Ed Batts is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Gibson Dunn. He focuses his corporate practice on mergers and acquisitions, including cross-border transactions, spin-offs, tender offers and going private transactions. He also counsels public companies on corporate governance and fiduciary duties, as well as crisis management on cyber-security and internal investigations, activist investor situations and accounting issues. Mr. Batts has significant experience in venture capital and equity capital markets transactions.