Gibson Dunn advised J.P. Morgan Asset Management as co-lead investor in the Series L financing round of Databricks.

Our corporate team included partners Richard Birns and Daniel Alterbaum and associates Mark Goldman and Hannah Gonzalez. Partner Kathryn Kelly and associate Ryan Rott advised on tax aspects.

A Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher team led by Tom Dupree upheld their win for Churchill Downs Inc. from earlier this year blocking the state of Michigan’s efforts to shut down betting on out-of-state races via the company’s TwinSpires app. The Sixth Circuit this week upheld an injunction barring the state’s licensing requirement, finding it was likely preempted by the federal Interstate Horseracing Act. The team representing Churchill Downs includes Gibson partner Christine Demana and associates John Tienken, Abby Walters and Thomas Moore; in-house lawyers, including Churchill Downs GC Brad Blackwell and corporate counsels Brandon Kenney and Andrew Silver; and Michigan counsel Patrick Seyferth and Derek Linkous of Bush Seyferth and Jason Hanselman and Kyle Asher of Dykema Gossett.

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Gibson Dunn represented UBS in its successful appeal to the U.K.’s Supreme Court regarding proposed FX class-action proceedings filed in the Competition Appeal Tribunal. The Supreme Court unanimously allowed all the appellant banks’ grounds of appeal.

The Supreme Court’s judgment is an important restatement of the need for proper scrutiny of proposed collective proceedings at the certification stage. It makes clear that weak and unmeritorious claims should not be able to benefit from the procedural advantages that the opt-out procedure affords claimants. 

The proceedings arose from two European Commission settlement decisions from May 2019 in respect of foreign exchange trading.

Our London team was led by partner Doug Watson with support from associates Dan Warner, Jack Crichton, Alex Gresty, and Grace Atkinson.

Gibson Dunn advised Celanese Corporation on its concurrent $1.4 billion senior notes offering and $1.2 billion tender offers.

Our corporate team included partners Andrew Fabens and Doug Rayburn and associates Alexandria Johnson, Alexis Levine, Chad Kang, and Tara Adhikari. Partner Darius Mehraban, of counsel Jason Durschlag, and associate Jaclyn Wang advised on credit matters. Partner Michael Cannon and associate Yara Mansour advised on tax aspects.

Gibson Dunn is advising Yarrow Bioscience on its merger with VYNE Therapeutics and concurrent $200 million financings.

Our corporate team includes partners Ryan Murr, Melanie Neary, and Branden Berns and associates Evan Shepherd and Candice Johnson.

Gibson Dunn has elected 42 lawyers to its partnership, effective January 1, 2026—the largest partner class in the firm’s history. The promotions reflect continued growth driven by expanding client demand across key markets and practices.

“Each member of this incredibly talented group of lawyers does remarkable work on behalf of our clients and makes extraordinary contributions to our firm’s community,” said Barbara Becker, Chair and Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn. “We are thrilled to welcome them to our partnership.”

The newly promoted partners span 17 offices across the firm’s integrated global platform. 26% of the class is based in London, marking the largest partner promotion group ever in that office. Additionally, 40% of the class is located outside the U.S.—significantly exceeding prior years, underscoring the firm’s strength and continued investment in both domestic and international markets.

The newly elected partners are:

Daniel R. Adler (Appellate and Constitutional Law / Los Angeles) handles complex cases in appellate and trial courts across the country and is especially experienced in briefing cutting-edge issues in insurance, securities, and consumer-class-action appeals and in securing discretionary appellate review of pivotal decisions, including class-certification and summary-judgment orders. He earned his JD from Columbia University.

Michal Baum (Real Estate / New York) has experience in a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, construction and real estate finance, joint ventures, mezzanine loans, preferred equity investments, and loan workouts and restructuring for a broad array of asset classes, including healthcare real estate, industrial, hospitality, multifamily, ground-up development, retail, and office. She earned her JD from Rutgers Law School in 2016.

Valeri Bozhikov (Antitrust and Competition / London) advises on complex EU, U.K. and international competition and foreign direct investment matters. Currently on secondment to KKR, he represents leading private equity firms and global corporates before the European Commission, the U.K. and German authorities, and international antitrust and FDI agencies. He earned his LLM at King’s College London and is admitted in the U.K. and the EU.

Tom Brower (Finance / Palo Alto) focuses his practice on a variety of domestic and cross-border debt financing transactions, with an emphasis on leveraged and acquisition finance for mid- and large-cap private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. He earned his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2015.

David W. Casazza (Appellate and Constitutional Law / Washington, D.C.) is an appellate attorney with experience in bankruptcy, administrative law, and other complex litigation. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 2015.

James Chandler (Tax / London) advises on all aspects of U.K. taxation and has experience of a wide range of transactional matters as well as complex tax litigation and pre-litigation matters. He received his law degree from University College London in 2011.

Andy Chen (Finance / Houston) has expertise in acquisition financings and energy sector financings, including reserve-based lending facilities, direct lending transactions, and renewable energy transitions, representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies as well as leading financial institutions. He received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2014.

Tyler R. Cox (Private Equity / Houston) has experience in a broad range of corporate transactions and regularly represents and advises private and public companies, private equity sponsors, management teams, and portfolio companies in connection with a variety of transactions, including mergers, equity and asset acquisitions, recapitalizations, dispositions, joint ventures, and other strategic business combinations. He earned his JD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014.

Delyan M. Dimitrov (Transnational Litigation / New York) focuses his practice on cross-border disputes, energy and climate litigation, foreign judgment and arbitral award enforcement, complex commercial disputes, and international arbitration. He teaches the international moot court advocacy course at Columbia Law School, from which he graduated in 2008.

Joseph Edmonds (Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort / Orange County) is a trial and appellate litigator with experience handling complex commercial disputes, mass torts, class actions, transnational litigation, and environmental litigation. He received his law degree from Brigham Young University in 2011.  

Osvaldo A. Galeano (Mergers and Acquisitions / London) focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, particularly for private equity and corporate clients in the infrastructure space. He received his law degree from the Catholic University of Asuncion and earned master’s degrees from Harvard Law School and the University of Oxford.

Dione Garlick (Litigation / Los Angeles) is an experienced trial lawyer with a practice focused on real estate litigation, where she advises and represents clients across the real estate industry and through all phases of disputes, from deal negotiations to litigation. She earned her law degree from UCLA School of Law in 2013.

Jonathan Griffin (Litigation / London) is a U.K. solicitor-advocate specializing in transnational litigation, white-collar investigations, and U.K. public takeover and U.K./EU technology regulatory matters. Jonathan graduated with a First Class MA in Law from the University of Cambridge (2006) and Distinction from BPP Law School.

Graham Haselgrove (Real Estate / London) advises lenders and sponsors on real estate backed investment and development financings (both secured senior and mezzanine financings) in the U.K. and across continental Europe. His practice covers a wide range of asset classes and sectors, including hotels and leisure, offices, retail, industrial and build to rent. He received his law degree from the University of Birmingham (U.K.) in 2010.

Tom Jackson (Transportation and Space / London) advises clients on a broad range of complex financing and corporate transactions in the transportation sector. He regularly represents underwriters, lenders, borrowers, lessors, credit insurers and equity and debt investors on their most innovative transactions. He completed the LPC at Kaplan Law School and received his BSc from the London School of Economics & Political Science.

Claude Jiang (Projects / Singapore) specializes in the development and financing of energy (including power, oil & gas and energy transition (i.e. batteries, hydrogen projects, CCUS)) and broader infrastructure (telecoms, data centers, water desalination, waste treatment, ports etc.) projects in Asia and the Middle East. He received his LL.B from Nanjing University School of Law in 2006 and LL.M from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis in 2007.

Melanie L. Katsur (Antitrust and Competition / Washington, D.C.) is an experienced litigator whose practice focuses on complex high-stakes antitrust litigation, representing clients in state and federal courts, including at the trial and appellate levels. She received her law degree, cum laude, from Duke University School of Law in 2001.

Sameera Kimatrai (Fintech and Digital Assets / Dubai) focuses her practice on the regulation of financial services, fintech, and digital assets, and has experience advising governments, regulators, and financial institutions on complex regulatory issues across the Middle East. She received her law degree from the University of Law in 2013, after completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge in 2011.

Derek K. Kraft (Litigation / Washington, D.C.) focuses his practice on complex civil litigation, with a focus on class actions and civil litigation with a governmental nexus. He has experience in all stages of litigation, including motions to dismiss, class certification, summary judgment, trial, and settlement. He received his law degree from Georgetown University in 2013.

David M. Kusnetz (Litigation / New York) represents a broad array of clients in high-stakes securities, complex commercial, and entertainment litigation. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 2014.

Eli M. Lazarus (Antitrust and Competition / San Francisco) helps clients navigate all aspects of antitrust civil litigation and investigations in front of courts and competition regulators across the globe, with particular focus on digital markets and supporting clients in Japan, utilizing his abilities to speak, read, and write Japanese. He received his JD from Yale Law School in 2011.

Mark Leverkus (Transportation and Space / London) acts for financiers, leasing companies and equity investors on a range of international financing, leasing and asset trading transactions (as well as related M&A and restructurings), involving aircraft, satellites and other moveable equipment. He received his law degree from the University of Durham in 2010.

Jeff Lombard (Securities Litigation / Palo Alto) focuses his practice on the representation of companies and their officers and directors in securities class actions, shareholder derivative litigation, and disputes related to merger and acquisition transactions. He graduated summa cum laude from Santa Clara University School of Law in 2012.

Shaun A. Mathur (Litigation / Los Angeles) focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation at the trial and appellate levels and has helped clients across a variety of industries navigate intellectual property, antitrust, class action, and other disputes. He earned his JD from the University of Utah in 2015.

Anna M. McKenzie (Labor and Employment / Washington, D.C.) is an experienced litigator and trial attorney who specializes in employment disputes involving senior executives and class claims; she also has extensive experience advising clients on a wide range of employment-related issues, including those related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. She received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2012.

Ning Ning (White Collar Defense and Investigations / Hong Kong) focuses her practice on white collar investigations and compliance counseling, serving multinational companies and global private equity firms that operate and invest in Asia Pacific. Ning was educated in both China and the United States. She earned her JD from the University of Illinois in 2015.

Katherine Nobbs (Antitrust and Competition / Brussels) advises global clients on EU competition law, digital regulation, and trade defense, with a focus on cross-border investigations, compliance mandates, and regulatory strategy before the European Commission and national authorities. She earned her MPhil at the University of Cambridge and her legal qualifications at the University of Law in London. She is admitted to the Brussels Bar.

Charles Peugnet (Business Restructuring and Reorganization / Paris) focuses his practice on restructuring, especially in the context of LBOs and complex debts restructuring. He developed specific experience assisting clients (debtors and creditors alike) in cross-border restructuring, including in coordination with chapter 11 and Chapter 15 proceedings. He received his law degree from the University of La Sorbonne School of Law in 2013.

Laura J. Plack (White Collar Defense and Investigations / Denver), a former Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, represents clients in regulatory and criminal investigations, congressional inquiries, government enforcement actions and prosecutions, and related complex civil litigation. She graduated in 2012 from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Brian Richman (Appellate and Constitutional Law / Dallas) represents clients in complex regulatory and appellate litigation, with a focus on challenges to agency rulemakings, enforcement actions, and sensitive commercial disputes. He earned his JD from Yale Law School in 2016.

Ankita Ritwik (International Arbitration / Washington, D.C.) focuses on international arbitration—both investor-State and commercial disputes—and arbitration-adjacent litigation, including enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and judgments. She has experience in a broad range of industries (including energy, mining, and telecommunications), geographies (including Latin America and Asia), and arbitral institutions (such as ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, and LCIA). She received her JD from Harvard Law School cum laude in 2013.

Rachel W. Robertson (Litigation / Dallas) represents clients in a wide range of complex, high-profile commercial litigation in federal and state courts and is particularly experienced in employment and class actions. She received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2015.

Prerak Shah (Litigation / Houston), a former senior official at the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Congress, and Texas Attorney General’s Office, represents clients in high-stakes government litigation and investigations, with a particular expertise in state attorney general investigations and enforcement actions. He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 2010.

Claire Shepherd (Antitrust and Competition / London) centers her antitrust and foreign investment practice around complex strategic M&A for multinational corporations, antitrust counselling for large technology firms, and a broad range of transactional matters for private equity, financial sponsor and restructuring clients. She is qualified in England & Wales and received her law degree from the University of Nottingham in 2010.

Michael S. Skouras (Private Equity / London) advises European and U.S. financial sponsors and other private capital investors on cross-border leveraged M&A, including private acquisitions and disposals, co-investments, minority and growth capital investments, restructurings, and various portfolio company matters (including governance arrangements, disputes, and management equity plans). He received his B.A. (Politics) from Exeter University (2012), GDL from the University of Law (2013), and LPC from Kaplan Law School (2014).

Matthew Squire (Business Restructuring and Reorganization / London) focuses his practice on cross-border restructuring and finance, advising clients in connection with in-court and out-of-court restructurings, liability management transactions, as well as distressed and new money financings. He completed his law degree at McGill University and is qualified to practice law in both England and Wales and the State of New York. 

Alana Tinkler (Antitrust and Competition / London) focuses her competition law practice on complex, multi-jurisdictional merger control matters (particularly for private equity, asset manager and lender clients, as well as strategic investors), foreign investment & national security screening, and antitrust investigations. She is a dual-qualified solicitor in England & Wales and New Zealand, and received her law degree from the University of Auckland in 2010.

Lauren Traina (Real Estate / Los Angeles) focuses her practice on real estate planning and development, with expertise in real estate transactions and project development in the energy, infrastructure, utility, and data center sectors, while also supporting land use group and institutional real estate clients with entitlement applications, diligence, and navigating regulatory and permitting challenges. She received her JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in 2014.

Jennafer M. Tryck (Litigation / Orange County) specializes in defending employers and insurers in high-stakes Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) litigation. She also dedicates a significant portion of her practice to advising clients on limiting litigation exposure for ERISA and non-ERISA benefit plans. Jennafer earned her JD from UC Irvine School of Law in 2012.

Trenton J. Van Oss (Appellate and Constitutional Law / Washington, D.C.) is an appellate litigator with experience across a wide range of subject matters, including data privacy, class actions, securities, telecommunications, gaming, and separation-of-powers issues. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2017.

Friedrich A. Wagner (Transnational Litigation / Munich) maintains a broad litigation and arbitration practice centered in Germany, encompassing cross-border disputes, with a focus on mass litigation, post-M&A disputes, and disputes involving European data and technology regulation. He received his law degree from the University of Passau in 2011 and his PhD in 2015.

Carissa H. Zidell (Real Estate / Century City) represents real estate funds, developers, and investors in all aspects of real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, preferred equity investments, and financings, across a variety of asset classes, ranging from hospitality, student housing, multi-family, office, industrial, and data center. She received her law degree from UCLA School of Law in 2017, and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

Gibson Dunn advised KKR on its growth investment in Premialab, an independent data and risk analytics platform used by institutional investors looking to monitor, manage, and diversify their global portfolios.

Our corporate team was led by partners Wim De Vlieger and Isabel Berger and included associates Omar Morsy, Willem van Hootegem, and Mostafa Mabrouk.

In an interview with the Daily Journal [PDF] after being named one of its Top White-Collar Lawyers for 2025, partner Winston Y. Chan discussed leading the defense team for a technology company involved in three concurrent investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and California Attorney General. Each agency investigated different theories of whether the company misrepresented cybersecurity events and weaknesses to customers and investors. The team faced extensive and competing document, information, and interview requests from all three agencies.

“These were open-ended investigations in search of a whisper of a problem,” Winston said.

Earlier this year, all three agencies closed their investigations without taking action against the company.

Winston is Co-Chair of both our global White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group and our False Claims Act/Qui Tam Defense Practice Group. He noted several changes in False Claims Act enforcement under the Trump administration.

“Not in my entire career working on FCA cases have I seen so many novel applications of the statute being pursued all at once, in such a public way, with top-down pronouncements designed to motivate DOJ staff as well as putative whistleblowers and their counsel,” Winston said.

Partner Katie Townsend recently spoke to Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance (subscription required) about a lawsuit filed by her client The New York Times and one of their reporters about the Pentagon’s new press policy. In the interview, she discussed what the lawsuit alleges, what relief the newspaper is seeking, how that might affect other journalists, and how quickly the case might move.

Gibson Dunn advised CenterOak Partners LLC and Turf Masters Brands, Inc. on the sale of Turf Masters Brands in a transaction with ExperiGreen Lawn Care.

Our Dallas corporate team was led by partner Robert Little and included associates Kiel Sauerman, Uyen Tu, Shawn Burrows, and Riley Gesling.

Partners Cromwell Montgomery and Nicole Kim advised on financing; partner Michael Cannon and associates Josiah Bethards and Sumaya Bouadi on tax aspects; partner Krista Hanvey and associate John Curran on benefits; partner Daniel Angel and associate Jessica Lee on IP aspects; and partner Sophia Hansell and associate Austin Donohue on antitrust aspects.

Click to read Law.com International’s article, “Gibson Dunn London Could Reach 500 Lawyers in 5 Years Amid Major Build Out” [PDF], which highlights the firm’s significant expansion plans and continued strategic growth in London.

Gibson Dunn was recognized at The Financial Times (FT) Innovative Lawyers Awards North America 2025 as one of the Most Innovative Law Firms, and was honored as the Most Innovative Firm in two categories: the Business of Law category for our comprehensive three-pronged AI strategy, and the Practice of Law – Disputes and Litigation category for our precedent-setting win in an OpenAI defamation suit.

The firm was also Highly Commended in the Practice of Law – Restructuring category for our Liability Management Exercises (LMEs), and partner Eugene Scalia (Washington, D.C.) was named one of the Top 10 Individual Practitioners for his administrative law and regulatory work.

In addition, Barbara Becker was recognized in the Law Firm Leaders category as one of the top five women chairs / managing partners.

The FT’s annual Innovative Lawyers Awards North America spotlight the firms and in-house teams that use innovative approaches to deliver exceptional value to businesses and society.

Gibson Dunn advised KKR on Saviynt’s $700 million Growth Equity Financing at a valuation of approximately $3 billion. Saviynt is a leading identity security company whose AI-powered platform manages, secures, and governs access for human, non-human, and AI agent identities across an organization’s applications, data, and infrastructure.

Our corporate team was led by partners Christopher Harding and Abtin Jalali and included of counsel Soren Kreider and associate Sam Shapiro.

Partners Christian Riis-Madsen, Kristen Limarzi, and Brad Smith and associate Jonas Jousma advised on antitrust aspects; partner Matt Donnelly and associate Yara Mansour on tax; partner Meghan Hungate and associate Andrew Hartman on IP; partner Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter and associate Sarah Scharf on data privacy; and partners Mike Collins and James Cox on benefits.

Gibson Dunn is advising DivcoWest as co-investor and joint venture partner with Blackstone Real Estate in Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.’s $2.3 billion take-private transaction.

Our corporate team includes partners Jesse Shapiro and David Perechocky and associate Ryan Dosh. Partner Lorna Wilson is advising on tax matters.

Gibson Dunn supported Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL), one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, in its continued expansion in the United Arab Emirates. Circle has secured a Financial Services Permission from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of the Abu Dhabi Global Market to operate as a Money Services Provider.

This regulatory milestone strengthens Circle’s presence in the region and reinforces the UAE’s leadership in building a trusted, innovation-forward digital asset ecosystem.

Our project team was led by partner Hagen Rooke, of counsel Sameera Kimatrai, and associate Aliya Padhani.

Gibson Dunn represented the J.M. Smucker Co. on appeal after a series of class actions across the country were consolidated in a multidistrict litigation before the Western District of Missouri. The plaintiffs claim that they were misled by the labels on Folgers canisters, many of which contain statements that the canister will produce “up to” a certain number of eight-ounce cups of coffee, based on the theory that (under some conditions) the canisters allegedly produced less than that number of cups. The district court certified a class of Missouri consumers who bought relevant Folgers products with corresponding labels.

Gibson Dunn was hired to represent Folgers after the class was certified. The Gibson Dunn team first convinced the Eighth Circuit to grant interlocutory appellate review under Rule 23(f). And after full briefing and argument by Los Angeles partner Ted Boutrous, the Eighth Circuit reversed, rejecting class certification.

The court of appeals’ published opinion will prove useful in many consumer-fraud class actions in the future. The court recognized “that fraud cases are typically unsuitable for class treatment,” largely because “the proof required in such cases often varies with respect to what representations consumers received and whether those consumers relied on those representations.” The court also explained that many state consumer-fraud statutes require proof of “a causal connection between the deceptive act and [the] harm” plaintiffs assert, and that even if affirmative proof of causation were not required from the plaintiff, that “would not foreclose the defendant from presenting evidence of a lack of causation or reliance, which too would raise individualized questions.” This remains the case even where the challenged representations “appeared on each of the…products,” especially where there are indications “that a significant proportion of the proposed class did not read those representations or, if they did, did not care about them one way or the other” or “did not interpret the[m] in the manner [the plaintiff] suggests.”

The court also rejected the plaintiff’s effort to rely on a price-premium theory (i.e., that every consumer paid more because of the alleged label misrepresentations and so necessarily was injured), explaining that “someone with full knowledge of the facts and a willingness to make the purchase anyway cannot have suffered an ascertainable loss.”

Along with Ted Boutrous, our team includes partners Perlette Michele Jura and Bradley Hamburger and associates Daniel Adler, Patrick Fuster, and Matt Aidan Getz.

Gibson Dunn advised Investcorp on its acquisition of Kanawha Scales & Systems, a leading provider of weighing calibration and repair services and automation solutions.

Our corporate team included partners Sean Griffiths, Christopher Lang, and Maxwell Ball and associates Nicolette Fata, Jae Kim, and Spencer Becerra. Partner Edward Wei and associates Doug Bresnick and Sumaya Bouadi advised on tax aspects. Partner Michael Collins advised on benefits. Partner Meghan Hungate and associates Jessica Lee, Ruby Lang, and Andrew Hartman advised on IP aspects.

Gibson Dunn was recognized in the 2026 edition of Chambers FinTech, a guide to the best law firms and lawyers in the global fintech industry.

The firm was ranked in the USA – Crypto-Asset Disputes, USA – FinTech Legal, USA – FinTech Legal: Payments & Lending, USA – FinTech Legal: Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies, and Singapore – FinTech Legal categories.

Partner Will Hallatt was recognized as a leading lawyer in the China – FinTech Legal (International Firms) category; partner Hagen Rooke was recognized as a leading lawyer in Singapore – FinTech Legal; partner Sara Weed was recognized as a leading lawyer in USA: Nationwide – Fintech Legal: Payments & Lending; and of counsel Sameera Kimatrai (Dubai) was recognized as Up & Coming in the United Arab Emirates – FinTech Legal category. 

Writing for Bloomberg Law, partner Akiva Shapiro looked back on the five-year anniversary of our U.S. Supreme Court win in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, which enjoined an order severely limiting the number of attendees at religious services in New York City, but not at comparable secular activities, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Akiva and his team went from filing a complaint in October 2020 to a Supreme Court win within seven weeks.

Reflecting on the case, Akiva noted that it “demonstrated that the Constitution continues to serve as a bulwark protecting our rights, even – especially – in times of crisis. And that the free exercise of religion isn’t a luxury to be sidelined during an emergency, but an essential thread in our constitutional fabric.”

Partners Rachel Brass, Christopher Dusseault, and Samuel Liversidge have been recognized as Top Antitrust Lawyers by the Daily Journal. The list honors lawyers “who navigate complex merger reviews, monopolization claims and price-fixing investigations that reshape markets and protect competition.”

Rachel is Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, where her practice focuses on litigation and investigations in the antitrust, class actions, and employment areas. Rachel has extensive experience representing international and domestic clients in high-stakes appellate litigation in the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as federal and state appellate courts throughout the United States.

Chris is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer whose practice focuses on antitrust litigation, particularly leading the defense of large antitrust class actions, as well as other high-stakes business disputes. In addition to litigating cases from inception, he is often brought in by clients who have lost a jury trial and are facing a verdict in the hundreds-of-millions or billions of dollars to reverse the outcome.

Sam is Co-Chair of the firm’s Litigation Department and a member of the Antitrust and Class Action Practice Groups. An experienced litigator and trial lawyer whose practice focuses on antitrust, unfair competition, and other complex litigation, Sam has represented some of the world’s leading companies in connection with some of their most significant matters. He has successfully litigated and tried claims ranging from breach of contract and fraud to alleged monopolization, conspiracy, exclusive dealing, predatory pricing and tying.