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Stephen Glover

Stephen
Glover

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siglover@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 202.955.8593

FAX:+1 202.530.9598

Washington, D.C.

1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036-5306 USA

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PRACTICE

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

BIOGRAPHY

Stephen I. Glover is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher who has served as Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Mergers and Acquisitions Practice.  Mr. Glover 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.

Mr. Glover has been ranked in the top tier of corporate transactions attorneys in Washington, D.C. for the past seventeen years (2005 – 2022) 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 Mr. Glover as the only “Star” corporate lawyer in the District of Columbia.  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.  Mr. Glover was named the Washington, D.C. M&A Lawyer of the Year by The Best Lawyers in America® in 2018 and has been recognized for his work in Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities, Capital Markets and corporate law.

Mr. Glover 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.

Mr. Glover 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.  Mr. Glover has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Glover 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.

Mr. Glover 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.

EDUCATION

Harvard University - 1980 Juris Doctor

Amherst College - 1977 Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

District of Columbia Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Firm News - October 6, 2022 | Thirty-Nine Gibson Dunn Partners Recognized in Banking, Finance and Transactional Expert Guide 2022
Firm News - June 1, 2022 | Gibson Dunn Earns 101 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2022
Webcasts - May 10, 2022 | Webcast: Managing Purchase Price Adjustment Disputes
Webcasts - April 27, 2022 | Webcast: Joint Venture Governance: Best Practices for JV Board Directors and Dealmakers
Firm News - October 7, 2021 | Thirty-Eight Gibson Dunn Partners Recognized in Banking, Finance and Transactional Expert Guide
Webcasts - September 22, 2021 | Webcast: Maximizing Value From Your Corporate Carveout: Lessons Learned From the Front Lines
Webcasts - July 13, 2021 | Webcast: Conducting Effective Cybersecurity and Privacy/Data Protection Diligence in M&A Transactions
Firm News - May 20, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Earns 94 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2021
Firm News - May 13, 2021 | Seventeen Partners Named Among the 2021 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America
Webcasts - May 13, 2021 | Webcast: SPACs: What You Need to Know to Prepare for the Wave of Litigation and Investigations
Webcasts - March 11, 2021 | Webcast: Navigating Complex Challenges in Carveout Transactions
Webcasts - January 28, 2021 | Webcast: The Art of the Spin-off
Firm News - October 7, 2020 | 33 Gibson Dunn Partners Recognized in Banking, Finance and Transactional Expert Guide
Client Alert - October 5, 2020 | Stock-for-Stock Mergers During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Crisis – A Potential Strategic Solution
Firm News - April 24, 2020 | Gibson Dunn Earns 84 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2020
Client Alert - March 18, 2020 | M&A Amid the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Crisis: A Checklist
Firm News - August 15, 2019 | Gibson Dunn Lawyers Recognized in the Best Lawyers in America® 2020
Webcasts - July 12, 2019 | Webcast: Vive la Différence? Select Joint Venture Issues in the United States and Europe
Publications - June 1, 2019 | Evolution of the ‘Material Adverse Effect’ Clause
Article - November 8, 2018 | Akorn v. Fresenius: Delaware Chancery Court Upholds MAE-Based Termination
Webcasts - October 30, 2018 | Webcast: Spinning Out and Splitting Off – Navigating Complex Challenges in Corporate Separations
Client Alert - October 15, 2018 | M&A Report – Flood v. Synutra Refines “Ab Initio” Requirement for Business Judgment Review of Controller Transactions
Client Alert - October 2, 2018 | M&A Report – Fresenius Marks a Watershed Development in the Analysis of “Material Adverse Effect” Clauses
Client Alert - July 5, 2018 | Supreme Court Finds Failure to Prove a Sherman Act Section 1 Violation in Credit Card Market
Webcasts - May 10, 2018 | Webcast: FCPA M&A: Identifying and Mitigating Anti-Corruption Risk In Cross-Border Transactions
Firm News - May 3, 2018 | Gibson Dunn Earns 70 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2018
Client Alert - April 5, 2018 | M&A Report – AOL and Aruba Networks Continue Trend of Delaware Courts Deferring to Deal Price in Appraisal Actions
Firm News - March 28, 2018 | Eleven Partners Named 2018 BTI Client Service All Stars
Client Alert - March 1, 2018 | M&A Report – To Form an Entity or Not to Form an Entity, That Is the Question; Deciding Between an Entity Joint Venture and a Contractual Strategic Alliance
Article - March 1, 2018 | Avoiding Potential Pitfalls and Liabilities Following a Spin-Off
Article - November 30, 2017 | Take Me To Your (Joint Venture) Leader
Client Alert - November 21, 2017 | M&A Report – Selecting Joint Venture Leaders: Alternative Approaches and Relevant Considerations
Webcasts - October 31, 2017 | Webcast: Spinning Out of Control: Potential Pitfalls and Liabilities in Spin-Off Transactions
Client Alert - June 13, 2017 | M&A Report – PetSmart and SWS Group Are Welcome News for Buyers Facing Appraisal Actions in Delaware
Article - June 1, 2017 | The Narrowing Window for the ‘Merger Tax’ in M&A Stockholder Lawsuits
Client Alert - April 12, 2017 | M&A Report – Delaware Chancery Court Finds Stockholder Vote To Be Coerced and Not Fully Informed in In re Saba Software, Inc. Stockholder Litigation
Client Alert - March 29, 2017 | M&A Report – Transactions with Non-Conflicted Controlling Stockholders and Obtaining the “Fully Informed, Uncoerced Vote” of Disinterested Stockholders
Firm News - February 1, 2017 | Seven Partners Named 2017 BTI Client Service All Stars
Client Alert - August 9, 2016 | A Corporate Paradigm Shift: Public Benefit Corporations
Webcasts - July 20, 2016 | Webcast: M&A with Chinese Characteristics
Client Alert - June 3, 2016 | Delaware Court of Chancery Awards 28% Price Increase to Stockholders Who Dissented from 2013 Management-Led Buyout of Dell Inc.
Webcasts - April 29, 2016 | Webcast – Getting The Deal Done: Antitrust Merger Clearance Strategies in a Global Setting
Client Alert - March 16, 2015 | M&A Report – Freeing Trapped Cash in Cross-Border Deals
Client Alert - February 5, 2015 | M&A Report – Governance Issues in Spin-Off Transactions
Client Alert - December 15, 2014 | M&A Report – Using Spin-offs to Raise Cash, Reduce Debt and Recapitalize
Client Alert - February 3, 2014 | M&A Report – Winter 2014
Client Alert - July 22, 2013 | M&A Report – Summer 2013
Client Alert - March 1, 2013 | Debating the Pros and Cons of Dual Class Capital Structures
Client Alert - February 19, 2013 | M&A Report – Winter 2013
Client Alert - January 11, 2012 | Recent Trends in Joint Venture Governance
Client Alert - October 1, 2011 | Unlocking Stockholder Value with Spin-Offs
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