Steven K. Talley is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Denver office. He is a member of the Corporate Transactions Practice Group. He works primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions.

Mr. Talley has represented a number of public and private companies and private equity clients in connection with acquisitions, dispositions, and financings. Mr. Talley has advised both underwriters and issuers in public offerings of debt and equity securities in numerous industries including telecommunications, high tech, manufacturing, and energy. Mr. Talley has been listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business each year since 2006.

Mr. Talley received his law degree in 1991 from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif, and an Articles Editor on the High Technology Law Journal. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College in 1984. In addition, he has taken a significant number of graduate-level economics courses at the Claremont Graduate School. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Talley was the manager of management information systems for a manufacturing company.

Recent Representative Transactions

SemGroup – Represented SemGroup in a transaction with NGL Energy Partner LP where the SemStream propane division was exchanged for $279 million in cash and equity.

The Williams Companies, Inc. – Represented The Williams Companies, Inc. in its $2.25 billion investment in Access Midstream Partners, L.P. and its general partner.

The Williams Companies, Inc. - Represented The Williams Companies, Inc. in connection with its $5.995 billion acquisition from Global Infrastructure Partners of its interest in Access Midstream Partners, L.P. and its general partner.

U.S. TelePacific Corporation – Represented U.S. TelePacific Corporation in its acquisition of Tel West Network Services Corporation.

U.S. TelePacific Corporation – Represented TelePacific Communications in its acquisition of Covad Wireless.

U.S. TelePacific Corporation – Represented TelePacific Communications in its acquisition of O1 Communications.

Walsh Production – Represented the shareholders in the sale of the company.

Williams Partners L.P. - Represented Williams Partners L.P. in its acquisition of Caiman Eastern Midstream LLC for approximately $2.5 billion.

Zayo Group, LLC - Represented Zayo Group, LLC in its $2.2 billion acquisition of Abovenet Inc., a publicly traded provider of fiber optic communication services.

Zayo Group, LLC – Represented Zayo Group, LLC in its acquisition of FiberGate, a Washington, D.C. metro area provider of dark fiber services.

Zayo Group, LLC – Represented Zayo Group, LLC in its acquisition of 360networks holdings inc., a provider of fiber network and telecom services.

Zayo Group, LLC – Represented Zayo Group, LLC in its acquisition of Arialink.

Zayo Group, LLC –Represented Zayo Group, LLC in its acquisition of MarquisNet’s data-center business.