Bio

Ari Lanin is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Century City office and Co-Chair of the firm’s Private Equity practice group. He advises companies and private equity firms across a wide range of industries, focusing on public and private merger transactions, stock and asset sales, joint ventures and strategic partnerships, and public and private (including Rule144A) capital-raising transactions. Mr. Lanin also advises public companies with respect to securities regulation and corporate governance matters, including periodic reporting and disclosure matters, Section 16, Rule 144, insider trading and the implementation of Rule 10b5-1(c) plans. Mr. Lanin is a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance, and Media, Entertainment and Technology practice groups. Recently, the Los Angeles Business Journal named Mr. Lanin as one of its “Leaders of Influence” for Private Equity. Mr. Lanin was also named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2019 and 2020 LA500 list. The LA500 lists the 500 most influential people in Los Angeles. Mr. Lanin was also named to the Daily Journal’s 2018 list of the ‘Top 100 Lawyers in California.’ From 2016 to 2020, he was ranked by Chambers USA in the category of Corporate/M&A: Private Equity, where clients described him as “an emerging presence in the private equity market,” “outstanding from a technology perspective” and noted he “sees all the angles of risk and opportunity.” Variety named Mr. Lanin to its Dealmakers Impact Report in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Variety also named him to its 2017, 2018 and 2019 Legal Impact Report, an annual list of the leading attorneys in the entertainment industry, and its “Hollywood’s New Leaders” list in 2012. The Hollywood Reporter named Mr. Lanin to its 2017 Power Lawyers List, which features 100 of the entertainment industry’s most powerful attorneys.