Ari Lanin 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 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 also a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance, and Media, Entertainment and Technology practice groups. Mr. Lanin was ranked by Chambers USA in the category of Private Equity: Buyouts – California for 2023. From 2016 to 2022, Mr. Lanin was also ranked by Chambers USA in the category of Corporate/M&A: Private Equity, where clients described him as "smart as a whip, incredibly responsive and a great team member," having " an intense work ethic” and a "superlative lawyer [who is] amazingly pragmatic and an incredible resource." Mr. Lanin was named by Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leading Deal Makers in America for 2021, 2022 and 2024 and to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s LA500 list from 2019 to 2023. The LA500 lists the 500 most influential people in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Business Journal named Mr. Lanin as one of its “Leaders of Influence” for Private Equity from 2020 to 2023. Mr. Lanin was also named to the Daily Journal's 2018 list of the 'Top 100 Lawyers in California.’ Variety named Mr. Lanin to its Dealmakers Impact Report in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022. Variety also named him to its 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022 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. He has also been recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America® for his work in Mergers and Acquisitions.