Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that David M. Hernand has joined its Century City office as a partner. Formerly a partner with Latham & Watkins, Hernand practices corporate law, with a focus on public and private mergers and acquisitions in the technology industry.
"David will be a terrific addition to the firm," said Ken Doran, Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn. "He is highly regarded by the technology community and is one of the key 'go-to' M&A lawyers for the sector."
"We are delighted to welcome David to the firm," said Peter Ziegler, Co-Partner in Charge of the Los Angeles office. "With his reputation and experience in M&A and technology, David will be a great fit with our corporate practice, particularly our public company, private equity and entertainment transactional work."
"I look forward to working with my new colleagues," said Hernand. "Gibson Dunn has an impressive corporate platform that also offers me an opportunity to grow my practice."
About David M. Hernand
Hernand focuses his corporate practice on public and private M&A, corporate securities and general company representation, with a particular emphasis on technology companies. He also has significant experience in representing investment banks and private equity and venture capital firms, as well as companies and institutional investors.
In the technology sector, Hernand has represented many maturing technology companies in significant strategic transactions, including many of the most significant technology company M&A transactions in Southern California in recent years. Other industry experience includes consumer products, energy, health care and hospitality.
Prior to joining the firm, Hernand had practiced with Latham & Watkins since 1994, with a two-year hiatus as managing director at Idealab, a Pasadena-Calif.-based technology company incubator and later as CEO of New.net, an Idealab portfolio company. Hernand received his law degree, cum laude, in 1992 from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as an editor for the Georgetown Law Journal.
About Gibson Dunn's M&A Practice
Gibson Dunn has one of the leading mergers and acquisitions practices in the country. With expertise in corporate, securities, tax, antitrust, executive compensation and labor, intellectual property, and environmental law, the firm's lawyers routinely advise on complex corporate transactions.
Gibson Dunn has extensive experience in all types of M&A transactions, including mergers of public and private companies, stock and asset purchases, tender and exchange offers, restructurings and acquisitions out of bankruptcy, divestitures and spin-offs, leveraged buyouts and private equity investments, strategic investments and joint ventures, special committee representations, cross-border M&A transactions.
According to statistics maintained by industry scorekeepers such as Thomson Financial and MergerMarket, Gibson Dunn has consistently placed among the top law firms in terms of number of M&A transactions in recent years. The firm's M&A client list includes many of the world's preeminent corporations, including Boeing, Cadence Design Systems, Computer Sciences, CRH, Del Monte, Fiber Mark, Focus Digital A.G., GE Medical, Intel, Marriott International, Nortel Networks, Northrop Grumman, PeopleSoft, Schlumberger, Siemens A.G., and Tyco. Gibson Dunn also represents many of the most prominent investment banks as financial advisors in M&A transactions. The firm acts as counsel to several well-known private equity investors, including Arcapita, Care Capital Investments, The Gores Group LLC, Investcorp, Leonard Green & Partners, Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, Quadrangle, Rhone Group, Silver Lake Partners, Southern Cross and Whitney & Co. LLC.
Gibson Dunn has extensive M&A experience in every major industry, including consumer products, manufacturing, media and entertainment, health care, defense, financial services, professional services, energy, telecommunications, technology, Internet and real estate.