Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP continues to be a go-to firm for corporates facing investigations by the SEC, DOJ, and other regulatory authorities. The firm has a strong white-collar and investigations team based in Washington DC, which includes Stephanie Brooker, F. Joseph Warin, and David Burns. Brooker specializes in anti-money laundering matters, while Warin routinely advises on false claims cases. Burns has a broad range of experience with investigations into FCPA violations, public corruption, and cybercrime. Located in San Francisco, Winston Y. Chan frequently acts for clients facing government enforcement action. Nick Hanna and Debra Wong Yang practice in Los Angeles. Yang is noted for her keen insight into crisis management, while Hanna is skilled at navigating cross-border investigation across various jurisdictions, including Latin America, Europe, and the UAE. Practicing in New York, Reed Brodsky has extensive experience representing companies, asset managers, and executives that are being investigated by the SEC.

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Key clients

  • Ericsson
  • Wells Fargo
  • Zoom
  • TikTok
  • Binance
  • Del Entertainment
  • Roger Goodell

Lawyers

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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.
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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.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Stephanie Brooker, Winston Chan, Nick Hanna, F. Joseph Warin

Other key lawyers

Debra Wong Yang, Eric D. Vandevelde, Douglas Fuchs, David Burns, Kendall Day, Reed Brodsky