan Whalen and Houston of counsel James Robertson are the authors of "E&P A&D Business Strategies: Getting the Deal Done" published by Oil and Gas Investor on April 28, 2022.
Article | May 11, 2022
In this recorded webcast, Gibson Dunn lawyers and an accounting expert examine purchase price adjustments in detail. The webcast includes discussions of the following: - A review of the issues that arise in negotiating purchase price adjustment provisions, and drafting tips for corporate counsel - A discussion of the common sources of post-closing adjustment disputes, and accountants’ views on how these disputes may be resolved - A litigator’s views on litigating purchase price adjustment disputes
Webcasts | May 10, 2022
This alert looks at possible revisions by the Federal Trade Commission to the Premerger Notification and Report Form (aka the HSR Form) that are meant “to conform to changing market realities and global standards.”
Client Alert | May 5, 2022
Thirteen Gibson Dunn partners were recognized in the Who’s Who Legal 2022 M&A and Governance, Who’s Who Legal 2022 Project Finance, and Who’s Who Legal 2022 Product Liability Defence guides.
Firm News | May 4, 2022
The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division promised in a recent speech to increase enforcement of Section 8 of the Clayton Act, which prohibits competing corporations from sharing common directors or officers. The prevailing enforcement climate means that companies should have a compliance plan in place to discover potential director interlocks before they develop and monitor existing outside director positions to ensure they conform to existing Section 8 safe harbors.
Client Alert | May 2, 2022
In this alert, we discuss the Federal Trade Commission’s recent reinstatement of a long dormant policy restricting certain future acquisitions by parties that hereafter enter into an FTC consent order.
Client Alert | April 28, 2022
Prospective joint venture partners frequently spend many hours discussing governance matters because they understand strong governance can be a key to venture success. In this recorded webcast, experts from Gibson Dunn and Ankura Consulting talk about designing an effective joint venture governance system.
Webcasts | April 27, 2022
Our lawyers discuss the dip in global M&A in Q1 2022 and how the current regulatory climate around antitrust issues presents a challenge for deal makers.
Client Alert | April 22, 2022
Best Lawyers in Singapore 2023 has recognized six Gibson Dunn partners as leading lawyers.
Firm News | April 14, 2022
On March 30, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, by a three-to-one vote, issued a press release announcing proposed new rules intended to enhance disclosure and investor protections in initial public offerings by special purpose acquisition companies and in subsequent business combinations between SPACs and private operating companies.
Client Alert | April 6, 2022
Gibson Dunn’s Managing Partner Barbara Becker and Los Angeles partner Linda Curtis were named among the IFLR1000 Women Leaders for 2022, featuring “an exclusive group of lawyers with outstanding reputations within their markets who either have expertise and experience of working on complex deals, or who have risen to hold leadership roles with their firms or their practices.”
Firm News | April 1, 2022
Our lawyers discuss a recent ruling by the Delaware Court of Chancery which addresses “sandbagging,” where a buyer closes an acquisition on the basis of representations in the purchase agreement it knows to be false, then proceeds to sue the seller post-closing based on a breach of those same representations.
Client Alert | March 21, 2022
China Business Law Journal has named Beijing partner Qi Yui to its 2022 Rising Stars list, which identifies the top lawyers aged 40 and under in China’s legal market.
Firm News | March 18, 2022
Gibson Dunn received 32 rankings in Chambers Europe 2022: 23 individual rankings and nine firm rankings.
Firm News | March 17, 2022
In the current market environment, strong pre-IPO readiness can position companies to more swiftly access IPO market windows. This recorded presentation explores preliminary planning, structuring and governance considerations for private companies considering an IPO.
Webcasts | February 24, 2022
China Law & Practice named China Biologic Products' take-private, a transaction on which Gibson Dunn advised, as its M&A Deal of the Year at the China Law & Practice Awards 2021.
Firm News | February 24, 2022
Legal Era has named Singapore partner Jai Pathak as a Leading Cross Border Lawyer of the Year at its 3rd annual Global Achievers Awards, which celebrates leading lawyers at global firms for their work on inbound and outbound India matters.
Firm News | February 8, 2022
Munich associate Marcus Geiss and of counsel Birgit Friedl are the authors of “German Corporate Law 2022: At the Cross-Roads of Continued Globalization and Keeping Your Own House in Order,” published by M&A Review on February 2, 2022.
Article | February 2, 2022
With the backdrop of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and high M&A volume, 2021 presented new issues for dealmakers. Hear from seasoned practitioners on how deals are getting done and the issues being confronted.
Webcasts | January 27, 2022
Once more, 2021 demonstrated that constant change should become your friend and ally. After a second year of global uncertainty caused by the formidable challenges of the COVID-pandemic, we all long for a return “back-to-normal.” However, chances are that 2022 will continue to present drastic and unpredictable challenges.
Client Alert | January 13, 2022
Gibson Dunn has been recognized in 20 categories in the 2022 edition of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific.
Firm News | January 13, 2022
Gibson Dunn earned 9 firm rankings and 18 individual rankings in the inaugural edition of the Chambers Greater China Region guide.
Firm News | January 12, 2022
The Who’s Who Legal 2022 Germany guide recommended Frankfurt partners Dirk Oberbracht in M&A and Georg Weidenbach in Competition, and Munich partner Ferdinand Fromholzer in Corporate Governance and M&A.
Firm News | December 22, 2021
Crain’s New York Business named Chair and Managing Partner Barbara Becker among its 2022 Notable Women in Law.
Firm News | December 21, 2021
Gibson Dunn earned 11 firm rankings and 10 individual rankings in the 2022 edition of Chambers Asia-Pacific.
Firm News | December 16, 2021
Our lawyers discuss a recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision that offers useful reminders to participants in Master Limited Partnership transactions about the limits of acceptable conduct under standard partnership agreement provisions.
Client Alert | November 23, 2021
On November 17, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved amendments to the federal proxy rules to mandate the use of a universal proxy card in public solicitations involving director election contests. Our lawyers discuss why they believe that the new rules are likely to embolden activists and increase the incidence of contested director elections.
Client Alert | November 18, 2021
German publication Kanzleimonitor 2021/2022 listed Gibson Dunn among the top 50 law firms in Germany recommended by in-house lawyers, and among the top law firms by range of service.
Firm News | November 17, 2021
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has elected 27 new partners, effective January 1, 2022.
Press Releases | November 4, 2021
China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) was adopted in 2007 and talks about possible amendments have regularly surfaced in the last few years. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) released a draft amendment for public comments in early 2020. The process is now accelerating with a formal text (“AML Amendment”) submitted to the thirty-first session of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress for first reading on 19 October 2021. Gibson Dunn lawyers summarize the main proposed changes to the AML, which have been published for comments.
Client Alert | October 27, 2021
Over the past few years we have observed a trend in companies seeking to outsource (and monetize) certain core, best-in-class processes, otherwise known as "lift-out" transactions. Gibson Dunn lawyers examine 8 key elements for conducting a successful lift-out transaction.
Client Alert | October 12, 2021