Carlos Soto Bio

Carlos M. Soto is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity and Real Estate Practice Groups. Carlos’s practice focuses on complex mergers and acquisitions transactions and joint venture and partnership arrangements. Carlos has significant experience advising investors and sponsors on the acquisition, disposition and governance of control, minority and preferred investments, including with respect to the structuring of complex waterfalls and the design of bespoke governance and exit arrangements. Carlos also frequently handles secondary transactions, recapitalizations, “GP Stakes” transactions, seed investments and continuation fund transactions and regularly counsels clients with respect to general corporate and internal governance matters, including incentive equity arrangements. Carlos regularly represents clients in the commercial real estate, asset management, private equity and media and entertainment industries and has developed expertise on issues unique to such industries. Carlos received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 2009 and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics from Princeton University in 2005. He is admitted to practice in the States of New York and California.