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Patrick Doris

Patrick
Doris

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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 Accounting Firm Advisory and Defense Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Antitrust and Competition Artificial Intelligence and Automated Systems Betting and Gaming Class Actions Crisis Management Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) International Trade Litigation Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Securities Enforcement Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Transnational Litigation

BIOGRAPHY

Patrick Doris is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Dispute Resolution Group in London, where he specialises in global white-collar investigations, commercial litigation and complex compliance advisory matters.

Mr. Doris’ practice covers a wide range of disputes, including white-collar crime, internal and regulatory investigations, transnational litigation, class actions, contentious antitrust matters and administrative law challenges against governmental decision-making.

Mr. Doris handles major cross-border investigations in the fields of bribery and corruption, fraud, sanctions, money laundering, financial sector wrongdoing, antitrust, consumer protection and tax evasion.

Mr. Doris’ recent commercial disputes experience has extended to advising corporations, UK public bodies and sovereign states in claims in courts and tribunals in the UK and around Europe. He has particular expertise in antitrust cases, human rights disputes and collective actions.

Mr. Doris is recognised by Legal 500 UK 2022 in the field of Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime. He is also ranked as a leading individual in the field of Administrative and Public Law, in which clients have noted his: “…exceptional contribution to … work to decriminalise homosexuality worldwide”. Clients describe 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.

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. 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 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:

  • Advising a major global investment bank in connection with an investigation into conduct worldwide resulting in major resolution with authorities in the United States under the FCPA.
  • Advising a major global corporation in the business services sector in a multi-jurisdictional investigation into allegations of tax evasion, resulting in a major settlement with a European national tax authorities.
  • Advising a major European investment bank in connection with multi-jurisdictional investigations relating to alleged manipulation of LIBOR and other benchmark rates and foreign exchange rates.
  • 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 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 commercial litigation experience includes:

  • Representing a leading global corporation in the technology sector in connection with class action litigation commenced against it in the Competition Appeal Tribunal alleging abuse of a dominant position.
  • 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 group of U.S. journalists in proceedings brought against them in London by a subject of their work alleging defamation, breach of the GDPR, malicious falsehood and misuse of private information.
  • Advising a Turkish conglomerate in connection with expropriation claims before the European Court of Human Rights.

Mr. Doris’ recent compliance advisory experience includes:

  • Advising a FTSE 100 technology company in connection with the establishment of its global compliance framework, including arrangements regarding bribery and corruption, antitrust, AML, facilitation of tax evasion, conflicts of interest, gifts & hospitality, data privacy, modern slavery, procurement, management of third party risk generally, and related governance and reporting matters.
  • Advising a leading global industrial in connection with the establishment of its GDPR compliance programme.
  • Advising a global manufacturing company in connection with its response to a major cyber-penetration incident, including liaison with responsible national supervisory authorities.
  • Conducting the global risk assessment necessary in connection with UK laws relating to prevention of facilitation of tax evasion for a “Big Four” audit and accounting firm.
  • Advising a leading global card network on its suspicious activity reporting processes.
  • Advising one of the world’s leading extractive corporations in a global review of its ABC compliance arrangements across operations spanning six continents.

*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

Webcasts - March 22, 2022 | Webcast: The World Reacts to the Crisis in Ukraine: A Deep Dive on the New Export Controls
Webcasts - March 10, 2022 | Webcast: The World Reacts to the Crisis in Ukraine: Sanctions and Export Controls Imposed by the U.S., the EU, the UK, Australia, Japan and Other Countries
Webcasts - March 4, 2022 | Webcast: The World Reacts to the Crisis in Ukraine: Sanctions Imposed by the U.S., the EU, the UK, Australia, Japan and Other Countries
Client Alert - February 22, 2022 | US and Allies Announce Sanctions on Russia and Separatist Regions of Ukraine
Client Alert - February 4, 2022 | 2021 Year-End Sanctions and Export Controls Update
Client Alert - January 25, 2022 | 2021 Year-End FCPA Update
Client Alert - January 14, 2022 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – December 2021 (Part 2)
Client Alert - December 22, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – December 2021
Client Alert - November 16, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – November 2021
Client Alert - October 20, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – September 2021
Client Alert - November 11, 2021 | UK Supreme Court Overturns Court of Appeal to Disallow Google Data Privacy Class Action
Client Alert - September 8, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – July – August 2021
Firm News - October 7, 2021 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in the 2022 UK Legal 500
Client Alert - July 19, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – July 2021
Client Alert - June 8, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – June 2021
Client Alert - May 12, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – May 2021
Firm News - June 3, 2021 | Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom 2022 Recognizes 10 Gibson Dunn Attorneys
Client Alert - April 9, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – April 2021
Publications - May 6, 2021 | Appeals 2021: United Kingdom
Client Alert - March 10, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – March 2021
Client Alert - April 2, 2021 | US and UK Join Canada in Designating Myanmar’s Military Conglomerates, with EU Considering Further Action
Client Alert - February 12, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – February 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 8, 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 11, 2021 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – January 2021
Client Alert - December 14, 2020 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – December 2020
Client Alert - January 13, 2021 | China’s “Blocking Statute” – New Chinese Rules to Counter the Application of Extraterritorial Foreign Laws
Webcasts - December 16, 2020 | Webcast: Complying with New U.S. and EU Privacy Requirements
Client Alert - November 5, 2020 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – November 2020
Client Alert - December 10, 2020 | The EU Adopts Magnitsky-Style Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime
Client Alert - November 24, 2020 | European Data Protection Board Issues Important New Guidance on Transfers of Personal Data Out of the European Economic Area
Client Alert - October 6, 2020 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – October 2020
Client Alert - September 8, 2020 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – September 2020
Client Alert - August 5, 2020 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – August 2020
Client Alert - July 9, 2020 | Gibson Dunn | Europe | Data Protection – July 2020
Webcasts - August 7, 2020 | Webcast: Schrems II: What are the implications and viable options for international data transfers?
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 - 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 1, 2020 | COVID-19 & International Trade – Nation-State Responses to a Global Pandemic
Client Alert - March 31, 2020 | English Law Force Majeure Clauses: A 4-Step Checklist & Flowchart
Client Alert - March 23, 2020 | Crisis Management & COVID-19 Response: Plan Now to Mitigate Against the Ripple Effects of COVID-19 Crisis
Client Alert - March 20, 2020 | Privacy and Cybersecurity Issues Related to COVID-19
Client Alert - January 31, 2020 | Brexit Update
Client Alert - January 23, 2020 | 2019 Year-End Sanctions Update
Client Alert - January 8, 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!
- June 28, 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 11, 2019 | 2018 Year-End Sanctions Update
Publications - November 19, 2018 | Brexit – The Draft Divorce Deal and Its Fall-Out
Article - 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 1, 2018 | 2017 Year-End United Kingdom White Collar Crime Update
Client Alert - January 4, 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)
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