J. Alan Bannister

Alan Bannister is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Firm’s Capital Markets, Global Finance and Securities Regulation, Corporate Governance and Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Groups.

Mr. Bannister concentrates his practice on securities and other corporate transactions, acting for underwriters and issuers (including foreign private issuers), as well as strategic or other investors, in high yield, equity (including ADRs and GDRs), and other securities offerings, including U.S. public offerings, Rule 144A offerings, other private placements and Regulation S offerings, as well as re-capitalizations, NYSE and NASDAQ listings, shareholder rights offerings, spin-offs, PIPEs, exchange offers, other general corporate transactions and other advice regarding compliance with U.S. securities laws, as well as general corporate advice. Mr. Bannister also advises issuers and underwriters on dual listings in the U.S. and on various exchanges across Europe, Latin America and Asia. In addition, Mr. Bannister works closely with the Gibson Dunn bankruptcy and restructuring team, advising on applicable securities laws issues that arise in such transactions.

Mr. Bannister also regularly advises companies in connection with cross-border equity tender offers. In addition, he also advises companies and dealer-managers on liability management transactions (including debt tenders, exchange offers and consent solicitations). Further, he has extensive corporate and securities experience in connection with corporate restructuring, routinely advising companies, creditors and hedge funds in connection with debt exchange offers, high yield refinancing, rescue rights offerings and other capital infusions (and the related liquidity issues for such investments).

Mr. Bannister regularly advises U.S. and non-U.S. registrants on their reporting obligations under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, their obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd Frank Act and stock exchange corporate governance requirements, as well as (for U.S. registrants) advising on other Exchange Act issues relating to Regulation FD, Section 16 and the proxy statement requirements of Regulation 14A.

Mr. Bannister received his Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from the University of Alabama in 1988, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif, articles editor for the Alabama Law Review and a Hugo Black Scholar. He received a B.S. (Accounting) from Auburn University in 1984. Alan is a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of Alabama School of Law Foundation, and is a frequent writer and speaker on securities laws matters.