Press Releases - Gibson Dunn

Press Releases

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Gibson Dunn Adds Litigation Partner Christopher Belelieu in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Christopher D. Belelieu has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Belelieu, formerly a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, will continue his complex commercial litigation practice.

September 21, 2020

Corporate Partner Robert Phillips Joins Gibson Dunn in San Francisco

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Robert Phillips has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner. Phillips, formerly a partner at Cooley LLP, will continue to focus on corporate and capital markets transactions for life sciences and technology companies.

September 8, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Investment Funds Partner Roger Singer in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Roger Singer has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Singer, formerly a partner at Clifford Chance, will continue his investment funds practice.

September 8, 2020

Securities Litigation Partner Craig Varnen Joins Gibson Dunn in Los Angeles

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Craig Varnen has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner. Varnen, formerly a partner at Irell & Manella, will continue to focus on securities litigation and other complex litigation at Gibson Dunn.

September 1, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Former SDNY Prosecutor Karin Portlock as Of Counsel in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Karin Portlock has joined the firm as an of counsel in its New York office. She will serve as a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations, Crisis Management, and Litigation Practice Groups.

August 13, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds London Finance Partner Ben Myers

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Ben Myers has joined the firm’s London office. Myers, formerly a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, will continue his global finance practice.

August 10, 2020

Tax Partner Pamela Lawrence Endreny Joins Gibson Dunn in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Pamela Lawrence Endreny has joined the firm’s New York office. Endreny, formerly a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, will continue to focus on advising clients in a broad range of U.S.

August 4, 2020

Technology and Privacy Partner Connell O’Neill Joins Gibson Dunn in Hong Kong

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Connell O’Neill has joined the firm as a partner in the Hong Kong office. O’Neill, formerly with Allen & Overy, will continue his technology transactions and privacy practice with Gibson Dunn.

August 3, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Private Equity Partner Stephen Olson in Houston

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Stephen T. Olson has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner and head of its private equity practice in Texas.

August 3, 2020

Twenty West Coast Universities and Colleges File Lawsuit Challenging DHS and ICE’s Order to Revoke Foreign Student Visas

On behalf of 20 West Coast universities and colleges, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP filed a lawsuit today challenging the July 6, 2020 order by the Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S.

July 13, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Of Counsel in D.C.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Cassandra Tillinghast has joined the firm as an of counsel in its Washington, D.C. office. She will serve as a member of the Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group and will focus on advising clients, including financial institutions, on corporate governance matters, securities law disclosure issues, and an array of complex corporate issues.

June 15, 2020

A Statement on Racial Justice and Equality from Gibson Dunn Chairman and Managing Partner, Ken Doran

Gibson Dunn Chairman and Managing Partner Ken Doran provides thoughts on racial justice and equity in light of the tragic deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and several other African Americans by police.

June 5, 2020

Susy Bullock Rejoins Gibson Dunn as a Disputes Partner in London

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Susy Bullock has rejoined the firm’s London office as a partner. Bullock, formerly a Managing Director and Head of EMEA Litigation at UBS, will focus on helping clients, particularly those in the financial services sector, navigate a wide range of disputes and business and human rights issues.

June 1, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Aly Kassam as Finance Partner in Dubai

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Aly Kassam has rejoined the firm’s Dubai office. Kassam, formerly with Latham & Watkins LLP, will continue to focus on cross-border banking and finance transactions, including both conventional and Islamic financing, restructuring and other transaction financing matters.

May 27, 2020

Litigation Partner Trey Cox Joins Gibson Dunn’s Dallas Office

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that John T. “Trey” Cox III has joined the firm’s Dallas office. Cox, formerly a partner at Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst LLP, will continue to focus on complex commercial litigation at the trial and appellate levels.

April 1, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Private Equity Partner Stefan dePozsgay in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Stefan dePozsgay has joined the firm’s New York office. DePozsgay, formerly a partner at Paul Hastings LLP, will continue to focus on private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions, including leverage buyouts, growth equity and venture capital work.

March 24, 2020

Life Sciences Partner Karen Spindler Joins Gibson Dunn

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Karen Spindler has joined the firm’s San Francisco office. Spindler, formerly a partner at Goodwin Procter, will continue to focus on advising life sciences companies on complex corporate, commercial and intellectual property transactions.

March 17, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Private Equity Partners Abtin Jalali and Chris Harding in San Francisco

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Abtin Jalali and Chris Harding have joined the firm’s San Francisco office. Formerly partners with Kirkland & Ellis LLP, they will continue their private equity practices at Gibson Dunn.

March 2, 2020

Gibson Dunn Announces Annual Pro Bono Award Winners

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce the winners of the firm’s annual Frank Wheat Memorial Awards. The Frank Wheat Memorial Award is given annually to individual lawyers and teams who have demonstrated leadership and initiative in their pro bono work, obtained significant results for their pro bono clients, and served as a source of inspiration to others.

February 6, 2020

Corporate Partners Ed Batts and Charles Walker Join Gibson Dunn

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Ed Batts and Charles “Chuck” Walker have joined the firm’s Palo Alto and Houston offices, respectively.

February 3, 2020