Lilit Voskanyan Bio

Lilit Voskanyan is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups. Ms. Voskanyan’s practice focuses on representing private equity funds, their portfolio companies and other private companies in a wide variety of matters, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, recapitalizations, going private transactions, minority investments, corporate governance, fiduciary duties, employment and equity incentive arrangements and general corporate matters. Ms. Voskanyan’s representative private equity clients include Sumeru Equity Partners, K1 Investment Management, Francisco Partners, Vector Capital, Vitruvian Partners and Luminate Capital Partners. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Voskanyan was a partner of Kirkland & Ellis and her representative transactions include the transactions she led there. Ms. Voskanyan earned her Juris Doctor from The University of Chicago Law School with honors where she served on The University of Chicago Law Review. Ms. Voskanyan received a degree in Master of Comparative Legal Studies from the American University of Armenia where she was awarded the Vartkess M. Balian Merit Award given annually to a student with the best overall academic performance. Ms. Voskanyan also holds a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Arts from Yerevan State University, Armenia, with honors. Ms. Voskanyan is a member of the California Bar and the New York Bar.