Yama Keshawerz is an associate attorney in the Denver office of Gibson Dunn. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and has represented clients in matters involving corporate governance and mergers & acquisitions litigation, and government and internal investigations.
Yama’s representative matters include:
- Representing companies in government investigations.
- Representing a pharmaceutical company before the Delaware Superior Court in a dispute arising from an M&A transaction.
- Representing companies in internal investigations involving allegations of accounting misconduct and workplace misconduct.
- Representing a company before the Delaware Court of Chancery, seeking permanent injunction and clearing the way for the closing of an M&A transaction.
- Representing a company before the Delaware Court of Chancery, seeking specific performance to close an M&A transaction.
- Defending a company before the Delaware Court of Chancery against attempts to prevent a potential M&A transaction.
- Defending a company and its board representatives before the Delaware Court of Chancery against challenges in connection with changes to board composition, a bylaw amendment, and acquisition of stock and notes.
- Defending a company before the Delaware Court of Chancery in a plenary action alleging breach of fiduciary duty, resulting in court’s approval of dismissal and settlement.
- Representing a leading eye care company before the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware Supreme Court over a voting proxy and preferred shareholder consent rights.
Yama has earned his Juris Doctor and Master of Laws degrees from Duke Law School. He also has a Master of Laws from Wake Forest University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Political Science from Alberoni University. At Duke Law School, Yama served as a staff editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law and attended the Duke–Leiden Institute on Global and Transnational Law in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Yama assisted clients with business immigration matters, served as a Consular Affairs Officer at an embassy in Washington, DC, and was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School.
Yama is admitted to practice law in Colorado, New York, and Washington, D.C.
Capabilities
- Litigation
- Antitrust and Competition
- Law Firm Defense
- National Security
- Securities Enforcement
- Securities Litigation
- Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance
- White Collar Defense and Investigations
Credentials
Education:
- Duke University - 2024 Juris Doctor
- Duke University - 2021 Master of Laws (LL.M.)
- Wake Forest University - 2012 Master of Laws (LL.M.)
Admissions:
- Colorado Bar
- District of Columbia Bar
- New York Bar