Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Private Equity, Sports Law

Richie Birns is a global co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Private Equity Group and is co-chair of the firm’s Sports Law Practice Group. He regularly represents private equity firms and companies on domestic and cross-border leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, minority investments and joint ventures.

Richie Birns focuses his practice on a wide range of merger and acquisition-related matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, and joint ventures for both corporations and leading private equity firms. He also handles related corporate governance and takeover work.

He has extensive experience advising clients on significant transactional matters across a number of practice areas and industry sectors, with significant depth in technology, media, sports and entertainment.  He regularly serves as a personal advisor to owners of sports franchises and sports industry leaders on “bet the company” matters.