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The German magazine WirtschaftsWoche has recognized Gibson Dunn in Germany as a Top 2025 Law Firm in Antitrust and in Mergers & Acquisitions. Munich partner Kai Gesing was named a Top Lawyer in Antitrust, and Munich partner Sonja Ruttmann was recognized as a Top Lawyer in Mergers & Acquisitions. The list was published on May 2, 2025.

Gibson Dunn’s Middle East Arbitration Team has been named Arbitration Team of the Year at the Law.com International Middle East Legal Awards 2025. The team, which was led by partner Nooree Moola and included partners Charles Falconer and Penny Madden KC and senior associate Helen Elmer, received special recognition for their work acting for Crescent Petroleum against the National Iranian Oil Company in a multi-billion-dollar, decade-long arbitration over a terminated gas supply deal.

The team was praised as being “first-class advocates and a pleasure to work with,” and their clients’ “counsel of choice in complex international arbitration.” Nooree was commended for being “a tenacious and talented lawyer who quickly grasps the key issues in a case and, together with her skill for rapidly understanding the clients’ needs, fiercely and fearlessly advocates her clients’ cause.”

The awards honor “exceptional performance and best practices” in law firms, in-house legal departments, teams, and individuals in the Middle East across 35 categories.

Partners Colin B. Davis and Jonathan D. Fortney are the editors of Lexology Panoramic: M&A Litigation 2025. Written by leading practitioners, the wide-ranging guide is a comparison tool that provides local insights into the legal and regulatory frameworks governing M&A litigation across multiple jurisdictions.

In “IRS-Imposed DeFi Tax-Reporting Obligations May Be Dead for Good” (Bloomberg Law, April 25, 2025), partners Jason Mendro, Matt Gregory and Nick Harper have written that the disapproval of a rule that would have imposed tax-reporting requirements on certain DeFi participants helps preserve decentralization and privacy by making it harder to make similar rules in the future.

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Partner Mary Beth Maloney discussed a lawsuit filed by our client the Palm Beach Health Network against hospital ratings website Leapfrog with WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Lawdragon named 18 Gibson Dunn partners to its 2025 500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers guide, which recognizes “world leaders in privacy, data, security, incident response, and the deals and lawsuits that revolve around all things Cyber.” Ahmed Baladi, Ashlie Beringer, Jason Cabral, M. Kendall Day, Patrick Doris, Keith Enright, Lauren Goldman, Stephenie Gosnell Handler, Joel Harrison, Jane Horvath, Lore Leitner, Vivek Mohan, Connell O’Neill, Rose Ring, Ashley Rogers, Robert Spano, Eric Vandevelde, and Sara Weed were all recognized.

Dallas partner Allyson Ho has been appointed by President Donald Trump to the White House’s new Religious Liberty Commission. The commission was established by a presidential executive order on May 1, 2025.

According to the executive order, the commission is tasked with producing “a comprehensive report on the foundations of religious liberty in America, the impact of religious liberty on American society, current threats to domestic religious liberty, strategies to preserve and enhance religious liberty protections for future generations, and programs to increase awareness of and celebrate America’s peaceful religious pluralism.” It will also “advise the White House Faith Office and the Domestic Policy Council on religious liberty policies of the United States.” The commission will have up to 14 members, including clergy and legal experts.

Allyson is Co-Chair of our firm’s nationwide Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group.

Read the full text of the executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/establishment-of-the-religious-liberty-commission/

Turnarounds & Workouts has named Business Restructuring and Reorganization partner Stephen Silverman as one of its Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyers for 2025 in recognition of his work on the industry’s most notable and complex restructurings.

Stephen is a market leader in the creditor space and is well known for his creative work on the most complex liability management transactions in the marketplace.

Read more (subscription required): https://www.turnaroundsworkouts.com/product/turnarounds-workouts-april-2025/

In “Trump Tariffs Promise Increased False Claims Act Scrutiny for Companies Throughout the Import Chain” (Global Trade, April 17, 2025), partner Jake Shields and associates Michael Dziuban and Andrew Becker discuss the application of the False Claims Act (FCA) in relation to trade and customs matters following the introduction of tariffs.

With President Trump imposing steep tariffs on key U.S. trading partners and the Department of Justice (DOJ) simultaneously promising to ramp up use of the FCA — its primary tool against fraud on government agencies — to police tariff compliance, the effect, say our lawyers, “will likely be a redoubling of DOJ’s already aggressive application of the FCA to trade matters, fueled by tariffs’ status as a top policy and political priority. The risks for businesses are significant.”

Jake previously served as Senior Trial Counsel in the Fraud Section of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he investigated and litigated False Claims Act cases, including in the areas of customs and tariffs enforcement.

Read the full article here: https://www.globaltrademag.com/trump-tariffs-promise-increased-false-claims-act-scrutiny-for-companies-throughout-the-import-chain/.

Gibson Dunn advised Investcorp, a leading global alternative investment firm, on its sale of RESA Power to Kohlberg.

Our New York corporate team included partners Sean Griffiths, Christopher Lang, and Maxwell Ball and associates Nicolette Fata and Zachary Landow.

Partner Courtney Brown and associates Abby Dugan and Kareem Ramadan recently received the 2024 Champions of Democracy Award from the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice for their pro bono work on a DC Appleseed project regarding election reform in the District of Columbia.

The goal of the project, which produced a final report titled “Improving Voter Representation in DC’s Elections,” was to objectively assess whether various changes to D.C. elections could encourage greater participation and produce elected officials who better represent the electorate.

Gibson Dunn is advising Marriott International on its $355 million acquisition of the lifestyle brand citizenM, and its related intellectual property. At the closing of the transaction, the citizenM portfolio will become part of Marriott’s system, with the hotels owned and leased by the seller subject to new long-term franchise agreements with Marriott, and Marriott may make up to an additional $110 million in earn-out payments to the sellers based on future growth of the brand over a specified post-closing period.

Our corporate team is led by partners Stephen Glover, Alexander Orr, and Harrison Korn, and includes of counsel Alisa Babitz and associates Tracey Tomlinson, Alex Prezioso, Kevin Chapman, and Anne Lonowski. Partner Matt Donnelly and associates Doug Bresnick and Alissa Fromkin Freltz are advising on tax aspects. Partners Michael Collins, James Cox, and Nataline Fleury are advising on labor and benefits. Partner Daniel Angel and associates Mona Mosavi and Libby Pica are advising on IP aspects.

Partners Joshua Lipton and Attila Borsos, counsel Andrew Cline, and associates Alexander Merritt and Christian Liborius are advising on antitrust aspects. Partners Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter, Lore Leitner, Joel Harrison, and associates Sarah Scharf and Ruby Lang are advising on data privacy aspects. Partner Michael Diamant and of counsel Pedro Soto are advising on compliance aspects. Partner Michael Murphy is advising on environmental aspects.

Partner Emily Naughton has been named one of GlobeSt.’s Women of Influence for 2025 in the Commercial Real Estate Legal Counsel category.

This prestigious annual award honors individuals who have “personally impacted the market and significantly driven the industry to new heights via their outstanding successes.”

Emily is a member of our Real Estate Practice Group, where she advises clients on a broad array of commercial real estate transactions, with an emphasis on digital infrastructure.

Palo Alto partner Vivek Mohan has been selected by Cybersecurity Docket for its Incident Response 50 list for 2025: lawyers from “many of the top law firms in the world” who are “the best data breach response lawyers in the business” and “often the ‘first call’ for companies that suddenly find themselves the victims of a data breach.”

Vivek is a core member of our Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation Practice Group and is Co-Chair of our Artificial Intelligence Practice Group.

Best Lawyers in Singapore 2026 has recognized three Gibson Dunn partners as leading lawyers in their respective practice areas: Jai Pathak – Corporate Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions Law; John Fadely – Private Equity Law, and Private Funds; and Jamie Thomas – Insolvency and Reorganization Law.

Gibson Dunn has been honored at the first-ever Chambers France Awards with a win for Restructuring/Insolvency Law Firm of the Year.

Jean-Pierre Farges, head of our firm’s Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice Group in Europe, was on hand with members of the team to accept the award, including fellow partners Bertrand Delaunay, Amanda Bevan-de Bernède, Nataline Fleury, Pierre-Emmanuel Fender, and Benoît Fleury; of counsels Julia-Barbara Michalon and Clarisse Bouchetemblé; and associates Charles Peugnet and David Hania.

Team members not in attendance included associates Martin Guermonprez, Imane Choukir, Guillaume Bismes, Julie Doria, Mélanie Gerrer, and Simon Reibel.

An article in The New York Times describes the findings of a report filed in federal court in Manhattan by partner Mylan Denerstein in her role as court-appointed NYPD Monitor. The report found that NYPD anti-crime units continued to make unlawful stops, frisks, and searches in 2023, and that supervisors failed to rein in the unlawful activity.

Mylan was appointed in 2022 to serve as the independent NYPD Monitor to oversee a court-ordered reform process. She is Co-Chair of the Gibson Dunn Public Policy Practice Group and Co-Partner in Charge of the firm’s New York office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/nyregion/the-persistent-problem-of-stop-and-frisk.html

A report filed in federal court in Manhattan by partner Mylan Denerstein in her capacity as NYPD Monitor is the subject of a New York Times article. The report found that the NYPD made unlawful stop-and-frisk stops at least a quarter of the time in 2023 and that command-level supervisors had regularly failed to address them.

Mylan is Co-Chair of our Public Policy Practice Group and Co-Partner in Charge of the firm’s New York office. She was appointed in 2022 to serve as the independent NYPD Monitor to oversee a court-ordered reform process.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/nyregion/nypd-stop-and-frisk-monitor.html

Gibson Dunn partners Winston Chan (San Francisco), Patrick Stokes (Washington, D.C.), and Oleh Vretsona (Washington, D.C.) discuss California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s recent reminder to businesses operating in California that, despite President Trump pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, making payments to foreign officials to obtain or retain business remains illegal. The Attorney General added that California may step up corruption-related enforcement if federal authorities’ priorities shift to other areas.

In view of these and other developments, the authors conclude that “companies would be well served by reviewing their compliance programs and calibrating their compliance-related risk assessments to mitigate against changing risk calculi and enforcement realities.”

Read their discussion in Law360 [PDF].

A Gibson Dunn team has been named a Law360 Legal Lion of the Week for having an injunction vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit less than an hour after oral arguments were made by partner Paul Torchia. The injunction had barred our client from launching an alopecia drug due to an alleged patent infringement. The Court indicated that the patent-owner plaintiff would not face irreparable harm because its early-stage drug couldn’t be launched until years after the patent expires in 2026.

Alongside Paul, our team included partner Charlotte Jacobsen, partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group Josh Krevitt, and partners Christine Ranney and Blaine Evanson.