Anne Benedict

Anne Lee Benedict is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Washington, D.C. office.  Ms. Benedict is a member of the firm's Corporate Transactions Department, focusing primarily on corporate finance, business combination, securities and general corporate matters.

Ms. Benedict graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1999.  She received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1995. 

Ms. Benedict is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the District of Columbia.  She serves as Chair of the Mergers & Acquisitions Subcommittee of the Corporation, Finance and Securities Law Section of the D.C. Bar.  She also is a member of the FINRA Corporate Financing Rules Subcommittee of the Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section.  She is a member of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the District of Columbia and the International Association of Korean Lawyers.  Ms. Benedict is a member of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Hiring Committee.  She also is a member of the firm's Diversity Committee.

Ms. Benedict is the author of the "Planning M&A Transactions" chapter of The M&A Practice Guide, LexisNexis (2008).

Selected Mergers and Acquisitions / Strategic Transactions Experience

• Represented Integral Systems in its sale to Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (2011)
• Represented Capital One in its minority equity investment in Early Warning Services, a provider of fraud prevention and risk management services (2011)
• Represented Neustar in its acquisition of Quova, Inc. (2010)
• Represented Integral Systems in the acquisition of the assets of Sophia Wireless, Inc. (2010)
• Represented United Therapeutics in a transaction in which Eli Lilly acquired a significant equity stake and entered into an intellectual property licensing arrangement (2008)
• Represented Intel in multi-billion dollar flash memory joint venture with STMicroelectronics and Francisco Partners (2008)
• Represented Ameriquest Capital Corporation in the sale of an option to purchase substantially all of its business to Citigroup (2007)
• Represented Saxon Capital, Inc. in its acquisition by Morgan Stanley (2006)
• Represented Intel Corporation in formation of IM Flash Technologies, LLC, an approximately $2.5 billion flash memory manufacturing joint venture with Micron Technologies (2006)
• Represented Ameriquest Capital Corporation in the sale of its subsidiary, Long Beach Acceptance Corp., an automobile finance company, to AmeriCredit Corporation (2006)
• Represented FlyI (Atlantic Coast Airlines) in its takeover defense against Mesa Air (2003)
• Represented Arguss Communications, Inc., in its sale to Dycom Industries, Inc., after defending against a proxy challenge for Arguss (2002)

Selected Corporate Finance Experience

• Represented underwriters in follow-on equity offering for Signature Bank (2008)
• Represented initial purchaser/placement agent in 144A equity offering for Muni Funding Company of America (2007)
• Represented TerreStar Networks. Inc. in 144A high yield debt offering (2007)
• Represented United Therapeutics Corporation in 144A convertible note offering (2007)
• Represented Saxon Capital, Inc. in high yield debt offering (2006)
• Represented NeuStar, Inc. in initial public offering (2005)
• Represented underwriter in initial public offering of Saxon Capital, Inc. (2004)
• Represented The Corporate Executive Board Company and selling stockholders in secondary offerings (2004 and 2003)
• Represented underwriter in initial public offering of Franklin Bancorp, Inc. (2003)
• Represented initial purchaser/placement agent in 144A equity offering for Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd. (2003)
• Represented underwriters in equity follow-on offering for SensyTech, Inc. (2002)
• Represented initial purchaser/placement agent in 144A equity offering for Saxon Capital, Inc. (2001)