George B. Adams is a litigation associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.  Mr. Adams has advised and advocated for individuals, corporations, technology and entertainment companies, and various financial institutions in a wide variety of business disputes, with an emphasis on securities litigation and complex commercial litigation.  Mr. Adams also has experience representing clients in shareholder actions, internal investigations, antitrust actions, and other corporate law matters, and he has achieved a strong record of success for his clients in state and federal courts across the United States.

Representative Matters

• Defended technology company in purported securities class action asserting misrepresentations and omissions in connection with initial public offering.
• Defended global banks including Bank of America, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley in securities class actions brought on behalf of investors in companies such as Alibaba Group and Ooma Inc.
• Defended a large financial institution in several mortgage-backed securities cases.
• Secured dismissal of all claims against former director & CEO of private company in purported negligent misrepresentation action.
• Defended global bank against purported fraudulent concealment claims arising from the collapse of a prominent bitcoin exchange.
• Represented global bank in antitrust civil actions related to foreign exchange trading.
• Represented entertainment company in Antitrust Division regulatory review of telecom merger.
• Secured dismissal of all claims against global architecture firm in purported negligence action.

Mr. Adams also has an active pro bono practice.  Among other matters, he played a lead role in prosecuting a prisoner-rights class action on behalf of more than thirty-thousand individuals for unconstitutional conditions of confinement at two local jails.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Adams was a litigation associate in the New York and San Francisco offices of Shearman & Sterling LLP.  Previously, Mr. Adams served as a law clerk to the Honorable John F. Keenan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Mr. Adams received his Juris Doctor, with honors, from Fordham University School of Law in 2013, where he served as the Managing Editor of the Fordham Law Review and as an Associate Editor of the Fordham Moot Court Board.  He received his undergraduate degree, with honors, from Vassar College in 2010.

Mr. Adams is admitted to practice in California and New York, as well as the United States District Courts for the Northern District of California and the Southern District of New York.