
Accolades
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Personable and extremely knowledgeable. Gibson Dunn is a very professional organization with significant expertise in all matters.’
‘They are great at understanding problems and challenges and finding solutions. They also have a great commercial focus and understand materiality and what matters to us.’
‘The tax team at Gibson is exceptional. They are practical and will propose creative structures that are compliant but also help get the deal done. In addition, they are very responsive, which is often an issue with tax professionals.’
Key clients
- VMware, Inc.
- Pioneer Natural Resources
- Veritas Capital
- Crestview Partners
- ATL Partners
- MidOcean Partners
- Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc.
- Main Street Advisors
- Fontainebleau Development
- Koch Real Estate Investments
Work highlights
- Advising VMware on the tax aspects of the acquisition by Broadcom Inc.
- Advising on the tax aspects of Pioneer Natural Resources’s $64.5 billion merger with ExxonMobil.
- Advised private equity firm Veritas Capital on the tax aspects in connection to its $3.1 billion acquisition of Verisk's energy business, Wood Mackenzie.
Lawyers
Next generation partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Practice head
Eric Sloan
Other key lawyers
Greg Nelson; Pamela Endreny; Michael Cannon; Dora Arash; Matt Donnelly; Kathryn Kelly; Brian Kniesly; Jeffrey Trinklein; Edward Wei