Jay Minga is a senior associate in the Palo Alto office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is a member of the Litigation Department and the firm’s Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Innovation Practice Group.  Mr. Minga’s practice focuses on privacy and cybersecurity counseling and regulatory advising, and technology litigation.  The subject matters of his work encompass antitrust, intellectual property and media, investor-state, lending, securities, restructuring and other disputes in and out of federal courts, and domestic and international arbitrations, and internal investigations.

Mr. Minga is a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US) and counsels with respect to data innovation regulatory issues, internal and regulatory investigations, and litigation risk.  As a seasoned litigator, Mr. Minga has significant experience at all phases of litigation, from nascency, to pleadings, dispositive motions, discovery, and trial (in-person and virtual), as well as appeals before multiple federal appellate courts.

Select notable matters:

• Counseling a multinational social media company on federal and state regulatory and consent-order compliance issues and state attorney general actions;
• Counseling a global communications technology company in connection with state law and federal consent-order compliance;
• Representing an international technology platform in connection with FTC and California Attorney General investigations;
• Representing an international telecommunications firm in connection with an FTC investigation;
• Representing a multinational technology company in federal multidistrict, state, and foreign litigation and related international arbitration hearings in California, New York, and East Asia in connection with numerous international antitrust investigations, state attorneys general enforcement actions, and direct and indirect purchaser class actions;
• Representing a global media company in an intellectual property dispute involving OFAC sanctions arising out of conflict in Eastern Europe in both U.S. federal and foreign court litigation and international arbitration seeking emergency arbitral relief;
• Representing a global technology and media company in U.S. bankruptcy appellate proceedings in connection with a dispute with a hardware component supplier;
• Representing a global investment asset manager in U.S. federal district and appellate court proceedings in connection with Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, RICO, and defamation and other tort claims;
• Representing a multinational private equity and asset management organization in connection with U.S. insurance and foreign restructuring litigation, discovery, and investor-state ICSID arbitration arising out of investment losses in the MENA region;
• Representing a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in East Asia in connection with intellectual property licensing and patent disputes with a global biotechnology company in U.S. federal courts and international arbitration;
• Representing a financial institution in numerous U.S. state court litigations against a global technology and security services provider for breaches of contract and gross negligence in connection with a security breach and losses suffered by the financial institution and its customers;
• Representing a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Europe in connection with myriad disputes arising out of a series of mergers and acquisitions;
• Representing a state energy utility in high-profile bankruptcy litigation and related creditor claims, insurance, and regulatory disputes; and
• Conducting internal investigations regarding allegations of fraud in the sale of East Asian portfolio companies by an international private equity fund.

* Includes matters prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Mr. Minga’s dedication to pro bono practice covers a variety of human rights issues, from asylum, refugee, and habeas matters, to First Amendment, anti-racial and anti-religious discrimination Section 1985 civil rights litigation, to United States and foreign Supreme Court amicus briefs, including in the landmark United States Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodgeson on behalf of several renowned organizations.  His pro bono practice has garnered numerous recognitions, including the International Pro Bono Excellence Award from the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice in connection an amicus before the Supreme Court of Chile on international law and the human right to a healthy environment.

Mr. Minga currently serves as a Board Member of the Din & Tonics Alumni Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, previously served as the Associate Editor for the ABA Section of Litigation Ethics & Professionalism Committee, to whose publications he has contributed, and coached high school mock trial through the New York City’s Justice Resource Center.

Mr. Minga earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2013, where he earned Gerald Gunther Class Prizes in Administrative Law and Tort Law, served as a Notes Committee Member on the Stanford Law Review, Associate Editor on the Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance, Teaching Assistant to Professor Robert Daines for the Law of Corporations, Curriculum Director for the Afghanistan Legal Education Project on the Stanford International Human Rights Clinic factfinding team in successful Torture Victim Protection Act litigation against the former Bolivian president and his foreign minister for the events of Black October, and a team member for a microfinance startup in Nairobi, Kenya under the auspices of the Stanford Law School and Stanford d.school course Designing Liberation Technologies.

Mr. Minga is also a former Arabic interpreter, a former Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellow at the American University in Cairo, and a former Harvard University George Peabody Gardner Travel Fellow.  Mr. Minga is professionally proficient in Spanish as well.

Mr. Minga received his Honors A.B. in the Comparative Study of Religion, magna cum laude, as well as a Certificate in Arabic, from Harvard University, where his honors thesis analyzed Classical Islamic to modern interpretations of the Quranic account of the Companions of the Cave, which story appears in diverse religious and cultural traditions.

Prior to beginning private practice, Mr. Minga served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jerome A. Holmes on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Mr. Minga is admitted to practice law in the State of California, the State of New York, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Tenth Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Northern District of California, and Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Before joining Gibson Dunn’s Palo Alto office, Mr. Minga was Litigation Counsel at the New York office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he practiced in the Complex Commercial Litigation group from 2014 to 2022, and where he also served as the chair of Weil’s Green Committee and as a member of Weil’s eDiscovery Task Force.

Publications:

• DeFi: Blockchain Risks Make the Case for Blockchain Insurance, 5 J. Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law 249 (2022)
• The Advent of Autonomy Drives Novel Considerations for Insurance in a Driverless World, 5 J. Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law 261 (2022)