Partner Ryan Murr recently shared his insights about the rise of royalty financing deals in the market with Scrip (registration required), a Citeline Commercial publication.
Ryan is Co-Chair of our Life Sciences Practice Group.
Partner Richard Birns has been named a Notable M&A Dealmaker 2025 by Crain’s New York Business. The list recognizes individuals shaping the M&A landscape in New York.
Richard is Co-Chair of our Private Equity Practice Group and Chair of our Sports Law Practice Group.
Partner Krista Hanvey has been named to Bloomberg Law’s “They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40” list, which recognizes lawyers who “excel and innovate in their work for clients, in their leadership in their organizations, and in their service to their communities.”
In her interview with the publication, Krista reflected on recent wins, career-defining lessons, and her approach to building strong client relationships. She shared that building long-term partnerships comes from deeply understanding a client’s business strategy and challenges and becoming part of their team. “While technical expertise is important, being able to frame an issue for different audiences to explain legal considerations in a digestible format and to come up with creative solutions that can practically be implemented — within budget and time constraints — can make you instrumental for your clients. I view success as being the ‘go to’ lawyer for my clients over many years.”
Krista is Co-Chair of our Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group and Co-Partner in Charge of our Dallas office.
Gibson Dunn has secured first place as lead counsel in Debtwire’s Restructuring Advisory Mandates Report – Europe for the first half of 2025, with seven mandates.
Gibson Dunn is advising Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals on an asset purchase agreement between Sanofi and Visirna Therapeutics, a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead. Under the terms, Sanofi will acquire rights to develop and commercialize investigational plozasiran in Greater China.
Led by partner Karen Spindler, our corporate team includes partner Jin Hee Kim and associates Paul Rafla and Sonari Chidi. Partners Pamela Lawrence Endreny and Benjamin Rapp and associate Ryan Rott are advising on tax; partner Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter and associate Courtney Wang are advising on data privacy; and partner John Partridge and of counsel Ning Ning are advising on compliance.
Gibson Dunn advised Asterion Industrial Partners, an independent investment management firm with an experienced team focusing on European infrastructure, on the sale of a 28% stake in Italian renewables company Sorgenia.
The transaction forms part of a strategic reorganisation that also includes the entry of Sixth Street as a new shareholder in the company, now valued at over €4 billion. The sale follows the successful completion of a transformation process launched in 2020 by Asterion, in partnership with F2i, Italy’s largest independent infrastructure fund manager.
Our team was led by partner Wim De Vlieger and included associates Osvaldo Galeano and Romain Tourenne and staff attorney Carmen Heredia.
Gibson Dunn is advising Aris Water Solutions (NYSE: ARIS) on its sale to Western Midstream Partners (NYSE: WES) for approximately $2 billion.
Our corporate deal team is led by partners Hillary Holmes and Tull Florey, and includes associates Jonathan Sapp, Adri Langemeier, Mariana Lozano, and Muriel Hague.
Senior counsel Gregory Nelson and associate Nathan Sauers are advising on tax; partner Sean Feller and associate John Curran are advising on compensation; partner Sophia Hansell and associate Alexander Merritt are advising on antitrust; partner Adam Whitehouse is advising on oil and gas; and of counsel Robbie Hopkins and associates Malakeh Hijazi and Allan Jeanjaquet are advising on securities.
Gibson Dunn is advising Daikin Applied on its acquisition of DDC Solutions, a San Diego-based developer of ultra-high-density cooling cabinets and management software for data centers.
Our corporate team is led by partner Stephen Olson and associate Jonathan Sapp and includes associates Gerald Kimani, Caroline Bakewell, and Andrew Watson. Partner Michael Cannon and associate Yara Mansour are advising on tax; partner Gina Hancock and associate Kayoko Fong are advising on benefits; and counsel Andrew Cline is advising on antitrust.
Partner Jake M. Shields spoke to Private Funds CFO to discuss recent amendments to the U.S. state of Massachusetts’ False Claims Act and their impact on private equity GPs with portfolio companies doing business in the state or with local governments.
The changes require sponsors to report any identified violations within 60 days to the state or relevant localities or face financial penalties and damages.
Jake explained that while GPs can already potentially be held liable under federal law in certain situations such as where they are found to have actively or even passively “ratified” unlawful conduct by portfolio companies, the Massachusetts update goes further by implementing an affirmative duty to report known misconduct. As he told the publication, “They take the ratification theory and turbocharge it.”
Gibson Dunn is advising Alcon on its $1.5 billion acquisition of STAAR Surgical Company.
Our corporate team includes partners Branden Berns, Evan D’Amico, and George Sampas, along with associate Jonathan Sapp.
Gibson Dunn announced today that David L. Perechocky has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group and Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Industry Group. David has a wide-ranging real estate transactional practice counseling REITs, real estate private equity sponsors, and other real estate companies and real estate-related businesses.
“We’re excited to welcome David to Gibson Dunn,” said Eric M. Feuerstein, Co-Chair of the Real Estate Practice Group. “David is a top real estate M&A dealmaker whose broad experience and impressive deal sheet will benefit clients navigating today’s market environment. With rising demand for REIT M&A transactions, including take-private deals, and a growing need among investors to access REIT capital markets, David’s deep experience managing complex and creative deal structures will be invaluable.”
“I’m thrilled to begin the next chapter of my career at Gibson Dunn,” said David. “Over the years, I’ve sat across the table from the Gibson Dunn team during numerous successful deal negotiations, and I know firsthand how tremendously talented and collaborative they are. The opportunity to expand my transactional practice by building on the firm’s premier real estate platform was highly compelling. As private equity increasingly focuses on private credit, sponsor consolidation, secondaries, and REIT capital-raising—including from retail investors—and public REITs continue to pursue accretive growth opportunities, I’m excited to help clients navigate these evolving dynamics with tailored strategies for complex deal structuring and capital access.”
Gibson Dunn’s Real Estate Practice defines excellence in legal real estate, leveraging its exceptional size, scope, and global reach to deliver powerful outcomes for the industry’s most prominent players. The REIT Industry Group advises on deal, tax, and litigation-related aspects of REIT investing. Its transactional experience spans capital markets work and includes representing all parties in both public and private transactions—such as initial public offerings and debt and equity offerings.
About David L. Perechocky
David advises clients on public and private company mergers and acquisitions, strategic portfolio transactions, joint ventures, creation and acquisition of platforms, and other corporate and securities law matters, particularly for REITs, real estate private equity sponsors, and other real estate companies and real estate-related businesses. He has experience counseling real estate fund sponsors on the formation, registration, and management of non-traded REITs, private REITs, and other permanent capital vehicles in the real estate, real asset, and real estate credit sectors.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, David served as a partner at another leading international law firm. He earned his law degree from New York University School of Law in 2012, where he served as a staff editor for the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics.
Partner Sandy Bhogal, Co-Chair of our global Tax Practice, spoke to Bloomberg Law about an ambitious United Nations tax project that will bring all countries together to forge global corporate tax rules reflecting the will of developing economies.
Sandy said: “Given all of the selling that they have done hard to the developing countries about how it will be a more consultative and consensual process, now they’re going to have to prove it.”
Gibson Dunn represented Welltower Inc. and Welltower OP LLC in a public offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of Welltower OP’s 4.500% Notes due 2030 and $600 million aggregate principal amount of Welltower OP’s 5.125% Notes due 2035 pursuant to its automatic shelf registration statement. The notes are a further issuance of the notes of the applicable series that Welltower OP issued on June 27, 2025. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BofA Securities, Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acted as representatives of the underwriters for the offering.
Our team included partner Andrew Fabens and associates Lawrence Lee, Ian Mathenge, and Chad Kang. Partner Brian Kniesly and associates Ray Noonan and Nick Pai advised on tax matters.
Hong Kong partner William Hallatt recently spoke to Radio Television Hong Kong’s (RTHK) The Close programme about the city’s new sophisticated professional investor (SPI) regime.
In the interview, Will highlighted the key disclosure requirements for SPIs and how they can navigate cross-border transactions. He also noted that while the regime gives SPIs access to a wider range of complex financial products, it offers fewer regulatory protections than before.
Will is Global Co-Chair of our Financial Regulatory Practice Group and leads the Asia-Pacific Financial Regulatory practice.
Listen here: https://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item.php?pid=2355&eid=262581&lang=en-US
The Daily Journal has named partners Michele Maryott and Katherine Smith in its list of Top Labor & Employment Lawyers in California for 2025.
Partner David Woodcock delivered opening remarks at a symposium hosted by the Texas A&M University School of Law, on the topic of the Texas Business Court and the future of corporate governance.
In his remarks, covered by the Journal of Law & Civil Governance at Texas A&M, David discussed the latest developments in Texas’s corporate regulatory environment and how the creation of the Texas Business Court could further enhance the state’s appeal to business and innovation.
Partner Samuel Ogunlaja and associates Vlad Zinovyev and Andrea Calla examine the latest trends and developments in petroleum-related activities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in an updated version of their article for Chambers and Partners guide, Oil, Gas, and the Transition to Renewables.
The article, the first version of which was published in 2024, explores the most recent developments in domestic and international upstream assets, key downstream projects, and the broader energy transition. It also assesses changes in the debt and equity capital markets, as well as the impact of political events on the UAE’s upstream sector.
The team further highlights the UAE’s drive to become a “Green Falcon Economy,” its expanding investments in international oil and gas companies, and the transformative role of AI in shaping the country’s energy landscape.
Gibson Dunn recently secured a $46 million verdict in a Dallas County trial over the 2020 purchase of Cicis Pizza. Speaking to The Texas Lawbook about how our Dallas team blended deep experience with rising talent, partner Trey Cox emphasized the importance of early courtroom exposure. He recalled trying a case as second chair just three months into practice and said, “If I could do that, then they can absolutely do that.”
Fourth- and fifth-year associates Andrew Mitchell and Arjun Ogale played key roles from the outset. They took depositions, argued pre-trial motions, and managed client communications, gaining hands-on experience under the guidance of senior trial lawyers.
Trey and fellow partners Betty Yang, Andrew LeGrand, and Brad Hubbard all stressed the value of giving associates meaningful responsibility. As Betty told the publication, “There’s no substitute for seeing it and doing it.” She added that having associates prepare witnesses and observe how their work is applied in court is “always a fantastic way to get people ready for their own examinations, and to train up the next generation of trial lawyers.”
Writing for Compliance & Enforcement, partners Jeffrey Steiner, Jason Cabral, Rosemary Spaziani, and Sara Weed examine the provisions and implications of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act), signed into law on July 18, 2025.
The GENIUS Act establishes a comprehensive framework for the U.S. approach to digital assets and related activities.
Their article discusses the Act’s framework to become a permitted stablecoin issuers, the dual-licensing framework, including the potential impact on state law pre-emption, restrictions on permitted stablecoin features, and answers other key questions the Act.
Partner Jason Schwartz is co-author of Whistleblower Law: A Practitioner’s Guide, Release 16. This edition features the first-ever Operating Plan released by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Office, outlining six strategic priorities aimed at improving efficiency, fairness, transparency, and data protection through 2027.
It also covers the IRS’s 2024 updates to its Internal Revenue Manual, which clarify disaggregation criteria for earlier whistleblower awards and improve Freedom of Information Act response procedures to better protect whistleblower records.