Yama Keshawerz is an associate attorney in the Denver office of Gibson Dunn. He currently practices in the firm’s Corporate Department, and has represented clients in matters related to corporate governance and mergers & acquisitions litigation.
Yama 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 helped clients with business immigration matters, worked as a Consular Affairs Officer at an embassy in Washington, DC, and served as 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
- Capital Markets
- Class Actions
- Energy Regulation and Litigation
- Energy and Infrastructure
- Law Firm Defense
- National Security
- Securities Enforcement
- Securities Litigation
- Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance
- Trials
- 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