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Patrick Doris

Patrick
Doris

Partner

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pdoris@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+44 (0)20 7071 4276

FAX:+44 (0)20 7070 9276

London

Telephone House, 2-4 Temple Avenue, London, EC4Y 0HB United Kingdom

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PRACTICE

White Collar Defense and Investigations Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Antitrust and Competition Artificial Intelligence and Automated Systems Betting and Gaming Crisis Management Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Financial Institutions International Arbitration International Trade Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Latin America Litigation Media, Entertainment and Technology National Security Oil and Gas Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Public Policy Securities Enforcement Securities Litigation Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Transnational Litigation

BIOGRAPHY

Patrick Doris is a partner in the Dispute Resolution Group of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s London office, where he specialises in global white-collar investigations and commercial litigation.

Mr. Doris’ practice covers a wide range of disputes, including white-collar crime, internal and regulatory investigations, contentious antitrust matters, multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation, administrative law challenges against governmental decision-making before the UK and EU courts, public international law and commercial human rights law matters.

In the field of investigations, Mr. Doris is particularly experienced in handling bribery and corruption matters, sanctions, money laundering, insider dealing, financial sector wrongdoing, accounting violations and major cross-border tax investigations.

Mr. Doris’ recent commercial disputes experience has extended to advising corporations, UK public and regulatory bodies and sovereign states in claims before a range of domestic courts and tribunals in the UK, the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights and international arbitral tribunals.

He is recognised by Legal 500 UK 2021 in the fields of Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime, Administrative and Public Law and Commercial Litigation, in which clients are noted as having described him as: “totally committed, a great manager and really goes the extra mile” and “outstanding, has tremendous judgment, works exceptionally hard and always gives the impression that he is 100% dedicated to and focused on your case”. He is also ranked for International Arbitration and Litigation (White Collar) in the Lawdragon 500 Global Litigation Lawyers guide 2021.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Doris taught law at the University of Warwick and worked in the Criminal Division of the Law Commission of England & Wales, the UK government’s primary law reform body.  Mr. Doris earned his LL. M. (first class) in European Law in 1996; and received his BA in Law in 1994 from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University.  Mr. Doris speaks English, Spanish, French and Catalan, with recent experience of conducting investigations in each of those languages.

Selected Experience*

Mr. Doris’ recent white collar investigations experience includes:

  • Representing a major global investment bank in self-reporting potential Bribery Act 2010 and other corruption-related violations to the Serious Fraud Office and Financial Conduct Authority.
  • Representing a leading figure in the field of broadcasting in connection with the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the Press.
  • Representing a leading global business services firm in a major cross-border tax investigation.
  • Representing a U.S. investment bank in connection with criminal investigations brought simultaneously in the U.S. (Department of Justice) and UK (Financial Conduct Authority and National Crime Agency) in relation to suspicions of insider dealing.
  • Advising a leading U.S. operator in the financial sector in connection with an investigation into suspected OFAC and EU sanctions violations by third parties using facilities provided by the operator.
  • Representing a leading online gambling operator in an investigation by the UK Competition & Markets Authority into alleged breaches of consumer protection laws.

Mr. Doris’ recent antitrust experience includes:

  • Representing a major global banking entity in connection with global investigations relating to LIBOR manipulation, in particular in relation to the company’s internal investigation, and in connection with its cooperation with antitrust and other authorities, including the Financial Conduct Authority, Serious Fraud Office and European Commission.
  • Representing a major global banking entity in connection with global investigations relating to manipulation of currency exchange rates, in particular in dealings with the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities & Exchange Commission.
  • Advising a UK industrial in an investigation and resulting multiple leniency applications in Europe (leading to a grant of immunity from fines by the European Commission) regarding price-fixing, market-partitioning and information-sharing cartel concerns in polyurethane foam.
  • Advising a leading UK supermarket on its successful response to the OFT’s Statement of Objections on the retail pricing of tobacco products.

Mr. Doris’ recent commercial litigation experience includes:

  • Representing a leading online gambling operator in its successful defence of contested administrative law proceedings before the High Court and Court of Appeal in London in connection with allegations that it was facilitating the avoidance of industry-specific levies and unregulated provision of gambling services by its customers.
  • Representing a sovereign state in litigation relating to allegations of corruption against a former public official.
  • Representing a sovereign state in its successful defence of a multi-billion dollar expropriation claim before the European Court of Human Rights.
  • Representing a consortium of U.S. airlines in an administrative law challenge against the Department of Energy and Climate Change in connection with the extension of the EU emissions trading scheme to aviation, ultimately resulting in proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
  • Representing a UK industrial in proceedings before the General Court of the EU in proceedings to recover overpaid EU agricultural levies.

*Includes matters handled by Mr. Doris prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

EDUCATION

Nottingham Trent University - 1997 Legal Practice Course

University of Cambridge - 1996 Master of Laws (LL.M.)

University of Cambridge - 1994 Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

England & Wales - Solicitor

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Client Alert - April 9, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – April 2021
Client Alert - April 2, 2021 | US and UK Join Canada in Designating Myanmar’s Military Conglomerates, with EU Considering Further Action
Client Alert - March 10, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – March 2021
Firm News - February 23, 2021 | Sixteen Partners Named Among the Lawdragon Global Litigation 500
Client Alert - February 16, 2021 | New U.S. Sanctions and Export Controls Target Military Behind Coup in Myanmar
Client Alert - February 12, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – February 2021
Client Alert - February 9, 2021 | UK Supreme Court Confirms the Limits of the SFO’s Section 2(3) Power
Client Alert - February 5, 2021 | 2020 Year-End Sanctions and Export Controls Update
Client Alert - January 13, 2021 | China’s “Blocking Statute” – New Chinese Rules to Counter the Application of Extraterritorial Foreign Laws
Client Alert - January 11, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – January 2021
Client Alert - December 16, 2020 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – December 2020
Webcasts - December 16, 2020 | Webcast: Complying with New U.S. and EU Privacy Requirements
Client Alert - December 11, 2020 | The EU Adopts Magnitsky-Style Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime
Client Alert - November 25, 2020 | European Data Protection Board Issues Important New Guidance on Transfers of Personal Data Out of the European Economic Area
Client Alert - November 5, 2020 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – November 2020
Client Alert - October 6, 2020 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – October 2020
Client Alert - September 8, 2020 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – September 2020
Webcasts - August 10, 2020 | Webcast: Schrems II: What are the implications and viable options for international data transfers?
Client Alert - August 5, 2020 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – August 2020
Client Alert - July 17, 2020 | The Court of Justice of the European Union Strikes Down the Privacy Shield but Upholds the Standard Contractual Clauses under Conditions
Client Alert - July 9, 2020 | Human Rights Abusers (and those dealing with them) Beware: UK Introduces Its First “Magnitsky” Sanctions
Client Alert - July 9, 2020 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – July 2020
Client Alert - June 25, 2020 | Protecting Client Privilege During UK Regulatory Investigations: A Cautionary Tale from the UK’s Audit Regulator
Firm News - June 12, 2020 | Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom 2021 Recognizes 12 Gibson Dunn Attorneys
Client Alert - May 28, 2020 | UK Financial Conduct Authority Outlines Expectations for Managing Enhanced Market Conduct Risks in the Context of the Pandemic
Client Alert - May 11, 2020 | European Commission Launches Major AML Initiative
Client Alert - April 28, 2020 | European Perspective on Tracing Tools in the Context of COVID-19
Webcasts - April 27, 2020 | COVID-19 UK Weekly Webinar – April 27, 2020
Client Alert - April 8, 2020 | Fraud in the COVID-19 Age: Examining and Anticipating Changing Enforcement Activity
Client Alert - April 2, 2020 | COVID-19 & International Trade – Nation-State Responses to a Global Pandemic
Client Alert - April 1, 2020 | English Law Force Majeure Clauses: A 4-Step Checklist & Flowchart
Client Alert - March 24, 2020 | Crisis Management & COVID-19 Response: Plan Now to Mitigate Against the Ripple Effects of COVID-19 Crisis
Client Alert - March 21, 2020 | Privacy and Cybersecurity Issues Related to COVID-19
Client Alert - January 31, 2020 | Brexit Update
Client Alert - January 24, 2020 | 2019 Year-End Sanctions Update
Client Alert - January 9, 2020 | 2019 Year-End Update on Corporate Non-Prosecution Agreements and Deferred Prosecution Agreements
Client Alert - December 23, 2019 | Guralp Systems Limited – UK Serious Fraud Office’s Sixth Deferred Prosecution Agreement Results in No Penalty for Company. Tectonic Shift in DPAs or Factual Peculiarity?
Client Alert - December 5, 2019 | New Guidance on Internal Compliance Programs (“ICPs”) – What Regulators on Both Sides of the Atlantic Expect from International Business
Client Alert - October 2, 2019 | The Court of Justice of the European Union rules that there is no obligation for Google to carry out de-referencing on non-EU versions of its search engine
Client Alert - September 24, 2019 | UK Supreme Court Decides Suspending UK Parliament Was Unlawful
Client Alert - September 10, 2019 | The UK Serious Fraud Office’s latest guidance on corporate co-operation – Great expectations fulfilled or left asking for more?
Publications - August 13, 2019 | Getting the Deal Through: Appeals 2019
Client Alert - July 8, 2019 | The SFO’s Fifth DPA – High Five or Down Low? Too Slow!
- July 1, 2019 | Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom 2020 Recognizes 11 Gibson Dunn Partners
Client Alert - June 19, 2019 | The EU Introduces a New Sanctions Framework in Response to Cyber-Attack Threats
Client Alert - February 12, 2019 | 2018 Year-End Sanctions Update
Publications - November 19, 2018 | Brexit – The Draft Divorce Deal and Its Fall-Out
Publications - October 31, 2018 | Getting the Deal Through: Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
Client Alert - September 11, 2018 | SFO Successfully Defends Challenge over the Territorial Scope of Compulsory Document Requests
Client Alert - September 5, 2018 | Court of Appeal in London Overturns Widely Criticised High Court Judgment in SFO v ENRC
Client Alert - August 9, 2018 | The “New” Iran E.O. and the “New” EU Blocking Statute – Navigating the Divide for International Business
Client Alert - July 12, 2018 | The Politics of Brexit for those Outside the UK
Client Alert - May 21, 2018 | The EU Responds to the U.S. Withdrawal from the Iran Deal
Client Alert - May 9, 2018 | The Trump Administration Pulls the Plug on the Iran Nuclear Agreement
Client Alert - February 2, 2018 | 2017 Year-End United Kingdom White Collar Crime Update
Client Alert - January 5, 2018 | 2017 Year-End Update on Corporate Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs) and Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs)
Client Alert - December 7, 2017 | Black and Grey: The EU Publishes Its Lists of Tax Havens
Client Alert - November 30, 2017 | U.S. and International Policy Convergence Brings Supply Chain Diligence on Labor Trafficking to the Fore
Article - October 18, 2017 | Are U.K. Enforcement Authorities Sending the Wrong Message to Companies?
Client Alert - September 29, 2017 | UK Criminal Finances Act 2017: New Corporate Facilitation of Tax Evasion Offence – Act Now to Secure the Reasonable Prevention Procedures Defence
Client Alert - July 18, 2017 | 2017 Mid-Year United Kingdom White Collar Crime Update
Article - July 1, 2017 | Getting the Deal Through: Appeals 2017
Webcasts - April 18, 2017 | Webcast – The New French Anti-Corruption Law (“Sapin II”) within the Global Compliance Landscape
Webcasts - February 8, 2017 | Webcast: Tectonic Shifts in the Landscape of Economic Sanctions: Will the Pace of Change in 2016 Continue?
Client Alert - January 31, 2017 | International Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review: 2017
Client Alert - January 11, 2017 | 2016 Year-End United Kingdom White Collar Crime Update
Client Alert - January 4, 2017 | 2016 Year-End Update on Corporate Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs) and Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs)
Client Alert - November 1, 2016 | Privilege – European Union
Client Alert - September 22, 2016 | 2016 Mid-Year United Kingdom White Collar Crime Update
Client Alert - July 6, 2016 | 2016 Mid-Year Update on Corporate Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs) and Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs)
Client Alert - June 24, 2016 | BREXIT
Webcasts - March 24, 2016 | Webcast: Global Sanctions Update
Client Alert - February 17, 2016 | 2015 Year-End Transnational Litigation Update
Client Alert - February 1, 2016 | 2015 Year-End United Kingdom White Collar Crime Update
Client Alert - January 28, 2016 | Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review: 2016
Client Alert - January 18, 2016 | “Implementation Day” Arrives: Substantial Easing of Iran Sanctions alongside Continued Limitations and Risks
Article - January 18, 2016 | Ausbeutung in der Lieferkette – Der Modern Slavery Act und seine Anwendung auf deutsche Unternehmen
Client Alert - January 5, 2016 | 2015 Year-End Update on Corporate Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs) and Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs)
Client Alert - December 10, 2015 | H2 2015 – Six Areas of Focus for European Private Equity Firms
Client Alert - December 3, 2015 | Serious Fraud Office v Standard Bank Plc: Deferred Prosecution Agreement
Client Alert - October 2, 2015 | UK Consumer Rights Act 2015 Ushers in Class Action-Style Collective Proceedings Regime in the Competition Appeals Tribunal
Client Alert - July 8, 2015 | 2015 Mid-Year Update on Corporate Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs) and Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs)
Client Alert - July 7, 2015 | UK Briefing – US Anti-Corruption Legislation: Impact on UK and Non-US Corporate Life and Deal Making
Webcasts - March 17, 2015 | Webcast: Global Sanctions Update
Client Alert - January 15, 2015 | 2014 Year-End Sanctions Update
Client Alert - November 21, 2014 | Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in 29 Jurisdictions Worldwide – UK
Client Alert - November 14, 2014 | The EU Adopts the Damages Directive: The Emergence of an EU Level Playing Field in Private Antitrust Actions
Client Alert - August 6, 2014 | Bear Baiting – EU Sectoral Sanctions Against Russia
Webcasts - July 30, 2014 | Webcast – 2014 Mid-Year Sanctions Update
Client Alert - March 3, 2014 | Around the World: Clash of the Sanctions
Client Alert - February 6, 2014 | 2013 Year-End Sanctions Update
Webcasts - February 4, 2014 | Webcast – 2013 Year-End Sanctions Update
Client Alert - January 29, 2014 | Are You Ready to Report? European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) Derivatives Reporting Obligation Becomes Effective on February 12, 2014
Client Alert - December 5, 2013 | Iran Nuclear Agreement Reached
Client Alert - September 23, 2013 | Clash of the Sanctions
Client Alert - September 1, 2013 | Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in 29 Jurisdictions Worldwide
Client Alert - July 9, 2013 | 2013 Mid-Year Update on Corporate Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) and Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs)
Client Alert - July 8, 2013 | 2013 Mid-Year FCPA Update
Client Alert - April 1, 2013 | Letting Iran Off the Hook
Client Alert - March 15, 2013 | Principal Obligations Under European Market Infrastructure Regulation, Effective Immediately
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