E Jin Lee is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation and International Arbitration Practice Groups.

E Jin has extensive experience in international commercial and investor-state arbitration. He has represented clients in international arbitrations spanning a range of sectors, including telecommunications, energy, natural resources, technology, intellectual property, taxation, and apparel.

E Jin has served as counsel in international arbitrations administered under various institutional rules, including those of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).  He also has extensive experience in ad hoc arbitration conducted under the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

E Jin has particular experience in counselling businesses with distressed assets in non-U.S. jurisdictions.  He also advises clients in pre-dispute postures in order to devise litigation/arbitration strategy, as well as assess, manage and contain litigation/arbitration risk. Additionally, E Jin has experience in advising clients on global asset recovery efforts.

He maintains an active pro bono practice. In particular, E Jin assisted REDRESS, a human rights organization dedicated to assisting victims of torture, with a submission before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, E Jin clerked at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, where he supported arbitral tribunals in major investor-state, inter-state, and international commercial arbitrations. He was a member of the PCA delegation that established the PCA’s Singapore office.

E Jin earned his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, where he graduated as a James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a recipient of the Parker School Certificate for Achievement in International and Comparative Law. At Columbia, E Jin was a research assistant to Professor George A. Bermann (Chief Reporter) on the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration. He also served on Editorial Board of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.  Additionally, E Jin holds a degree in English law from King’s College London, where he graduated with First-Class Honours.

His scholarship on the law and practice of international arbitration has been published in the American Review of International Arbitration and other leading outlets.

E Jin is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the District of Columbia.

Publications

• Author, “Operationalizing the FAA’s ‘Pro-Arbitration’ Policy: Towards a Normative Basis for the Duty to Arbitrate in Good Faith” in Pro-Arbitration Revisited: A Tribute to Professor George Bermann from his Students Over the Years (2023)
• Author, “Looking Past ‘Pro-Arbitration’”, in Reflections on International Arbitration – Essays in Honour of Professor George Bermann (2022)
• Author, The US Supreme Court’s decision in Henry Schein v Archer & White: an affirmation of first principles and of the need for clarity over delegated gateway issues, Practical Law Arbitration Blog January 24, 2019, Practical Law Arbitration Blog
• Author, To Bind or Not to Bind? Challenging Assumptions About Non-Signatory Cases and Choice-of-Law in International Arbitration, 27 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb. 359, 2016
• Author, Whose Law Is It Anyway? The Contact Interpretation Problem in U.S. Arbitration Jurisprudence, 27 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb. 495, 2016

 

Colleen Devine is an associate attorney in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Her practice focuses on foreign judgment and international arbitration award enforcement, transnational litigation, and arbitration. Colleen also maintains a pro bono practice advising clients on matters of asylum and international human rights law. Prior to joining the firm, she served as a UNHR Fellow at the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Geneva, Switzerland participating in the Universal Periodic Review process and the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Colleen received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School, where she served as the Managing Online Content Editor for the Michigan Journal of International Law and as an International Law and Development Fellow at the Law Reform and Development Commission, a division of the Namibian Ministry of Justice. She received her Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan.

She is admitted to practice in the State of New York and in both the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Publications

• Eric Richardson & Colleen Devine, Emergencies End Eventually: How to Better Analyze Human Rights Restrictions Sparked by the COVID-19 Pandemic Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 42 Mich. J. Int’l L. 105 (2020).

Anna Marie Aguillard is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.

She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center where she served as Senior Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. She earned her undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Wofford College.

Anna is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

Jeremy Weese is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the Appellate and Constitutional Law and Labor and Employment Practice Groups.

Jeremy received his law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif.  While in law school, Jeremy served on the UCLA Law Review board as an editor of Dialectic, the law review’s legal podcast. He was also a writing advisor for first year law students. Additionally, Jeremy served as an extern at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, and an extern for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. His student comment, The (Un)Holy Shield: Rethinking the Ministerial Exception, was published in the UCLA Law Review.

Prior to law school, Jeremy served as a minister at a church in Santa Monica, California. He graduated magna cum laude from Covenant Theological Seminary in 2009 with a Masters of Divinity, and a Master of Arts in Counseling. Jeremy graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 2004, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies.

Jeremy is admitted to practice law in the State of California and before the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Karla Booth is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she practices in the Real Estate Department.

Karla’s practice includes a broad range of commercial real estate transactions in a variety of asset classes, including senior housing, multifamily, office, hotel and mixed use. She represents owners (including senior housing owners), real estate investment funds, real estate investment managers, developers and equity investors in connection with the purchase, sale, financing, development and leasing of commercial real property assets and portfolios, including in joint ventures.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Karla practiced with the firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP from 2012 to 2021 and with Davis, Polk & Wardwell LLP from 2004 to 2012.

She earned her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 2004. Additionally, Karla earned her B.A. degree in Political Science and Economics, summa cum laude, from University of South Florida in 2000.

Karla is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Matthew A. Schroth is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices in the Firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Matthew represents clients in a broad range of complex real estate transactions, including joint ventures, construction and development, debt and equity financings, restructurings, office and retail leasing, and acquisitions and dispositions across a variety of real estate asset classes.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, he was a real estate associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Matthew earned his Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law in 2018, where he was a James Kent Scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and was awarded the Class of 1912 Prize. He  graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with his Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 2013.

Matthew is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Raquel A. Sghiatti is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Raquel graduated from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in 2020. During law school, she won the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence in Contracts and served as a legal extern for the Newport Beach City Attorney’s Office.

She earned a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources and Sustainability from Cornell University in 2014. She was a writer for the Cornell Daily Sun and a CBS Student Correspondent.

Raquel is admitted to practice law in the state of California.

Amanda Sadra is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the Litigation Practice Group.

Amanda has experience in a variety of complex litigation matters across practice areas, including betting and gaming, entertainment, labor and employment, and constitutional law. Her practice also includes public policy services such as coalition building, strategic counseling, and substantive policy analysis.  She also maintains an active pro bono practice.

From 2021 to 2022, Amanda served as a law clerk to the Honorable Cormac J. Carney on the Central District of California.

She received her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2020. While in law school, Amanda was a research assistant to Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, served as co-director of Berkeley’s national championship-winning trial advocacy team, and was an active member of Berkeley Law’s Youth Advocacy Project. Amanda received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley.

Prior to law school, Amanda was a congressional staffer for United States Senator Dianne Feinstein, specializing in housing and homelessness, immigration, and criminal justice reform issues in Southern California.

She is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice before the Central District of California.

Nick Barba is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he currently practices in the firms’ litigation department.

Nick earned his law degree in 2020 from the University of Virginia School of Law.  While in law school, he served as an extern for the Honorable Andrew J. Guilford, and as a student researcher for the Future of Privacy Forum. Nick also served as an Articles Editor for the Journal of Law and Politics.

Before attending law school, Nick earned his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Philosophy from California State University, Fullerton.

Nick is admitted to practice law in the state of California.

Lauren Navarro is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she currently practices in the firm’s Corporate Department.

Lauren earned her Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from UC Irvine School of Law in 2020. While in law school, she served as an Executive Editor for the UC Irvine Law Review, and as a Research Assistant to Chancellor’s Professor of Law Gregory Shaffer. Lauren earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in Economics from California State University, Fullerton in 2016.

Kelly Skowera is an associate in the Washington, DC office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department.

She received her law degree in 2020 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. During law school, she served on the Editorial Board of the Virginia Law Review and participated in the school’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.

Prior to law school, Kelly was a human resources consultant for a financial services company. She earned her undergraduate degree with honors from Georgetown University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Classics and Government.

Kelly is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

 

Paige E. Muhlestein is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law and Litigation practice groups.

Paige has represented clients in trial and appellate matters in state and federal courts in complex cases involving the technology, energy, and transportation industries. She also maintains an active pro bono practice.

Before joining the firm, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jerome A. Holmes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Paige received her Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School. While at Stanford, she served as President of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and a member of the Stanford Religious Liberty Clinic, and was awarded the Gerald Gunther Prize in constitutional law. Paige received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated magna cum laude and was awarded the James Phelan Prize in English literature.

She is a member of the California Bar.

 

Elizabeth Ngo is a real estate and corporate associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

She received her Juris Doctor in 2019 from New York University, where she served as an Articles Editor of the NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. Elizabeth received her Bachelor of Arts in History and Economics from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York in 2015.

Elizabeth is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Isaac Rottman is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Prior to joining the firm, Isaac served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jacqueline H. Nguyen of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and, before that, to the Honorable Stephen V. Wilson of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

He earned his law degree from the UCLA School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as Chief Articles Editor on the UCLA Law Review. Prior to law school, Isaac graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics from Northwestern University, where he was also inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and awarded a prize for the best undergraduate work in linguistics.

Isaac is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Central District of California.

Robbie Hopkins is of counsel in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and a member of the firm’s Capital Markets, Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance, Energy and Infrastructure, Oil and Gas, M&A and Private Equity practice groups. He represents public and private businesses in a broad range of corporate and securities matters. Robbie represents issuers and investment banking firms in both equity and debt offerings, including Rule 144A offerings. His practice also includes mergers and acquisitions and general corporate concerns, including Exchange Act reporting and corporate governance.

Robbie has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America  for Securities / Capital Markets Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law.

Robbie received his J.D., with high honors, from The University of Texas School of Law in 2012, where he was selected as a member of the Order of the Coif. Prior to law school, he graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 2009, where he received his Master in Professional Accounting and B.B.A. in accounting, with honors.

Representative Matters*

IPOs & Equity Offerings

• Underwriters to C&J Energy Services, Inc. in its $262 million public offering of common stock
• Underwriters to Vantage Energy Inc. in its initial public offering of common stock (converted to a sale process)
• Underwriters to EQT Midstream Partners, LP in its $721 million public offering of common units
• Underwriters to Cheniere Energy Partners LP Holdings, LLC in its $242 million public offering of common stock
• Buckeye Partners, L.P. in its $621 million public offering of common units
• Compressco Partners, L.P. in its $413 million public offering of common units
• Hi-Crush Partners LP in its $179 million public offering of common units
• Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P. in its $127 million public offering of Class E cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred units
• Antero Resources Corporation in its $1.8 billion initial public offering of common stock
• Navigator Holdings Ltd. in its $262 million initial public offering of common stock

High-Yield & Other Debt Offerings

• Underwriters to EnLink Midstream, LLC in its $500 million offering of senior notes
• Underwriters to Sunoco LP in its $600 million offering of senior notes
• Crestwood Midstream Partners LP in its $600 million offering of senior notes
• Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. in its $550 million offering of senior notes
• Underwriters to Halcón Resources Corporation in its $700 million offering of senior notes
• Underwriters to Cheniere Energy, Inc. in its $625 million offering of convertible senior notes
• Western Refining Logistics, LP in its $300 million offering of senior notes
• Underwriters to Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. in its $300 million offering of senior notes
• Carriage Services, Inc. in its $125 million offering of convertible subordinated notes
• Cameron International Corporation in its $750 million investment grade offering of senior notes
• Underwriters to Nabors Industries, Inc. in its $700 million investment grade offering of senior notes
• Penn Virginia Corporation in its $775 million offering of senior notes
• Antero Resources Corporation in its $500 million offering of senior notes
• Underwriters to Weatherford International in its $600 million offering of senior notes and its concurrent tender offer for existing senior notes

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

Nadia Alhadi is an associate attorney in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the Firm’s Litigation and International Arbitration Practice Groups.

Nadia specializes in matters of public international law and international criminal law. Prior to joining the Firm, she served as the judicial clerk to the Honorable Judge Nawaf Salam of the International Court of Justice as well as to the Honorable Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut of the International Criminal Court. At each clerkship, Nadia performed the majority of her duties in French.

She received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in December 2018 where she was the recipient of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award and served as Managing Articles Editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law. She also actively participated in Michigan Law’s clinical programs, working extensively with the Workers’ Rights Clinic and the Human Trafficking Clinic, and additionally interned in the Trial Division of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. In 2015, she received her Bachelors of Arts in Law, Letters & Society and in Romance Languages & Literature from the University of Chicago. In addition to French, Nadia has a professional working knowledge of Spanish and has volunteered as a Spanish-English interpreter in numerous immigration cases. She maintains an active pro bono practice advising clients on issues of public international law, international human rights, international criminal law, as well as civil rights and U.S. constitutional law.

Nadia is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Publications

•  Increasing Case Traffic: Expanding the International Criminal Court’s Focus on Human Trafficking Cases, 41 Mich. J. Int’l L. 541 (2020).

Sarah White is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group.

Sarah handles a wide range of complex litigation matters with an emphasis on complex commercial class actions and white collar defense and investigations.

She received her Juris Doctor in 2018 from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. In 2015, Sarah received her Bachelor of Liberal Arts (Plan II Interdisciplinary Honors) from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Sarah is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

John Matthew Butler is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office where he practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Matt served as a law clerk to the Honorable Steven M. Colloton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the Honorable John D. Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Matt graduated from Yale Law School in 2018, where he served as a Teaching Assistant in Procedure and an Executive Editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation and the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. He also received an A.B. magna cum laude in art and archaeology from Princeton and an M.A. in religion from Yale Divinity School.

 

Stefan Koller is an associate in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. He currently practices in the firm’s Real Estate, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Capital Markets practice groups. Stefan maintains an active pro bono practice, representing clients in matters of real estate, commercial restructuring, intellectual property, and family law.

Stefan’s experience includes:

• Representation of the underwriters led by TD Securities (USA) LLC, MUFG Securities Americas Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC in a public offering by Western Midstream Operating, LP of $750 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes.
• Representation of Berkshire Residential Investments as lender in a commercial real estate loan related to a portfolio of luxury apartments, valued at approximately $330 million
• Representation of TreeHouse Foods, Inc. (NYSE: THS) in its carve-out divestiture of cross-border assets valued at approx. $ 0.95 billion and subsequent stock purchase agreement with subsidiaries of InvestIndustrial Advisors Ltd.
• Representation of Peloton International, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTON) in its offering of ca. 27.2 million shares of common stock for gross proceeds of approximately $1.2 billion
• Representation of Global Oryx Company Limited, a subsidiary of the Abdul Latif Jameel Companies and initial sponsor of Rivian, in Rivian’s initial public offering that valued the company at approximately $70 billion
• Representation of Contango Oil & Gas Company in its all-stock merger with Independence Energy, LLC, valued at approximately $5.7 billion
• Representation of Reliance Marcellus, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited, in its approximately $250 million divestiture of approximately 450,000 gross acres of producing leasehold in the Marcellus Shale to Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE MKT: NOG)
• Representation of Parkland Corporation (OTCMKTS: PKIUF) in its senior notes offering valued at approximately $800 million
• Representation of Callon Petroleum Company in its acquisition of leasehold interests and related oil, gas and infrastructure assets of Blackstone Group affiliate Primexx Energy Partners, valued at approximately $802 million
• Representation of Apollo Global Management as lender in a commercial real estate loan related to a luxury hotel complex, valued at approximately $100 million
• Representation of Starwood Property Trust as lender in a commercial real estate loan related to an office complex, valued at approximately $100 million
• Representation of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust as lender in a commercial real estate loan related to a multi-family residential project, valued at approximately $122 million
• Representation of EnerVest, Ltd., as selling shareholder in a section 144 trade of approximately 7.5 million shares of Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation underwritten by Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
• Representation of EnerVest, Ltd., as selling shareholder in a section 144 trade of approximately 2.6 million shares of Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation underwritten by Morgan Stanley Securities
• Representation of Gran Tierra Energy Inc. in its various filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission since late 2020
• Representation of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust as lender in a commercial real estate loan related to a luxury apartments complex, valued at approximately $117 million
• Representation of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust as lender in a commercial real estate loan related to a large-scale office campus, valued at approximately $251 million
• Representation of EnerVest, Ltd., as selling shareholder in a section 144 trade of approximately 5.0 million shares of Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation underwritten by JPMorgan Securities
• Representation of KIPP NYC Rita as tenant in its commercial lease of educational facilities in Manhattan leased by Seton Education Partners
• Representation of Alexandria Real Estate Equities as landlord in seven distinct real estate leases for office space and/or science laboratory premises at its approximately 750,000 square foot Alexandria Center for Life Science in Manhattan
• Representation of Royal Bank of Canada as lender in a commercial real estate loan related to a luxury apartments complex valued at approximately $255 million
• Representation of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust as lender in a commercial real estate loan related to a student apartment complex, valued at approximately $113 million
• Representation of EnerVest, Ltd., as selling shareholder in a block trade of approximately 7.5 million shares of Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation underwritten by JPMorgan Securities
• Representation of TPG Real Estate Finance Trust as lender in a commercial real estate loan related to a luxury apartments complex, valued at approximately $123 million

Stefan received his J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law in 2020, where he served as an editor of the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law. During law school, he interned for the Colorado Supreme Court, the Western District of Texas Federal District Court, and completed a Capital Markets externship at a law office in Berlin, Germany, while enrolled at Humboldt University’s Excellence Cluster graduate program in European law.

Prior to law school, Stefan obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Delft, Netherlands, and B.A. and B.Phil. degrees from the University of Oxford. He graduated with a Double First from Oxford, earning the Gibbs Prize for the highest GPA in a double honors program across all 39 Oxford colleges.

Stefan is admitted to practice law in the State of Texas.

Anna Williams is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, representing clients in various real estate, regulatory and transactional matters.

She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was an editor for the California Law Review, competed on the school’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Team and served as an academic tutor in civil procedure.

Prior to law school, Anna taught middle school science and literacy in Nashville, Tennessee through Teach for America.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Education from Lipscomb University, where she graduated with highest honors. Anna completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.

Anna is admitted to practice in the State of California.