Stephen Glover

Stephen I. Glover is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn who has served as Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. Stephen has an extensive practice representing public and private companies in complex mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity and debt offerings, and corporate governance matters. His clients include large public corporations, emerging growth companies and middle market companies in a wide range of industries. He also advises private equity firms, individual investors, and others.

Stephen has been ranked in the top tier of corporate transactions attorneys in Washington, D.C. for the past nineteen years (2005 – 2025) by Chambers USA America’s Leading Business Lawyers. He has also been selected by Chambers Global for the past five years as a top lawyer for USA Corporate/M&A. Chambers has singled out Stephen as the only “Star” corporate lawyer in the District of Columbia. Stephen has also been named Washington, D.C. “Lawyer of the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America® in the 2026 edition for Securities/Capital Markets Law, and in 2018 for Mergers and Acquisitions Law. In 2018, he was recognized by BTI Consulting as a BTI Client Service All-Star MVP for making the Client Service All-Star list in four consecutive years.

Stephen is the author or co-author of several books, including M&A Practice Guide; Business Separation Transactions: Spin-Offs, Subsidiary IPOs and Tracking Stock; and Partnerships, Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances. He has written more than 60 articles and speaks frequently on corporate and securities law issues.

Stephen has served as a member of the DC Bar Board of Governors and the DC Bar Pro Bono Committee, and as Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for the D.C. Bar’s Corporation, Finance and Securities Law Section. He is a member of the advisory board of BNA’s Mergers & Acquisitions Law Report and the editorial board of The M&A Lawyer. He has served as D.C. representative to the New York Tribar Opinion Committee. Stephen has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Stephen served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall in the United States Supreme Court from 1981 to 1982 and to J. Skelly Wright, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1980 to 1981. He was the DC Bar Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year for 2004.

Stephen earned his law degree cum laude in 1980 from Harvard Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Amherst College.

Selected recent representations include:

• Apex Tools, a joint venture between Danaher and Cooper Industries, in its $1.6 billion sale to Bain Capital
• CACI in its contested $7.2 billion bid for CSRA, as well as several other multi-billion bids and numerous completed transactions.
• The Carlyle Group Holdings Conflicts Committee in connection with Carlyle’s conversion from a publicly traded limited partnership to a corporation
• Cortina Partners in numerous acquisitions and dispositions, including the sale of Classic Aviation, an air ambulance service, to Intermountain Health Care.
• CoStar in its acquisitions of Apartments.com, Apartment Finder and other internet-based apartment listing services
• Eaton Corporation in several transactions, including the $3.3 billion sale of its hydraulics business to Danfoss, the $1.4 billion sale of its lighting business to Signify, the $920 million acquisition of Souriau-Sunbank from Transdigm, and the formation of a $1.2 billion joint venture with Cummins Engines for the production of automated transmissions
• Euronet Worldwide in its contested $1 billion bid for MoneyGram International
• Intel in its approximately $2.5 billion flash RAM manufacturing venture with Micron Technology
• Marriott International in numerous transactions, including its contested $13.6 billion acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, its acquisition of UK public company Elegant Hotels, its acquisition of the Gaylord hotel brand and management company, the spin-off of Marriott Vacations Worldwide, its vacation ownership business, and various joint ventures.
• Quidel Corporation in its approximately $6 billion business combination with Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Holdings plc.
• The controlling stockholder of government contractor SRA in its $1.8 billion sale to Providence Equity
• Towers Watson in its $18 billion merger of equals with Willis Group, and Watson Wyatt in its approximately $6 billion merger with Towers Perrin that led to the formation of Towers Watson
• United Therapeutics in several acquisitions and dispositions, as well as its conversion to a Delaware public benefit corporation.

Capabilities

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Capital Markets
• Consumer Products and Retail
• Emerging Companies / Venture Capital
• Life Sciences
• Private Equity
• Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance
• Shareholder Activism

Credentials

Education:

• Harvard University - 1980 Juris Doctor
• Amherst College - 1977 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• District of Columbia Bar

Clerkships:

• US Supreme Court, Hon. Thurgood Marshall, 1981 - 1982
• US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, Hon. J. Skelly Wright, 1980 - 1981