Gibson Dunn is advising SLB on its $2 billion offering of Senior Notes.

Our corporate team includes partners Andrew Fabens and Cynthia Mabry, of counsel Rodrigo Surcan, and associate Chad Kang.

Gibson Dunn represented Related Digital, a data center development and investment platform founded by our client Related Companies, in the formation of a joint venture with funds affiliated with Blackstone in connection with the development and financing of a $16 billion hyperscale data center campus in Saline Township, Michigan, purpose-built for Oracle. The transaction includes equity investments from Related Digital and Blackstone and a landmark fixed-rate, long term debt financing anchored by PIMCO-managed funds and accounts. The transaction closed on April 30, 2026.

This transaction is another market-leading achievement for Gibson Dunn’s Data Centers and Digital Infrastructure Practice Group which continues to be called upon for the largest data center transactions around the globe.

The GDC team included partners Andrew Dady, Lauren Traina, David Perechocky, and Matthew Kidd; of counsel Elizabeth Case, Stephen Flug, William Goldman, and Genta Stafaj; and associates Matthew Schroth and Curtis Stahl. Partner Evan Gusler advised on tax matters.

Gibson Dunn is featured as a Champion Partner in the latest edition of “The Giving List Women” book [PDF]. The section highlights how partner and Pro Bono Chair Katie Marquart was inspired to launch the firm’s Justice for Women and Girls Initiative at The Giving List Women Summit 2024 after hearing that only 1.8% of all U.S. philanthropic dollars go to women and girls’ organizations. “It made me reflect on our pro bono practice and realize we could be doing more to support women and girls,” Katie said.

The Justice for Women and Girls Initiative is a celebration of Gibson Dunn’s longstanding commitment to pursuing equality and equity for women and girls and a recognition of the important work that remains to be done. Our work in this initiative spans five key pillars: educational equity, access to healthcare, legal and social equity, economic empowerment, and prevention of violence against women.

Gibson Dunn represented Coeur Mining, Inc. (NYSE: CDE), a U.S.-based diverse precious metals producer, in its private exchange offer to eligible holders for any and all of the outstanding 6.875% Senior Notes due 2032 issued by New Gold Inc., in exchange for Coeur’s 6.875% Senior Notes due 2032 and cash, in connection with Coeur’s acquisition of New Gold.

Coeur exchanged $385,800,000 aggregate principal amount of New Gold’s Senior Notes (representing 96.45% of the outstanding New Gold Senior Notes) for $385,774,000 aggregate principal amount of new notes and approximately $771,600 in cash. The exchange offer settled on April 22, 2026.

Our team included partner Eric Scarazzo, of counsel Rodrigo Surcan, and associate Mashoka Maimona. Partners Darius Mehraban and Andy Chen and associate Stephen Arvid Berg advised on finance aspects. Partner Kathryn Kelly and associate Eytan de Gunzburg advised on tax aspects.

Of counsel Francis Petrie was named an Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer for 2026 by Turnarounds & Workouts (April 2026), a newsletter for people tracking distressed businesses in the United States and Canada.

Francis is a member of the firm’s market-leading Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. His practice focuses on corporate restructurings, distressed financing, liability management transactions, and other special situation transactions in acquisitions, out-of-court restructurings, and Chapter 11 cases.

Partner Theane Evangelis was honored with the 2026 Beacon of Justice Award from the Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library at a gala on April 29, 2026.

In addition to being one of the country’s leading litigators, Theane serves on several non-profit and civic boards and is deeply committed to public service.

Proceeds from the Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library gala support the library’s free Access to Justice programs, which serve more than 120,000 people each year through workshops on tenant rights and family law, free Lawyers in the Library consultations, and legal information services that reach people who would otherwise face the legal system alone.

Gibson Dunn advised Arlington Capital Partners and Arlington portfolio company Pond & Company on the acquisition of ENERCON.

The firm’s corporate team included partners Andrew Herman and Evan D’Amico and associates Michael Naclerio, Sydney Colopy, and Thomas Franck.

Partner Katie Townsend was a guest on the “Legal Face-Off” show on WGN Radio 720 in Chicago, discussing a significant win for The New York Times in its challenge to the constitutionality of a Trump administration policy governing the issuance, denial, and revocation of press credentials at the Pentagon. Katie is part of the team representing The Times and its reporter Julian Barnes in that challenge.

Katie is Co‑Chair of the firm’s First Amendment and Free Expression Practice Group and a former Deputy Executive Director & Legal Director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Gibson Dunn represented BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group, one of the world’s largest timberland managers, in the formation of the largest reforestation fund closed to date, The Reforestation Fund I, investing in Latin American timberland assets, seeking to generate carbon credits for its Latin American Reforestation Strategy with $1.24 billion in committed capital.

The firm’s investment funds team was led by partner Kira Idoko and included associates Phil Stachnik, Jack Rogers, Trevor Herden, Eimi Harris, Grace Feitshans, and Kai Abbas, with additional transactional support from partners John Gaffney and Dan Alterbaum and of counsel Adam Lapidus. Partner Brian Kniesly and of counsel Jenn Fitzgerald advised on tax aspects. Partner Kevin Bettsteller advised on regulatory aspects. Partners Darius Mehraban and Duncan McKay and associates Aja Sanneh and Axel Sarkissian advised on finance aspects.

Partner Elizabeth Ising testified before the Subcommittee on Capital Markets of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services during its April 29, 2025 hearing on Exposing the Proxy Advisory Cartel: How ISS & Glass Lewis Influence Markets.

Elizabeth shared her observations on the significant influence of proxy advisory firms in corporate elections and the need to regulate these firms.

Elizabeth said that “the lack of regulation and accountability of proxy advisory firms, their conflicts of interest, ongoing objective errors in their reports, as well as unfounded biases and presumptions underlying their proxy voting positions, demonstrate the need for these participants in the U.S. proxy system to be subject to reasonable, common-sense regulation.”

Read the full testimony here.

On April 24, 2026, Gibson Dunn secured a major win for State Farm in Clippinger v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., a closely watched class-certification appeal before the full Sixth Circuit, sitting en banc. The Sixth Circuit’s published opinion rejecting class certification will be useful to defendants across the country in auto insurance class actions and beyond.

Plaintiffs nationwide have sued auto insurers, including State Farm, challenging the way the insurers resolve claims involving “totaled” cars. Insurance policies typically promise insured customers the “actual cash value” of totaled vehicles, and plaintiffs have alleged that insurers use valuation methods featuring one or more steps that undervalue the vehicles. In this case, the plaintiff’s theory was that by applying a “negotiation adjustment” to the advertised prices of cars on dealer lots—which accounts for the fact that dealers frequently sell used cars for less than advertised price after negotiating with buyers—State Farm was breaching its insurance policies.

The district court granted class certification, and a divided panel of the Sixth Circuit initially affirmed. After taking over the briefing, Gibson Dunn convinced the Sixth Circuit to grant rehearing en banc, emphasizing that the panel majority’s decision affirming class certification conflicted with case law from five other circuits in essentially identical total-loss cases. Gibson Dunn then handled the briefing and argument before the en banc court.

The en banc court’s published opinion, authored by Judge Murphy (whose dissent at the panel stage was vindicated after en banc review), joined the five other circuits in holding that total-loss cases are unsuitable for class treatment because they raise highly individualized issues of the actual cash value of each class member’s vehicle. The Sixth Circuit also explained that courts may not sidestep this individualized analysis by preventing defendants (or policyholders) from presenting vehicle-by-vehicle evidence of value, as doing so would violate the Rules Enabling Act and due process. 

The Gibson Dunn team included partners Ted Boutrous (who argued before the 17-judge en banc court), Brad Hamburger, and Daniel Adler and associates Matt Aidan Getz and Jessica Kinnamon. Partners Jeff Wall and Judd Littleton were also on the en banc briefs.

The article “The SEC’s Latest Crypto Guidance Still Leaves Too Much Unsaid” by partners Nick Harper, Matt Gregory, and Jason Mendro and associate Christian Talley has been published by Coindesk. They write that recent joint guidance by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission “stops short of the full course correction the crypto industry needs.”

Partners Krista Hanvey, Trey Cox, and Collin Cox were interviewed by Legal Business (subscription required) for an article on the growth of the Dallas market for Big Law firms. Krista said that “The Dallas market has shifted a lot. There’s a lot of competition, as we’re all going after the same Fortune 500 clients headquartered here.”

Trey mentioned that an influx of major banks and financial institutions increasing their investment in Dallas has impacted the legal market: “As more Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions come into the market, top 50 firms follow. With the bigger companies and the bigger law firms comes a more sophisticated set of legal services consumers. Everyone benefits from that – primarily the clients.”

Collin pointed out that the Texas Business Court has also played a role in driving demand in the Dallas market. “The business courts are another place where demand is expressing itself. It’s really exciting. It’s a great development for us,” he said.

Gibson Dunn is advising XOMA Royalty on its sale to Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc.  

The firm’s corporate team is led by partners Ryan Murr and Branden Berns and includes associate Evan Shepherd. Partners Pamela Lawrence Endreny and Rachel Kleinberg are advising on tax aspects. Partner Sean Feller is advising on benefits.

On April 21, 2026, a Gibson Dunn team secured a significant victory for pro bono client Daryl Davis in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In a published opinion, the Court reversed in part the district court’s dismissal with prejudice of several of Mr. Davis’s Section 1983 claims, giving him the opportunity to pursue those claims on remand.

Mr. Davis’s claims arise from a 2019 traffic stop in which officers accused him of swallowing cocaine—despite never testing him at the time of arrest and despite later drug tests repeatedly coming back negative. Officials nevertheless pursued a felony evidence-tampering charge against Mr. Davis for nearly five years, subjecting him to ongoing supervision and prosecution based on allegations that were never substantiated. Eventually, prosecutors dropped that baseless charge.

Proceeding pro se, Mr. Davis brought civil rights claims arising from his arrest and prosecution, which the district court dismissed with prejudice at the pleading stage. On appeal to the Fifth Circuit, the Court appointed Gibson Dunn associate Liz Kiernan as Mr. Davis’s counsel. Gibson Dunn argued that the district court erred in dismissing the claims with prejudice and that Mr. Davis should be able to replead his claims with the benefit of counsel. Liz presented argument to the Fifth Circuit, which agreed in key respects, holding that several of Mr. Davis’s claims should not have been dismissed with prejudice and remanding the case with instructions to grant Mr. Davis leave to amend his complaint. 

This outcome represents a meaningful step forward for Mr. Davis, who now has the chance to seek relief for his baseless arrest and prosecution. Gibson Dunn will continue to represent Mr. Davis on remand in a team led by Arjun Ogale.

The case is Davis v. Warren, No. 24-40599 (5th Cir.).

The team includes partner Allyson Ho and associates Liz Kiernan (argued), Arjun Ogale, Warren Bloom, Jeff Gurley, and Nate Evans.

Gibson Dunn represented Chobani, LLC and Chobani Finance Corporation, Inc. on an upsized offering of $800 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.375% Senior Notes due 2034.  Proceeds of the new senior notes will be used to fund the redemption of the 8.750%/9.500% Senior PIK Toggle Notes due 2029 of Chobani Holdco II, LLC and related fees and expenses.  The transaction closed on April 20, 2026.

The Gibson Dunn team advising Chobani included Andrew Fabens, Robert Giannattasio, Lawrence Lee, Kevin Mills, and Alanah Herfi. The firm’s finance team included Aaron Adams and Julia Sweitzer. Eric Sloan, James Jennings, and Emily Leduc Gagné advised on tax matters.

Gibson Dunn is advising Spectrotel, a leading provider of managed network services and connectivity solutions, and Grain Management on Spectrotel’s merger with AireSpring, a premier provider of global connectivity, managed services, and network infrastructure solutions.

The Gibson Dunn corporate team is led by partner Evan D’Amico and includes associates Kristen Lee, Percy Gao, and Sydney Colopy. Partner Jin Hee Kim and associate Melody Karmana are advising on financing aspects, partners Marian Fowler and A.J. Frey are advising on investment fund aspects, partner Matt Donnelly and associate Eytan de Gunzburg are advising on tax aspects, partner Michael Collins is advising on benefits, partner Joshua Lipton and associate Alexander Merritt are advising on antitrust aspects, partner Daniel Angel is advising on IP aspects, and partner Meghan Hungate is advising on technology aspects.

Gibson Dunn announced today that Eliza Kaiser has joined the firm as a partner in its Labor and Employment practice in New York. She has built a premier practice advising financial services, technology, and professional services clients on high-stakes employment litigation and investigations.

“Eliza is a standout employment litigator and exactly the kind of powerhouse talent who will complement and expand our New York capabilities,” said partner Jason Schwartz, Co-Chair of the Labor and Employment Practice Group. “Her judgment and experience navigating high-risk employment disputes make her a trusted advisor for clients and a strategic fit for our practice.”

“The firm has built the premier employment litigation platform in the country, and the opportunity to collaborate with world-class litigators on large-scale matters across its integrated platform — while further deepening relationships with shared clients, particularly in the financial services sector — made this an exceptional time to join,” said Eliza.

Gibson Dunn is the go-to firm for novel and high-stakes employment matters, with a Labor and Employment Practice Group at the leading edge of the field. The group has been recognized 13 times as an Employment Practice Group of the Year by Law360 and for the last nine years in a row as Labor and Employment Litigation Department of the Year by The National Law Journal. It includes more than 250 lawyers across 15 offices. The team works seamlessly across disciplines, bringing together some of the country’s leading employment, regulatory, class action, and appellate lawyers.

About Eliza Kaiser

Eliza represents employers in federal and state courts, administrative proceedings and agency actions, and arbitrations and mediations. She has extensive experience litigating a wide range of employment claims, including allegations based on discrimination, whistleblowing, wage and hour violations, breach of contract, and tort. Eliza also has experience counseling clients on all aspects of the employment relationship, such as equal employment opportunity, employment policies, hiring, termination, disciplinary action, leave and medical issues, and employment contracts.

Additionally, she regularly conducts investigations into employment issues, including claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblowing, and employee misconduct. Eliza’s prior experience as an in-house employment lawyer at a financial services firm provides her with a unique perspective on the issues facing employers. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Eliza was a partner at an international law firm.

A Gibson Dunn client alert authored by partners Michael Kahn, Monica Loseman, Brian Lutz, Jason Mendro, and Craig Varnen and associate Brian Yang, “Delaware Supreme Court Rejects Bright Line Rules in Section 220 Books and Records Proceedings,” has been published by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.

Shout-out to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partners Theodore Boutrous Jr., Connor Sullivan and Katie Townsend, who led a team representing NBCUniversal defending a $100 million defamation claim filed by Sean Combs stemming from the documentary “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.” Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Phaedra Perry-Bond dismissed the suit this week, holding that the documentary took a “nuanced” approach and included responses to key allegations against Combs. “It is inconceivable as to how the documentary created additional damage to plaintiff’s reputation, which was already tarnished by the numerous lawsuits, domestic violence video, press coverage and a criminal indictment,” the judge wrote. The Gibson Dunn team included associates Zachary Freund, Connor Mui and Elise Blegen.

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