Pablo Garrido is an international dispute resolution associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member the firm’s International Arbitration and Investigations practices.
Pablo focuses his practice on commercial and investor-state arbitrations, representing corporate entities as well as governments and state-owned entities in relation with business disputes, investment protection and international trade. He has represented clients in arbitration proceedings conducted under the major arbitration rules, both in commercial and investor-state arbitrations. Pablo also has experience in counseling clients in complex contractual disputes and also has previously assisted clients on a number of complex due diligence and compliance issues.
Prior joining Gibson Dunn, he regularly provided compliance-related work on anti-corruption issues (including advising on FCPA and local anti-corruption laws across Latin America), anti-money laundering laws and a wide variety of regulatory issues involved in multi-jurisdictional reviews. He has provided training to corporate personnel across different jurisdictions and has conducted confidential internal investigations on behalf of corporate clients.
Pablo is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Nancy Ding is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.
Nancy earned her law degree from the UCLA School of Law in 2022. During law school, she served as the Subscriptions Coordinator for the UCLA Law Review and was a writing advisor in the legal research and writing program. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Marketing from New York University.
She is admitted to practice in the State of California.
Geronimo Morales is an associate in the Los Angeles Office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.
Geronimo earned his law degree from the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, where he served as a Senior Submissions Editor of the Southern California Law Review and was a Teaching Fellow in the Legal Writing and Advocacy Program.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a minor in Forensics and Criminality from the University of Southern California, where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Geronimo is fluent in Spanish.
He is admitted to practice law in the State of California and before the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Olivia Field is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she currently practices in the firm’s Corporate Department.
She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 2022. While in law school, Olivia worked in the Community Enterprise Clinic and the Pediatric Advocacy Clinic, and also served as a Research Assistant to Professor Patrick Barry. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from Dartmouth College in 2015. Prior to law school, she worked as a legal assistant for a small law firm focused on employment litigation.
Olivia is admitted to practice in the State of California.
José E. Madrid is an associate attorney in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Litigation Department.
Mr. Madrid earned his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as an Articles Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Prior to law school, he served as a litigation manager for a university’s office of general counsel. Mr. Madrid graduated cum laude and class marshal from Georgetown University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from Georgetown College and a minor in Latin American Studies from the Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Madrid served as a law clerk for the Honorable Justice Monica M. Márquez of the Colorado Supreme Court and the Honorable Laura A. Cordero of the District of Columbia Superior Court.
Mr. Madrid is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and the State of Colorado.
Drew Nichols is an associate attorney in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Drew is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.
He represents private equity funds, institutional and non-institutional real estate investors, developers, operators, lenders and borrowers in negotiating and structuring real estate joint ventures, acquisitions, sales, developments and financings.
Drew earned his Juris Doctor from Fordham University Law School and his LL.M. in European Union Law and International Comparative Law from LUISS Guido Carli. He received his Bachelor of Arts in both Philosophy and Economics from the University of Missouri.
Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Drew practiced as a real estate associate at the law firm of Duval & Stachenfeld LLP in New York City.
He is admitted to practice law in the State of California and the State of New York.
Maggie Valachovic is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Corporate Department.
She earned her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law in 2022. Maggie received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University in 2017, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Human and Organizational Development.
Maggie is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.
Ryan Hyunjong Jin is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices with the firm’s Litigation Department.
Prior to law school, he worked as a Senior Engineer at Samsung Electronics after graduating from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Jin has experience in a wide variety of IP litigation matters, including patent and trade secret cases. He has extensive experience litigating in the U.S. Federal District court, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has worked on cases covering a wide range of technologies including network communication, computer architecture, radio devices, semiconductor devices, software, and medical devices. In addition, Dr. Jin has frequently advised clients on strategic issues related to intellectual property rights.
Dr. Jin earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2018, where he authored articles in the intersection of law, business, and technology. He is a winner of the 2018 Honorable William Conner Writing Competition, New York Intellectual Property Law Association. Dr. Jin is also a frequent guest lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaching essentials of patent law to the MIT students, researchers, and faculty.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Dr. Jin was an IP litigation associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Dr. Jin is a member of the State Bar of New York and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Jonathan (Jonny) McKoy is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.
Jonny earned his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as a Senior Editor of the Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law. While in law school, he was co-President of the Black Law Student Association, a graduate instructor for the Philosophy department, and a supervisor of the Environmental Crimes Project.
Prior to law school, Jonny earned his Master of Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Bachelor of Science in both Biology and Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. While attending undergrad, he also played varsity football.
Jonny is admitted to practice in the State of California.
Erika Suh Holmberg is a Litigation associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Erika earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2022, where she was an Articles Editor for the Harvard International Law Journal and served on the executive boards of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association and HLS Advocates for Human Rights. She also published a student note that explored how Twitter could improve its approach to moderating world leaders’ potentially violence-inspiring online speech, which earned first prize in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology student note competition (35 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 309 (2021)). Prior to law school, she worked as a paralegal at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice for three years.
Erika graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science and East Asian Studies from Columbia University in 2016, where she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society and received departmental honors and recognition for her senior thesis, The UNHCR in China: Exploring Why North Korean Defectors are Denied Their Right to International Protection.
Erika is proficient in Mandarin Chinese and French and speaks Japanese and Korean at an elementary level.
Erika is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.
Rachel Keirstead Nardone is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department. Her practice focuses on labor and employment.
In 2022, Rachel received her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown, she was a member of Georgetown’s Civil Rights Clinic and the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law and earned the John F. Kennedy Labor Law Award.
In 2019, she earned her undergraduate degree, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Colgate University, where she received degrees in political science and English literature with honors.
Rachel is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.
Lee Wilson is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice Groups. Mr. Wilson’s practice focuses on bankruptcy-related litigation, M&A-related litigation, shareholder litigation, corporate governance disputes, and contractual litigation. He also frequently advises on securities and regulatory investigations and litigation, arbitrations and other matters. He regularly advises on contractual drafting and interpretation and potential litigation exposure in advance of M&A, private equity, and finance transactions.
Mr. Wilson has deep knowledge of complex commercial transactions and financial instruments, and has handled matters involving contractual disputes, bankruptcies, securities fraud, corporate governance, shareholder activism, disputed mergers, derivative litigation, antitrust issues, executive compensation, and insider trading. He also has successfully advised and defended boards facing shareholder challenges, proxy proposals, and books and records requests. Most recently, Mr. Wilson was featured in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers for 2023. Mr. Wilson was named a “Rising Star” in New York by Super Lawyers.
Mr. Wilson’s experience includes:
- serving as lead litigation counsel in multiple contested bankruptcies, overseeing trials, evidentiary hearings, and expedited discovery efforts;
- serving as lead counsel in multiple disputes and litigations involving M&A related breaches of contract, indemnification claims, and alleged fraud;
- regularly advising on deal structuring issues and litigation risks and interpretations of credit agreements and indentures;
- representing an American holding company in an $8 billion securities class action and related derivative actions over the course of five years;
- representing a large financial institution in a complex bankruptcy adversary proceeding, including a two-week trial;
- overseeing complex investigations in response to government subpoenas and shareholder allegations of corporate wrongdoing;
- representing an American multinational food service corporation in an expedited Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust challenge; and
- representing a large financial institution in multiple shareholder derivative actions, obtaining dismissal of all of the actions over three years of litigation.
Mr. Wilson clerked for Chief Judge Danny Boggs on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 2006 to 2007 before going into private practice. He received a B.S. in Math, B.S.E. in Computer Engineering and a B.A. in Philosophy, all summa cum laude, from Arizona State University. He received a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School where he served on the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology.
Eleni Ingram is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.
Eleni earned her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated magna cum laude and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Upon graduating, Eleni was awarded the International Academy of Trial Lawyer Student Advocacy Award for her public-interest appellate work in the Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic. While in law school, she was a member of the Georgetown Barristers Council – Trial Advocacy Team, as well as the Georgetown Law Journal, where she served as an Executive Editor of the Annual Review of Criminal Procedure. Eleni served as an extern to Judge Rudolph Contreras of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, as well as a legal extern at National Public Radio.
Prior to law school, Eleni received her Bachelor of Science in International Relations from the London School of Economics. She is admitted to practice in the state of California.
Alexa Yarnell is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.
Alexa graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was on the Dean’s List. While in law school, she served as a Judicial Extern to the Honorable Stanley Blumenfeld Jr., United States District Judge for the Central District of California and the Honorable Martin R. Barash, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California. Alexa was also a research assistant, served as a member of the Georgetown Immigration Journal, and was in the Federal Legislation Clinic.
Alexa received her M.S.W. and B.S.W in Social Work from New York University.
Alexa is admitted to practice in the State of California.
Julia Kohl is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Real Estate Department.
Julia earned her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2022, where she served as the Production Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law. While in law school, Julia also served as Student Leader of the Second Chance Project and volunteered with the Democracy Law Project. She was awarded Pro Bono Student of the Year and graduated with pro bono distinctions. Additionally, Julia received a Certificate in Business Management from the Wharton School.
Prior to law school, she earned her Bachelor of Science in Communications from the University of Miami. Julia double majored in Public Relations and Journalism and minored in sociology, graduating magna cum laude.
She is admitted to practice in the State of California.
Chase Weidner is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Patty Shwartz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 2021 to 2022, and to the Honorable Diane Gujarati of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 2020 to 2021.
Chase received his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, in 2019 from New York University School of Law. He served as a managing editor of the Annual Survey of American Law where he published a note on agency guidance documents. Chase was elected to the Order of the Coif.
Prior to law school, he taught science in Houston, Texas, as a Teach for America corps member, and received his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College where he was a letterman on the lightweight rowing team.
Chase is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Aliya Crochetiere is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.
Aliya earned her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School where she graduated cum laude. During her time in law school, she served as the Managing Editor of the Michigan Technology Law Review and as a senior supervisor for the Environmental Crimes Project. Aliya was also a member of the Worker’s Rights Clinic, the Environmental Law and Sustainability Clinic, and the Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition. The University of Michigan Law School granted her the Pro Bono Award for her commitment to pro bono work during law school. She was also the recipient of the Stephen and Faith Brown Scholarship and the Dean’s Merit Scholarship. Prior to law school, Aliya graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with High Distinction with both a B.A. in Society & Environment and a B.S. in Geography.
She is admitted to practice in the State of California.
Kristen Durkan is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.
She graduated magna cum laude from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, where she was a Sayre MacNeil Scholar, a member of the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society, and elected to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Kristen was a member of the Juvenile Innocence and Fair Sentencing Clinic and served as a Developments Editor for the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. Prior to law school, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from California State University, Long Beach, where she graduated magna cum laude.
Kristen is admitted to practice in the State of California.
Rameez Anwar is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
He received his Juris Doctor in 2022 from Columbia Law School, where he was named a James Kent Scholar and served as an editor for Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts. Rameez also served as an extern with Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and as a research assistant for Jane Ginsburg, focusing on recent developments in Copyright law. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English and Pre-Med, cum laude, from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 2010.
Rameez is admitted to practice in the State of California.
Jenna Bernard is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.
Jenna earned her law degree in 2022 from the UCLA School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. While at UCLA, she served as the Co-Chief Comments Editor of the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, a writing advisor to first year law students, and the events chair for the Food Law Society. Jenna was also a member of the Moot Court Honors Board, earning the Top Advocate award in the 2021 fall competition. Additionally, she served as an extern for the Honorable Otis D. Wright II of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Prior to law school, Jenna taught first grade in Chicago Public Schools as a Teach for America Corps member and helped non-profits run large-scale fundraising campaigns as a philanthropy consultant. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 2012 and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and a minor in Spanish.
Jenna is licensed to practice law in California.