Deals are back, and so is one of the region’s top deal-making lawyers. David Lafitte of the Santa Barbara office of Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth took the lead in negotiating Goleta-based Deckers Outdoor Corp.’s $120 million acquisition of an Irvine-based surf sandal firm called Sanuk. Deckers is hoping for a repeat of its fantastically…