Sophie Hammond is an English qualified associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s Dispute Resolution Group. Her practice covers high-value commercial litigation, international arbitration, and regulatory investigations. Sophie regularly advises clients in the tech space on both disputes and regulatory matters, including online and digital safety regimes across multiple jurisdictions. Sophie has undertaken a secondment at a global technology company assisting the company’s diverse range of services to complete their first year of UK Online Safety Act Child Harms risk assessments.

Sophie also works on ESG and human rights issues. She also maintains an active pro bono practice and is a member of the London Pro Bono Committee.

Sophie trained at Gibson Dunn and holds a joint honours Law and Geography degree from the University of Cambridge.
 

Rachel Chalmers is an associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn, where she practises in the firm’s Disputes Resolution Group. Her practice covers high-value commercial litigation, international arbitration, and regulatory investigations, often involving multiple jurisdictions and parallel proceedings. Rachel regularly advises clients in the tech space on both disputes and regulatory matters, including online and digital safety regimes across multiple jurisdictions. She has also represented clients in complex, high-stakes international arbitration proceedings, as well as in litigation involving sovereign states, public international law and human rights.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Chalmers practised at a top-tier law firm in Sydney, where she advised on corporate and financial litigation and intellectual property disputes. She also served as a Judicial Clerk to the Honourable Justice Yates of the Federal Court of Australia, working on trials and appeals in commercial, intellectual property, and competition matters.

Rachel earned her Master of Law (LLM) from the University of Cambridge, graduating first in her cohort of 195 with a Class I with Distinction. She received the BRD Clarke Prize for best overall result, as well as subject prizes in International Dispute Resolution, Advanced Private Law, Criminal Justice and Human Rights, and Law of Armed Conflict.

She also holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours Class I) and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Adelaide, where she served as a student editor of the Adelaide Law Review legal journal and graduated as Valedictorian of her commerce degree.

She is admitted as a solicitor in the High Court of Australia, the Federal Court of Australia, and the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

Clementine Hollyer is an English qualified associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, practising in the firm’s Dispute Resolution Group.

Clementine has broad commercial litigation and regulatory experience, including work across the technology, retail and financial insurance sectors. Recent work has included supporting a major technology platform in a significant regulatory investigation, and advising a global insurance and professional services provider responding to the collapse of a major FinTech company and the ensuing investigations and proceedings. She has also assisted a leading multinational retailer in large scale equal pay litigation, and supported clients through CMA, SFO and FCA investigations. 

She trained at Gibson Dunn, during which she completed a six month secondment to the firm’s Hong Kong office and gained experience with the Labour & Employment and Competition & Antitrust teams. 

She also maintains an active pro bono practice, working alongside organisations such as REDRESS, Human Dignity Trust, Prisoners’ Advice Service, Safe Passage and Refugee Legal Support. 

Claire Shepherd is a partner in the Antitrust and Competition practice group of Gibson Dunn, based in the London office. 

Claire’s practice spans the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious UK and EU antitrust matters, including mergers, behavioural investigations and appeals, antitrust related litigation and other competition compliance issues. She has particular expertise in navigating antitrust and foreign investment / national security regimes on high-profile, complex and politically sensitive global transactions, and advising on antitrust and digital markets frameworks and regulatory engagement in the technology space. 

Claire advises corporate and private capital clients across a wide range of industry sectors, including in particular AI, technology and digital services, aerospace and defence, consumer products and services, entertainment and media, and financial services.

Claire speaks on a range of EU and UK antitrust and foreign investment issues, and has completed secondments at large technology, entertainment and consumer services firms. 
 
Representative experience includes advising:*

  • VMware on the European Commission and CMA in-depth antitrust reviews of its $69 billion acquisition by Broadcom
  • Inflection AI on the antitrust review and regulatory engagement of its precedent setting strategic license and hire transaction with Microsoft
  • Several of the largest global technology firms on various strategic acquisitions and investments
  • Macquarie Rotorcraft on the UK antitrust review of its acquisition by SMFL LCI Helicopters Limited
  • Airbus on its acquisition of Unical Aviation 
  • News Corp on its sale of Foxtel to, and acquisition of a minority stake in, DAZN
  • A household brand in the consumer products sector on the antitrust review and regulatory engagement of its acquisition of a European competitor
  • ArcelorMittal on its $1 billion acquisition of a strategic stake in Vallourec
  • Xylem on its $7.5 billion acquisition of Evoqua
  • A major global financial institution on EU cartel investigations and a subsequent appeal to the EU Courts
  • Japanese smart card chip producer Renesas in a combined follow on and standalone damages claim brought in the High Court by Vodafone in connection with the EU Smart Card Chips cartel decision
  • Micro Focus International on its $8.8 billion merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s software business

*Some of these representations occurred prior to Claire’s association with Gibson Dunn.

Hannah Lewis is an English-qualified Associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations, Technology Litigation, International Arbitration, Litigation and Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Groups.
 
Ms. Lewis’ broad practice spans regulatory investigations, commercial and investor-state arbitration and commercial litigation.  Ms. Lewis recently spent over a year seconded to a major multinational technology company and was part of the core team coordinating the response to a regulatory investigation.
 
Ms. Lewis’ other recent experience includes:

  • Acting for a consortium of defendants in English High Court proceedings relating to the misuse of confidential information in setting up an international sports league.
  • Acting for a manufacturing client in LMAA arbitration proceedings in an international shipping dispute.
  • Acting for a major engineering company in a multi-billion-dollar ICC international airport arbitration.
  • Acting for an international mining company seeking to enforce an ICSID arbitral award rendered against an eastern European State in the English courts.
  • Acting for a major oil company in proceedings brought by a Middle Eastern state relating to the operatorship and maintenance of an offshore oil and gas project under the UNCITRAL rules.

Ms. Lewis also has an active pro bono practice with a particular interest in prisoners’ rights and criminal justice reform. Recent experience includes pro bono work for APPEAL, Public International Law and Policy Group, Prisoners’ Advice Service and obtaining Non-Molestation Orders for clients in the Family Courts through the Domestic Abuse Response Alliance.
 
Ms. Lewis trained at Gibson Dunn and holds a First Class History degree from the University of Bristol.

Rebecca Barry is an English qualified associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, practising in the firm’s Dispute Resolution Group.

Rebecca has broad experience of commercial litigation, investigations (both regulatory and internal investigations), and international arbitration. Her practice includes large-scale, multi-jurisdictional disputes and investigations across the financial services and technology sectors. Rebecca currently represents a UK retailer in the largest private sector mass equal pay claim to be heard in the English courts.

Rebecca is recognised as a Key Lawyer for Premium Commercial Litigation in The Legal 500 UK 2026 rankings and is described as a “highly efficient team player”. She maintains an active pro bono practice and is a member of the London Pro Bono Committee. 

Rebecca trained at Gibson Dunn, during which time she spent several months seconded to a leading American investment bank. She holds a first-class Law degree from the University of Nottingham.

Sam Wolfe-Murray is an associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups.

Sam has broad experience in private equity and M&A transactions, including leveraged buyouts, strategic acquisitions, growth equity, preferred equity, convertible instruments, secondary transactions, co-investments, and other minority investments.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Sam worked in the London private equity team of another global elite law firm. Before that, Sam trained and qualified at a UK magic circle firm into their private equity team, studied law at the University of Oxford, worked with family offices on early stage investments, and studied chemistry at the University of Sydney.

 

Sam’s experience includes: *

 

  • Advised 65 Equity Partners on its investment in HAS Healthcare Advanced Synthesis SA’s, and HAS’s planned acquisition of Cerbios-Pharma SA, a globally recognised manufacturer of chemical and biological APIs
  • Advised American Industrial Partners on its acquisition of an ownership position in Aker BioMarine’s Feed Ingredients segment
  • Advised Bain Capital in relation to the sale of a stake in Beat Capital Partners to Ambac Financial Group
  • Advised Audax Strategic Capital on undisclosed multiple convertible preferred investments into UK and US-based businesses
  • Advised Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) subsidiary Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation on the UK aspects of its acquisition of leading Australian pension administration firm Link Group (LNK.AX) in a A$1.2 billion (US$802.7 million) deal, as Japan’s largest banking group continues to grow its fund administration business
  • Advised American Industrial Partners on its acquisition of AquaShip AS, a leading aqua service vessel provider, and subsequent acquisition and combination of Intership, another aqua service business
  • Advised Pfizer on its $25m strategic investment in CellCentric
  • Advised Becton, Dickinson and Company in its acquisition of Tissuemed Ltd, a developer of surgical sealant technology
  • Advised Partners Group on its acquisition of Pharmathen, a European pharmaceutical company, from international investment firm BC Partners on behalf of its clients. The transaction values Pharmathen at an enterprise value of around EUR1.6 billion
  • Advised Avista Capital Partners and Nordic Capital and Swiss pharmaceutical company Acino on the sale of Acino to ADQ
  • Advised CVC Capital Partners on their investment alongside the International Federation of Volleyball (FIVB), into VW Volleyball World SA, a newly incorporated commercial entity holding the commercial rights to volleyball
  • Advised CVC Capital Partners on their investment into Premiership Rugby Limited
  • Advised CVC Capital Partners on their minority investment into Pro14, the rugby competition
  • Advised Barings and M&G on their investment into Tunstall Healthcare, a leading global provider of software solutions and services for the telecare and telehealth markets by way of restructuring and recapitalisation
  • Advised Hellman & Friedman on the €7.8 billion all share merger of Nets, a leading payments provider, into Nexi, a leading payments technology company in Italy

 

* Some of these representations occurred prior to Sam’s association with Gibson Dunn.

Rebecca Roman is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group.

Before joining the firm, Rebecca served as a law clerk to Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Judge Barbara Lagoa of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Rebecca graduated with High Honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where she served as the executive editor of The University of Chicago Legal Forum. She was a Kirkland & Ellis Scholar, a member of the Order of the Coif, and was awarded the D. Francis Bustin Prize “in recognition of a paper which makes a valuable and important contribution for the improvement of the processes of the government.” Before law school, Rebecca was a registered lobbyist before the State of Florida, representing an array of clients from trade associations to Fortune 500 companies before the state legislature and executive agencies. She received her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in philosophy and political science from Florida State University. 

Rebecca is a member of the Texas bar.

Minnie Che is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices in the firm’s Transactional Department. Minnie earned her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she served as an Editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and a Board Director for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. While in law school, she co-founded the Harvard Law School Film Society, served as a Teaching Fellow for Professor William Fisher in Copyright Law and a Staff Writer for Professor Ben Sachs’ On Labor, and was on the Executive Board for the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA). Minnie graduated cum laude and with pro bono distinctions.

Prior to law school, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Columbia University and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History from Sciences Po. Minnie graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Minnie is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Chelsea Werner is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices with the firm’s Transactional Department.

Chelsea graduated from Duke University School of Law in 2025. While in law school, she served as an online editor on the Duke Law Journal and as a faculty research assistant at the Goodson Law Library. She also interned at the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.

Prior to law school, she taught middle school science and was a college access counselor in Louisiana. Chelsea earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science in Marine Affairs and Policy from the University of Miami.

Chelsea is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

Mason F. Ye is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson Dunn and practices in the firm’s Transactional Department.

Mason earned his Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law in 2025 where he served as a Managing Editor of the UCLA Entertainment Law Review. He also served as a Staff Editor of the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, in which he published his academic note, Watt’s in the Wind, analyzing the legal and regulatory frameworks shaping offshore wind energy policy in China and the United States. He received his undergraduate degree, cum laude, in World Politics from The Ohio State University in 2018.

Prior to joining the firm, Mason led a boutique consulting firm specializing in North America–APAC joint ventures and co-founded a cross-border fertility services business.

Mason is admitted to practice in the State of California. He is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Lauren Romagnoli is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn, where she currently practices in the firm’s Transactional Department.

Lauren received her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2025. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Ocean Engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 2016. Prior to attending law school, she served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.

Lauren is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Nathan Curtis is Of Counsel in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department in the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Nathan served as a law clerk to the Honorable Timothy B. Dyk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Nathan has litigated numerous complex intellectual property cases in a wide range of technological fields, including computer architecture, telecommunications, networking, communications standards and protocols, digital signal processing, consumer products, medical devices, and steel manufacturing. He has successfully defended clients in intellectual property cases in the nation’s most active patent venues—the Eastern District of Texas, the Western District of Texas, the Northern District of California, the District of Delaware, the International Trade Commission, and the Federal Circuit. He has experience coordinating multi-forum disputes involving parallel district court litigation, International Trade Commission investigations, Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, and related foreign actions. In addition to litigation, Nathan has extensive experience with patent review proceedings at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, including both inter partes review and reexamination proceedings.

Representative Matters

  • Representing DIRECTV in the Central District of California in a lawsuit relating to satellite reception and distribution technologies.
  • Representing Uber in multiple patent cases involving location, network infrastructure, and transportation-related technologies.
  • Representing Hewlett Packard Enterprise in multiple patent cases in the Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas relating to computer, server, and access point technologies.
  • Represented Dell EMC in its more than decade-long patent dispute with ACQIS. Secured complete summary judgment of non-infringement on eight patents, defeated ACQIS’s appeal before the Federal Circuit, and on remand obtained a $4 million attorney-fee award that was affirmed on appeal. The victory was achieved after ACQIS had previously obtained a jury verdict and tens of millions of dollars in settlements from other major technology companies on the same portfolio. The result was recognized by The American Lawyer’s Litigation Daily.
  • Represented Dell in a patent litigation brought by VideoLabs in the Western District of Texas relating to video coding standards. Achieved a favorable resolution following strategic motion practice and successful results in parallel cases. 
  • Represented SharkNinja in a wide-ranging, multi-forum patent dispute against Dyson involving vacuum technologies. After Dyson sought millions from SharkNinja related to a hair care patent, SharkNinja filed a five-patent ITC investigation and an eight-patent action in the District of Massachusetts asserting its vacuum patents. Dyson counterclaimed with a nine-patent case in the Eastern District of Texas. At the same time, represented SharkNinja in more than a dozen IPR proceedings relating to the patents asserted across the various cases. Obtained a highly favorable global settlement on the eve of the ITC trial.
  • Represented Cloudera in a patent litigation brought by Byteweavr in the Western District of Texas. Secured a favorable settlement.
  • Represented Roku in a patent litigation brought by VideoLabs in the District of Delaware relating to video coding standards. Secured a favorable settlement. 
  • Represented Fitbit in a multi-forum dispute, including multiple federal district court patent cases, a state court trade secret misappropriation case, and a patent infringement investigation before the International Trade Commission regarding technologies used to monitor activity and heart rate in activity trackers.
  • Represented NetApp in a patent litigation against KOM Networks pending in the District of Delaware relating to data security. Secured a favorable settlement for NetApp after invalidating the majority of asserted patents.
  • Represented Rubrik against competitor Actifio’s patent infringement lawsuit in which Actifio asserted four patents related to data backup technologies. Successfully forced Actifio to drop its preliminary injunction motion and dismiss the case.
  • Secured complete summary judgment of non-infringement for NetApp in its case against Intellectual Ventures in the District of Massachusetts.
  • Represented Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal in a multi-patent and unfair competition case in the District of New Jersey involving processes for manufacturing electrical steel.  The case involved co-pending reexamination proceedings at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and related litigation in Japan and Korea, which included claims for trade secret misappropriation.  All disputes were resolved favorably shortly before trial pursuant to a coordinated cross-border strategy.
  • Represented plaintiff Sanofi Aventis in Hatch-Waxman lawsuits filed in the District of Delaware concerning Section 505(b)(2) applications for diabetes treatments. The litigation resolved favorably on the eve of trial.
  • Represented Cablevision in defending against multiple lawsuits related to cable networking and distribution, successfully narrowing claims and positioning matters for favorable resolution.

In addition, Nathan represents disabled veterans before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims on a pro bono basis in claims for service-connected disability benefits.

Nathan earned his Juris Doctor summa cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. While attending law school, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Brigham Young University Law Review and published multiple articles in the Law Review. Prior to law school, he graduated magna cum laude and received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics, with minors in Mathematics and Spanish, from Brigham Young University. Nathan has received several notable awards. During law school, he was the recipient of the J. Reuben Clark Award for exemplifying academic excellence, integrity, high ethical standards, and service. He was also elected to the Order of the Coif. Following law school, he was recognized for obtaining the second highest score on the July 2011 Texas Bar Exam.

Nathan is admitted to the bars of the State of Texas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

Ashbey Morgan is an associate in Gibson Dunn’s Dallas office.  She currently practices in the Intellectual Property, Litigation and Life Sciences practice groups.  Leaning on her background in organic chemistry and experience as a former law clerk to Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap in the Eastern District of Texas, Ashbey concentrates on patent litigation across many technologies, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, telecommunications, mobile communications, and software.  She has substantive experience in all phases of litigation from pre-suit diligence to pre-trial, trial, and post-trial, including drafting and arguing dispositive motions, managing document review and offensive and defensive discovery, working with experts, handling pre-trial disclosures and jury materials, taking and defending depositions, preparing trial witnesses, and conducting witness examinations at trial.  Since joining the firm, she has participated in several pre-trial and trial proceedings, including arguing at Markman hearings and pre-trial conferences. 

Prior to joining the firm, Ashbey served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap in the Eastern District of Texas.  During her clerkship, she assisted with the management of both patent and non-patent cases, including federal civil rights, civil asset forfeiture, trademark, insurance, and tax.  She also worked on numerous judicial proceedings, including eight civil jury trials, one bench trial, and five Markman hearings.

Ashbey received an ACS-certified B.A. in chemistry, cum laude, from Rollins College in Florida and her J.D., summa cum laude, from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, where she graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif.  

Ashbey is admitted to practice in the State of Texas, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Federal Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas.

Ashbey is recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Litigation-Intellectual Property (2024-2026) and Life Sciences (2026).

Representative matters:

  • Represents Uber Technologies in multiple multi-patent disputes filed in the Eastern District of Texas.
  • Represents Uber Technologies in multi-patent case filed in the Western District of Texas.  Obtained transfer to the Northern District of California based on mandamus order received from Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 
  • Represented Uber Technologies in multi-patent case in Western District of Texas.  Case settled after successful motion to dismiss.
  • Represented Cisco in multi-patent case filed by Lionra in the Eastern District of Texas.  Obtained summary judgment of non-infringement before trial.
  • Represented ArcelorMittal in the ITC regarding patents directed to steel manufacturing processes. 
  • Represented Verizon in the Eastern District of Texas against General Access regarding patents directed to Wi-Fi and 5G technology.  Member of the trial team who obtained first-ever new trial order on all issues for a defendant before Judge Gilstrap in a $845 million claim.  Case settled favorably after first day of re-trial.

  • Represented SharkNinja in multiple cases in the Eastern District of Texas, the District of Massachusetts, and the ITC against Dyson regarding patents directed to vacuum cleaners. Obtained very favorable settlement for our client on the eve of our ITC trial against Dyson.

  • Represented Organon in a multi-patent dispute regarding contraceptive implant Nexplanon®.

  • Represented Merck & Co./Intervet Inc. in multi-patent dispute against Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. regarding immunogenic compositions that protect against a particular porcine virus.

  • Represented Natera, Inc. against Illumina, Inc. in a multi-patent case regarding non-invasive prenatal testing through the use of DNA sequencing and analytic techniques.

Speaking engagements:

Moderator, Texas Is A Diverse State and Your Trial Team Should Be Too, 2022 Eastern District of Texas Bench Bar Conference

Moderator, Stadium Seating : The Visitor Section, 2024 Eastern District of Texas Bench Bar Conference

Introduction, AI: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, 2025 Eastern District of Texas Bench Bar Conference

Publications:

Preliminary Legal Opinion—A New Procedure to Make Civil Litigation More Efficient, Review of Litig. Law Journal (2021)

Aliya Zuberi is an associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices in the firm’s Transactional Department.

Aliya received her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. She received a Bachelor of Arts in History, magna cum laude, from Barnard College.

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

Elise Widerlite is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices in the firm’s Transactional Department.

Elise earned her law degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and received the Georgetown University Alumni Club of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Award. At Georgetown Law, she served as the Senior Communications & Technology Editor for the Georgetown Law Journal. Elise earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature, Journalism, and Psychology, summa cum laude, from Georgetown University, where she graduated as co-valedictorian of the Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences Class of 2015 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Before law school, Elise graduated from NBCUniversal’s Page Program and worked in late night television.

She is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

Storey Wanglee is an associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn.

She graduated as a James Kent Scholar and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar from Columbia Law School in 2024, where she served as Senior Editor and Mentorship Chair of the Columbia Law Review. Storey received her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018.

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

Jasmine Vitug is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices in the firm’s Transactional Department. Jasmine graduated magna cum laude from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where she was a Sayre MacNeil Scholar, elected to the Order of the Coif and a member of the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society. While in law school, she served as Chief Production Editor of the Loyola Law Review.

Prior to law school, Jasmine graduated magna cum laude from the University of San Diego, earning her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Bachelor of Arts in English.

She is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Pete Usher is an associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group. He is currently on secondment.

Pete advises public and private companies on a range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, and reorganizations. He also provides general advice to corporate clients on company and commercial matters.

Select experience includes advising: *

  • Goldman Sachs and Wellcome Trust on the £4.66 billion disposal of iQ Student Accommodation to Blackstone;
  • TransDigm Group on its sale of Technical Airborne Components to Searchlight Capital Partners;
  • Sun Communities on its acquisition of Park Holidays UK for $1.3 billion;
  • Axion Biosystems on its acquisition of M-SOLV Manufacturing Limited;
  • MARK Capital Management on the formation of its joint venture with HUB;
  • Goldman Sachs on its acquisition of The Belfry Hotel & Resort;
  • TransDigm Group on its acquisition of Cobham Aero Connectivity for $965 million;
  • Loungers plc on its IPO.

Pete spent a year on secondment at Macquarie Asset Management, where he supported the MAM Real Assets legal team. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Pete worked in the London office of another major law firm.

*Some of these representations occurred prior to Peter’s association with Gibson Dunn.

Hadeel Tayeb is an associate in the Riyadh Transactional Department and M&A Practice Group of Gibson Dunn. Hadeel’s practice focuses on corporate law, advisory and regulatory. She regularly advises clients on various matters relating to government initiatives and projects.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Hadeel was an associate based in the Jeddah office of an international law firm. She completed her law degree at Dar Alhekma University in 2018 before completing her master’s degree at Cambridge University in 2020. Hadeel is admitted to practice law in Saudi Arabia.
She is a native Arabic speaker and is also fluent in English.