North America - United States • Media, technology and telecoms
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Gibson, 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. Alexander Southwell, ’an experienced lawyer with great judgment and a collaborative approach‘, co-leads the team from New York with an established track record in technology-focused litigation. Co-head Ashlie Beringer, based in 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.
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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.’
‘Alexander Southwell cares deeply about his clients and takes on their concerns and problems as if they were his own. He makes himself readily available and digs in to answer simple or complex questions while displaying impressive knowledge not only of the law and our industry, but of our specific company products and goals. ’
‘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.’
‘Alex Southwell, who leads the Gibson team, is an experienced lawyer with great judgment and a collaborative approach that produces excellent results. Alex leads a team of other really fantastic lawyers, with stand-out players at every level, from associates to junior partners. 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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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.
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Ashlie Beringer, Jane Horvath, Alexander Southwell