Branden Berns Bio

Branden C. Berns is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he practices in the firm's Corporate Transactions Practice Group, focusing on representing leading life sciences companies and investors. Mr. Berns advises clients in connection with a variety of financing transactions, including initial public offerings, secondary equity offerings and venture and growth equity financings, as well as complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, spin-offs, joint ventures, PIPEs and leveraged buyouts. Mr. Berns regularly serves as principal outside counsel for numerous publicly-traded companies and advises management and boards of directors on corporate law matters, SEC reporting and corporate governance. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Berns was an associate in the Corporate Department of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. Mr. Berns earned his Juris Doctor in 2012 from Columbia Law School, where he was recognized each year as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as Submissions Editor of the Columbia Business Law Review. Mr. Berns graduated from Brigham Young University in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.