Mark Lahive

Mark S. Lahive is a partner in the Century City office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is a member of the firm's Corporate Transactions Department.  Mr. Lahive’s practice includes advising public and private companies, as well as private equity groups, on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions.  He also advises companies and boards of directors on a variety of corporate governance matters.

Representative Transactions

• Represented Hewlett-Packard in its acquisitions of ArcSight and Palm.
• Represented Vivendi S.A. in the combination of its video games business with Activision.
• Represented Ameristar Casinos in its acquisition of the Resorts East Chicago casino-hotel.
• Represented Computer Sciences Corporation in its acquisitions of Covansys, First Consulting Group and Dyncorp.
• Represented Green Equity in its leveraged buy-out of The Sports Authority.
• Represented Aurora Capital Group in various acquisitions, including K&F Industries, Axia Holdings and Mitchell International.

Mr. Lahive earned his law degree with honors in 1996 from Rutgers Law School-Newark, where he was a member of the Rutgers Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.  He received a B.A. degree in economics in 1989 from Middlebury College.  Mr. Lahive is admitted to practice law in California and New York.  Mr. Lahive is a member of the board of directors of the California Academic Decathlon and advisor to the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.