Robert B. Krakow is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Dallas office, focusing on business litigation at both the trial and appellate levels.  He is Co-Chair of the firm's Health Care and Life Sciences Practice Group and a member of the firm's Litigation Department and the BusinessRestructuring and Reorganization Practice Groups.

Mr. Krakow’s health care litigation experience includes the defense of Tenet Healthcare Corporation in hundreds of lawsuits filed in Texas and elsewhere by former psychiatric patients who alleged that they were improperly admitted and/or treated as a result of a corporate conspiracy to bribe referral sources. After several defense verdicts were obtained, the remaining cases were settled. One of the defense wins was recognized by the National Law Journal as the Defense Win of the Year.  Mr. Krakow also has represented health care clients in a variety of other matters including False Claims Act, antitrust and RICO litigation.  He recently obtained summary judgment for Tenet in a Texas state court case securities fraud suit arising out of a precipitous drop in the value of Tenet stock.
 
In the bankruptcy arena, Mr. Krakow served as litigation counsel for debtors First RepublicBank Corporation, Financial News Network, Hawaiian Airlines and Southmark Corporation in their chapter 11 proceedings. Mr. Krakow has also led the efforts to recover more than $80 million from former directors and officers and outside advisors of Zale Corporation, more than $25 million from former directors and advisors of a bankrupt Pennsylvania healthcare system in a lawsuit alleging that endowment and other restricted assets had been misappropriated to pay operating expenses prior to the bankruptcy, and more than $13 million from the former controlling shareholders of Southmark Corporation.  Mr. Krakow recently represented Independence Air in litigation over the value of its proof of claim in the United Airlines bankruptcy.  After defeating the creditor's committee assertion that Independence should have no claim, Independence was awarded a claim amount of $750 million, resulting in a distribution to Independence in excess of $125 million.

Mr. Krakow has also recently represented Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. in trade secret litigation brought by a Fortune 100 corporation and Nissan in litigation challenging its right to open a new dealership in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Mr. Krakow is a magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, and received his law degree from Duke in 1981. He is licensed to practice in all federal and state courts in the state of Texas as well as numerous federal courts of appeal, and is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.