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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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/.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
