Quinton C. Farrar

Quinton C. Farrar is a Private Equity and M&A partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and a Co-Chair of the firm's Financial Institutions Practice Group (FIG), where he has spent his entire career.

Quinton advises public and privately held companies, including banks, sovereign investors, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in connection with a wide variety of complex corporate transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, minority and strategic investments and restructurings. He also has substantial experience advising clients on corporate governance and securities issues throughout the lifecycle of a company.

Quinton’s FIG practice includes representing banks, private equity sponsors, sovereign investors and other asset managers and financial firms and advisors in acquisitions, divestitures and strategic investments including in asset management, GP stakes, fintech, markets, payments and AI-enabled technology transactions. Quinton’s FIG clients have included J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Mubadala/ADIC, Mizuho, Ant Group, GE Capital, Marsh & McLennan, StoneCastle Partners, Euronet Worldwide and Grupo Financiero Ficohsa.

Quinton is also one of the co-leaders of our U.S. Energy and Infrastructure M&A team representing clients in M&A, joint ventures and strategic investments in connection with transport, data centers and other digital infrastructure, power, oil & gas, energy transition and social infrastructure projects and assets. Quinton has extensive experience representing clients in M&A and joint venture transactions in marine ports and terminals, airports, toll roads, bridges and tunnels. Quinton also has represented clients in numerous M&A transactions in infrastructure and infrastructure-adjacent services and other industrial sectors. Quinton’s Energy and Infrastructure and infrastructure services clients have included Mubadala/ADIC, Macquarie Asset Management, Stonepeak, IFM, Meridiam, Primoris Services Corporation, Sunbelt Solomon Services and General Electric, among others.

In addition, Quinton has represented numerous private equity clients across a broad range of sectors including consumer, business services and techology including L Catterton, Trilantic Capital Partners, TPG, and Evergreen Coast Capital and their respective portfolio companies.

Quinton was named “Rising Star” in Private Equity by Euromoney Legal Media Group and in M&A by New York Metro Super Lawyers. Quinton has also been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America.

Quinton is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Washington Square Park Conservancy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization in New York City working with NYC Parks engaging volunteers and raising funds to help keep the park clean, safe and beautiful.

Quinton received his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, in 2012 from Fordham Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Fordham Law Review. Prior to law school, Quinton served as a legislative aide in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 2007, Quinton received his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from the Boston College Honors Program.

Quinton is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Capabilities

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Energy and Infrastructure
• Infrastructure
• Private Equity
• Projects
• Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance

Credentials

Education:

• Fordham University - 2012 Juris Doctor
• Boston College - 2007 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• New York Bar