Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Client SatisfactionGibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s privacy, cybersecurity and data innovation practice group ‘has excellent depth and experience’, fielding a team with a wealth of former in-house, regulatory and government experience to support clients including high profile social networks, ecommerce brands, and technology companies. Ashlie Beringer heads the team from Palo Alto, is a go-to for complex regulatory investigations across the US and globally. Jane Horvath joined the team in Washington DC in January 2023; former chief privacy officer for Apple, Horvath leverages extensive in-house experience to counsel clients through complex technical issues with regards to global regulatory standards. In New York, of counsel Christopher Rosina is a key name for compliance counselling, while San Francisco’s Rosemarie Ring has a growing privacy class action practice. Alexander Southwell departed the team in September 2024.
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‘Team includes a lot of highly intelligent people and can draw on resources in many areas from across the firm’
‘Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter has always been excellent, smart and practical. Appreciate her ability to describe common practice and give advice on reasonable assumption of risk.’
‘The Gibson team has excellent depth and experience, includes a diverse group of attorneys, has a strong understanding of our business and our culture, and delivers consistently high quality work product. I really enjoy working with the Gibson team and I trust them to handle a number of our most sensitive matters.’
‘I particularly enjoy working with Sarah Erickson, who does everything well and plays a critical role in managing and supervising the work in many of our large matters.'
Key clients
- DoorDash, Inc.
- Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
- Affirm
- KKR
- Marriott
- Platinum Equity Advisors
- Veritas Capital
- Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade
- Coinbase Global, Inc. and Coinbase, Inc.
- TikTok, Inc.
- Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.)
- DoorDash Inc.
- Binance Holdings Limited
- Visa, Inc.
- Tencent Holdings Limited
- AT&T Inc.
- The Cartoon Network, Inc. and Cartoon Network Studios, Inc.
Work highlights
- Advising DoorDash, Inc. on global privacy program design and implementation, product and AI counseling and strategies.
- Advising Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade in the most significant data breach litigation in recent history, the MOVEit data breach.
- Advising Zoom Video Communications, Inc. on the design, implementation, and evolution of the global privacy and security program.
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Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Ashlie Beringer, Jane Horvath