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A.J. Frey

A.J. Frey is a partner in the Washington, D.C. and New York offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of the Investment Funds Practice Group. A.J.'s practice focuses on the formation and operation of private investment funds across a variety of fund strategies, including private equity, growth equity, venture capital, credit and real asset funds. In addition to fund formation, he has significant experience advising on the acquisition and sale of minority stakes in fund sponsors, as well as spin-outs of fund businesses and management teams. A.J. frequently works with sponsors seeking to establish private funds for the first time. He also advises investment firms on their operation, regulation and internal governance arrangements.

Aaron Beim

Aaron's practice focuses on the representation of a variety of institutional real estate investors (as lenders and borrowers) in the origination, workout, restructuring, sale, and purchase of structured financings, including syndicated, securitized, and single lender mortgage and mezzanine loans (including construction, bridge and permanent loans); preferred equity investments; corporate, repurchase, subscription, and other credit facilities; and the negotiation and/or analysis of participation, intercreditor, and pooling and servicing agreements. He also represents investors in acquisitions, sales, the negotiation of joint venture agreements and warehouse lending.

Aaron Adams

Aaron Adams is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Global Finance Practice Group. He represents borrowers and lenders in connection with senior credit facilities, note offerings, mezzanine financings, asset-based financings and other banking and credit matters.

Aaron K. Briggs

Aaron Briggs is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s San Francisco, CA office, where he works in the firm’s securities regulation and corporate governance practice group. Aaron’s practice focuses on advising public companies of all sizes (from pre-IPO to mega-cap), with a focus on technology and life sciences companies, on a wide range of securities and governance matters.

Abbey Hudson

Abbey Hudson is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Los Angeles office. Her practice focuses on environmental matters and complex trial litigation. She devotes a significant portion of her time to helping clients navigate environmental and emerging regulations and related governmental investigations. Legal 500 United States named Abbey a Next Generation Lawyer in the category of Industry Focus – Environment – Litigation.

Abtin Jalali

Abtrin has extensive experience representing private equity firms and their portfolio companies in all aspects of their businesses, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, growth equity investments, minority investments and general corporate matters.

Adam Smith

Adam is an experienced international trade lawyer with a focus on white collar compliance and financial crime, including with respect to federal, state, and international economic sanctions enforcement, embargoes, export controls, and anti-corruption. His recent projects include work with multinational financial institutions, manufacturers, and technology firms to enhance compliance processes, to engage with governmental agencies, to conduct internal investigations and pre- and post-M&A due diligence, and to defend against regulatory inquiries and enforcement actions.

Adam Whitehouse

Adam Whitehouse is of counsel in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Oil and Gas, Energy, Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions, Infrastructure and Cleantech practice groups. Adam focuses on a variety of transactions, including advising clients on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint venture arrangements, and other general corporate matters. He regularly advises clients in the energy industry, including in the upstream, midstream, and energy transition space.

Adam Offenhartz

Adam focuses on mergers and acquisition battles, related shareholder class and derivative actions, broken deal fights, board battles and appraisal and earn-out disputes. He regularly advises investors, directors of public and private companies, special board committees and stockholders on various litigation related topics. Adam also has an active domestic and international arbitration practice with an emphasis on insurance and reinsurance disputes and cross-border issues. He has also handled a number of regulatory, disciplinary and ad hoc proceedings. Adam regularly represents plaintiffs/claimants for whom he has recovered substantial sums or achieved significant injunctive relief.

Adam Di Vincenzo

Adam J. Di Vincenzo is a partner in Gibson Dunn's Antitrust and Competition Law Practice Group. He has extensive experience representing clients in government antitrust investigations, particularly investigations involving proposed mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures.

Alan Samson

Alan Samson is an English and New York qualified partner based in the firm’s London office. He co-chairs the firm’s real estate group and heads the European real estate private equity team. He joined the firm in May 2000 as the firm’s first English law partner. Alan has more than 30 years’ experience in all aspects of commercial real estate and real estate finance, including corporate and investment property acquisitions and disposals, acquisition financing and joint ventures. His practice has recently been heavily focused on the acquisition of real estate loan portfolios (whole loans, senior and/or junior notes and structured pieces) from financial institutions, distressed/vulture fund formation, recapitalisations, mezzanine loan origination and debt restructurings and workouts. His client base is largely made up of U.S. and European financial investors (primarily opportunity and private equity funds).

Alexander Fine

Alexander D. Fine is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions, Global Finance, and Private Equity Practice Groups. Mr. Fine’s practice focuses on advising private equity sponsors and public companies on a wide range of transactional matters, including strategic mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, and joint ventures. He also advises clients on corporate governance and securities law matters.

Alexander Southwell

Alex Southwell is one of the nation’s leading technology-focused litigators and investigations lawyers. He is regularly called upon by numerous prominent global companies to counsel on—as well as handle investigations, enforcement defense, and litigation related to—a wide array of privacy, data breach, theft of trade secrets, computer fraud, and network and data security issues, often for the most novel, challenging, or technical matters. A former federal prosecutor, he advises companies victimized by cyber-crimes and has extensive experience with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Economic Espionage Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Stored Communications Act, and related federal and state statutes, as well as with privacy compliance counseling and FTC and AG regulatory enforcement.

Ali Nikpay

Ali Nikpay serves as co-partner in charge of the London office at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a co-chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Group. He is regularly cited as one of Europe’s leading competition practitioners, with more than 25 years of EU and UK merger control and antitrust experience in both the private and public sectors.

Alice Brogi

Alice Brogi is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Alice is a member of the Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets practice groups. Alice practices private equity M&A, representing sponsors in cross-border transactions across a number of sectors with a focus on infrastructure and hard assets. She has advised clients on domestic and cross-border acquisitions, disposals, preferred equity and debt investments, joint ventures, loan-to-own restructurings, and portfolio acquisitions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria and the Nordics. Alice has also advised private equity firms on investments across a number of sectors, including telecom, construction, financial services and technology sectors. She has previously completed secondments both at Hudson Advisors UK and also to the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs.

Alison Beal

Alison Beal is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Technology Transactions Practice Group and its Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Transactions Practice Group. Admitted to practice in multiple jurisdictions, Alison has extensive international experience and capability in complex commercial transactions for clients based in Europe, US and APAC, focusing on new technologies, R&D collaborations and externalisations, ITO, BPO, telecommunications, strategic alliances and the re-negotiation and exit of those transactions. Alison focuses on structuring, negotiating, and documenting large-scale and global information technology and business process outsourcing transactions and other commercial and technology related transactions. She also regularly advises clients on intellectual property and information technology issues in connection with corporate transactions, including private equity representations, mergers and acquisitions and distressed acquisitions.

Allan Neil

Allan Neil is an English qualified partner in the dispute resolution group of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s London office. His recent work involves large-scale multi-jurisdictional disputes and investigations (both regulatory and internal investigations) in the financial institutions sector. His work covers investment banking, asset management and compliance matters.

Allison H. Kidd

Allison H. Kidd is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group and Land Use Practice Group. Allison’s practice includes a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions. She represents private equity funds, institutional and non-institutional real estate investors, REITs, developers and operators in all areas of real estate, including acquisitions, permanent and construction financing (mortgage and mezzanine), joint ventures, dispositions and work-outs. Allison’s practice includes a variety of asset classes, including office, residential, industrial, senior housing and mixed-use. She also routinely works with developers on large-scale development projects, including structuring, negotiating and implementing public-private partnerships, development agreements and ground leases.

Allyson Ho

Allyson N. Ho is a partner in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and co-chair of the Firm’s nationwide Appellate and Constitutional Law practice group. Widely regarded as one of the nation’s most accomplished appellate litigators, Allyson has presented over 65 oral arguments in federal and state courts nationwide, including multiple high-stakes cases on behalf of business before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Texas Supreme Court.

Amanda Aycock

Amanda M. Aycock is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, as well as the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Practice Group, the Crisis Management Practice Group, the Media, Entertainment, and Technology Practice Group, and the White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group. Amanda has represented multinational companies and senior executives in a variety of industries (including technology, media, entertainment, and banking/finance) in complex commercial litigation, crisis management, and regulatory and white collar defense and investigations. She has particular expertise helping clients navigate complex legal crises involving a confluence of legal actions and inquiries—for example, from regulators, prosecutors, public representatives, and private plaintiffs—all at once.

Amar Madhani

Amar K. Madhani is an English law qualified partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Investment Funds and Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Transactions Practice Groups. Amar’s practice focuses on domestic and international private equity M&A, corporate real estate transactions and investments and private M&A transactions including domestic and international cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital transactions. He regularly represents international sponsors, public and private buyers and targets in auctions, asset and share sales and mergers across a broad range of sectors, including industrials

Amy R. Forbes

Amy R. Forbes is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She has spent her entire legal career at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and previously served as co-chair of the firm’s Land Use Practice Group, on the firm’s Executive Committee and as the co-partner in charge of the Los Angeles office. Amy focuses her practice on land use planning issues, including zoning, planning, the California Environmental Quality Act, and sports facilities. The primary focus of her land use practice is at the administrative level, including the negotiation of agreements with local governments and public agencies, the supervision of the preparation of environmental documentation, the processing of entitlements through public hearings and community meetings and other administrative proceedings, as well as legal issues associated with project development and construction. Representative clients include The Los Angeles Clippers, The Kroenke Group, Five Point Communities, Berggruen Institute, and the Sakioka Company.

Andrea E. Smith

Andrea E. Smith is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and admitted to practice in both New York and California. Ms. Smith Co-Chairs Gibson Dunn’s Transnational Litigation Practice Group and is a member of the firm’s International Arbitration, Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort, Class Action and Appellate Practice Groups. Ms. Smith is a high-stakes trial lawyer whose victories include billion dollar matters in both international and domestic forums. Her international work spans Central, South and North America at both the trial and appellate levels. Domestically, she represents clients in an array of industries nationwide, including oil and gas, food and agriculture, aerospace, technology, accounting, real estate and financial services. She has also served as trial counsel for state and local governments.

Andrew Kaplan

Andrew Kaplan is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where his practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance matters. Andrew Kaplan represents both public and private acquirors and targets in connection with mergers, acquisitions and takeovers, both negotiated and contested. He also advises corporations and their boards of directors in connection with corporate governance and compliance matters, shareholder activism, takeover preparedness and other corporate matters. Andrew represents various major investment banks as financial advisors in M&A transactions, and hedge funds in their M&A and investment activities. He has also represented both issuers and underwriters in a variety of securities transactions.

Andrew Fabens

Andrew L. Fabens is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He serves as co-partner in charge of the New York office, and is co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Capital Markets Practice Group and is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group. Andrew represents issuers and underwriters in public and private corporate finance transactions, in both U.S. and international markets. His experience encompasses IPOs, follow-on offerings, investment grade, high-yield and convertible debt offerings and offerings of preferred, hybrid and derivative securities. Andrew regularly advises companies and investment banks on corporate and securities law issues, including M&A financing and other capital planning, liability management, spin-offs, disclosure and reporting under U.S. securities laws, governance issues and stock exchange listings. His clients span emerging growth to multinationals; industries include tech, healthcare, consumer retail and hospitality.

Andrew Lance

Andy has extensive experience in acquiring, ground-leasing and financing trophy office, retail, hotel, industrial and multifamily properties and partial interests in joint ventures, including private REITs, professional sports arenas and entertainment venues; origination and workout of complex debt structures and equity joint ventures, mixed-use developments, including public-private and ground leased development projects. He heads the firm’s global hotel and resort practice. Andy represents real estate private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, banks, REITs, public and privately held developers and office, retail and hotel property owners, global hotel operators, buyers of debt portfolios, and not-for-profit institutions.

Anita Girdhari

Anita Girdhari is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Projects and Infrastructure, Power and Renewables, Capital Markets, Global Finance and Latin America Practice Groups. Anita's practice focuses on infrastructure projects, with considerable practice in all aspects of public-private partnerships across all asset classes including significant experience in transportation (including roads, bridges, airports, rail and others), digital (including forming platform digital JVs related to satellite technologies and broadband transactions), water (including desalination plants, water pipelines and water metering deals), social (including various school transactions) and waste / energy (including biogas, landfills and waste-to-energy work). When involved in a project financing, Ms. Girdhari is involved in all portions of the transaction, from negotiating the related concessions or leases with the governmental entity; to drafting and negotiating construction, operating and interface arrangements; to all forms of financing including project bonds, corporate bonds, private placements, private lending arrangements, governmental loans, equity contribution arrangements and others; to ongoing representation of portfolio companies with refinancing matters, secondary market acquisitions and divestiture transactions, corporate governance questions, FOIA and similar requests, construction disputes, terminations by governmental grantors, and distressed scenarios. She also has significant regional experience working on financing transactions in Latin America.

Ankita Ritwik

Ankita Ritwik is Of Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She is a member of the International Arbitration, Transnational Litigation and Judgement and Arbitral Award Enforcement Practice Groups. Ankita has extensive experience in investment treaty and international commercial arbitration, including award enforcement in multiple jurisdictions. She has represented a variety of clients with investments in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, in the mining, energy, telecommunications, real estate, maritime and manufacturing industries in international arbitration and enforcement proceedings. Ankita also has experience working with a wide variety of arbitral institutions including ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, SCC, HKIAC, SIAC, AIAC, TAI, DIA and OCC.

Anna Howell

Anna Howell is co-chair of the firm’s Oil and Gas Practice Group, and a member of the Energy and Infrastructure, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Practice Groups. Anna advises on complex cross-border transactions in the energy and natural resources sectors with a particular focus in the oil and gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), power and mining sub-sectors. Anna routinely advises high-profile clients on some of their most prestigious and challenging matters to take place in the market, including first entries into both mature and emerging markets throughout Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Her experience ranges from cross border M&A, the development and financing of projects, joint ventures and restructurings. Anna understands and has advised on the whole energy value chain from upstream concessions and transportation arrangements to downstream commodity sales and trading.

Anne Champion

Anne M. Champion is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Transnational Litigation, Environmental Litigation, Media Law, and Intellectual Property Practice Groups. Anne has played a lead role in a wide range of high-stakes litigation matters, including trials. Her practice focuses on complex international disputes, including RICO, fraud, and tort claims, and includes federal and state court litigation and international arbitration. She also has significant experience in First Amendment and intellectual property disputes, and an active pro bono docket.

Ari Lanin

Ari Lanin is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Century City office and a Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Private Equity practice group. He advises companies and private equity firms across a wide range of industries, focusing on public and private merger transactions, stock and asset sales, joint ventures and strategic partnerships, and public and private capital-raising transactions. Ari also advises public companies with respect to securities regulation and corporate governance matters, including periodic reporting and disclosure matters, Section 16, Rule 144, insider trading and the implementation of Rule 10b5-1(c) plans.

Ashley Rogers

Ashley Rogers is a partner in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and practices in the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection practice group. Ashley’s practice focuses on a wide range of consumer protection and data privacy matters. She has particular expertise in defending clients in the technology and internet industries in Federal Trade Commission and state Attorneys General investigations and enforcement actions, as well as in class action litigation and advisory matters involving consumer protection and data privacy issues.

Ashlie Beringer

Ashlie Beringer has more than two decades of experience representing media and technology companies in periods of transformation and crisis. Ashlie’s practice focuses on defending technology companies in global regulatory and litigation matters and advising on product, business and compliance strategies, particularly on issues related to disruptive technologies, privacy, cybersecurity and the blockchain ecosystem. Ashlie is actively representing technology companies in a range of industries in regulatory and criminal investigations before the FTC, CFPB, NYDFS, Department of Justice, and California, New York, Washington DC and multiple state Attorneys General, while coordinating strategy for parallel regulatory investigations around the globe.

Barbara Becker

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.

Beau Stark

Beau Stark is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Denver office . He has broad experience in all aspects of corporate practice, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, public offerings, capital markets transactions, securities offerings, management participation and financing, tender offers, private fund formation and general corporate matters.

Ben Myers

Ben Myers is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Ben is a member of the firm’s Global Finance and Business Restructuring Practice Groups. He is also one of the leaders of the firm’s UK ESG practice and a member of the firm’s global ESG Practice Group. Ben regularly advises private equity sponsors and their investment funds/portfolio companies, major financial institutions, corporates, hedge funds and other investors and agency/trustee services providers across a wide range of complex and multi-jurisdictional financing transactions including leveraged finance, real estate finance, asset finance, fund finance and restructuring transactions. In addition to advising clients on mainstream finance and restructuring transactions, Ben’s practice has a particular focus on special situations transactions. He has extensive experience advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, special situations teams at major financial institutions and credit/special situations funds on deal specific credit solutions including holdco/PIK financings, rescue financings, GP co-invest financings, minority investment financings and post-restructuring recapitalisations.

Ben Shorten

Ben’s practice is focused on the development and financing of complex, large-scale energy and infrastructure projects, with a particular focus on energy transition, conventional power and water, and oil and gas projects. He regularly advises both sponsors and lenders on innovative, “first-in-kind” projects and has worked with the leading clients in the energy sector in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Ben Fryer

Ben Fryer is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group. Ben is an experienced tax adviser with a broad practice – he advises on a wide range of domestic and cross-border matters and transactions, including in relation to banking, capital markets, corporate finance, corporate reorganisations, debt restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate and structured finance. He also guides clients on general corporate tax planning and risk management matters. Ben has advised on the structuring and execution of numerous mainstream private equity and real estate private equity transactions. He also regularly advises on carried interest and co-investment structures, executive compensation matters and equity incentive arrangements.

Benyamin S. Ross

Ben Ross is a co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Media, Entertainment, and Technology Practice Group. Ben advises companies, private equity and venture capital firms, and high net-worth individuals in mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, joint ventures, restructuring transactions and general commercial arrangements. He works with companies in a broad array of industries, and has extensive experience working with media, entertainment and technology clients.

Branden C. Berns

Branden C. Berns is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he practices in the firm’s Corporate Transactions Practice Group, focusing on representing leading life sciences companies and investors. Mr. Berns advises clients in connection with a variety of financing transactions, including initial public offerings, secondary equity offerings and venture and growth equity financings, as well as complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, spin-offs, joint ventures, PIPEs and leveraged buyouts. Mr. Berns regularly serves as principal outside counsel for numerous publicly-traded companies and advises management and boards of directors on corporate law matters, SEC reporting and corporate governance.

Brian Rosenthal

Brian Rosenthal is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the Intellectual Property practice. Brian is a trial lawyer with a particular emphasis on patent litigation. His patent litigation practice has spanned a wide range of technologies, with a concentration on computer software, electronics and medical devices.

Brian C. Ascher

Brian C. Ascher is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Litigation and Media, Entertainment & Technology Practice Groups. Brian represents corporate and individual clients in a wide range of complex commercial litigation in both federal and state court and administrative proceedings, including several trials. Brian’s practice focuses on civil litigation, including contract, profit participation, trade secrets, and other intellectual property disputes. In addition, Brian has significant experience in litigating founder disputes and First Amendment cases.

Brian M. Lutz

Brian M. Lutz is a litigation partner in the San Francisco and New York offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Brian serves as a Co‐Chair of the Firm’s National Securities Litigation Practice Group, which is consistently recognized as one of the leading securities litigation practices in the country. Brian’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on corporate control contests, securities class actions, and shareholder actions alleging breaches of fiduciary duties. He represents and advises clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activist matters, and corporate governance issues, and regularly represents and advises boards of directors and board committees on litigation issues. Brian also handles a wide range of other business litigation, including real estate disputes, employment matters, and trade secrets litigation.

Brian W. Kniesly

Brian Kniesly is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Chair of the firm’s Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Group and a member of the Tax Practice Group. Brian focuses on the federal income taxation of REITs, investment funds, partnerships, real estate and mergers and acquisitions. He has been involved in tax planning on some of the largest real estate transactions in the United States and has provided extensive advice on structuring investments in real estate, debt and other investments for investment funds, foreign governments, other non-U.S. investors, corporations and individuals, including through the use of REITs to invest in hotels, health care facilities as well as other real estate. He also worked on a wide range of transactions including sales and dispositions of REITs, partnership reorganizations, asset sales, sale-leasebacks, and fund formations. Brian also has extensive experience advising on New York state and local tax issues, including transfer taxes, commercial rent and occupancy taxes and others.

Bryan Parr

Bryan Parr is of counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations, Anti-Corruption & FCPA, and Litigation Practice Groups. His practice focuses on white-collar defense and regulatory compliance matters around the world. Bryan has extensive expertise in government and corporate investigations, including those involving the the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and anticorruption. He has defended a range of companies and individuals in U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), SEC, and CFTC enforcement actions, as well as in litigation in federal courts and in commercial arbitrations. In his FCPA practice, Bryan regularly guides companies on creating and implementing effective compliance programs, successfully navigating compliance monitorships, and conducting appropriate M&A-related FCPA diligence and integration.

C. William Thomas, Jr.

C. William Thomas, Jr. is a partner in the Corporate Transactions Department of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. His practice emphasizes the formation and operation of U.S. and non-U.S. private investment funds, including real estate funds, private equity funds and credit funds. Bill also advises investment management firms on their operations, regulatory matters and internal governance arrangements.

Candice Choh

Candice Choh is co-partner in charge of the Century City and Los Angeles offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she practices in the firm’s Corporate Transactions Practice Group. Candice has a broad-based practice encompassing public and private company mergers and acquisitions across a wide variety of industries and other private equity transactions, including investment fund formation, co-investments, secondary transactions, and investments in sponsors. She regularly counsels private equity sponsors on firm structuring and internal governance matters.

Cassandra L. Gaedt-Sheckter

Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Palo Alto office, where she co-chairs the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) practice, and is a key member of the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation practice, including as the leader of the firm’s State Privacy Law Task Force. With extensive experience advising companies on AI, data privacy, and cybersecurity issues, Cassandra focuses on regulatory compliance counseling and privacy and AI program development, regulatory enforcement matters, and transactional representations. Cassandra advises clients in various industries, from leading tech companies and luxury fashion companies, to shipping giants.

Catherine Conway

Co-Chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice, Cathy is a leading labor and employment litigator with more than 40 years trial experience representing major companies in high-stakes employment cases. She focuses on complex employment litigation, including class actions with an emphasis on wage and hour litigation trials. She has trial experience in state and federal litigation, including wage and hour claims, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, unfair competition, protection of employer trade secrets and unfair business practice litigation under California Business and Professions Code Section 17200. Cathy has advised boards of directors in many confidential investigations and represents a large variety of employers. In recent years, she has served as lead counsel on high profile sexual discrimination and sexual assault cases, including the representation of Universities on such cases.

Ceyda Knoebel

Ceyda Knoebel is an English-Turkish dual-qualified solicitor and Of Counsel in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration, Judgment and Award Enforcement Groups. Ceyda specialises on public international law and international arbitration, advising clients on a wide range of cross-border and complex disputes in common and civil law jurisdictions. She has extensive experience in investment treaty and commercial arbitration proceedings under the UNCITRAL, ICSID, ICC, SCC, VIAC and LCIA Rules as well as enforcement of arbitral awards in multiple jurisdictions. Ceyda represents and advises clients across a broad spectrum of industries including energy, mining, oil and gas, financial services, banking and construction and she appears as counsel and advocate in commercial and investor-state disputes. She is also appointed to the United Nations Global Arbitration Counsel List. Alongside her fee earning practice, she also has an active pro bono practice focusing on advising clients on a wide range of issues in public international law and international human rights law.

Charles Falconer KC

Charlie Falconer is an English qualified King’s Counsel and partner based in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s London office. The former UK Lord Chancellor and first Secretary of State for Justice spent 25 years as a commercial barrister, becoming a QC in 1991 and a KC in 2022. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, international arbitration and investigations.

Charline O. Yim

Charline Yim is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the International Arbitration and Litigation Practice Groups. She also serves on the firm’s Pro Bono and Hiring Committees. Charline specializes in international arbitration and has extensive experience representing clients in investment treaty and international commercial disputes.

Charlotte Jacobsen

Charlotte Jacobsen is a USPTO-qualified, first-chair litigator with advanced scientific degrees and a deep understanding of chemistry, biology and biotechnology. For 20 years, Charlotte has represented clients in complex chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology patent and licensing disputes. She has been lead trial counsel and won cases in the federal district courts, before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. She also has experience with arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and with pre-litigation work having handled comprehensive preparatory investigations for numerous blockbuster products. As a skilled litigator, Charlotte frequently provides strategic advice concerning ongoing patent litigations, including assessing the risks associated with ANDA and other patent litigations for private equity and M&A deals.

Chris Haynes

Christopher Haynes is an English qualified corporate partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. Chris has extensive experience in equity capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions including advising corporates, investment banks and shareholders on initial public offerings (including multi-track processes), rights issues and other equity offerings as well as on public takeovers, private company M&A and joint ventures. He also advises on corporate and securities law and regulation.

Christopher Timura

Christopher T. Timura is Of Counsel in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and a member of the firm’s International Trade and White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Groups. Christopher helps clients solve regulatory, legal and political problems that arise at the intersection of national security, trade, and foreign policy, and to develop corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies, policies, and procedures. His clients span economic sectors and range from start-ups to Global 500 companies. Christopher counsels clients on compliance with U.S. export controls (ITAR and EAR), economic sanctions, and foreign investment reviews and represents them before the departments of State (DDTC), Treasury (OFAC and CFIUS), Commerce (BIS), Homeland Security, and Justice in voluntary and directed disclosures, civil and criminal enforcement actions and investment reviews. Working with in-house counsel, boards, and other business leads, he helps to identify and leverage existing business processes to integrate international trade compliance, and CSR-related data gathering, analysis, investigation, and reporting throughout client business operations. In M&A and other transactions, he conducts expedited diligence on international trade compliance and ESG issues and supports business and compliance teams as they work to spin off or integrate business operations in new organizations. Christopher also assists clients working with emerging and foundational technologies in the development of effective international trade compliance-, export control licensing-, and CSR-strategies to support global R&D, supply chain, and customer bases.

Chuck Stevens

Chuck Stevens is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group. His practice focuses on the representation of corporate clients in government investigations, internal investigations, and enforcement actions regarding business crimes and civil frauds, including healthcare, government contract, and corporate fraud.

Claibourne Harrison

Clai Harrison is a dual-qualified (admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales and licensed by the State Bar of Texas) corporate partner based in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s London office, focusing on private equity, real estate private equity and venture capital / growth investment transactions. He represents private equity/investment firms, corporates and other institutional investors in the UK, across Europe and the United States on private equity and real estate private equity transactions, corporate real estate M&A, joint ventures, majority-control or minority investments, divestitures, carve-outs and loan portfolio acquisitions.

Claude Jiang

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Colin B. Davis

Colin B. Davis is a partner in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he practices in the firm’s Litigation Department. Colin’s practice focuses on complex business and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on merger and acquisition and securities litigation. Colin represents public and private companies and their officers and directors in stockholder class actions, stockholder derivative actions, and appraisal actions, as well as related litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country. Colin also represents clients in a wide variety of other types of business litigation, including post-closing merger and acquisition disputes involving earnout provisions, fraud, and other contractual breaches. Additionally, Colin has represented clients in connection with governmental investigations and enforcement actions brought by the SEC, the Department of Justice, and other regulatory and enforcement agencies.

Craig Varnen

Craig Varnen is a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Craig serves as a Co-Chair of the Firm’s National Securities Litigation Practice Group, which is consistently recognized as one of the best securities litigation groups in the country. While Craig is an experienced trial attorney who has represented clients in a broad range of “bet the company” commercial disputes, his practice focuses securities litigation. Craig has decades of experience representing public companies and their officers/directors in the defense of federal and state securities class actions, derivative actions and government proceedings. These cases often involve claims related to public offerings, accounting and disclosure practices, mergers and acquisitions, insider trading, corporate governance issues or allegations of breaches of fiduciary duties. Craig is also regularly retained to conduct high-profile internal investigations, as well as advise boards and officers on fiduciary duty and corporate governance issues. He has also handled a wide range of other business and class action litigation, including many different types of consumer class actions, cases involving the misappropriation of trade secrets, employment litigation, and insurance matters. He also often counsels clients in employment contract-related matters.

Cynthia Richman

Cynthia Richman is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. Ms. Richman has experience handling a wide variety of antitrust matters in a broad range of industries, such as microprocessors and other high-technology products, airlines, retail food services, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, defense, travel, and music.

Cyrus Benson

Cyrus Benson is a U.S. and English qualified partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and serves as co-chair of the firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group. Cyrus represents clients from a wide variety of sectors before commercial and investment treaty tribunals with particular experience in telecoms, oil & gas, mining and infrastructure disputes. He continues to represent a Dutch and a Luxembourg investor in two separate multi-billion dollar arbitration proceedings against the Russian Federation under the Energy Charter Treaty. He is lead advocate for a major international contractor in billion dollar ICC proceedings against a Middle Eastern state arising from an airport project, and spear-headed a team in the successful prosecution of a US$ 2 billion LCIA arbitration for a global mining corporate against a Middle East steel manufacturer. He also continues to represent a Middle Eastern conglomerate in a US$ 500 million ICSID arbitration under the Kuwait/Iraq bilateral investment treaty arising out of an investment in Kurdistan; and a Swedish holding company in a US$ 1.5 billion ICSID arbitration against a North African State for expropriation of a refinery and related businesses. He was a member of the IBA Arbitration Committee Task Force on Ethics for Counsel and served as one of the UK members to the ICC Rules Revision Task Force. He sits regularly as an arbitrator, and writes and lectures on a wide variety of arbitration issues.

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Daniel Angel

Daniel Angel is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn's Technology Transactions Practice Group and a member of its Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Transactions Practice Group. Daniel focuses on IP and technology licensing, commercial technology transactions (including outsourcing and SaaS arrangements), and IP and IT issues in connection with M&A and financing transactions. He has worked with a variety of clients ranging from market leaders to start-ups in a wide range of industries, including financial services, private equity funds, life sciences, specialty chemicals, insurance, energy and telecommunications.

Daniel Nelson

Daniel W. Nelson practices in the Litigation Department as co-chair of the Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice Group, and he is a member of the Class Action and Complex Litigation, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, and Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Groups. Dan has a national complex litigation practice. He has served as the lead defense counsel for clients in the courts of more than 30 states, and he has defended more than 200 class action lawsuits, including as lead trial counsel in securing a defense verdict in a certified class action jury trial. He has represented clients at the trial and appellate levels in cases that span a wide range of areas, with a particular focus on environmental and mass tort litigation, complex business litigation, antitrust litigation, and class action litigation.

Daniel G. Swanson

Daniel G. Swanson is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, with offices in Los Angeles and Brussels. Mr. Swanson co-chaired Gibson Dunn’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group for 25 years. His practice focuses on antitrust and competition law, including trial and appellate litigation, class actions, grand jury and civil investigations, merger review, regulatory and competition policy matters, and antitrust counseling.

Danielle Katzir

Danielle Katzir represents lenders, borrowers, opportunity and private equity funds, institutional and non-institutional real estate investors, developers and operators in a broad range of matters, including forming and representing joint ventures and negotiating joint venture agreements; acquisition, leasing and development, traditional construction, permanent and leasehold financing, preferred equity and mezzanine financing, and disposition of a wide range of commercial real estate asset classes, including vacant land, hotels, residential, office, retail and mixed-use buildings, shopping centers, and other commercial and residential properties throughout the United States. Danielle’s practice also includes representation of borrowers and lenders alike in the negotiation of settlement agreements, forbearance agreements, loan modifications, restructures and other workout arrangements, as well as in the commencement and completion of foreclosure proceedings.

Darius Mehraban

Darius J. Mehraban is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Global Finance Practice Group, focusing on loan and other debt financing transactions, as well as swaps and other derivative transactions. Darius’s debt finance experience includes syndicated credit facilities for leveraged and investment-grade corporate borrowers, project financings, credit facilities for private investment funds, investment-grade, high-yield and convertible note issuances, and structured finance transactions. He has represented borrowers, issuers, arrangers and lenders in many types of secured and unsecured financing structures in a wide range of industries, with particular concentrations in the energy, natural resources and technology sectors.

David Fotouhi

David Fotouhi is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the firm’s Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort practice group. David combines his expertise in administrative and environmental law with his litigation experience and a deep understanding of EPA’s inner workings to represent the firm’s clients in enforcement actions, regulatory challenges, and other environmental litigation. He has provided legal counsel and managed defensive litigation under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and every major environmental statute, including the Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund), Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), Oil Pollution Act (OPA), Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and Endangered Species Act (ESA).

David Feldman

David has twenty-five years’ experience representing distressed investors, lenders, debtors, bondholders and creditor committees in bankruptcy cases, out-of-court restructurings, and distressed asset and debt transactions. David has represented the following Debtors in their successful Chapter 11 reorganizations: Oil and gas debtor Rosehill Resources (SD Texas), hardwood manufacturer Northwest Hardwoods (Delaware), Austin-San Antonio toll road operated SH 130 (WD Texas). The term loan lenders of California Pizza Kitchen in connection with its Delaware Chapter 11. He also he represents major funds Oaktree, HPS, Mudrick Capital, Apollo and Crescent Capital in connection with their distressed investments and workouts.

David P. Burns

David P. Burns is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is the co-chair of the firm’s National Security Practice Group, and a member of the White Collar and Investigations and Crisis Management practice groups. His practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, national security, and regulatory enforcement matters. David represents corporations and executives in federal, state, and regulatory investigations involving securities and commodities fraud, sanctions and export controls, theft of trade secrets and economic espionage, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, accounting fraud, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, international and domestic cartel enforcement, health care fraud, government contracting fraud, and the False Claims Act.

Deborah Stein

Deborah L. Stein is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office. She is a member of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group and Co-Chair of its Insurance and Reinsurance Practice Group. Deborah has extensive experience representing insurers and reinsurers in trial and appellate courts as well as in arbitration. Clients turn to Deborah to litigate their most significant coverage and bad faith disputes, as well as to represent them in False Claims Act, cybersecurity, and class action cases.

Dierdre Taylor

Deirdre Taylor is an English law partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the antitrust and competition practice. Ms. Taylor’s practice encompasses the full range of antitrust issues, including cartel investigations, merger control, and abuse of dominance. Ms. Taylor has provided antitrust advice to clients across a number of industries, including: telecommunications, aviation, financial services, oil and gas, engineering, retail, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing. Since joining Gibson Dunn, she has counselled clients such as UBS, Asda, Gala Coral, Energizer, Marriott Hotels, William Hill, Debenhams and a number of leading technology companies. Ms. Taylor’s recent experience in relation to cartel investigations includes defending a multi-national corporation in connection with worldwide antitrust and regulatory investigations in the financial sector and advising a client in the consumer goods sector in relation to a national, and potentially EU-wide, cartel investigation. Recent merger experience includes obtaining UK clearance in the engineering sector, UK clearance for a high-profile retail merger, and EC clearance for a merger in the electronics distribution sector.

Dora R. Arash

Dora Arash is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Her practice concentrates on federal income tax planning for corporations and partnerships. She has advised clients on the tax consequences of partnership and corporate formations, taxable stock and asset acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations, public and private offerings of stock and debt, spin-offs and joint ventures. She has also represented clients in a variety of tax controversy matters, including matters before the Appeals Division of the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Tax Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Doug Watson

Doug Watson is an English-qualified Partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Dispute Resolution and International Arbitration Groups. Doug specialises in commercial litigation and international arbitration. He has broad-based experience, encompassing High Court litigation, judicial review, cross-border disputes, regulatory investigations and associated follow-on litigation. He has acted for clients across a wide spectrum of industries including telecommunications, energy, aviation, media and sport.

Doug Horowitz

Douglas S. Horowitz is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Doug is the head of Leveraged and Acquisition Finance, co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Global Finance Practice Group, and an active member of the Capital Markets Practice Group and Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group. Doug represents leading private equity firms, public and private corporations, leading investment banking firms and commercial banks with a focus on financing transactions involving private credit, syndicated institutional and asset based loans, new issuance of secured and unsecured high-yield debt securities, equity and equity-linked securities, as well as out-of-court restructurings.

Douglas Champion

Doug represents real estate developers, energy companies, institutional lenders, private equity investors, and other clients in the entertainment and education sectors in a broad range of matters, including the negotiation and processing of land use approvals; the purchase, sale and leasing of commercial and multi-family assets; and the development of solar and wind energy projects. Doug has significant experience with master-planned mixed-use projects and sports and entertainment venues, including processing entitlements for long-term phased construction.

Drew C. Flowers

Drew Flowers is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office, and practices in the firm’s Real Estate Department. His real estate practice experience includes extensive representation of real estate funds, lenders, developers and institutional and non-institutional investors in all areas of real estate, including: the formation and negotiation of joint ventures; structured finance, including preferred and mezzanine financing; workouts, loan restructuring and loan enforcement; the purchase, sale and finance of secured real estate loans; loan participations; acquisition and sale of vacant land, office buildings, apartment buildings, hotels, shopping centers, and other commercial and residential properties; all aspects of real estate development, including contractor, architect, broker and management agreements; commercial leasing; ground leasing and ground leasehold financing. Mr. Flowers has been especially active in representing borrowers and lenders in complex financing transactions.

Edward Wei

Edward S. Wei is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and member of the Tax Practice Group. Mr. Wei’s practice focuses on a wide range of U.S. and international tax matters involving corporations, partnerships and LLCs, including private equity, mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures, bankruptcy restructurings, REITs/real estate and debt and equity capital markets.

Edward Sopher

Edward Sopher is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Investment Funds Practice Group. Ed’s practice focuses on the establishment and operation of private investment funds, including private equity funds, funds of funds, hedge funds, credit funds and real estate funds. He has extensive experience representing the investment managers and sponsors of these funds, as well as institutional investors, seed investors, placement agents and joint venture partners. Ed has been involved in a wide variety of investment, private equity and financing transactions for his investment fund clients, including co-investments, fund restructurings and recapitalizations. He regularly represents secondary investment funds in their secondary investment and financing activities. His experience also extends to transactions involving investment management firms, including stake investments, spin-outs, acquisitions, financings and joint ventures. For more information please see https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/sopher-edward/

Elizabeth A. Ising

Elizabeth Ising is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office and Co-Chair of the firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance and its ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) practices. She also is a member of the firm’s Hostile M&A and Shareholder Activism team and Financial Institutions practice group. She advises clients, including public companies and their boards of directors, on corporate governance, securities law and, ESG and sustainability matters and executive compensation best practices and disclosures. Representative matters include advising on Securities and Exchange Commission reporting requirements, proxy disclosures, SASB and TCFD disclosures, director independence matters, proxy advisory services, board and committee charters and governance guidelines and disclosure controls and procedures. Ms. Ising also regularly counsels public companies on shareholder activism issues, including on shareholder proposals and preparing for and responding to hedge fund and corporate governance activism. She also advises non-profit organizations on corporate governance issues.

Emad H. Khalil

Emad H. Khalil is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. His practice focuses on U.S. and cross-border investments and co-investments, acquisitions, dispositions, and joint ventures, as well as related financings (including Islamic finance) and restructurings. His representations include control, minority and preferred equity investments; and asset-level construction, development, and operation. Emad regularly represents strategic, infrastructure fund and private equity clients in the renewable power, infrastructure, oil and gas, energy transition, and healthcare sectors. He also represents issuers and investors in connection with venture capital and growth equity investments in a broad range of sectors. He has represented clients throughout the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Eric Feuerstein

Eric M. Feuerstein is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Co-Chair of the Real Estate Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Mr. Feuerstein’s practice concentrates on financings, debt purchases, acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings and development. For more information please see https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/feuerstein-eric-m/.

Eric Stock

Eric Stock is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Mr. Stock’s practice focuses on antitrust litigation and investigations, especially for clients in the pharmaceutical, financial services, high tech, and health care industries. He is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Antitrust and Competition and Litigation Practice Groups.

Eric B. Sloan

Eric Sloan is a partner in the New York and Washington D.C. offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a Co-Chair of the Firm’s Tax Practice Group. With more than 30 years of broad transactional and structuring experience, Mr. Sloan is a nationally recognized expert on the use of partnerships and limited liability companies in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, and restructurings and has a significant corporate M&A practice representing both financial and strategic investors. He also has developed substantial experience in spin-offs and initial public offerings, including advising on many “UP-C” IPOs in a range of industries.

Eric D. Vandevelde

Eric Vandevelde is a litigation partner in Gibson Dunn’s Los Angeles office. He is co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence practice group and a member of the firm’s White Collar, Privacy & Cybersecurity, and Intellectual Property practice groups. As a former federal prosecutor who previously supervised the Cyber & IP Crimes section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California, Eric has significant first-chair trial experience, both while at the DOJ and in the private sector. He has a deep technical background, with a degree in computer science from Stanford and having worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley and Latin America.

Eric M. Feuerstein

Eric M. Feuerstein is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Co-Chair of the Real Estate Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Eric's practice concentrates on acquisitions, joint ventures, and financings with extensive experience sales and purchases of mortgage and mezzanine debt, distressed assets and interests in real estate companies.

Eugene Scalia

Eugene Scalia is experienced in a broad range of labor and employment matters (including discrimination law, wage-hour, traditional labor, investigations, and ERISA) and regulatory matters involving SEC, CFPB, CFTC, FCC, Department of Transportation, and other agencies. Senior Fellow, Administrative Conference of the United States. For more information, please visit https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/scalia-eugene/

Eve Mrozek

Eve Mrozek is a corporate partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group. Eve’s experienced and multidisciplinary practice includes advising on the legal, regulatory and commercial challenges facing a diverse group of investment fund clients, ranging from multi-billion dollar fund managers, to middle and lower-middle-market firms and firms raising their first institutional fund. Eve specializes in advising real estate private equity sponsors in fund formation across a variety of real estate assets. In addition to traditional fund formation, Eve advises private equity sponsors and institutional investors on major strategic issues, including incentive arrangements, governance issues, succession planning, fund recapitalizations and restructurings, the formation of continuation funds and complex strategic minority investments in existing firms. Eve seeks to become a long-term partner to her clients by proactively providing market insights and advice not only during a fundraise, but during all phases of a fund’s life cycle.

F. Joseph Warin

F. Joseph Warin is chair of the 250-person Litigation Department of Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office and co-chair of the White-Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group. His expertise includes white collar crime, securities enforcement, antitrust, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations, False Claims Act cases, audit committee and special committee representations, compliance counselling and complex civil and class action litigation. He has defended complex litigation in more than 35 states, including achieving dismissals of several securities class actions. He has served as Compliance Monitor/advisor in three FCPA government prosecutions.

Federico Fruhbeck

Federico Fruhbeck is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Federico is co-chair of the Projects and Infrastructure Practice Group, co-head of Private Equity in Europe, and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets Practice Groups. Federico’s practice focuses on cross-border M&A transactions across Europe and Latin America for private equity clients and large family-owned conglomerates, with a particular focus in the infrastructure, ESG and real assets sector. He also advises both issuers and underwriters on capital markets transactions, particularly in high-yield issuances (including green bond issuances) and initial public offerings. He has extensive experience across multiple jurisdictions, with a particular focus on Spain, Italy, Germany, France and the Nordic region.

Gabrielle Levin

Gabrielle Levin is a litigation partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Her practice focuses on representing corporate clients in employment, securities, and general litigation matters. Gabrielle's practice includes the defense of employers in Sarbanes-Oxley and other whistleblower protection litigation, discrimination and retaliation claims, executive compensation disputes, restrictive covenant and trade secret litigation, and wage and hour class actions. She has first-chaired jury trials in federal court and led the defense of employers in arbitrations.

Geoffrey Sigler

Geoffrey M. Sigler is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office. He is a Co-Chair of the Insurance and Reinsurance Practice and a member of the firm’s Litigation, Class Action, Health Care, and Insurance Practice Groups. Throughout Geoff's career, he has successfully represented corporate clients in dozens of class actions and other complex cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States.

George J. Hazel

George J. Hazel is a partner in the Washington office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Litigation and White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Groups. A former federal trial judge and criminal prosecutor, George brings a broad range of trial experience, having presided over approximately 50 jury trials in federal court and handled 20 jury trials and 30 bench trials as an attorney in federal and state court.

George P. Stamas

George Stamas is a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions, Global Finance, and Private Equity Practice Groups. Mr. Stamas focuses on public company and private equity mergers and acquisitions and corporate securities transactions. He also counsels C-level executives and boards of directors on corporate governance matters.

Gerald Farano

Jerry concentrates his practice on transactional matters in the power industry, advising clients on domestic and international M&A, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and energy and infrastructure development projects. He has considerable experience with energy-related mergers and acquisitions, both in the sale and purchase of privately and publicly owned power companies and in the sale and purchase of individual and portfolios of renewable, fossil fuel, and nuclear generation assets. His practice also includes advising clients on significant electric transmission and other energy infrastructure projects. He has been active in structuring, drafting, and negotiating agreements involving stock and asset sales; controlled and non-controlled energy investments, joint ventures, project development, engineering procurement, and construction; and acquisition financing on behalf of multinational companies and state-owned enterprises. Over the past decade he has advised clients on some of the world’s largest wind, solar and carbon capture projects.

Gregg J. Costa

Gregg Costa is co-chair of the firm’s Trials Practice Group. Gregg offers clients a unique perspective as a former federal trial and appellate judge. His broad experience—having handled complex civil and criminal matters, at trial and on appeal, as advocate and judge—allows him to offer invaluable skills and strategic insights for both trials and investigations.

Greta Williams

Greta Williams is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, the Labor & Employment Practice, and the Media, Entertainment & Technology Practice. She has represented clients at the federal and state appellate and trial court levels, including matters involving employment law, class actions, trade secrets and constitutional law, with a focus on clients in the media and technology industries. Greta has represented clients in a wide range of employment matters, including those involving non-competition agreements and trade secrets, executive employment disputes, wage-hour and discrimination laws, and whistleblower protection laws. She has experience in trial proceedings, including direct examination of a fact witness in a trade secrets dispute in the Delaware Court of Chancery. She has handled numerous employment-related investigations, including investigations involving sexual harassment and other #MeToo allegations, other workplace misconduct, and the possible misappropriation of trade secrets. She also regularly advises a number of media and technology companies on employment-related issues.

Gustav W. Eyler

Gustav W. Eyler is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of the firm’s FDA and Health Care Practice Group and a member of the White Collar Defense and Privacy Practice Groups. An experienced litigator and a former Director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch, he defends companies and individuals in government investigations and enforcement actions and counsels clients on the design and implementation of compliance programs.

Harry R. Silvera

Harry’s practice covers a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, including joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions of office, hospitality and seniors housing assets, commercial mortgage, mezzanine and construction financing (representing both borrowers and lenders), development of office, hospitality and seniors housing projects, and commercial leasing. Clients include RXR Realty, Colony Capital, The Related Companies, Welltower, EOS Investors and Fremont Realty Capital.

Heather Richardson

Heathers’ practice focuses on health care, insurance, mass tort, and class action matters. She has extensive experience in state and federal court at both the trial and appellate level, as well as in both domestic and international arbitrations. Heather has represented health plans, plan sponsors, and providers in a variety of lawsuits, arbitrations, and government inquiries on a wide range of issues including reimbursement policy, coverage determinations, quality of care, pharmacy benefits, physician oversight, provider contracting, and privacy issues. Heather has also represented various clients in mass tort and class action matters involving medical devices and consumer products.

Helgi C. Walker

Helgi Walker is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office. She is co-chair of the firm’s global Litigation Practice Group and recently served as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. She is also co-chair of the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Group and a member of the Appellate and Constitutional Law Group. Helgi has extensive experience in appellate challenges to agency rulemakings, particularly in telecommunications, and other high-stakes commercial litigation.

Hillary H. Holmes

Hillary H. Holmes, Co-Chair of the firm’s Capital Markets practice, focuses on capital markets, securities regulation and governance counseling, primarily in the energy industry. Hillary represents public companies, private companies, MLPs, investment banks, management teams and private equity in all forms of capital raising transactions, including IPOs, registered offerings of debt and equity, private placements of debt and equity, preferred stock PIPEs, joint ventures, structured investments, direct listings and spin-offs. Hillary serves as regular counsel to public and private companies on securities laws, SEC reporting, ESG issues, and governance matters. Hillary also frequently advises boards of directors, special committees and financial advisors in complex M&A transactions and special situations.

Howard S. Hogan

Howard S. Hogan is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is Chair of the Fashion, Retail and Consumer Products group. Over the course of his career, Howard has handled numerous complex cases in a variety of federal and state courts in several different substantive areas including general commercial, securities and employment matters, and internal investigations.

Ilissa Samplin

Ilissa Samplin is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Ms. Samplin serves as co-chair of the firm’s Trade Secrets Practice Group. She also is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Litigation, Media, Entertainment and Technology, Intellectual Property, and Trials Practice Groups. Ilissa’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and trials, entertainment and technology disputes, and intellectual property litigation and counseling. She has represented corporate and individual clients in the media, entertainment, and technology industries in a wide range of litigation in both federal and state court, including breach of contract, unfair competition, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and antitrust matters. Ilissa also regularly advises clients on intellectual property policies and compliance. In addition, she has experience drafting life rights, intellectual property, and licensing agreements and cease and desist letters for clients in the entertainment and technology sectors, as well as advising entertainment clients on profit participation and related accounting practices.

Isabel Berger

Isabel Berger is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Isabel is a member of the Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions and Real Estate practice groups. Isabel advises private equity funds and other financial investor clients on domestic and cross-border transactions including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and divestitures, equity growth investments, joint ventures and co-investments and management equity plans, as well as related advisory work. She has experience advising sponsors across a broad range of industries including real estate private equity transactions. She has previously spent 12 months on secondment at KKR.

Jacob T. Spencer

Jacob Spencer is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law, and Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice groups. Jacob clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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James Cox

James Cox is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Labour and Employment Practice Group. James has extensive experience in contentious and non-contentious labor and employment matters, with an emphasis on cross-border employment issues, collective labor and industrial disputes, redundancies and workforce restructurings, ARD/TUPE, the employment aspects of public and private mergers and acquisitions and outsourcing arrangements, corporate governance matters, boardroom appointments and removals, contractor and directorship matters, employment issues facing private equity companies, whistle-blowing, equal pay and other discrimination claims, worker consultation, enforcing and resisting post-employment restrictive covenants, and protecting confidential information from misuse by current and former employees. James also advises on data privacy and data protection issues.

James Hays

James Hays is a Partner in the Houston Office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Investment Funds practice group. James focuses on advising private fund sponsors on matters related to fund formation, internal arrangements, strategic acquisitions and other components of alternative investment management. He counsels leading sponsors in the energy, infrastructure, buyout, real estate, debt, and secondaries space. James also frequently works with sponsors seeking to establish private funds for the first time.

James J. Moloney

James J. Moloney is a corporate partner resident in the Orange County office of Gibson Dunn and serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group. He is also a member of the firm’s Corporate Transactions Practice Group, focusing primarily on securities offerings, mergers & acquisitions, friendly and hostile tender offers, proxy contests, going-private transactions and other corporate matters.

James L. Zelenay Jr.

James L. Zelenay is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he practices in the firm’s Litigation Department. James has extensive experience in defending clients involved in white collar investigations, assisting clients in responding to government subpoenas, and in government civil fraud litigation. James has represented clients in connection with alleged violations of environmental regulations, regulations governing trade with sanctioned countries, Department of Education rules and regulations, Food and Drug Administration regulations, Federal Emergency Management Agency regulations, government construction contracting matters, patent and telecommunication proceedings, and other administrative matters.

Jane M. Love

Jane M. Love, Ph.D. is a partner and Chair of the Life Sciences and the Intellectual Property Litigation practices at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Dr. Love is resident in the New York office. Jane is a first chair trial lawyer focusing exclusively on intellectual property life sciences litigation. Over the past 20 years, Jane has been extensively involved in all aspects of patent litigation, including (both bench and jury) trials and appeals to the Federal Circuit. She has been lead counsel in numerous patent cases in federal district courts as well as before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in post-grant proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Jane most frequently litigates Hatch-Waxman cases and biologics cases, including fast-paced preliminary injunction matters. Jane also provides strategic patent advice to public and private clients and in the context of corporate transactions. Jane has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Cornell Medical School in Pharmacology before attending law school. She served as a Captain, and Company Commander, in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Service Corp from 1991 to 1997.

Janet Vance

Janet's experience includes representation of private equity sponsors, funds, public and private corporate borrowers and lenders with respect to secured and unsecured lending transactions, senior and subordinated debt financings, first lien/second lien transactions, subscription facilities, mezzanine loans, high-yield notes, loan syndications, restructurings and other credit and banking matters.

Janine Durand

Janine Durand is a Senior Counsel in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and a member of the firm’s Energy, Regulation & Litigation and Energy & Infrastructure Groups. Janine's practice involves the representation of clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”). She represents businesses engaged in the development and management of energy transmission and generation, including merchant transmission projects, and renewable energy. Janine has represented and advised independent power producers, electric power marketers, merchant transmission developers, interstate pipelines, local distribution companies and utilities in connection with a wide range of regulatory, administrative litigation and transactional matters.

Jason Goldstein

Jason Zachary Goldstein is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of the Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. He has significant expertise in restructuring, bankruptcy, and insolvency matters, including debt exchanges, distressed investments, acquisitions and financings, and other in‐court and out‐of-court transactions and arrangements.

Jason C. Schwartz

Jason C. Schwartz is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn, co-chair of the Labor & Employment Practice Group, General Counsel of the law firm and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Jason's experience includes "me too" investigations, wage-hour and discrimination class actions, sensitive whistleblower matters, high stakes trade secret and non-compete litigation and executive disputes. He won a case of first impression in Third Circuit establishing joint employment test under FLSA; won a nuclear whistleblower case against Secretary of Labor in Eleventh Circuit; and testified before Congress regarding OSHA enforcement programs.

Jeff Trinklein

Has extensive experience in U.S. and international taxation, with emphasis on advice to foreign clients with investments in U.S. and advice to U.S. clients with foreign operations. Clients include sovereign wealth funds, multinational corporations, high-net worth individuals, private equity funds, hedge funds, and real estate opportunity funds. Areas of practice include advice on structuring investment in domestic and foreign real estate, public and private companies, sports franchises and other investment assets. Has worked in firm’s U.S. and European offices (London for eleven years; Munich for four years).

Jeffrey Jakubiak

Jeffrey counsels clients regarding a broad variety of matters at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”). Holding a bachelor’s degree in quantitative economics, Jeffrey’s practice focuses on matters at the crossroads of law and economics, particularly electric company mergers and power sales, transmission rates, energy market manipulation, and the workings of energy markets. He has a deep understanding of the methodologies used by FERC to set returns on equity and to analyze generation market power, and has developed proprietary quantitative analytical tools that he uses to advise clients on electric asset transactions, market-based rate authorizations, and litigation risk.

Jeffrey A. Chapman

Jeffrey represents private equity firms and public and private companies in diverse cross-border and domestic transactions in a broad range of industries.

Jeffrey C. Krause

Jeffrey C. Krause is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. Jeff represents debtors, creditors’ committees, acquirers of assets from distressed debtors, lessors, secured and unsecured creditors, and litigants in bankruptcy courts throughout the country. Representations include large creditors and power purchase agreement parties in PG&E, Chapter 11 debtors THQ, Inc. and Romano’s Macaroni Grill, senior secured lenders in NPC and mortgage holders in CBL Properties and San Jose Fairmont hotel, and buyers of Boston Market equity and debt and of Hawaiian Airlines pursuant to Chapter 11 plan.

Jeffrey L. Steiner

Jeffrey L. Steiner is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Chair of the firm’s Derivatives practice group and Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Financial Regulatory practice group. Mr. Steiner is also the Co-Chair to the firm’s Global Fintech and Digital Assets practice group and a member of the firm’s Financial Institutions, Energy and Public Policy practice groups. Jeffrey advises corporate end-users, financial institutions, investment funds, exchanges and trade associations with regulatory, legislative, enforcement and transactional matters involving derivatives, commodities and securities. He assists clients with derivatives regulatory and compliance issues relating to the Dodd-Frank Act, the Commodity Exchange Act, the regulations of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and cross-border derivatives transactions. Jeffrey also counsels clients on regulatory matters involving cryptocurrencies, digital assets and blockchain technology.

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Jeffrey T. Thomas

Jeff, a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, is an experienced trial lawyer who has successfully handled numerous significant intellectual property and complex business cases. He has represented major clients of the firm in patent and trade secret litigation, including trials that resulted in verdicts in favor of the firm’s clients.

Jennifer Bellah Maguire

Jennifer Bellah Maguire is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office and is co-chair to the firm’s Investment Funds Group. Jennifer's practice focuses on private equity fund formation and mergers and acquisitions, including public company transactions and divestitures. She specializes in representing parties to asset manager transactions (investors and sponsors) ranging from seeding new sponsors and General Partner stakes investments to full acquisitions as well as sponsor recapitalizations and restructurings of sponsor firms, including in connection with initial public offerings and other exits.

Jeremy Robison

Jeremy defends companies and individuals involved in investigations by U.S. and international enforcement authorities, conducts confidential internal investigations, and advises on the creation and enhancement of corporate compliance programs. His practice is primarily focused on criminal antitrust matters involving alleged price fixing, customer allocation, bid rigging, and no-poach agreements. He has represented clients involved in cross-border government investigations in the United States, the European Union, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Brazil, Korea, and numerous other jurisdictions.

Jeremy Kenley

Jeremy Kenley is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher and a member of the Real Estate Practice Group. Jeremy has broad experience advising clients in the UK, across Europe and Asia on a wide range of corporate matters, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, disposals, fund formation, leveraged buy-outs and joint ventures. Jeremy has a particular focus on all aspects of real estate private equity, including the formation of real estate private equity and debt funds, as well as related real estate and debt acquisitions, real estate mergers and acquisitions, real estate joint ventures and co-investment deals and structures, having advised clients on numerous high profile, cross-border, complex transactions in these areas.

Jesse Sharf

Jesse Sharf is a partner in the Century City office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is Co-Chair of the firm’s Real Estate Department, and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. His experience includes representation of private equity and other funds, financial institutions, family offices, and other investors, lenders, servicers and operators/developers in all real estate and finance matters including: JV’s; real estate M&A and capital markets; loan and partnership workouts, restructurings, receiverships and remedies and other real estate disputes; acquisition, sale and financing of loan portfolios; real estate bankruptcies; construction, preferred equity, mortgage, structured, EB-5 and mezzanine financing; commercial development; acquisitions and sales of assets and operating companies; leasing; and structuring and resolving multi-tranched debt and equity structures.

Jesse Shapiro

Jesse's practice experience includes representation of real estate funds, lenders, and institutional and non-institutional investors in all areas of real estate, including: acquisitions and dispositions; construction, mortgage (fee and leasehold), mezzanine and participating financing; loan restructuring and workouts; and forming and representing limited liability companies, general and limited partnerships and joint ventures.

Jesse Myers

Jesse P. Myers is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Houston office. Jesse focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and capital markets matters. He regularly represents buyers and sellers in public and private mergers and acquisitions and issuers and underwriters in public and private securities offerings.

Jesse A. Cripps

Jesse handles the full range of labor and employment matters under federal and state law, specializing in defense of high risk, complex and class action litigation. His representative matters include defense of statewide and nationwide class actions (wage/hour, discrimination), high-stakes non-compete and trade secret disputes, and individual discrimination, retaliation and whistleblowing claims. He has a wide range of courtroom and administrative experience, including state and federal jury trials, and first chair success in the California Court of Appeal and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He also counsels clients on preventative planning under state and federal laws.

Jessica Brown

Jessica represents clients in a wide array of matters, including workplace and government investigations, wage-hour collective actions, discrimination class actions, and individual discrimination, harassment, retaliation, trade secret, and noncompete cases, in various state and federal courts and before agencies such as the DOJ, SEC, DOL, EEOC, State AGs, and the Civil Rights Division. In addition to investigations and litigation, she does a significant amount of advice and counseling.

Joe Zujkowski

Joe Zujkowski is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Business Restructuring and Reorganization practice group. Joe represents debtors, ad hoc creditor groups, and individual creditors in in-court and out-of-court restructurings and in executing complicated financing transactions. Recognized as a rising star by a number of publications, Joe has extensive experience in restructurings across a variety of industries including retail, energy, transportation, gaming, healthcare, and real estate.

Joel Harrison

Joel Harrison is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a Co-Chair of the firm’s Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Technology Transactions Practice Group. Joel advises on everything technology-related, including transactions, disputes and renegotiations, as well as regulatory issues. He also specialises in data protection and cybersecurity, advising on the full range of regulatory, transactional and contentious matters. Joel’s clients include some of the world’s leading corporations and financial institutions. Joel advises clients on a wide range of technology projects, including outsourcing, cloud computing, software development and licensing and system integration agreements, as well as collaborations and strategic alliances in the technology sector. He has also represented clients in major disputes and renegotiations on technology projects, and regularly advises on a wide variety of issues in technology regulation and policy development. Joel also advises clients on data protection matters, including data protection and ePrivacy issues in the development of new products and services and international data transfers, as well as data protection disputes and regulatory proceedings. He regularly advises on cybersecurity issues, and has represented clients in a wide range of sectors (including financial services, technology and pharmaceuticals) on incident preparedness and response.

John Pollack

John Pollack focuses his practice on public and private M&A across a wide range of industries and his clients include private investment funds, family offices, publicly-traded and privately-held companies.

John Chesley

John Chesley focuses his practice on white collar criminal enforcement and government-related litigation. He represents corporations, audit committees, and executives in internal investigations and before government agencies in matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, procurement fraud, environmental crimes, securities violations, sanctions enforcement, antitrust violations, and whistleblower claims. He also has significant trial experience before federal and state courts and administrative tribunals nationwide, with a particular focus on government contract disputes.

John T. Gaffney

John has extensive experience representing public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and capital markets transactions. He also advises boards of directors and special committees in corporate governance matters. John has considerable transactional experience advising domestic and international clients across numerous industries, including significant depth in the media, telecom, renewable energy and shipping industries.

Jonathan C. Bond

Jonathan C. Bond is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and its Appellate and Constitutional Law and Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Groups. Mr. Bond’s practice focuses on appellate litigation in the Supreme Court of the United States and in federal and state appellate courts across the country. He has presented oral argument in the Supreme Court in 10 cases involving a range of legal issues—including healthcare and insurance, patents, taxation, administrative law, employment, and debt collection—and he has briefed more than 200 cases in the Supreme Court, including 26 cases at the merits stage.

Joseph D. West

Joe has over 40 years of experience in government contracts. He represents contractors, subcontractors and government agencies. His areas of expertise include dispute avoidance/resolution, internal investigations, False Claims Act matters, suspension/debarment, DCSA/DSS matters, and transactional support. Joe has engaged in cases before various United States Courts of Appeals and District Courts, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and Boards of Contract Appeals.

Josh Krevitt

Josh Krevitt is widely recognized as one of the leading IP trial lawyers and litigators in the country. A partner in the New York and Palo Alto offices, Josh is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Intellectual Property Practice—one of the premier IP practices in the country—and is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Executive Committee. Josh has successfully litigated complex, high-stakes patent cases in courts and in the ITC, with a long and consistent track-record winning complex IP cases at trial, representing plaintiffs and defendants, in jury trials and bench trials. He served as lead counsel for leading technology companies in important and challenging patent cases, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Dell, EMC, Fitbit, Novo Nordisk, Sharp, Merck, RealNetworks, Amazon.com, Viacom, Cablevision, and Shazam.

Joshua Lipton

Josh maintains a broad-based antitrust and consumer protection practice, including litigation, merger and acquisition investigations, civil and criminal investigations by government authorities, and antitrust counseling. His representative matters include defending AT&T against DOJ’s challenge to AT&T’s $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner, defending Smithfield Foods in class action antitrust litigation, representing Marriott in securing global antitrust clearance in its $13.8 billion acquisition of Starwood, and authoring the briefs to the Supreme Court in the landmark Leegin case.

Joshua Brody

Josh Brody is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. Josh’s practice focuses on representing clients in complex chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and other distressed situations including negotiating and litigating plans of reorganization and debtor-in-possession financings. He also represents a diverse range of creditors at all levels of complex structures, including secured and unsecured, bondholders and bank debtholders, indenture trustees, creditors’ committees, and trade creditors. He also advises hedge funds and other financial institutions on the rights and remedies of debtholders and in understanding elaborate corporate and capital structures.

Joshua S. Lipshutz

Joshua S. Lipshutz serves as Partner & Chief Operating Officer of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the Firm’s Litigation Department, and the Appellate and Constitutional Law, Privacy and Cybersecurity, and Class Actions Practice Groups. Josh is a member of the Firm’s Executive and Management Committees.

Judith Alison Lee

Judith practices in the areas of international trade regulation, including OFAC economic sanctions and embargoes, commercial/military export controls, customs, CFIUS and customs issues. Licensed by Department of Treasury as customs house broker, receiving country's highest score on customs broker's examination in 1992.

Julian W. Poon

Julian W. Poon is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn, co-chair of the firm’s nationwide Appellate and Constitutional Law practice group, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, as well as the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Julian is a seasoned appellate and trial-court advocate who appears regularly before federal and state appellate courts in California, including the Ninth Circuit, the California Supreme Court, and the California Court of Appeal, as well as other state and federal appellate and trial courts around the nation. Since 2012, he has been repeatedly re-appointed by the Chief Justice of California to serve on the Judicial Council’s Advisory Committee on Civil Jury Instructions.

Kahlil Yearwood

Kahlil T. Yearwood is co-partner in charge of the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he serves as a member of the firm’s Real Estate Department, with a practice focused on commercial real estate finance and capital markets. He represents various portfolio lenders (including specialty finance companies, life insurance companies, hedge funds, and banks), debt fund managers, and private equity firms in transactions involving loan origination, loan purchases and sales, subordinate debt financing and acquisition, post-closing modifications, and work-outs.

Kari Krusmark

Kari Krusmark is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Corporate Transactions, Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Transactions, and Technology Transactions practice groups. Kari's practice focuses on the structuring and negotiation of a wide range of transactions, including agreements for cloud services; information technology outsourcing (ITO) services; business process outsourcing (BPO) services; systems implementation and integration; application development, licensing and maintenance; consulting services; transitional services; strategic alliances; OEM and reseller arrangements; contract manufacturing; the purchase and sale of goods and services; and other technology-related matters. In the outsourcing area, she assists clients from the RFP stage through renegotiation, dispute resolution and termination. Her ITO experience includes application development and maintenance, infrastructure, end user computing, help desk and call center operations, IT security, and managed networks. Her BPO experience includes facilities management, finance and accounting, claims processing and other back-office functions, human resources, logistics and distribution, and procurement.

Karl Nelson

Karl counsels and represents clients in all aspects of federal and state employment regulation, labor relations, and compensation and benefits law. He has extensive experience defending complex labor, employment, and benefit matters, including class and collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and comparable state laws. He has successfully represented clients in virtually every aspect of employment law, including compliance with state and federal wage and hour laws; worker misclassification challenges; allegations of systemic age, race, disability and gender discrimination; “whistle-blower” retaliation; and breach of fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. He also regularly advises and represents clients in connection with trade secret, competition, and employee-raiding issues.

Kate Dominguez

Kate Dominguez is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. Kate has extensive experience litigating complex patent cases from discovery through trial and appeal, and has worked across a broad spectrum of technologies, including both high-tech and life sciences matters. Representative technologies she has litigated include systems and software for data storage, encryption, interactive television, intrusion detection, mobile communications, network authentication, and wireless networking, among others. Kate’s life sciences work has included matters relating to recombinant DNA, pharmaceutical composition and dosing, and medical devices. Her practice also includes antitrust litigation in which a client’s defense of its intellectual property rights gives rise to antitrust allegations.

Kate Timmerman

Kate Timmerman is a corporate associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the Firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group. Kate specializes in the establishment, management and operation of private equity, real estate, natural resources and infrastructure funds, co-investment funds, credit opportunity and other debt funds, including advising managers on the structuring and marketing of these funds. She has experience with private funds, investors, and investments throughout the world, including Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Kate also regularly represents investors in relation to the terms of their investment in and transfers of interest from such funds and has experience advising fund managers on the regulatory aspects of private fund structures as well as carried interest, co-investment schemes, secondary transactions, as well as joint ventures and other strategic partnerships and transactions.

Katherine V.A. Smith

Katherine Smith is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She serves as co-chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group. Katherine practices with the firm's Labor and Employment and Litigation Departments. Katherine has extensive experience representing employers in individual, representative and class action litigation at both the trial court and appellate level. Her practice focuses on high stakes litigation matters such as large-scale class actions, actions brought under the California PAGA, whistleblower retaliation cases, and executive disputes. She also advises employers on government investigations, enforcement of non-solicitation and non-competition covenants, reductions in force and reorganizations, independent contractor/employee status, C-suite on-boarding and separations, and other employment-related issues. She has also been involved in multiple independent investigations of high profile #metoo complaints alleging systemic sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

Kathryn A. Kelly

Kathryn A. Kelly is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group. Kathryn represents clients in a broad range of tax matters, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, restructurings, and financing transactions.

Kenneth G. Parker

Kenneth is a first-chair trial lawyer who has tried patent, trademark, and business cases to verdict, including International Trade Commission Section 337 patent litigation proceedings. He focuses on patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and business litigation.

Kevin Masuda

Kevin is a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions practice group and the Co-Chair of the firm’s Media, Entertainment and Technology industry group. He regularly represents content companies including motion picture studios and music companies, technology companies, gaming companies, private equity funds, sports and talent agencies, and other clients in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions.

Kira Idoko

Kira Idoko is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s New York office and a member of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group. Kira’s practice focuses on the formation and operation of private investment funds across a variety of fund strategies, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, credit and other investment strategies. She has advised on capital raises ranging from $200 million to $14 billion. Kira has extensive experience with both closed and open-end fund products, fund of funds and separately managed accounts. Additionally, she advises on structuring and restructuring, regulatory and compliance matters and other fund-related transactions.

Kristen C. Limarzi

Kristen's practice focuses on investigations, litigation, and counseling on antitrust merger and conduct matters, as well as appellate and civil litigation. She previously served as the Chief of the Appellate Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where she led a team of more than a dozen professionals litigating appeals in the Division’s civil and criminal enforcement actions and participating as amicus curiae in private antitrust actions. Kristen twice received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award.

Kristin A. Linsley

Kristin specializes in complex business and appellate litigation across a spectrum of areas, including water and energy law, cybersecurity and technology law, international and transnational law, data and privacy, and complex financial litigation. She has earned a national reputation for achieving favorable results for her clients in high-profile complex matters, and is noted for the strength of her legal analysis and the depth and breadth of her multinational litigation experience.

Laura A. Rupenian

Laura concentrates her work on domestic and cross-border debt financing transactions for private equity groups, corporate borrowers and selected lending institutions, including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and working capital facilities.

Lauren Goldman

Lauren R. Goldman is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is Co-Chair of the Technology Litigation Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Class Actions, Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation, and Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Groups. Lauren’s practice focuses on high-stakes class- and mass-action disputes, particularly in the areas of data privacy and product liability.

Lauren Giovannone

Lauren Giovannone is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and practices in Real Estate Practice Group. She represents real estate development companies, financial institutions, investors, and commercial lessors and tenants in all aspects of the acquisition, development and finance of hotels, condo-hotels, resorts, theme and water parks, and large mixed-use projects, including, without limitation, the negotiation of management, franchise, licensing and branding agreements, restaurant leases and management agreements, pre-opening, technical service and PIP agreements, marketing and sales agreements, subordination and non-disturbance agreements, executive compensation and consulting agreements, and celebrity chef joint venture and management agreements.

Linda Curtis

Co-Chair of the Global Finance practice. Focuses on corporate finance, including secured and unsecured corporate credit facilities, acquisition financings, Rule 144A transactions, real estate financings, asset-based lending, cross-border financings, mezzanine transactions, and preferred stock financings.Former President, LA County Bar Association. Former Chair, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section Executive Committee and Business and Corporations Law Section Executive Committee, LA County Bar Association.

Lindsay M. Paulin

Lindsay’s practice focuses on a wide range of government contracts issues, including internal investigations, claims preparation and litigation, bid protests, government investigations under the False Claims Act, cost allowability, suspension and debarment proceedings, mergers and acquisitions involving government contracts, and compliance counseling. She has represented clients in disputes before the United States Court of Federal Claims, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, the United States Government Accountability Office, and administrative agencies. Her clients include contractors and their subcontractors, vendors, and suppliers across a range of industries including aerospace and defense, information technology, professional services, private equity, and insurance.

Lindsey D. Schmidt

Lindsey D. Schmidt is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of Gibson Dunn’s Litigation, International Arbitration and Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Practice Groups. Lindsey focuses her practice on international arbitration and has extensive experience in both international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitrations. She has a wide range of experience in all areas of international arbitration, but particularly in disputes relating to mining, steel, telecommunications, insurance, aviation and financial services.

Lori Zyskowski

Lori Zyskowski is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s New York office and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group. Lori advises public companies and their boards of directors on corporate governance matters, securities disclosure and compliance issues, executive compensation practices, shareholder proposals, environmental, social and governance matters, and shareholder engagement and activism matters.

M. Kendall Day

M. Kendall Day is a nationally recognized white-collar partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Global Fintech and Digital Assets Practice Group, co-chair of the firm’s Financial Institutions Practice Group, co-leads the firm’s Anti-Money Laundering practice, and is a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations and Crisis Management Practice Groups.

Madalyn M Miller

Madalyn’s asset finance experience involves representing underwriters, lenders, and lessors in a variety of asset finance transactions, including portfolio securitizations, acquisition financing, and secured and unsecured lending transactions. She has also expertise advising on transactions involving the acquisition or disposition of aviation leasing companies and large portfolios of aircraft assets.

Mark Reiter

Mark is an IP litigator and former co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s global Intellectual Property Practice Group and is a resident of the Dallas office. He has extensive experience litigating intellectual property matters in Federal Courts, appellate courts, including the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the International Trade Commission and consistently serves as lead counsel in complex intellectual property disputes. Mark Reiter has handled patent litigation matters dealing with a variety of technologies including immunization technologies, DNA sequencing and DNA assembly technologies, RNAi technologies, mass spectrometry, semiconductor manufacturing, design and processing, software, construction techniques, chemicals, medical devices and food technology. He served as lead counsel for Uber Technologies in multiple patent infringement cases; lead counsel for Hewlett Packard Enterprise in a multi-patent case involving networking technology; lead counsel for Kimberly-Clark in a trade secret and patent infringement dispute involving nonwoven fabric technology and served as counsel for Natera Inc. in a multi-patent infringement dispute involving genetic testing technologies.

Mark Sperotto

Mark Sperotto is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher and a member of the Corporate Transactional practice group. Mark has broad experience in both the UK and Italian markets, covering all aspects of corporate, private equity and investment banking with a focus on cross-border M&A, leveraged buy-outs, fund establishment and international corporate finance and equity capital markets transactions. Mark’s experience extends to advising private equity and investment funds, major domestic and international corporates and investment banks on a wide range of company law and transactional matters. He has particular expertise in the retail, leisure, healthcare, gaming, e-commerce, real estate and energy/infrastructure sectors, having advised clients on numerous high profile and complex transactions in those areas.

Mark D. Director

Mark D. Director is a partner in the Washington, D.C. and New York offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, and Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Groups. Mark is a senior corporate partner representing public companies and private equity sponsors in a range of M&A, securities and corporate governance matters across multiple industries. He has handled hundreds of complex business transactions and regularly counsels public companies and boards of directors on disclosure, compliance, governance and risk management issues. His clients include Arlington Capital Partners, ATL Partners, Exelon Corporation, FTI Consulting, Genworth Mortgage, MidOcean Partners, Monumental Sports & Entertainment, Morgan Stanley, Rhone Capital, and Tutor Perini.

Marwan Azzi

Marwan Azzi is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Private Equity Practice Group. His practice focuses on representing companies, private equity and infrastructure funds, and management teams in global investments in the infrastructure space, including assisting clients with domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, project development, co-investments, and other corporate matters. Marwan’s infrastructure experience spans the energy space (power generation, energy transition, and midstream), transportation, digital infrastructure and social infrastructure in North America and Latin America.

Mary G. Murphy

Mary G. Murphy is the co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Land Use and Development Practice Group and a member of the Real Estate Practice Group and Sports Law Group. Mary is a major player in development in San Francisco and the Bay Area. She represents a wide variety of developers and investors in real estate transactions and land use issues, with particular experience in public private partnerships, sports facilities and historic rehabilitation projects. Her recent projects include current pursuit of a new ballpark and mixed use development for the Oakland A’s, entitlement of Golden State Warriors arena and mixed-use development and recent successful entitlement of a hotel project for the Warriors; pursuit of development of a new urban village for UC Hastings; entitlement and current implementation of 9-million-square-foot development for a Related; entitlement of Build, Inc.’s 38-acre India Basin project; assisting Cedar Fair’s with its acquisition of the Great America Theme Park; pursuit of redevelopment of a portion of the San Francisco Center for Westfield; entitlement of Treasure Island Naval Station redevelopment and current implementation of vertical development; entitlement of Parkmerced redevelopment; development of several waterfront and cultural institution projects.

Matt Gregory

Matt Gregory is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and Appellate and Constitutional Law and Administrative Law Practice Groups. Matt represents corporate clients in a wide range of appellate, administrative law, and litigation matters.

Matt Donnelly

Matt Donnelly is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group. He represents public and private companies on a broad range of U.S. federal and state income tax matters, with a concentration on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, Reverse Morris Trust transactions, joint ventures, financing transactions, capital markets transactions, restructurings and internal reorganizations. Matt also regularly advises clients on tax issues relating to the development, financing, acquisition and disposition of energy and real estate projects.

Matthew Nunan

Matthew Nunan is a partner in the firm’s Dispute Resolution Group. He specializes in white collar defence, investigations and financial services regulation, regularly representing global financial services firms and large corporate clients.

Matthew A. Kidd

Matthew advises clients on a wide range of matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, financings, joint ventures, preferred equity investments, as well as development transactions. His finance experiencing includes representing both borrowers and lenders in the origination of different types of debt such as construction financings, balance sheet loans and CMBS, as well as intercreditor and co-lender arrangements. He also advises clients in connection with workouts and restructurings of debt.

Matthew A. Hoffman

Matt Hoffman is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of its Insurance and Reinsurance, Labor and Employment, Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort, and Class Actions Practice Groups. Matt specializes in civil trials in both federal and state courts, with a principal focus on complex insurance and reinsurance disputes. He has represented some of the world’s leading insurance companies in a wide variety of coverage litigation, and is currently acting as national coordinating counsel for a national insurer involving sexual abuse coverage claims.

Matthew D. McGill

Matt is an appellate litigator and Co-Chair of the Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Practice Group. His practice encompasses constitutional challenges to federal and state laws and high-profile litigation against sovereigns such as Venezuela, Argentina, Iran, Sudan, and Puerto Rico. Notable Supreme Court representations include Opati v. Sudan; Murphy v. NCAA; Puerto Rico v. Franklin Tax Free Trust; Bank Markazi v. Peterson; Argentina v. NML Capital, Ltd.; Hollingsworth v. Perry; and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

Matthew J. Williams

Matthew J. Williams is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. Matthew has taken a lead role in numerous high-profile restructurings and cross-border proceedings. Recent notable matters led by him include Triangle USA Petroleum Corporation (representation of bondholder group and backstop new money providers through Chapter 11 plan); iHeart Communications (representation of bondholder group and indenture trustee); Puerto Rico (representation of substantial bondholder in connection with successful Supreme Court of United States challenge related to Puerto Rico’s restructuring statute); The Sports Authority (representation of Chapter 11 debtor in connection with DIP financing and sale of assets); Brookstone Holdings Corp. (representation of company in Chapter 11 restructuring); Arcapita Bank (representation of Chapter 11 debtor in connection with first ever Sharia compliant DIP financing); General Motors (representation of indenture trustee for $23 billion in bonds and of liquidating trustee charged with administering wind down of General Motors bankruptcy estate); Dynegy (representation of subordinated noteholders); Nortel (representation of bidder in Chapter 11 auction); Trident Resources (representation of secured lender group and backstop new money providers); CIT Group (representation of indenture trustee for $2 billion in bonds); Ambassadors’ Cruise Group (representation of secured lenders and stalking horse purchaser in Chapter 11); Loehmann’s Department Stores (representation of secured lender and plan sponsor); General Growth Properties (representation of DIP lender); Vitesse Semiconductor (representation of convertible bondholder group in out of court restructuring); Dana Corporation (representation of official creditors’ committee); Footstar Corporation (representation of official equity committee); and Leap Wireless (representation of official creditors’ committee).

Maurice Suh

Maurice M. Suh is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Maurice is Co-Chair of the firm’s Sports Law Practice Group and is a member of the Litigation Department and its White Collar Defense and Investigations and Crisis Management Practice Groups. He focuses his practice on business litigation and the representation of clients in conjunction with white collar, compliance and related government enforcement actions.

Meghan M. Hungate

Meghan Hungate is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Technology Transactions Practice Group. Meghan represents both public and private companies and financial sponsors in connection with complex intellectual property and technology transactions issues relating to outsourcing arrangements, corporate mergers and acquisitions, venture and private equity investments, global branding, and the development, acquisition, licensing and exploitation of intellectual property. She regularly counsels clients across a range of industries including software, high-technology, energy, media, pharmaceuticals, and finance, and has significant experience in negotiating and documenting intellectual property and information technology representations and warranties, transitional services and licensing agreements, collaboration agreements and joint venture arrangements.

Michael Farhang

Michael M. Farhang is a former federal prosecutor and a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations and Securities Litigation Practice Groups. Mr. Farhang is an experienced litigator and trial attorney who has earned recoveries totaling nearly $70 million for corporate clients pursuing fraud, contract, and M&A-related claims. He specializes in the defense of companies, directors, and executives in DOJ and SEC investigations and in shareholder class actions, derivative suits and other commercial litigation. Mr. Farhang has tried more than 25 cases in government and private practice.

Michael Weinberger

Michael Weinberger is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Weinberger’s practice focuses on real estate law, with a particular focus on real estate finance, workouts, restructurings and commercial mortgage securitization. He frequently represents lenders, borrowers and issuers in complex multi-state mortgage and mezzanine loan transactions involving office buildings, hotels, shopping centers, multi-family, industrial, casino and other property types.

Michael Darden

Michael P. Darden is a partner in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Mr. Darden is chair of the firm’s Oil & Gas Practice Group, a member of the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure, and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups. Michael focuses on international and US oil and gas ventures (including LNG, deep-water and unconventional resource development projects); international and US infrastructure projects; asset acquisitions and divestitures; and energy-based financings (including project financings, reserve-based loans and production payments). He works with governments, operators, industry partners, investors, contractors, suppliers, lenders and insurers.

Michael Piazza

Michael De Voe Piazza is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Houston office, and is Co-Chair of the firm’s U.S. Private Equity Practice. He focuses his private equity practice on mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and equity and debt offerings, including control, minority and preferred investments and structured equity and asset-level investments and financings. He regularly represents clients in the financial, oil and gas, energy transition and power sectors. Michael has significant experience advising private equity funds and other financial sponsors in “GP stakes” transactions, leveraged buyouts, portfolio company investments and fund formation projects. He also has developed expertise in transactions involving the mineral and royalty business, the renewable natural gas business, volumetric production payments and “DrillCo” structures.

Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office. He is a leader of the firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practice area, and is a member of the firm’s Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort, and Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Groups. Mr. Murphy counsels clients on environmental and ESG issues related to corporate transactions and compliance. He also represents clients in a wide variety of investigation and litigation matters. Michael advises clients in a variety of corporate, private equity, finance and real estate transactions. He is experienced in identifying environmental risks and negotiating transactional documents for buyers, sellers and investors of manufacturing, service, technology, aerospace, petroleum, energy, and financial industry clients. His litigation experience enables him to approach each environmental transactional issue with a broad perspective that takes into account all of his clients’ concerns. He advises clients on ESG and sustainability matters, including corporate disclosures, policies, reporting and integration issues. He also helps clients manage large remediation projects, including negotiating final remedies with state and federal regulators. Michael has been recognized as a Law360 Rising Star and, most recently, by Lawdragon as one of the Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law for 2023.

Michael Rosenthal

Michael A. Rosenthal was previously Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group for over 30 years. He has extensive experience in reorganizing distressed businesses and related corporate reorganization and debt restructuring matters. He has represented complex, financially distressed companies, both in out-of-court restructurings and in pre-packaged, pre-negotiated and freefall chapter 11 cases, acquirors of distressed assets and investors in distressed businesses. Michael’s representations have spanned a variety of business sectors, including investment banking, private equity, energy, retail, shipping, manufacturing, real estate, engineering, construction, medical, airlines, media, telecommunications and banking. He has been recognized for his ability to build consensus, to mediate disputes, and to bring practical results to complicated business situations.

Michael D. Bopp

Michael Bopp is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Michael brings his extensive government and private-sector experience to help clients navigate through the most difficult crises, often involving investigations as well as public policy and media challenges. He chairs the Firm’s Congressional Investigations practice and he is a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations Crisis Management Practice Groups. Michael also co-chairs the firm’s Public Policy Practice Group and is a member of its Financial Institutions Practice Group. His practice focuses on congressional investigations, internal corporate investigations, and other government investigations. He also advises clients on public policy and regulatory consulting in a variety of fields, and managing and responding to major crises involving multiple government agencies and branches.

Michael D. Celio

Michael Celio is a trial lawyer with more than two decades of experience trying cases in Silicon Valley and beyond. He is a recognized expert in the field of securities litigation and is particularly experienced in defending venture capital firms and their partners as well as their portfolio companies. He also has deep experience in defending criminal actions brought by the United States Department of Justice and civil enforcement actions brought by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Michael J. Cohen

Michael J. Cohen is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s New York office and a member of the Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. Michael represents a diverse array of parties in bankruptcy and insolvency matters, distressed investments, acquisitions and financings, debt exchanges, and in‐court and out‐of-court restructurings.

Michael J. Desmond

Michael Desmond is a partner in the Los Angeles and Washington, DC offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is co-chair of the Firm’s Global Tax Controversy and Litigation Group. His practice covers a broad range of federal tax matters with a focus on tax controversy and litigation. For more than 25 years, he has represented clients before the examination divisions of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the IRS Independent Office of Appeals, in the United States Tax Court and in federal district courts, the Court of Federal Claims and various federal courts of appeal.

Michael J. Perry

Michael J. Perry is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. Michael represents clients in merger and non-merger related investigations before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, and complex private and government antitrust litigation. His practice spans a variety of industries, including healthcare and life sciences, energy, and technology, and he is experienced in issues at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law.

Michael Q. Cannon

Michael Cannon is a tax partner in the Dallas office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Michael Cannon has significant experience with the tax aspects of mergers and acquisition transactions, and has represented both buyers and sellers in a number of transactions, both public and private, including cross-border matters. He dedicates a significant part of his practice to transactions and offerings in the energy and infrastructure space, including oil and gas, MLP and renewable energy (solar and wind) transactions (both on the sponsor side and on the tax-equity side). He also represents investment fund sponsors in connection with tax structuring matters, and has particular expertise with oil and gas, real estate and infrastructure funds. Michael also has substantial experience in representing real estate investors and sponsors in a wide variety of transactions, including complex joint ventures.

Michele Maryott

Michele Maryott focuses on business litigation, with particular emphasis on employment litigation, class actions and complex commercial disputes. She has litigated a wide range of labor and employment matters, including defending employers against wage and hour and discrimination class actions, and retaliation, sexual harassment, wrongful termination and whistleblower claims in federal and state courts, as well as in administrative proceedings and arbitrations. Her recent successes include defeating certification of a putative class of more than 70,000 employees in a wage and hour class action brought against a major healthcare company, which was unanimously affirmed by the California Court of Appeal in a published opinion.

Michelle Kirschner

Michelle Kirschner is an English law partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and co-chair of the firm’s Global Financial Regulatory group. She advises a broad range of financial institutions, including investment managers, integrated investment banks, corporate finance boutiques, private fund managers and private wealth managers at the most senior level. Michelle has a particular expertise in fintech businesses, having advised a number of fintech firms on regulatory perimeter issues. Michelle works closely with the Corporate team on financial services capital markets and M&A deals, in particular on investments by funds into regulated firms and related prudential issues. Michelle has extensive experience in advising clients on areas such as systems and controls, market abuse, conduct of business and regulatory change management, including MiFID II, MAR and Senior Managers & Certification Regime. Following the EU referendum, she has spent considerable time advising regulated clients in relation to their options for conducting business in / into the EU following Brexit. Michelle has particular experience in contentious regulatory matters, including acting as a section 166 skilled person under the Financial Services and Markets Act. She has also conducted internal investigations, in particular reviews of corporate governance and systems and controls in the context of EU and UK regulatory requirements and expectations.

Miguel A. Estrada

Miguel Estrada is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Mr. Estrada represents clients in federal/state courts and international arbitrations. He has handled 24 cases before US Supreme Court, under False Claims Act, patent, bankruptcy and criminal law, RICO, and ERISA. He has extensive Supreme Court experience includes lead counsel (Comcast v. NAAAOM, Coventry Health v. Nevils, NLRB v. Canning, LabCorp v. Metabolite, Aetna v. Davila, Conrad Black v. United States, Comcast v. Behrend) and part of team (Bush v Gore).

Mike Szczurek

Mike Szczurek is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Department. He represents funds, developers, and everything from institutional to non-institutional to individual investors in acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financings, preferred equity investments, REIT formations and sales, work-outs and restructurings in a varied set of markets and for a comprehensive array of asset types, including raw land, student housing facilities, multi-family assets, single family rental assets, hotels and resorts, stadiums, office buildings, warehouses, and/or master planned and individual industrial projects.

Mitasha Chandok

Mitasha Chandok is an experienced corporate associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Oil and Gas, Energy and Infrastructure, Power and Renewables, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Private Equity practice groups and the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practice. Mitasha’s experience includes mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, project development and financing, and corporate advisory work. She routinely advises clients in the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors. Mitasha is also actively involved in advising on energy transition matters and ESG advisory matters for energy and non-energy clients. She has worked in mature and emerging markets (nearly 50 jurisdictions) and has advised extensively across Asia and Africa on a number of transactions and projects (including first entries). Mitasha is an executive committee member of Gibson Dunn’s London Office Diversity, Talent and Inclusion Committee, where she chairs the gender sub-group and co-chairs the multicultural forum.

Molly T. Senger

Molly T. Senger is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the Labor & Employment Practice Group. Molly has represented clients in a wide range of employment litigation matters, including cases involving allegations of trade secret misappropriation, wage-and-hour violations, whistleblowing, race, age, and disability discrimination, and sexual harassment. Molly has significant experience in defending against employment-related putative class actions and litigating high-stakes executive compensation disputes. She has represented employers in federal district and appellate courts across the country, as well as in arbitration and mediation, and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other federal and state agencies.

Monica K. Loseman

Monica K. Loseman is a co-chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Securities Litigation Practice Group and co-chair of the Accounting Firm Advisory and Defense Practice Group. She has substantial experience in complex civil litigation matters. While she has represented clients in a variety of substantive matters, Monica focuses her practice in corporate and securities litigation, financial reporting, accounting and related investigations, and accountant defense. She has assisted clients in defending federal and state litigation, responding to investigations by various government agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the Department of Justice. Monica also has substantial experience in corporate governance matters, including litigation related to mergers and acquisitions and similar “deal” litigation. Her trial experience includes three trials before SEC administrative law judges, several bench and jury trials, and private arbitrations. Monica represents Board committees in conducting independent investigations involving allegations of corporate fraud and issues relating to financial reporting, accounting, internal controls, as well as special litigation matters and other issues, and is skilled at interacting with Board committees and other stakeholders in presenting results and recommendations.

Nathaniel Bach

Nathaniel Bach, Of Counsel, represents and counsels businesses, individuals, and non-profit clients in contract and intellectual property matters in the film, television, music, technology, fashion, and telecommunications industries; in global regulatory and governmental investigations; and in numerous other disputes and transactions. Nathaniel was named a 2020 Litigator of the Week, by AmLaw Litigation Daily after obtaining dismissal of claims brought by recording artists against Universal Music Group in a proposed $100 million class action over UMG’s master recording losses in a 2008 warehouse fire. He has been recognized as a 2021 Rising Star in Media and Entertainment Litigation by Legal 500, and as One to Watch in Entertainment and Sports Law in The Best Lawyers in America® 2021.

Neil Sekhri

Neil H. Sekhri is Of Counsel in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Land Use and Development Practice Group. Neil has practiced real estate, land use and municipal law for over 30 years. His experience includes public and private partnerships, ground leasing, development agreements, land use and entitlements, CEQA, BCDC, public trust, historic preservation, acquisitions and dispositions, commercial leasing for landlords and tenants, and public agency rules and procedures. Representative clients include the Golden State Warriors in the successful entitlement and implementation of a new Event Center and Mixed-Use project in Mission Bay; the Oakland Athletics working on the entitlement of a new ballpark and mixed-use development on the Oakland Waterfront; Forest City in the successful entitlement and redevelopment of Pier 70, a 28-acre mixed-use development within the Port of San Francisco’s Pier 70 Historic District; The Related Companies in the successful entitlement and redevelopment of a 300-acre publicly-owned landfill site in the City of Santa Clara; Build Inc. in the successful entitlement of a large mixed-use public/private development with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department; and Treasure Island Community Developers in the successful entitlement and ongoing implementation of the redevelopment of Treasure Island, a former U.S. Navy base, as a large new master-planned community.

Nicholas H. Politan Jr.

Nicholas H. Politan, Jr. is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Energy (Power and Renewables) Practice Group. Mr. Politan is also a member of the Global Finance Practice Group. Mr. Politan focuses his practice on domestic and cross-border energy-related transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, financings of all types, project development, construction and operation, and restructurings. He has particular experience in wind power, solar power and other renewable technologies. He represents developers, sponsors, strategic investors and lenders in connection with these transactions. He also has extensive experience in asset-based and structured financings.

Nick Tomlinson

Nick Tomlinson is an English and New York qualified corporate partner based in Gibson Dunn’s London office, having joined the firm in January 2001. He has also practised out of the firm’s New York office for two years and helped establish our Dubai office. Nick advises and leads deal teams on a wide range of UK and international cross-border transactions, principally in the Private Equity, Growth Capital, Management Equity Incentivisation, Joint Venture and M&A fields. He has also worked on international capital raisings and investment banking advisory arrangements. Given the international nature of the transactions, he often works closely with our tax, FCPA and OFAC/sanctions specialists in London and the U.S. as well our FDI and antitrust colleagues in London and Brussels. He regularly acts for global and regional private equity firms, investment banks, family investment companies and a range of companies across a number of sectors, which include: healthcare, education, media, IT & digital infrastructure, digital communications & marketing, gaming, retail, sports & hospitality, hotels & leisure, beverages, shipping, manufacturing & distribution, mining and oil & gas.

Nicola Hanna

Nick Hanna is a litigation partner in Gibson Dunn’s Los Angeles office and co-chairs the firm’s global White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group. Nick focuses on representing corporations and individuals in high-stakes civil litigation, white collar crime, and regulatory and securities enforcement, including internal investigations, False Claims Act cases, special committee representations, and compliance counseling. He has significant experience handling FCPA matters with both DOJ and the SEC and has conducted sensitive cross-border internal investigations around the globe.

Noam I. Haberman

Noam I. Haberman is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of Gibson Dunn’s Real Estate Practice Group. Noam focuses on the representation of banks and funds as both borrowers and lenders on the origination, purchase and sale of balance sheet, syndicated, mezzanine, preferred equity and corporate loans (including land, construction, repositioning, bridge and permanent loans) across all real estate asset classes. He has extensive experience in structuring and negotiating complex financing arrangements for loans that present underwriting challenges. His practice also includes representing institutional investors on joint venture agreements, acquisitions and developments.

Orin Snyder

Orin Snyder is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading trial lawyers and litigators. A former federal prosecutor, he is a partner in the New York office and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He has a national trial and litigation practice, including complex commercial, technology and media litigation, internal corporate investigations and white-collar. His clients have included Facebook, AMC Networks, Uber, Cablevision, General Electric, T-Mobie, Goldman Sachs, Starbucks, Time Warner, and Warner Music Group. Has also handled complex litigation for such well-known individuals as Mark Zuckerberg, Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman, Lady Gaga, Elton John and Bob Dylan. Orin is co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Trials Practice Group.

Osma Hudda

Osma Hudda is an English qualified partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s London office and is a member of the Firm’s Dispute Resolution Group. She has broad-based dispute resolution experience including litigation and international arbitration. Osma’s litigation experience has involved representing clients in Employment Tribunals, the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. In arbitration she has represented clients from a wide variety of industries, including construction and oil & gas, before arbitral tribunals including the ICC and LCIA.

Pamela Lawrence Endreny

Pamela Lawrence Endreny is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Pamela represents public companies and private equity clients on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures, financings and restructurings. She has obtained private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service on tax-free spin-offs and other corporate transactions and has advised clients on matters relating to audits and tax controversies. Pamela also has experience advising investment funds, alternative asset managers and family offices, and working on all types of capital markets transactions and complex derivatives.

Patrick Hennessy

Patrick Hennessy is an English qualified partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. He is a member of the Corporate Transactional, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity and Real Estate practice groups. Patrick has extensive experience advising clients in the U.K., across Europe and Asia on a wide range of corporate matters, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, disposals, leveraged buy-outs and joint ventures. Patrick has a particular focus on corporate real estate, mainstream private equity (including management and institutional buyout transactions) and all aspects of real estate private equity (including real estate mergers and acquisitions, real estate joint ventures and co-investment deals and structures). Patrick has advised clients on numerous high profile, cross-border, complex transactions in these areas. He also has significant experience advising clients in the betting and gaming industries.

Patrick Doris

Patrick Doris is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Dispute Resolution Group in London, where he specialises in global white-collar investigations, commercial litigation and complex compliance advisory matters. Patrick’s practice covers a wide range of disputes, including white-collar crime, internal and regulatory investigations, transnational litigation, class actions, contentious antitrust matters and administrative law challenges against governmental decision-making. Patrick handles major cross-border investigations in the fields of bribery and corruption, fraud, sanctions, money laundering, financial sector wrongdoing, antitrust, consumer protection and tax evasion. Patrick’s recent commercial disputes experience has extended to advising corporations, UK public bodies and sovereign states in claims in courts and tribunals in the UK and around Europe. He has particular expertise in antitrust cases, human rights disputes and collective actions.

Patrick W. Dennis

Patrick W. Dennis is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice Group. Pat represents clients in environmental litigation, toxic tort lawsuits, public and private enforcement actions, private party clean-up cost recovery, diligence/transactional matters with environmental liabilities, and complex permit/entitlement projects. He has extensive experience with all federal and state agencies for air quality, hazardous waste, and water quality. Represents buyers and sellers of major industrial facilities worldwide and contaminated real estate for redevelopment. He has served as lead litigation counsel for numerous clean-up cost recovery, toxic tort, enforcement and Superfund matters, including natural resource damage actions brought by the US.

Paul Torchia

Paul Torchia has litigated intellectual property cases in a wide range of technical fields, including computer hardware and software, telecommunications, wireless networking, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals for clients including Dell EMC, Novartis, NetApp, Rubrik, Infor, AppDynamics, and Microsoft. He has tried seven patent cases, including before the District of Delaware, Northern District of California, Southern District of California, Eastern District of Texas, and the International Trade Commission.

Penny Madden KC

Penny Madden is an English qualified King’s counsel and serves as co-partner in charge of the London office at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is co-chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Transnational Litigation Practice Group. She has a wide range of experience in all key aspects of international arbitration with particular expertise in shareholder, telecommunications, SPA, energy, international trade and insurance disputes. She represents clients across the globe in a wide variety of arbitration proceedings, including those before the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague (PCA) Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA), as well as in ad hoc proceedings. In addition to representing clients as counsel, Penny regularly sits as an arbitrator. Her recent cases include representing two Middle Eastern oil and gas companies in multiple LCIA arbitrations arising out of a multi-billion oil and gas project in Kurdistan and disputed gas pipeline; representing a Middle Eastern oil and gas company in a multi-billion PCA administered arbitration against a state owned Middle East oil and gas company in a gas sales and pipe-line infrastructure project dispute; representing a telecommunications corporate in its US$17 billion dollar UNCITRAL investment treaty arbitration against a North African state for creeping expropriation and breach of the fair and equitable treatment standard; and representing shareholders in a major oil company with respect to multibillion dollar claims for expropriation under the Energy Charter Treaty against the Russian Federation.

Perlette Jura

Perlette Jura is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. offices. Her practice focuses on complex trial and appellate litigation. She cochairs the firm’s Transnational Litigation Group and its Environmental Social Governance practice. She has played a key role in a number of the firm’s most high-profile matters. Perlette has extensive experience working with the food and beverage, agricultural, aerospace, automotive, technology and energy industries. Perlette is in Legal 500’s Hall of Fame for Transnational Litigation. The Los Angeles Business Journal named Perlette among its 2023 Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Attorneys, and to its list of “Most Influential Women Lawyers” in Los Angeles, featuring 50 of the most accomplished female attorneys working in the region. For the past five years, Perlette has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation as one of the “Top 250 Women in Litigation.” Benchmark Litigation also featured Perlette as a California “Litigation Star” for 2023. Lawdragon, which recognizes those who specialize in international arbitration, public international law and advise leading corporations, recognized Perlette as one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” (2024), one of “500 Leading Litigators in America” (2023, 2024), and one of the “500 Leading Global Litigators” (2023). She was also recognized as a member of the Lawdragon Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law (2023, 2024). BTI Consulting Group also honored Perlette a Client Service All-Star, an attorney “who stand[s] above all the others in delivering the absolute best in client service.”

Peter Modlin

Peter Modlin’s practice focuses on environmental, health & safety, toxic tort and products liability litigation and counseling. He has represented clients in a wide variety of federal and state litigation, including mass tort actions, product liability claims, cost recovery cases, citizen lawsuits, natural resource damages and enforcement actions.

Peter Seley

Peter Seley has represented clients handling foreign and domestic environmental matters for more than 25 years, and has been at the forefront of developing jurisprudence in mass tort litigation, environmental investigations, international environmental disputes, and the use of U.S. discovery mechanisms in foreign litigation.

Peter Wardle

Peter W. Wardle is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Corporate Transactions Department and co-chair of its Capital Markets Practice Group, and previously served as partner in charge of the Los Angeles office. Peter's practice includes representation of issuers and underwriters in equity and debt offerings, including IPOs and secondary public offerings, and representation of both public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, including private equity, cross border, leveraged buy-out and going private transactions. He also advises clients on a wide variety of general corporate and securities law matters, including corporate governance and disclosure issues.

Peter J. Hanlon

Peter J. Hanlon is a corporate partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Energy Industry Group and its Power and Renewables Practice Group. He is also a member of Gibson Dunn’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets Practice Groups. With more than 25 years of experience in the energy industry, Peter focuses on conventional, renewable and other power transactions, as well as gas pipeline and other energy transactions. He has substantial experience in mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, project development, project finance, private equity, joint ventures, corporate governance, and general corporate law.

Philip Rocher

Philip Rocher is the senior partner in the Dispute Resolution Group in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s London office. He specialises in litigation, often with an international element, and regulatory and internal investigations. He has extensive experience in the financial services sectors. Philip regularly advises on high value disputes arising from the full range of commercial activities and has taken many large and complex matters through to a concluded trial. In recent years he has conducted a three-month hedge fund fraud trial in the Cayman Islands, a ten-week fraud trial in the Commercial Court, and the two-week trial of the first phase of a ground breaking private sector equal value employment claim. He has conducted numerous regulatory and internal investigations in the UK and internationally for clients in the financial services sector and in other industries, reporting the results to both regulators and boards of directors. These matters range from examining the conduct of senior managers in an investment bank, to major multinational regulatory investigations.

Piers Plumptre

Piers Plumptre is an English qualified partner working in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Piers is a member of the Dispute Resolution and International Arbitration Groups. Piers’s practice includes international arbitration and enforcement, complex commercial litigation, financial services disputes, and international fraud and white collar crime. He has extensive experience of international litigation and arbitration matters, spanning multiple jurisdictions, and in a wide variety of sectors. Piers’s recent commercial arbitration experience includes acting for a major international contractor in a US$ 4 billion dollar ICC arbitration arising out of a Middle Eastern infrastructure project, acting for an energy company in an ICC arbitration against an African State concerning a power project, and acting for a global mining company in a US$ 2 billion LCIA arbitration (and related English High Court proceedings) concerning a long-term supply contract. Piers has significant investment treaty arbitration experience, including ongoing representation of the former shareholders in a major oil company in a long-running US$ 6 billion UNCITRAL arbitration against the Russian Federation. Piers has also represented an Egyptian telecoms company in an ICSID arbitration against Canada, and continues to act for a major personal care products company in an investment treaty arbitration against Venezuela. Piers also regularly acts for clients seeking to enforce arbitral awards and judgments, both in the UK and elsewhere. Examples include recently seeking and obtaining a freezing injunction and related relief from the English High Court, in connection with a US$ 550 million ICC arbitration award arising out of a mining dispute. He has also appeared (as junior to Charlie Falconer) in the recent proceedings bought by Tethyan Copper Company in the BVI (where he is admitted to practice), seeking to enforce an ICSID award worth more than US$ 6 billion against the Government of Pakistan. Piers’s experience of offshore litigation also includes acting for UBS in BVI proceedings brought by the liquidator of the largest Madoff feeder funds to recover monies paid out during the lives of the funds; including representing UBS before the BVI High Court, the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal and the Privy Council (sitting as the ultimate BVI appellate court).

Rachel Brass

Rachel Brass’s practice covers domestic and international competition matters, class actions and appeals. She has significant experience in international cartel matters, mergers and acquisitions, grand jury investigations and other global antitrust investigations and litigation. She represents clients across industries, including technology, auto parts, franchising, package delivery, transportation, medical, agriculture, and retail.

Rachel Levick

Rachel Levick is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Practice Groups. Rachel represents companies across multiple industries in a wide range of federal and state litigation, agency enforcement actions, and administrative rulemaking proceedings. She works with her clients to assess compliance, navigate enforcement actions, and defend against litigation under a variety of environmental statutes and programs, including the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA/Superfund). In addition to her federal enforcement defense and litigation experience, she helps clients address environmental compliance and enforcement issues with state regulators, particularly in California.

Rahim Moloo

Rahim Moloo is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and co-chair of the firm’s International Arbitration Group, which won “International Arbitration Group of the Year” from Law360 twice in the last four years, and is ranked by Chambers as Band 1 in the USA among the International Arbitration: Highly Regarded Firms. Rahim’s practice focuses on assisting clients to resolve their most complex disputes, and he regularly appears as lead counsel before tribunals and courts around the world.

Rahul D. Vashi

Rahul D. Vashi is a partner in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of the firm’s Oil and Gas practice group and a member of the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure and Mergers and Acquisitions practice groups. Rahul’s practice focuses on acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic joint ventures involving a broad range of energy assets, with an emphasis on the upstream and midstream sectors. Rahul’s practice includes advising clients with the formation of drilling partnerships, joint development arrangements, farmout and participation agreements and other joint venture arrangements, the acquisition and divestiture of upstream and midstream oil and gas assets and companies, and oil and gas special situations and alternative financing transactions.

Raymond Ludwiszewski

Raymond B. Ludwiszewski is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He joined the firm’s Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice Group after spending eight years in senior legal positions in the United States government dealing with environmental regulatory issues and litigation in the Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department. Some significant matters he has handled include the defense of complex toxic tort “contaminated community” cases, the defense of important environmental civil enforcement cases; the successful challenge of major environmental regulations; the defense of large environmental criminal matters; the prosecution of litigation against the United States and most recently, assisted Stellantis in novel agreement with State of California governing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting zero-emissions technology, including electrification of its automotive fleet. In announcing the resolution, the Company characterized the outcome as a “win-win solution that is good for the customer and good for the planet”. Additionally, he has handled noteworthy Supreme Court litigation, including Nollan v. California Coastal Commission and First English Evangelical Church v. Los Angeles.

Reed Brodsky

Reed Brodsky is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s New York office. Mr. Brodsky is co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Litigation Practice Group and a member of the Crisis Management, Securities Enforcement and White Collar Defense and Investigations Groups. Reed is a nationally recognized trial lawyer in criminal and civil cases. He is known for high-profile white collar wins (U.S. v. Raj Rajaratnam; U.S. v. Rajat Gupta); and high-profile trials, Chevron v. Donziger (2013), AlixPartners v. Thompson (2014), Lavastone v. Coventry First (2015), SEC v. Patriarch Partners/Lynn Tilton (2016); PFM v. Theranos (2017); United States v. Greebel (2017). He focuses on trials, white collar, securities enforcement, investigations, and commercial litigation.

Renad Younes

Renad Younes is the firm’s Global Head of Finance, Regional Managing Partner for the Middle East and a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Project Development & Finance practices.

Richard Grime

Richard W. Grime is a litigation partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group. Richard’s practice focuses on representing companies and individuals in a full range of corruption, accounting fraud, and securities enforcement matters before the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice. He also conducts internal investigations and counsels clients on compliance and corporate governance matters.

Richard Birns

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.

Richard Doren

Richard J. Doren is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Over the course of his 37 years at the firm, Richard has litigated, tried and argued appeals in complex matters before state and federal courts across the country, as well as international arbitration tribunals. Richard Doren has extensive experience representing insurers in courts and before regulators throughout the country. He regularly handles class actions, coverage and bad faith litigation, regulatory investigations and proactive litigation aimed at rooting out insurance fraud. He has worked with a wide variety of insurance products, including fixed and variable annuities and commercial, homeowners, health, life and disability insurance.

Robert Carr

Rob Carr is an English law partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Real Estate and Global Finance Practice Groups. Rob advises lenders and borrowers across the market on real estate backed financing transactions in the UK and continental Europe acting for investment banks, private equity funds and other alternative lenders and has particular expertise in representing private equity and other top tier sponsors on their borrowing transactions. He has advised on a wide variety of real estate financings spanning the last decade including loan originations, debt trades and restructurings.

Robert Blume

Robert Blume focuses on internal investigations, compliance, business crimes, and complex civil litigation. Defends clients in enforcement actions and investigations brought by US DOJ, SEC, World Bank, and state agencies. Expertise in FCPA, False Claims Act defense, export control, and sanctions issues. He has conducted internal investigations in Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle-East, Central and South America. Robert has tried cases in the United States, UK, and Canada. As a strategist and legal advisor, Robert advises boards of directors and management regarding internal investigations, due diligence practices, compliance programs, disclosures, and governance.For more information, please visit https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/blume-robert-c/

Robert Little

Robert B. Little is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Dallas office. He is a Global Co-Chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Robert Little focuses on corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, joint ventures, investments in public and private entities, and commercial transactions. Also advises business organizations regarding matters such as securities law disclosure, corporate governance, and fiduciary obligations. Represents investment funds and their sponsors along with investors in such funds, as well as clients in a variety of industries, including energy, retail, technology, transportation, manufacturing, and financial services.

Robert Dixon

Robert Dixon is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets practice groups. He advises private equity and corporate clients on M&A, joint ventures, equity investments and commercial contracts. He has extensive experience in cross-border M&A, with a particular emphasis on digital infrastructure and other TMT transactions.

Robert Spano

Robert Spano is a partner in the London and Paris offices and the co-chair of the firm’s Artificial Intelligence Practice Group. He practices in the field of EU litigation, international dispute resolution and advises on regulatory matters. He is a member of the Transnational Litigation, International Arbitration, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation, Technology Regulatory and Litigation, and Public Policy Practice Groups. He is a leading expert in public international law, business and human rights, EU law and the law of the European Convention on Human Rights, bringing unparalleled experience from senior roles in the judiciary, private practice and academia.

Robert Serio

Robert F. Serio's practice involves complex commercial and business litigation, with an emphasis on securities class actions, shareholder derivative litigation, SEC enforcement matters and corporate investigations. He served as a Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s national Securities Litigation Practice Group from 2005 through 2020. He is consistently ranked as one of the top securities litigators in New York and has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America©, Benchmark Litigation and New York Super Lawyers. Rob is a co-editor of the Practising Law Institute’s leading treatise on securities litigation entitled Securities Litigation: A Practitioner’s Guide. Routinely, he has been a guest lecturer on securities-related developments where he has presented on such topics as “Trends in Securities Litigation.”

Robyn Zolman

Robyn E. Zolman is Partner-in-Charge of the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she practices in the firm’s Corporate Transactions Practice Group. Her practice is concentrated in securities regulation and capital markets transactions. Robyn represents clients in connection with public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations and corporate restructurings. She also advises clients regarding securities regulation and disclosure issues and corporate governance matters, including Securities and Exchange Commission reporting requirements, stock exchange listing standards, director independence, board practices and operations, and insider trading compliance. She provides disclosure counsel to clients in a number of industries, including energy, telecommunications, homebuilding, consumer products and biotechnology.

Roger Singer

Roger Singer is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Investment Funds Practice Group. Roger specializes in the formation of private equity funds. He advises sponsors of private equity, real estate, natural resources, infrastructure and debt funds, as well as funds of funds, with a focus on real estate funds. His clients range from first-time fund sponsors to the asset management divisions of major financial services firms.

Ronald Kirk

Ron Kirk is Senior Of Counsel in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Dallas and Washington, D.C. offices. He is Leader of the International Trade Practice Group and a member of the Sports Law, Public Policy, Crisis Management and Private Equity Practice Groups. Ambassador Kirk focuses on providing strategic advice to companies with global interests. Ambassador Kirk has had an extensive career in Public Service. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn in April 2013, Ambassador Kirk served as United States Trade Representative (USTR) and was a member of President Obama’s Cabinet, serving as the President’s principal trade advisor, negotiator and spokesperson on trade issues. He also served as Mayor of Dallas from 1995 – 2001, and as Texas Secretary of State in 1994 appointed by Gov. Ann W. Richards.

Rosemarie Ring

Rose Ring is a litigation partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a Co-Chair of the firm’s Technology Litigation Practice Group and the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Practice Group. Rose’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on consumer class actions and intellectual property disputes. She has represented companies in litigation and government investigations involving a wide variety of technologies, including social media, online advertising, artificial intelligence, streaming digital media, mobile devices, and cloud platforms. Rose also has an active fashion law practice, representing companies such as Ermenegildo Zegna, Yves Saint Laurent and Versace in litigation, regulatory, and counseling matters on a range of issues, including privacy and IP enforcement.

Ryan Murr

Ryan currently serves as co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Life Sciences Practice Group, as well as co-partner-in-charge of the firm’s San Francisco office. Ryan focuses on representing operating companies and investors in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, diagnostics and medical device industries in connection with securities offerings, corporate governance matters and business combination transactions. He serves as principal outside counsel for publicly-traded companies and venture-backed companies, advising management teams and boards of directors on general corporate matters, securities offerings, SEC reporting, corporate governance, licensing transactions and mergers & acquisitions. He also advises investment funds (private equity funds, hedge funds, venture funds and royalty buyout funds) in connection with investments in life sciences companies and assets.

Ryan T. Bergsieker

Ryan Bergsieker is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Denver office. A former federal cybercrimes prosecutor who has tried more than 45 cases to verdict, Ryan’s practice is focused in three areas: government investigations, complex civil litigation, and cybersecurity/data privacy counseling.

Sacha Harber-Kelly

Sacha Harber-Kelly is a partner in the Dispute Resolution Group of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s London office, where he specialises in global white-collar investigations, related litigation and compliance. He has extensive litigation, investigation and advisory experience on behalf of both companies and individuals in a broad range of service and industry sectors including financial services, oil and gas, extractives, legal services, telecommunications, sport, media, real estate, consumer products and manufacturing.

Saee Muzumdar

Saee Muzumdar is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Co-Chair of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group. Saee Muzumdar is a corporate transactional lawyer whose practice includes representing both strategic companies and private equity clients (including their portfolio companies) in connection with all aspects of their domestic and cross-border M&A activities and general corporate counseling. She has significant experience with acquisitions and divestitures of public and private entities (including both negotiated transactions and contested takeovers), venture capital investments, proxy contests, tender and exchange offers, recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, spinoffs, carveouts, joint ventures and other complex corporate transactions. In addition, she has represented a number of major investment banks as financial advisors in M&A transactions and financial institutions in connection with their investment activities.

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Sandy Bhogal

Sandy Bhogal is a partner in the London office and serves as co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Global Tax Practice. He regularly advises multinational companies, asset managers and fund sponsors, investment banks, insurers, REITs and institutional investors (including sovereign wealth funds) on their most complex tax issues. Sandy’s experience ranges from general corporate and indirect tax advice to transactional advice on matters involving M&A, corporate finance & capital markets, investment funds, structured and asset finance, insurance and real estate. He also has significant experience with corporate tax planning and transfer pricing, and often provides clients with advice on domestic and cross border tax efficient structures. He also assists clients with tax authority enquiries, wider tax risk management and multi-lateral tax controversies.

Sanford W. Stark

Sanford W. Stark is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and co-chair of the firm’s Global Tax Controversy and Litigation Practice Group. Sanford counsels on a wide range of complex domestic and international tax issues, including a significant emphasis on cross-border transfer pricing. He has served as counsel in a number of the largest tax controversy and litigation matters in recent years. He advises clients in various industries and on all aspects of the tax controversy process, including pre-audit, audit, administrative appeals, Advance Pricing Agreements, and Competent Authority proceedings. Sanford litigates tax disputes in federal trial and appellate courts and State courts, and his transfer pricing experience includes planning and internal restructurings in addition to controversy and litigation.

Sara Ghalandari

Sara Ghalandari is Of Counsel in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Land Use and Development Practice Group. Sara’s practice encompasses a wide-array of land use/development matters and real estate transactions, including zoning, planning, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), public private partnerships, and matters regarding construction access, underpinning and shoring. The primary focus of her practice is the processing of entitlements for major real estate development projects in the Bay Area and throughout California, supervising the preparation and approval of environmental documentation, and negotiating transactional documents associated with land use, project development, and construction, including agreements between private and public entities. Sara also advises institutional investors and lenders on land-use related matters.

Saul Mezei

Saul Mezei is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Global Tax Controversy and Litigation Practice Group. His practice spans the federal tax controversy area and focuses on international tax and transfer pricing. He has substantial experience advising clients at all stages of federal tax controversy, from audit and administrative appeals to trial and judicial appeals.

Scott Greenberg

Scott J. Greenberg is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s New York office, Global Chair of the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Scott focuses on representing debtors and creditors in in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Lead counsel on Outcome Health, Rex Energy, M&G Chemicals, and American Apparel's chapter 11 cases and lead counsel for Transtar (DACCO Transmission Parts [NY] Inc.) and Nextel (NII Holdings Inc). in their chapter 11 cases in the SDNY. Well known for his robust creditor practice, Scott recently represented the term lenders 4L/Clover, Akorn, AMC, Catalina Marketing, Constellis, Crossmark, David’s Bridal, Exela Technologies, Garrett Motion, Global Eagle Entertainment, INAP, Iqor, Mallinckrodt, Monitronics, NPC, National CineMedia, PSAV, Savers, Serta, Skillsoft, Sunguard, Tailored Brands, TNT Crane, Town Sports, and WorldStrides. He also represented the term loan lenders in rue21's chapter 11, Answers Corp.'s chapter 11, J. Crew's term loan, AMF Global (Ameriforge), 77 Energy, the first lien steering committee in RCS Capital's chapter 11 cases, and Fortress as DIP lender in A&P's chapter 11 cases.

Scott Toussaint

Scott Toussaint, associate, focuses on compliance with U.S. laws governing international business transactions, including economic sanctions, export controls, and foreign investment in the United States. He advises clients on matters before the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), and other regulatory and enforcement agencies. Scott has extensive experience counseling U.S. and foreign companies on compliance with OFAC sanctions, obtaining licenses and authorizations, developing corporate compliance programs, and assessing the national security implications of proposed mergers and acquisitions. He represents clients across a wide range of industries, including energy, financial services, private equity, shipping, manufacturing, and technology.

Scott Hammond

Scott Hammond is a member of the firm's Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. His practice focuses on the representation of companies subject to investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division as well as experience appearing before more than two dozen competition authorities in Asia, Latin America and Europe. Scott serves as global coordinating counsel in foreign domestic as well as cross border government investigations running in parallel with US DOJ investigations.

Scott A. Edelman

Scott A. Edelman is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Century City office. He is co-chair of its Media, Entertainment and Technology Practice Group, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, Litigation Department, and multiple practice groups. Scott represents major entertainment clients in sports, IP, (copyright, trademark, right of publicity, misappropriation of ideas, trade secret), profit participation, film distribution, false advertising, royalty disputes. Commercial litigation experience includes antitrust, class actions, cross-border disputes, investigations, employment, professional negligence, RICO, real estate. Representative clients: Walmart, General Electric, Nissan, CBS, NBC Universal, AMC, Sony Pictures, Sony Music, Fox Broadcasting Company, Universal Music, Discovery Communications, IMAX, Mattel. Significant first-chair trial and arbitration experience.

Sean Griffiths

Sean P. Griffiths is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee, and previously served as Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Private Equity Practice. Sean has extensive experience representing private equity firms and their portfolio companies in mergers and acquisitions, and companies in complex carve out and spin-off transactions and acquisitions. He also has extensive experience in corporate finance in both public and private capital markets, troubled company representation (crisis management), and general corporate and securities compliance matters. Recent private equity clients include CVC Capital, Investcorp, J.H. Whitney, Leonard Green, Littlejohn & Co, and RoundTable Healthcare Partners among others.

Sean K. Tierney

Sean Tierney is a partner of the firm’s Real Estate Department. Sean represents private equity funds, institutional and non-institutional real estate investors, developers, operators, lenders and borrowers in negotiating and structuring real estate joint ventures, acquisitions, sales, developments and financings. Sean also has deep experience in representing hotel investors, operators, and lenders in connection with the acquisition, financing, development, operation, and disposition of hospitality assets. He also has a market-leading expertise in the negotiation of long-term hotel management agreements.

Selina Sagayam

Selina Sagayam is an English qualified senior of counsel and recent former partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s London office and is a leader of the firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Practice and a member of the firm’s corporate group. Regarded as one of the leading public M&A advisers in the UK, Selina has advised on hostile, competitive and recommended takeovers. Her practice focuses on international corporate finance transactional work, including public and private M&A, joint ventures, international equity capital markets offerings and advisory work focused on corporate governance, shareholder activism and securities law advice. She also focusses on ESG advisory matters. Selina is also noted for her expertise in financial services and regulatory advice. She advises boards and senior management of international corporations, exchanges, regulators, investment banks, and financial sponsors (private equity and hedge funds) on such issues. Selina has extensive experience in the City Code governing public takeovers in the UK and the European Takeovers Directive. She was seconded for two years to the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, the key regulatory body governing public company acquisitions in the UK, and is regularly called upon as key adviser and commentator on UK and European takeovers.

Shukie Grossman

Shukie Grossman is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is co-chair of the Investment Funds Practice Group. He represents sponsors in structuring and negotiating terms of domestic and offshore private funds. He also negotiates employment/economic sharing arrangements among management team members, advises on the acquisition and sale of minority and majority stakes in sponsors as well as spin-outs of fund businesses and management teams and represents institutional investors in investing in private funds. He spent several years at the Division of Investment Management of the SEC and is an adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School.

Stacie B. Fletcher

Stacie B. Fletcher is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is co-chair of the Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice Group. Stacie has handled a wide variety of cases under federal and state environmental statutes, including serving as lead counsel on numerous high-profile enforcement defense matters with U.S. EPA and state agencies.

Stefan dePozsgay

Stefan regularly represents clients in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, growth and venture capital investments, and other significant transactional matters in the U.S. and cross-border. Stefan dePozsgay has extensive M&A experience across a broad range of industries, including the media, sports, entertainment and technology sectors. His clients include, among others, private equity firms and other financial sponsors, buyout groups and consortiums, special purpose acquisition companies, large family offices with direct investment capabilities and sports franchises and their owners. His practice also covers a range of growth equity, venture capital and emerging company transactions.

Stephanie Connor

Stephanie Connor, Of Counsel, practices primarily in the areas of international trade compliance and white collar investigations. She focuses on a range of issues arising under U.S. international trade regulations, including national security reviews conducted by the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), economic sanctions and embargo regulations administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and U.S. export controls implemented by the U.S. Departments of Commerce and State. She has significant experience advising multinational companies on the effectiveness of their internal compliance controls and has counseled clients on matters arising under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and U.S. anti-money laundering (AML) regulations.

Stephanie Brooker

Stephanie Brooker, a partner in Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, is Co-Chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations, Anti-Money Laundering, and Financial Institutions Practice Groups. Stephanie Brooker’s practice focuses on internal investigations, regulatory enforcement defense, white-collar criminal defense, and compliance counseling. She handles a wide range of white collar matters, including representing financial institutions, multi-national companies, and individuals in connection with criminal, regulatory, and civil enforcement actions involving sanctions; anti-corruption; anti-money laundering (AML)/Bank Secrecy Act (BSA); securities, tax, and wire fraud, foreign influence; “me-too;” cryptocurrency; and other legal issues. She routinely handles complex cross-border investigations. Ms. Brooker’s practice also includes BSA/AML and FCPA compliance counseling and deal due diligence and significant criminal and civil asset forfeiture matters.

Stephen Weissman

Steve Weissman, the Global Co-Chair of the firm's Antitrust and Competition practice, has almost two decades of practice representing clients in high-stakes transactional matters, criminal cartel investigations and civil litigation before the DOJ and FTC. Steve has litigated a substantial number of cases on behalf of both defendants and plaintiffs, including claims under the Sherman, Clayton and Robinson-Patman Acts, as well as breach of contract and business tort claims. He regularly counsel clients on issues pertaining to joint ventures and distribution agreements, and other antitrust compliance matters.

Stephen Olson

Stephen Olson is widely recognized as one of the leading M&A lawyers in the country. He counsels clients in connection with public and private acquisition and divestiture transactions, complex joint ventures, registered offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities, as well as corporate governance and other general corporate matters. His clients include private equity firms, private and mature public companies, and investment banking firms.He has worked with clients across a diverse number of industries including chemicals, manufacturing, health care, technology, finance, media, telecommunications, and energy.

Stephen Glover

Stephen I. Glover is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher who previously served as Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. He represents public and private companies in M&A, joint ventures, equity and debt offerings and corporate governance matters.

Stephen D. Nordahl

Stephen D. Nordahl is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s New York office and Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Transactions Practice Group. His practice focuses on information technology, business process, insurance third party administration and fund administration outsourcing transactions, with a particular focus on complex international transactions. He represent clients on technology related transactions, including joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, acquisitions, systems implementations and cloud transactions. He assists clients on a wide range of distribution, supply and manufacturing agreements. His practice also has extensive disputes experience on both services and technology transactions.

Stephenie Gosnell Handler

Stephenie Gosnell Handler is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office, where she is a member of the International Trade and Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation practices. She advises clients on complex legal, regulatory, and compliance issues relating to international trade, cybersecurity, and technology matters. Stephenie ’s legal advice is deeply informed by her operational cybersecurity and in-house legal experience at McKinsey & Company, and also by her active duty service in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Steve Thierbach

Stephen A. Thierbach is a US-qualified corporate partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. A senior U.S. securities lawyer, he advises issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders on complex, innovative and multi-jurisdictional offerings of equity, equity-related and debt securities. He has a broad capital markets transactions practice, with a focus on initial public offerings and secondary offerings, and has represented corporates, investment banks, private equity firms and governments in transactions in the UK and other jurisdictions in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Steven Talley

Steven has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, including both auctions and privately negotiated sales. He counsels local, national and international clients with a focus on the energy industry. He also has clients in a variety of other industries, including telecommunications, technology, and manufacturing. His clients include public and private companies.

Steven Klein

Steven handles a broad range of real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, financings, leasing, construction and development, restructurings and recapitalizations. He has substantial experience in REIT offerings, REIT mergers and formation of investment funds. He also advises on securitized financing arrangements, senior and mezzanine loan agreements, preferred equity agreements, loan restructuring agreements, joint venture agreements, private placement memoranda, property and office leases.

Steven R Shoemate

Steven R. Shoemate is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee, and previously served as Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Private Equity Practice. Steven has extensive experience in public mergers, tender offers, exchange offers, joint ventures and a variety of cross-border transactions, as well as leveraged acquisitions, going private transactions, club deals and recapitalizations. Experienced in a variety of industries, including consumer and retail, financial institutions, healthcare, mining, building products and construction. Clients include L Catterton, TPG, Trilantic Capital Partners, Eurazeo, Apollo, Oaktree, Marsh & McLennan, Coeur Mining, Morgan Stanley, and Summit Materials, among others.

Stewart McDowell

Stewart L. McDowell is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a Co-Chair of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Corporate Department. Stewart's practice involves the representation of business organizations as to capital markets transactions, M&A, SEC reporting, corporate governance and general corporate matters. Represents both underwriters and issuers in a broad range of both debt and equity securities offerings, including complex IPOs, convertible notes offerings and debt offerings.

Stuart A Graiwer

Stuart’s practice focuses on all transactional aspects of commercial real estate, and is particularly focused in the structuring of complex joint venture and partnership agreements, financing transactions, purchase and sale agreements and all aspects of development deals. Stuart handles transactions for a multitude of asset classes, including office buildings, hotels, multi-family and residential developments, industrial parks, data centers and retail projects. Stuart has developed a particular expertise in representing owners, operators and developers of studio projects having represented clients in the largest studio transactions in the country.

Susy Bullock

Susy has extensive experience in commercial litigation in the English and Cayman courts, including complex transnational litigation and financial services disputes. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn as partner, Susy was Head of Litigation for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at UBS. In that role, she had responsibility for all litigation and contentious regulatory matters in the EMEA region for the bank including commercial and white-collar criminal litigation, as well as certain internal investigations. Susy also regularly advises clients on sustainability and business & human rights matters such as supply chain issues and investigations, emerging ESG legislation and regulatory requirements, human rights and policy training, ESG-related disclosures and Modern Slavery Act 2015 compliance, and ESG related disputes. She supports clients from a wide variety of industries including oil & gas, food & beverage, and technology. Susy has supported the Thun Group of banks since 2016 – considering business and human rights issues across the banking sector, and is an ongoing (pro bono) advisor to a UK modern slavery charity. Susy is also a member of the firm’s global pro bono committee and pro bono partner for the London office.

Svetlana S. Gans

Svetlana S. Gans is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where she helps clients navigate complex consumer protection (advertising, marketing, privacy, and right to repair) and competition related regulatory proceedings before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, and other enforcement bodies, and provides strategic advice on related public policy issues. Svetlana is a frequent speaker on FTC policy and enforcement issues, including FTC rulemaking.

Terrell Ussing

Terrell Ussing is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Global Tax Controversy and Litigation Practice Group. His practice focuses on federal tax controversy and litigation. Terrell counsels multinational companies across all industries in all aspects and phases of tax controversy and litigation. He has significant experience representing clients on a range of complex domestic and international tax issues, with an emphasis on transfer pricing. His transfer pricing experience includes complex transfer-pricing litigation, planning, and risk assessment at the federal, international and state levels.

Theane Evangelis

Theane Evangelis is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s global Litigation Practice Group and previously served as Co-Chair of the firm’s Class Action Practice Group. Ms. Evangelis is also a member of the Appellate, Labor and Employment, Media, Entertainment, and Technology, and Crisis Management Practice Groups. She joined Gibson Dunn after serving as a law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor during October Term 2004 and as an associate with Ziffren Brittenham, a Los Angeles law firm specializing in entertainment and media transactions. Before clerking for Justice O’Connor, Ms. Evangelis was a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Theodore B. Olson

Theodore B. Olson is a Partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office; a founder of the Firm’s Crisis Management, Sports Law, and Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Groups. One of the nation's premier appellate and US Supreme Court advocates, Ted has argued 65 cases in the Supreme Court (including Bush v Gore, same-sex marriage cases and the legality of a presidential rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, DACA). His practice encompasses constitutional law, appellate, media and entertainment, sports gambling, commercial disputes and crisis management.

Theodore J. Boutrous Jr.

Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Executive and Management Committees. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Ted represents clients in federal and state appellate courts throughout the U.S. in wide spectrum of cases, including media and technology, class action, securities, employment, antitrust, environmental, product liability, civil rights, and constitutional litigation. He has successfully persuaded courts to overturn some of the largest jury verdicts and class actions in history. He also represents media organizations and reporters in First Amendment matters.

Thomas A. Manakides

Thomas Manakides is a seasoned litigator and trial attorney known for developing innovative strategies to tackle large and complex matters for multinational corporations across several industries, including oil and gas, aerospace, food and agricultural, real estate, and waste. Thomas has extensive courtroom experience in both trial and appellate courts and often advises clients on matters involving mass tort, oil and gas, environmental laws and enforcement, and complex commercial disputes.

Thomas G. Hungar

Thomas G. Hungar is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. His practice focuses on appellate litigation, and he assists clients with congressional investigations and complex trial court litigation matters as well. He has presented oral argument before the Supreme Court of the United States in 27 cases, including some of the Court’s most important patent, antitrust, securities, and environmental law decisions, and he has also appeared before numerous lower federal and state courts.

Thomas H. Dupree Jr.

Thomas H. Dupree Jr. is co-partner in charge of the Washington, DC office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, co-chair of the firm’s nationwide Appellate and Constitutional Law practice group, and a member of the firm’s litigation department. He is an experienced trial and appellate advocate in federal and state courts. Tom has argued more than 80 appeals, including before the Supreme Court and all thirteen federal circuits. He has expertise in cases involving punitive damages, class actions, product liability, arbitration, intellectual property, antitrust, securities, employment, and constitutional challenges to federal and state statutes and regulations, and has succeeded in overturning many multimillion-dollar jury verdicts and striking down regulations.

Thomas J. Kim

Thomas J. Kim is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, where he is a member of the firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group. Tom focuses his practice on a broad range of SEC disclosure and regulatory matters, including capital raising and tender offer transactions and shareholder activist situations, as well as corporate governance, environmental social governance and compliance issues. He also advises clients on SEC enforcement investigations – as well as boards of directors and independent board committees on internal investigations – involving disclosure, registration, corporate governance and auditor independence issues.

Till Lefranc

Till is a partner in the London and Singapore offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Mr. Lefranc is a member of the Private Equity practice group. He advises clients on cross-border acquisitions and divestitures, growth capital investments, buy-outs, shareholder arrangements, minority investments and management equity arrangements.

Todd J. Trattner

Todd Trattner, Ph.D. is Of Counsel in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department with a practice focused on intellectual property transactions in the life sciences and technology industries. Dr. Trattner represents public and private companies, investors, and academic institutions in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, technology, medical device, and diagnostics industries in connection with licensing transactions, royalty financings, technology transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.

Tomer Pinkusiewicz

Tomer Pinkusiewicz is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is Co-Chair of both Gibson Dunn’s Latin America and Projects and Infrastructure Practice Groups, and a member of the Capital Markets Practice Group. Tomer focuses on complex infrastructure development and finance transactions. He represents sponsors, concessionaires and financing parties in the bidding, procurement, finance, construction, operation, maintenance, purchase and sale of large-scale infrastructure assets in the United States and Latin America. Tomer also represents issuers and underwriters in a full range of capital markets transactions, including public offerings, Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings and private placements, with a focus on project bonds and relating financing. He is very active representing financial institutions and borrowers in general financing transactions in Latin America.

Toren Murphy

Toren Murphy is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Projects and Infrastructure, Latin America, Capital Markets and Global Finance Practice Groups. Toren’s practice focuses on infrastructure projects, with substantial experience in public-private partnerships (PPPs) and related concessions or leases of infrastructure assets between public grantors and private sector developers and operators, with expertise in transportation infrastructure, including roads, bridges, rail, airports and seaports, as well as social infrastructure and campus utility system PPPs. His experience covers project procurement, concession and lease documentation, construction contracts, and project finance, including project bonds and TIFIA loan financings, as well as secondary market acquisitions and divestitures of infrastructure assets. He also has significant regional expertise working on various types of structured and corporate financing transactions in various jurisdictions across Latin America.

Trey Cox

Trey Cox is consistently recognized as one of the country’s best trial lawyers. He has spent his entire professional life as a courtroom attorney and litigator helping clients resolve large, complicated and often high-profile business disputes. His courtroom experience is unusually broad and extensive. He has tried over 35 cases involving trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, securities fraud, product liability, trademark, insurance coverage, energy, oil and gas and partnership disputes. He has achieved success for a variety of clients – both defendants and plaintiffs, from big energy companies to a lone individual businessman battling the odds.

Trinh Chubbock

Trinh Chubbock is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Trinh is a member of the Projects and Infrastructure Practice Group. Trinh is an energy specialist focusing on project developments, M&A transactions, and commercial contracts. She has a broad practice covering the full value chain from upstream oil and gas to downstream sectors, with experience in midstream work and LNG. She also focuses on renewable energy and energy transition.

Tull Florey

Tull Florey is a partner in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Oil & Gas, Private Equity and Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance practice groups. He has an extensive corporate and securities law practice, emphasizing transactional and governance matters. His practice focuses on all types of mergers and acquisitions, including public company mergers, joint ventures, tender offers and material dispositions. He has particular experience with clients engaged in oilfield service, oil and gas exploration and production, oilfield equipment manufacturing and midstream activities. He also assists clients on an ongoing basis with general corporate concerns, including Exchange Act reporting and corporate governance matters.

Victoria Shusterman

Victoria focuses her practice on commercial real estate finance. She represents commercial banks, REITs, insurance companies and private equity investors in commercial real estate financing transactions, including balance sheet financings; permanent and bridge loan originations; mezzanine financing and other subordinate financings; construction loans; loan participation, syndications and other co-lender arrangements; and work-outs and restructurings. She has represented clients in financing transactions across the United States that involve a variety of asset types, including industrial, office, hotel, multi-family, retail and manufactured housing properties.

Vivek Mohan

Vivek Mohan is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Palo Alto office, where he is co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence practice and a core member of the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation practice. Vivek advises clients on legal, regulatory, compliance, and policy issues on a global scale with a focus on cutting-edge technology issues. His practice spans regulatory response, counseling, advocacy, and transactional matters allowing him to provide clients with strategic advice whether they are developing a new product or service, responding to a regulatory inquiry, setting up a privacy program, responding to a data breach, or negotiating a complex agreement.

Wayne Barsky

Wayne Barsky practices exclusively in the patent litigation area for clients in the life science, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. He has extensive trial and appellate experience in federal courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission. Representative clients include Merck-Serono, Pfizer, Abbott Laboratories, St. Jude Medical, and Medtronic.

William Hollaway

Dr. William R. Hollaway is chair of Gibson Dunn’s Energy Regulation and Litigation practice. He is also a leader in Gibson Dunn’s Energy Power and Renewables practice, focused on the federal and state regulatory aspects of electric utility mergers and acquisitions, financing, and project development. Bill handles a broad range of energy development, transactional and regulatory matters. His deep legal and technical understanding of energy include power generation and transmission and he has extensive transactional and regulatory experience in renewable power, storage, transmission, and traditional power. Bill has experience with energy M&A including structuring, due diligence, contracts and agreements and a full command of FERC and state regulation, including PJM, ERCOT and other RTOs. Bill's expertise in administrative litigation, includes approvals, rate cases, protests and complaints. He advises on nuclear matters and transactions under NRC and state regulations.

William E. Thomson

William E. Thomson is a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of the firm’s Transnational Litigation Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law and Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice Groups. Mr. Thomson’s practice focuses on federal and state appellate and Supreme Court litigation, and on strategic analysis and briefing in high-stakes cases in trial courts around the country. Mr. Thomson has extensive experience litigating and counseling on complex U.S. and cross-border matters before both trial and appellate courts in a broad range of contexts, including civil RICO, product liability and mass tort, foreign judgment recognition, First Amendment litigation, and class actions. He has advised on and litigated matters implicating the competing laws of multiple U.S. jurisdictions and dozens of countries around the world, including supply chain liability risks, corporate separateness issues, and cross-border evidentiary actions pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782.

William J. Peters

Bill Peters is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office. He is Co-Chair of the firm’s Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Transactions practice group and a member of the Corporate Department and Technology Transactions practice group. He and counsels Fortune 1000 companies on a wide range of business transformation, strategic sourcing and technology-related transactions. His experience includes structuring and negotiating agreements for domestic and international business process and IT outsourcing, cloud-based computing, software development and licensing, systems implementation, and offshore sourcing transactions. These transactions have involved clients in broad range of industries, including automotive, manufacturing, energy, entertainment, financial services, hospitality and technology.

Wim De Vlieger

Wim De Vlieger is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Wim is co-chair of Private Equity in Europe and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets practice groups. Wim advises private equity investors and their portfolio companies on a wide range of corporate transactions, including growth equity and control investments and co-investments, structured transactions, buy-out transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and exits. He also has considerable experience advising on strategic cross-border M&A transactions and on international capital market transactions. He has broad experience counselling clients across a wide range of European jurisdictions, with a focus on transactions in the technology and life sciences sectors.

Y. Ernest Hsin

Ernest Hsin is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s San Francisco office and is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s National Intellectual Property Practice Group. Ernest specializes in high-tech and life sciences patent litigation, representing his clients as lead or co-lead counsel in federal district courts, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the International Chamber of Commerce. Ernest represents leading technology and life sciences companies in some of their most significant intellectual property and technology disputes. Companies he represents and has represented include: Organon, Merck, Peloton, Fitbit, Tesla, VMware, Nestlé, T-Mobile, Avi Networks, Sanofi-Aventis, Amazon.com, Hewlett-Packard, St. Jude Medical, Johnson & Johnson, Ethicon, Electronic Arts, Sharp, Emulex, and CNET (CBS Interactive).

Zainab Ahmad

Zainab Ahmad is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is co-chair of the firm’s National Security Practice Group and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations, Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation and Labor and Employment Practice Groups. Ms. Ahmad served as Senior Assistant Special Counsel in Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s Office following a successful career as a prosecutor and trial lawyer at the Department of Justice in both Washington, D.C. and the Eastern District of New York. As former Deputy Chief of the National Security and Cybercrime section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York, Ms. Ahmad supervised a unit of over 20 attorneys, investigators, and staff prosecuting sensitive counterterrorism, counterespionage and cybercrime cases. Ms. Ahmad’s practice focuses on white collar defense and investigations, as well as regulatory and civil litigation challenges, such as matters involving corruption, anti-money laundering, sanctions and FCPA issues. She also advises clients on cybercrime and intellectual property issues, including handling investigations, enforcement defense, and litigation. She has extensive experience with a wide range of federal, state, and international cybersecurity laws, regulations, and standards.

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