Barbara Becker

Mergers and Acquisitions

Barbara L. Becker is Chair and Managing Partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  Prior to her election to this role, Barbara served as Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group for over a decade, and also created and led the firmwide Diversity Committee.

Barbara Becker advises public companies, boards of directors and special committees on M&A, corporate governance and strategic matters. Her clients include Accenture, General Electric Company, Kraft Heinz, Merck, News Corp., PepsiCo, VMware, Xylem, and investment banks, including Centerview, Guggenheim and Lazard.