Gibson Dunn represented the initial purchasers, led by Bank of America Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, BMO Capital Markets Corp., and Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., as joint book-running managers on a private offering by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited of $750 million of its 6.200% senior notes due 2056. Fairfax is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, is engaged primarily in property and casualty insurance and reinsurance and the associated investment management.
The Gibson Dunn team was led by partner Andrew Fabens, of counsel Rodrigo Surcan, and associate Nneka Chukwumah. Partner Jennifer Sabin advised on tax matters.
Gibson Dunn is recognized in the 2026 edition of the IAM Patent 1000 guide, which identifies “world-class patent expertise across both individual practitioners and private practice firms.” The guide recognizes our National, California, New York, Washington, D.C., and Texas patent practices as well as 14 Gibson Dunn partners: Wayne Barsky, Brian Buroker, Jaysen Chung, Benjamin Hershkowitz, Charlotte Jacobsen, Josh Krevitt, Jason Lo, Jane Love, Mark Reiter, Brian Rosenthal, Karen Spindler, Daniel Thomasch, Robert Trenchard, and Robert Vincent.
Gibson Dunn is proud to have joined Veritas Capital in helping raise $1 million for the Garden of Dreams Foundation through the New York Knicks’ NBA Finals fundraising initiative.
The Foundation works with children facing challenges such as illness, homelessness, poverty, and foster care throughout the tri-state area.
“Advocating for underserved youth has been a longstanding part of our firm’s pro bono work, and this is a special moment to see that commitment extend into the Knicks community—and benefit the next generation of fans,” said Barbara Becker, Chair and Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn.
Gibson Dunn today announced that leading trial lawyer and litigator Matthew Owen has joined the firm as a partner in its Litigation and Congressional Investigations Practice Groups in Washington, D.C. His practice spans complex commercial disputes, high-stakes investigations, and crisis management, with notable expertise in antitrust and drug pricing matters.
“Matt is a razor-sharp litigator who joins our elite team of lawyers operating at the intersection of complex litigation, governmental regulation, and public policy,” said F. Joseph Warin, Chair of the nearly 300-lawyer Litigation Department of Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office and Co-Chair of the firm’s global White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group. “His proven trial capability brings the versatility and judgment clients need as they confront ‘whole-of-government’ exposure, with encyclopedic command of the pharmaceutical regulatory arena.”
Matt, a double U.S. Supreme Court law clerk for Justices Gorsuch and Scalia, joins the firm’s 47 former Supreme Court law clerks.
“Matt brings a rare combination of senior Senate investigative leadership and deep litigation experience,” said Michael D. Bopp, Chair of the firm’s Congressional Investigations Practice Group. “His experience will further enhance our ability to help clients navigate parallel litigation, regulatory, and congressional risks.”
During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, Matt supervised the successful litigation of the Senate’s first contempt action in more than twenty years and led a number of congressional investigations, including inquiries into competition in the cable and satellite television industry and drug pricing. He previously served as Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, which oversees federal antitrust enforcement agencies and reviews major proposed mergers affecting the national economy.
“Gibson Dunn’s litigation platform is the gold standard, and I am thrilled to begin the next chapter of my career working alongside mentors, colleagues, and friends,” said Matt. “Today’s bet-the-company matters are global, cross-practice, and move in real time, and it’s clear the firm has built the leading platform to help clients navigate their most complex disputes and sensitive investigations.”
Matt joins amid the continued strategic expansion of the firm’s litigation bench, following the recent additions of former Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, Judson Littleton, and Morgan Ratner in Washington, D.C., as well as Yaira Dubin in New York.
About Matthew Owen
Matt focuses on complex commercial litigation, congressional and other government investigations, and appeals. He has a versatile skill set, having represented clients in antitrust suits, drug pricing litigation, environmental cases, consumer class actions, contested bankruptcy proceedings, contract disputes, and regulatory matters.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Matt was a partner at an international law firm. He previously served as Majority Staff Director and Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and as Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights.
Matt was a law clerk for both U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Neil Gorsuch. He also served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Writing for The Texas Lawbook, partner Brad Hubbard and Ben Barnes, with contributions from associates Jack DiSorbo and Jed Greenberg, discuss a recent challenge to the constitutionality of the Texas Business Court. They recount the legal history underlying statutory courts like the Business Court, and explain that the “constitutional arguments overlook Texas’s long history of creating statutory courts with special powers, and the Legislature’s broad authority to create them.” They then analyze each of the specific arguments against the court, concluding that “if the question ever reaches the Texas Supreme Court, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll see a departure from the Court’s century-long line of decisions consistently blessing the constitutionality of statutory courts just like this one.”
Gibson Dunn continues to be a leading firm on representing clients in the newly created Business Court and Fifteenth Court of Appeals, and on publishing legal analysis and commentary on developing issues in this field.
The article was published in The Texas Lawbook on June 4, 2026.
Gibson Dunn has announced two new leadership appointments within the firm’s globally recognized Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.
Attila Borsos will serve as Head of Cross-Border Merger Control and Foreign Investment. In this role, Attila will help lead and further expand the firm’s global capabilities advising clients on complex multijurisdictional merger reviews, foreign investment screening, and related regulatory matters. Steve Weissman, Gibson Dunn partner and former Deputy Director for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, said: “Attila’s deep experience, strategic judgment, and longstanding work with clients and colleagues across offices make him exceptionally well suited for this position.” Attila is based in Gibson Dunn’s Brussels office.
Additionally, Jeremy Robison will serve as Head of Antitrust Investigations, a practice recognized as Band 1 by Chambers for 17 consecutive years with a global reach spanning clients across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Kristen Limarzi, Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice, said: “Jeremy has built an outstanding reputation representing clients in high-stakes antitrust investigations and enforcement matters, and he will play a key role in continuing to strengthen our practice in this rapidly evolving area.” Jeremy is based in Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office.
Gibson Dunn is a leading antitrust firm globally, serving clients across a broad array of industries with world-class practitioners in every significant area of antitrust and competition law. The practice encompasses high-stakes litigation against government agencies and private parties, securing regulatory clearance for complex transactions, defending against large-scale global government investigations, and providing general compliance counseling.
The New York Law Journal [PDF] has reported on a “potentially game-changing” immigration habeas decision won by a Gibson Dunn pro bono team in Manhattan federal court where local police officers’ misconduct towards a migrant was found to be so unlawful that his later custodian, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had to immediately release him.
Attorneys representing Olvin Castillo Chaver, who was arrested on February 13, 2026, during a traffic stop after police found a yellow pill they asserted was cocaine, “believe the decision marks the first time that any federal court has forced ICE to release an immigration detainee over Fourth Amendment violations committed by local police—and they think the order provides a roadmap for advocates who represent people who lack any means under the Immigration and Nationality Act to challenge their detention, and must instead rely on the U.S. Constitution.”
After the arrest, ICE reinstated a prior removal order against Castillo Chaver, who came to the U.S. unlawfully when he was 11. During an April 16 hearing, Gibson Dunn partner David Salant argued that the arrest was unlawful in a number of ways — that no one would have mistaken the yellow pill for cocaine and that, even if the pill was enough to support an arrest, the officers couldn’t have stopped Castillo Chaver for a pill they couldn’t see from outside his car — and was pretextual. Pointing to a phone call that the Nassau County Police Department made to ICE an hour before the arrest, David argued that local authorities made a determination about Castillo Chaver’s ability to stay in the U.S., advised ICE, and then made sure to encounter and arrest Castillo Chaver later.
David argued that this represented “a seriously violative Fourth Amendment stop and arrest” and that “the illegal arrest by local police infected ICE’s subsequent detention.”
David told the publication that ICE’s removal order forced the team to develop a new legal strategy. “He was detained under Section 1231 of the INA, which is this very harsh provision that calls for mandatory detention … and gives [Department of Homeland Security] and ICE extensive authority to detain,” David said. “It was exciting … to offer up a novel legal theory. It was also totally nerve-wracking. We were transparent to the court about that.”
The Gibson Dunn team, led by partner David Salant and including associates Beshoy Shokralla and Stephanie Chen, worked on the case with LatinoJustice, Make the Road NY, and the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center.
Washington, D.C. partners Sanford Stark, Saul Mezei, and Terrell Ussing and of counsel Brad McCormack have authored the USA chapter of the Chambers Tax Controversy 2026 Global Practice Guide, which addresses a range of tax controversy issues and trends.
In its 2026 edition, Chambers USA awarded Gibson Dunn 146 top-tier rankings, of which 49 are for practice areas and 97 are for individual lawyers.
Overall, the firm earned 456 rankings — 127 practice group rankings and 329 individual lawyer rankings.
Gibson Dunn earned top-tier rankings in the following practice areas:
| Antitrust | California |
| Insurance: Insurer | California |
| Labor & Employment: The Elite | California |
| Litigation: Appellate | California |
| Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite | California |
| Litigation: Securities | California |
| Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations | California |
| Media & Entertainment: Litigation | California |
| Outsourcing | California |
| Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use | California |
| Real Estate | California: Northern |
| Real Estate | California: Southern |
| Tax | California: Southern |
| Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations | Colorado |
| Antitrust | District of Columbia |
| Corporate/M&A & Private Equity | District of Columbia |
| Labor & Employment | District of Columbia |
| Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite | District of Columbia |
| Litigation: Securities | District of Columbia |
| Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations | District of Columbia |
| Accountant and Auditor Liability | Nationwide |
| Antitrust | Nationwide |
| Antitrust: Cartel | Nationwide |
| Appellate Law | Nationwide |
| Artificial Intelligence | Nationwide |
| Corporate Crime & Investigations: The Elite | Nationwide |
| Corporate Governance | Nationwide |
| Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional) | Nationwide |
| False Claims Act | Nationwide |
| FCPA | Nationwide |
| Intellectual Property | Nationwide |
| Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets | Nationwide |
| Law Firm Defense | Nationwide |
| Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite | Nationwide |
| Outsourcing | Nationwide |
| Privacy & Data Security: Litigation | Nationwide |
| Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded | Nationwide |
| Products Liability: Toxic Torts | Nationwide |
| Projects: PPP | Nationwide |
| Real Estate | Nationwide |
| Securities: Litigation | Nationwide |
| Securities: Regulation: Advisory | Nationwide |
| Intellectual Property: Patent | New York |
| Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite | New York |
| Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations: The Elite | New York |
| Real Estate: Mainly Corporate & Finance | New York |
| Real Estate: Mainly Dirt | New York |
| Outsourcing | New York |
| Litigation: General Commercial | Texas (Dallas, Fort Worth & Surrounds) |
The following partners achieved top-tier rankings:
| Chair and Managing Partner Barbara Becker |
| Aaron Beim |
| Allyson Ho |
| Amy Forbes |
| Anita Girdhari |
| Barry Berke |
| Brian Lane |
| Brian Lutz |
| Collin Cox |
| Cromwell Montgomery |
| Dani James |
| Daniel Swanson |
| Debra Wong Yang |
| Dennis Arnold |
| Douglass Rayburn |
| Elizabeth Ising |
| Eric Feuerstein |
| Eric Sloan |
| Eric Stock |
| Eugene Scalia |
| George Stamas |
| Greg Kerwin |
| Helgi Walker |
| Hillary Holmes |
| James Farrell |
| Jason Mendro |
| Jason Schwartz |
| Jeff Wall |
| Jeffrey Chapman |
| Jeffrey Krause |
| Jeffrey Steiner |
| Jesse Sharf |
| Jessica Brown |
| Joe Warin |
| Jonathan K. Layne |
| Jonathan Phillips |
| Joseph West |
| Josh Krevitt |
| Kevin Rosen |
| Khalil Yearwood |
| Krista Hanvey |
| Lauren Giovannone |
| Lori Zyskowski |
| Mary Murphy |
| Michael Bopp |
| Michael Darden |
| Michael Weinberger |
| Nicola Hanna |
| Noam Haberman |
| Orin Snyder |
| Patrick Dennis |
| Patrick Stokes |
| Rachel Brass |
| Rachel Kleinberg |
| Rahim Moloo |
| Raymond Ludwiszewski |
| Robert Blume |
| Robyn Zolman |
| Ronald Mueller |
| Ryan Bergsieker |
| Ryan Murr |
| Scott Greenberg |
| Scott Hammond |
| Sean Feller |
| Stephen Fackler |
| Stephen Glover |
| Stephen Nordahl |
| Stephen Weissman |
| Steven Klein |
| Ted Boutrous Jr. |
| Theane Evangelis |
| Thomas Dupree Jr. |
| Thomas Kim |
| Tomer Pinkusiewicz |
| Trey Cox |
| Vivek Mohan |
| William Peters |
Gibson Dunn is representing Macquarie Asset Management as U.S. counsel in the sale of its interest in Corredor Logística e Infraestrutura, Brazil’s leading independent agri-bulk port terminal operator (jointly owned with IG4 Capital), to AD Ports Group at an enterprise value of $835 million.
The Gibson Dunn team representing Macquarie is led by partners Tomer Pinkusiewicz and Jamal Lama and includes associate Sarah Sperling.
Partner Jason Zachary Goldstein is quoted in the Octus article “Struggling Radio Sector Cleans Up Balance Sheets Ahead of Potential Deregulation-Induced M&A Boom,” which attributes declining revenue in the radio industry to several factors including high fixed costs and audience fragmentation.
“There are so many different types of streaming content now, and traditional broadcast radio is being hit in a multitude of ways – you’re getting such a diversified set of people entering the market that it’s really created an audience issue as a result,” Jason said. “It’s creating additional revenue decline in the traditional broadcast market.”
Jason also discussed the impact of high fixed costs in the radio industry and the potential benefits of deregulation to allow for consolidation of stations within one ownership group in a local market.
“There is a narrow, but optimistic view going forward here that these are still durable assets,” he said. “These are still cash generating entities, and there could be a lot of value in some of the IP that they have, there could be a lot of value in the region that they have, particularly if you’re consolidating a bunch of local market stations under the banner of a bigger brand.”
Global Arbitration Review (subscription required) reported on comments made by Washington, D.C. partner Patrick Pearsall at London International Disputes Week. Patrick proposed inserting a mandatory requirement in arbitration agreements to conduct an early case assessment using artificial intelligence.
Patrick pointed out that we are “no longer asking whether AI case assessments are effective, the market has answered that.” The question is whether arbitration’s procedural architecture should “harness it deliberately, or continue to allow each party to use it privately and asymmetrically.”
Armando Albarrán, Gibson Dunn’s Partner in Charge in Madrid, sums up the firm’s strategy in Spain in an in-depth interview with Iberian Lawyer: “quality, quality, quality; execution; the best lawyers working for the best clients on the best deals.”
Our thesis, he added, “is that there is room for a small group of lawyers very focused on large transactions, or complex transactions, and very focused on client service.”
In the interview featured on the front page of the magazine’s Spanish edition, Armando discusses the firm’s thinking behind the recent launch in Madrid, the team he’s setting up there and the deals pipeline that has quickly emerged for Gibson Dunn, as well as the team’s transactional focus, especially cross-border, and how having an office in Spain is vital for wider European transactional work.
Read the full interview in Spanish and English (page 102).
Gibson Dunn advised KKR on its investment in Fresha.com Holding Inc., the leading marketplace and software platform for the beauty, wellness, and self-care industry, at a valuation of over $1 billion.
The Gibson Dunn corporate team in the U.K. was led by partners Wim De Vlieger and Isabel Berger and included associates Sarah Reder, Francesco Mancuso, and Lena Tarrin as well as partner Daniel Alterbaum and associate Mackenzie Alpert in the U.S. Additional support was provided by partner Sandy Bhogal and of counsel Bridget English (tax), partner Lore Leitner and associate Ioana Burtea (data privacy), partner Joel Harrison and associates Libby Pica and Elisa Wong (IP), partner James Cox and associates Georgia Derbyshire and Finley Willits (employment), partner Michelle Kirschner and associate Saad Khan (financial regulation), partner David Irvine and associates Tom Capper and Romni Ritherdon (finance), of counsel Richard Sen (real estate), and partner Valeri Bozhikov and associate Jonas Jousma (antitrust).
The 2025 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll includes 303 Gibson Dunn members of the D.C. Bar who completed at least 50 hours of pro bono work in 2025. Of these, 203 lawyers provided 100+ hours of pro bono service, thereby qualifying for the High Honor Roll.
The Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll recognizes the contributions made by lawyers providing pro bono services to those who cannot afford counsel, as well as to disadvantaged small businesses and community-based nonprofits. In their joint letter to the honorees, Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby of the D.C. Court of Appeals and Chief Judge Milton C. Lee, Jr., of the D.C. Superior Court wrote: “Pro bono participation is simply indispensable to the efficient functioning of our civil justice system. … Your dedication of time, expertise, and resources to individuals and communities who would otherwise go without legal representation reflects the highest ideals of the legal profession.”
Gibson Dunn has been named an international firm of the year for Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption and Competition & Antitrust at the China Business Law Awards 2026, presented by the China Business Law Journal.
The awards celebrate law firms that have navigated China’s complex and shifting economic landscape with “deep expertise and innovative approaches to thrive in an increasingly competitive environment.”
Partner Julian Kleinbrodt was quoted in the Global Competition Review article “California Advances Landmark Monopolisation Bill” (subscription required) on the COMPETE Act, which would expand Cartwright Act liability for unilateral conduct and has reignited debate over how far state antitrust law should stray from the Sherman Act.
Julian addressed whether the statute is overbroad and contradicts current antitrust thinking. He said the amendments address some concerns but still could allow California courts to “abandon well-established frameworks for evaluating specific conduct” which “would mean potentially losing decades of judicial and economic learning.”
In their article for The Texas Lawbook [PDF] on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s semiannual reporting proposal, partners Hillary Holmes and Cynthia Mabry ask an important question: “Even if the Securities and Exchange Commission gives public companies permission to report less often, will investors, analysts and lenders actually let them?” And for Texas executives, boards, and in-house counsel, they raise a related question: “Is the company actually ready to make that call?”
The answer, they write, is probably not entirely. “But the proposal is still important because it could materially change how companies think about disclosure controls, earnings communications, liability exposure and the cost of being public.”
Of counsel Humzah Yazdani was quoted in the S&P Global article “Hormuz Reopening Unlikely to Quickly Unwind LNG Supply Backlog: Lawyers.”
He pointed out that there are parallels between now and the “contractual evolution” that followed the COVID-19 pandemic.
Partner Hillary Holmes was quoted by International Financing Review (subscription required) in its article “Small U.S. IPOs Remain in the Shadows.” The article discussed a push to reduce “regulatory friction” for smaller companies looking to go public.
“The SEC is focused on making a difference with respect to promoting capital formation and a push to change policy to reboot IPOs and increase the number of public companies,” Hillary said.