Daniel Lurie is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Daniel’s practice includes representing investors, developers, owners and operators in joint venture negotiations and a broad range of real estate transactions across various asset classes, including acquisitions, dispositions, ground leases, and financings of data centers, senior living facilities, multifamily properties, shopping centers, industrial assets, and office buildings.

Daniel received his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 2013. He earned his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Rutgers University in 2010, where he majored in English and History and obtained membership in Phi Beta Kappa.

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

Harrison Tucker is a partner in the Houston office of Gibson Dunn. He practices in the firm’s Capital Markets and Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance practice groups. He has extensive experience advising on IPOs across a range of industries and regularly represents issuers and investment banking firms in equity and debt offerings, including Rule 144A transactions. His practice also encompasses general corporate matters, including Exchange Act reporting, stock exchange compliance, corporate governance and beneficial ownership reporting. In addition, he works closely with Gibson Dunn’s bankruptcy and restructuring team, advising on applicable securities law issues.

Harrison received his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in 2008, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and Order of Barons.  While in law school, he served as a Member of the Houston Law Review.  Prior to law school, he graduated from Texas A&M University in 2005, where he received his B.A. in history and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Harrison maintains an active pro bono practice. For example, he has represented U.S. military veterans though the National Veterans Legal Service Program in seeking discharge upgrades and enhanced disability compensation. He is also active in the Houston Volunteers Lawyers program sponsored by the Houston Bar Association.

Alanah Herfi is an associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices in the firm’s Transactional Department and specializes in Capital Markets.

Alanah received her Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law in 2024. She graduated from Michigan State University in 2021 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy and Business Management.

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

Stewart L. McDowell is a partner in the San Francisco and New York offices of Gibson Dunn where she is Co-Chair of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group.

Stewart represents companies, investors and underwriters in a variety of complex capital markets transactions, including IPOs, convertible and non-convertible debt and preferred equity offerings, spin-offs, PIPEs and liability management transactions. She also represents companies in connection with U.S. and cross-border M&A and strategic investments, SEC reporting, corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Awards and Accolades:

  • Chambers USA, “Capital Markets: Debt & Equity” (2012 – 2025)
  • Best Lawyers®, “Lawyer of the Year: Corporate Law, San Francisco” (2019, 2026), “Lawyer of the Year: Banking and Finance Law, San Francisco” (2021)
  • Expert Guides, “Women in Business Law” (2021 – 2022)
  • Expert Guides, “Banking, Finance and Transactional Guide” (2020)

Representative Clients and Transactions:

  • Advised issuers or underwriters in the IPOs of issuers including Cricut, Parson Corporation, Zevia PBC, Viant, Restoration Hardware, and Magnite
  • Advised the Public Investment Fund on multiple investments in Lucid Group, including convertible preferred stock, common stock and prepaid forward transactions
  • Advised issuers such as Coget Bioscience, Magnite, and Advanced Energy Industries, Inc., Welltower Inc., and Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals in the issuance of convertible senior notes
  • Wells Fargo Securities Advised in over $100 billion of offerings by Wells Fargo & Company and Wells Fargo Bank
  • Advised Intuit Inc. in the issuance of $4.0 billion of Senior Notes
  • Advised Elliott Management in its convertible preferred stock investments in Western Digital and Travelport
  • Advised Glassdoor, Inc. in its sale to Recruit Holdings, Ltd.
  • Advised Uber Technologies, Inc. in the sale of its South East Asia business to Grab Taxi
  • Advised HTC Corporation in its business cooperation arrangements involving sale of a portion of HTC’s virtual reality business and smart phone business to Google

Stewart received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1995 and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1991.

Janet Vance is a retired partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. Janet served on the Compensation Committee and the Finance Committee of Gibson Dunn and she focused on corporate finance and private equity. Her experience includes representation of equity sponsors, corporate borrowers and lenders with respect to secured and unsecured lending transactions, loan syndications, fund financings, senior and subordinated debt financings, first lien/second lien deals, mezzanine loans and other banking and credit matters. In addition, Janet regularly provides general corporate counseling and strategic advice for clients, including public and private companies and their boards of directors.

Janet’s clients represent a cross-section of industries, including retail, manufacturing, energy, hospitality, technology, telecommunication, aerospace, defense, infrastructure and metals. Janet is consistently ranked as one of the elite Banking and Finance lawyers by Chambers USA , Chambers Global, The Best Lawyers in America®, and The International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers. In Chambers, Janet is praised for “her experience, nuanced approach and technical excellence,” and for being “passionate and invested in clients, and a true partner in terms of creatively solving problems with great business sense.” She is also noted as “very sophisticated and very collaborative” and “exceptional in having the business acumen to match her legal competence.” “When you get to a roadblock, Janet can pause and come back with something creative that no one has thought of and blast through the logjam,” and “has the rare component where she cares about our company and wants us to do well.” She “has strong negotiation skills, the highest ability to get things done in the most advantageous and practical manner, and is a critical player on every team,” and is “very thoughtful, very helpful and has a tremendous amount of experience.”

Janet received her Juris Doctor from the Columbia University School of Law in 1987, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She was a judicial clerk to the Honorable Richard Gadbois, Jr. in federal district court in Los Angeles, California, from 1987–1988. Janet received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Psychology with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.

Lucrezia is an associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the Finance and Projects and Infrastructure Practice Groups.

Lucrezia brings experience in advising both borrowers and lenders on the construction, development and financing aspects of a wide range of cross‑border projects, spanning ECA‑backed and vendor‑financing facilities, multi‑billion‑euro BOT infrastructure projects, as well as renewable energy-related transactions. Her expertise includes guiding clients on English law matters and collaborating closely with local counsel across multiple jurisdictions. She also has experience in working on major cross-border mergers and acquisitions, complex reorganisations, ESG-related corporate advice, and structured and asset-backed finance transactions.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Lucrezia trained at a magic circle law firm in London and worked as a Project and Infrastructure Finance Associate at another leading international firm. 

She completed her studies in London, and was admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales in 2025.  Lucrezia is of Italian origins and speaks fluent English, Italian and Spanish.

Julia Alonzo is a corporate associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn.

Julia graduated from Emory University School of Law in 2024. She served as the Executive Administrative Editor of the Emory International Law Review. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from Southern Methodist University.

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

Paul Rafla is an associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn where he currently practices in the firm’s Finance and Capital Markets Practice Groups. He represents private equity sponsors, corporations and lenders in a variety of banking and other debt financing transactions, as well as in a variety of equity and debt capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, secondary equity offerings, and investment grade and high-yield debt offerings, among others.

Representative Clients and Transactions *:

  • Represented JPMorgan Chase Bank and various other lenders with respect to the approximately $4.6 billion broadly syndicated senior secured credit facilities and approximately $3.4 billion high yield bonds (including a landmark $2.2 billion unsecured PIK Toggle bond) in connection with the pending take private transaction for Skechers USA Inc. by affiliates of 3G Capital.
  • Represented JPMorgan and other lead arrangers in connection with Garda World Security’s $2.35 billion term loan facility refinancing.
  • Represented BioCryst Pharmaceuticals on its $400 million debt financing for the acquisition of Astria Therapeutics.
  • Represented Petco Health and Wellness Company on its $600 million bond financing and $900 million term loan refinancing.
  • Represented Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals in connection with its $500 million senior secured credit facility.
  • Represented TEN Leasing, a portfolio company of iSquared Capital, in connection with TEN’s ABL credit facility and debut $700 million senior secured notes offering.
  • Represented FirstLight Fiber, a portfolio company of Antin Infrastructure Partners, in connection with five year senior secured term loan debt financing.
  • Represented Mauser Packaging (a Stone Canyon portfolio company) in connection with its $3.9 billion high yield secured notes exchanges, $1 billion term loan financing, and maturity extensions of Mauser’s ABL credit facility and cash flow credit facility.
  • Represented Apollo, Carlyle Credit, HPS, Oak Hill Advisors and several other leading private capital investors in the $2.5 billion preferred equity offering in connection with the financing of the take-private of Citrix.
  • Represented R.R. Donnelley & Sons in multiple term loan B financings.
  • Represented Ocean Network Express in connection the Atlas’ $10.9 billion take private transaction.
  • Represented Linde plc in connection with several credit facilities.
  • Represented NextDecade in the largest energy and non-recourse debt financing in the U.S.
  • Represented AmeriGas, a subsidiary of UGI, in multiple high yield notes offerings and tender offers for its outstanding debt securities.
  • Represented Marquee Brands, an affiliate of Neuberger Berman, in the $70 million term loan seller financing in connection with the acquisition of America’s Test Kitchen.
  • Represented Owlet in connection with convertible preferred equity financing.

Paul received his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 2018, where he served as the Managing Editor of The Tax Lawyer. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Accounting from Villanova University in 2012.

Paul was previously a Certified Public Accountant in the Assurance and Audit practice of a Big Four accounting firm.

*Includes transactions prior to Paul’s association with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Joseph Kmetz is an associate in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he currently practices with the firm’s Oil and Gas, Mergers and Acquisitions, Data Centers and Digital Infrastructure, Power and Renewables, and Private Equity practice groups, with a particular focus on the upstream and midstream sectors of the oil and gas industry.

Joseph draws on his legal and commercial background in the energy industry to help clients navigate:

  • Acquisitions and divestitures of assets and companies
  • Joint ventures and other strategic relationships
  • Commercial contracts
  • Corporate governance matters, including with respect to environmental and regulatory considerations
  • Corporate restructurings

Joseph maintains an active pro bono practice focused on estate planning and is a member of the Advisory Council for the Honors College at Texas Tech University.

Before practicing law, Joseph worked as a landman for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (now Occidental Petroleum Corporation). In that role, he served on the company’s long-term planning team for Colorado, calculated land ownership for US Securities and Exchange Commission reporting, cured oil and gas title defects, and helped modernize the company’s form joint operating agreement for Rocky Mountain assets.

Joseph’s experience includes advising:*

Traditional Oil and Gas (Upstream and Midstream)

  • Occidental Petroleum in its $12 billion acquisition of CrownRock L.P.
  • 1PointFive, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Company, in its execution of a 25-year CO2 transportation and sequestration agreement
  • North Hudson Resource Partners in the acquisition of producing assets from White Rock Energy, LLC in the Williston Basin, in partnership with TXO Partners, L.P.
  • Liberty Resources in the sale of its midstream infrastructure and upstream assets in the Williston Basin
  • Crescent Midstream on various corporate governance matters and the negotiation and execution of confidentiality agreements, transportation service agreements, connection agreements, and similar commercial contracts
  • Diversified Energy Company on:
    • Its $1.275 billion merger with Maverick Natural Resources
    • Various asset-based acquisitions and divestitures
  • Arclight Capital Partners on:
    • Its acquisition of a minority interest in the Gulf Coast Express Pipeline
    • Its investment and partial ownership arrangement in the Salamanca Production Facility in the Offshore Gulf of Mexico
  • Vitol on forming VTX Energy Partners
  • Woodside on:
    • A joint venture with Shell for deepwater Gulf of Mexico exploration and development projects
    • A working interest selldown to Occidental Petroleum for certain deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases
  • Magellan Midstream Partners on its US$18.8 billion merger with ONEOK (environmental emphasis)
  • Chisholm Energy on its multi-well farmout and joint development arrangement with an undisclosed E&P company involving Permian Basin assets
  • Navitas Petroleum on project development and financing of the offshore Shenandoah Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico
  • A private equity client in the sale of certain non-operated upstream assets in Oklahoma
  • A private equity client in the sale of non-operated upstream assets in Pennsylvania and West Virginia
  • IOG Resources II in a joint development partnership with Elevation Resources

Data Centers and Digital Infrastructure

  • Daikin Applied in its acquisition of Chilldyne, a provider of advanced data center cooling technology
  • Various private data center developers in connection with data center lease agreements with hyperscale customers

Energy Transition and Renewables

  • Chevron USA on its joint venture with Bunge North America to create renewable fuel feedstocks in the US
  • ConocoPhilips on acquiring a 30% ownership stake and offtake arrangements with Sempra Infrastructure Partners at Port Arthur LNG Facility
  • Amp Americas on acquiring assets from Vitol that convert dairy waste into renewable natural gas
  • Woodside on a planned liquefied hydrogen facility (H2OK), a net zero hydrogen project located in Oklahoma

Corporate Restructurings

  • An international company with substantial U.S. operations in a tax-driven entity reorganization involving both its U.S. and South American subsidiaries
  • MLCJR on the sale of its oil and gas assets through a Chapter 11 Section, Section 363 sale process
  • Nine Point energy in the sale of its oil and gas assets through a Chapter 11, Section 363 sale process
  • Pacific Drilling in its pre-arranged chapter 11 restructuring to address over $1.1 billion of funded debt obligations and other legacy liabilities
  • Superior Energy Services in its chapter 11 restructuring to address $1.3 billion of funded debt obligations and other legacy liabilities

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

Friedrich is a partner in the Munich office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Class Actions and Transnational Litigation Practice Groups.

Friedrich regularly advises on collective redress, international arbitration matters as well as complex commercial litigation with a broad range of topics, such as ESG, post M&A, company evaluation, and technology.

Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™ 2025/2026 listed Friedrich among the best lawyers in Germany for Litigation and Arbitration and Mediation.

Friedrich’s recent experience includes advising:

  • Mercedes-Benz in diesel-related litigation, including a Declaratory Model Action (“Musterfeststellungsklage”)
  • A European company in a complex post M&A dispute, including arbitration and several litigation proceedings
  • A European company in large Appraisal Proceedings
  • A European company in ESG related questions

Friedrich studied law at the University of Passau. Subsequently, he worked as a research assistant for Professor Kuhn at the Institute for the Didactics of Law at the University of Passau, where he obtained his doctor’s degree in 2015. Friedrich has been admitted as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) since 2016.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Friedrich was an associate in the Litigation Department of a renowned U.S. law firm in Munich.

In addition to his native German, Friedrich speaks English.

Vincent Zhang is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of Gibson Dunn’s Intellectual Property Practice Group.

Prior to joining the firm, Vincent clerked for the Honorable Tiffany P. Cunningham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and for the Honorable Richard G. Andrews of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. 

Vincent received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where he was an Executive Editor for the New York University Law Review.   While in law school, he also served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Denny Chin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  Vincent earned his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Duke University, where he majored in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Economics.

Vincent is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  He is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. 

Kate Dominguez is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Intellectual Property Practice Group.

Kate has extensive experience litigating complex patent cases from discovery through trial and appeal. She has worked across a broad spectrum of technologies, including both high-tech and life sciences matters. Representative technologies Kate has litigated include systems and software for data storage, encryption, interactive television, intrusion detection, mobile communications, network authentication, and wireless networking, among others. Kate’s life sciences work has included matters relating to recombinant DNA, pharmaceutical composition and dosing and medical devices. Kate’s practice also includes trade secrets litigation, as well as antitrust litigation in which a client’s defense of its intellectual property rights gives rise to antitrust allegations.

Some of Kate’s trial experience includes a three-week jury trial in the District of Nebraska on behalf of a wireless carrier client, in which Gibson Dunn obtained a complete defense verdict across 30 infringement claims, after two other wireless carriers lost at trial or settled on the same claims. Kate’s representative trial experience also includes a jury trial in the District of Delaware, in which Gibson Dunn represented the patentee (the market leader in network storage equipment) and obtained an eight-figure damages award for the client.

Kate also regularly practices in the Federal Circuit, where she has argued and briefed patent appeals for a wide range of clients. Kate’s representative Federal Circuit experience includes successfully defending several non-infringement verdicts and invalidating multiple patents on Section 101 grounds.

Recognized for her expertise in intellectual property, Kate is ranked by Chambers in New York’s Intellectual Property: Patent category, where clients note “Kate is fantastic; she inspires confidence and is great in court.” She has also been distinguished as a “Patent Star” nationwide and in New York every year since 2023 by Managing IP Handbook. Benchmark Litigation has designated her as a “Future Star” in New York annually since 2022. Earlier in her career, Kate was also named to the Super Lawyers New York Metro “Rising Stars” list in the category of Intellectual Property from 2016-2019.       

Prior to joining the firm, she served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Richard G. Taranto of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Kate earned her Juris Doctor in 2008 from Yale Law School. She received her Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from Wesleyan University in 2003. Kate also obtained her Master of Science in Teaching from Pace University in 2005, as part of her work as a Teach For America corps member.

Kate is a member of the bar of the State of New York and is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.

Representative Experience:

  • Won a jury verdict of non-infringement on 30 out of 30 infringement claims on behalf of T-Mobile, in a case brought by Prism Technologies in the District of Nebraska. The trial win came after two of T-Mobile’s competitors lost at trial or settled on the eve of jury deliberations, earning recognition from the American Lawyer’s Litigation Daily and Law360. Won affirmance of the jury verdict on appeal to the Federal Circuit and further invalidated all asserted patents on 101 grounds.
  • Won a complete victory on summary judgment of non-infringement for EMC, on 8 patents, in a patent litigation against ACQIS in the District of Massachusetts. The victory was achieved after ACQIS had previously obtained a jury verdict and tens of millions of dollars in settlement payments from other major technology companies on the same portfolio. The result was recognized by the American Lawyer’s Litigation Daily.
  • Won a $14 million jury verdict of infringement for EMC against Pure Storage in the District of Delaware. After trial, the parties settled the case at more than double the amount of the jury verdict.
  • Won a complete victory on summary judgment of non-infringement for NetApp in its case against Intellectual Ventures in the District of Massachusetts.

Julie Sweeney is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and a member of the firm’s Artificial Intelligence and Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Innovation practice groups.

Julie’s practice focuses on counseling companies on complex multi-jurisdictional product launches involving emerging technologies and regulatory risk management across U.S. state, federal, and global privacy, online safety, and consumer protection laws. She regularly advises on the development, launch, and governance of generative AI tools, AI-enabled features, and consumer-facing chatbots, as well as the use of facial recognition and other biometric technologies. Julie also assists clients with drafting internal and public-facing terms, policies, and notices and with assessing data-related risk in complex transactional matters. She counsels clients in matters before state Attorneys General and global data protection authorities.

Julie also maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing survivors of domestic violence in civil proceedings and advising nonprofit organizations on AI integration and privacy programs.

Previously, Julie worked for eight months as product counsel at Meta Platforms, Inc. (on secondment), providing product, engineering, and other business teams legal advice across all subject areas, including privacy, marketing/IP, youth protection, competition, and emerging regulatory frameworks (e.g., DMA/DSA), with a focus on pragmatic, risk-calibrated guidance that supported business objectives.

Julie received her Juris Doctor with Honors from the George Washington University in 2019. While in law school, she received the Jacob Burns Award, presented to the winning team of Van Vleck Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition, and was a research assistant to Professor Daniel Solove. Julie graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from the Ohio State University.

She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. 

Jeff Xu is a corporate associate in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group.

Jeff’s practice focuses on counseling private equity sponsors throughout the lifecycle of their funds, including the formation and fundraising processes, as well as on follow-on investments, co-investments, separately managed accounts, joint ventures and other secondary transactions. The clients he represents range from first time sponsors to experienced sponsors with multi-billion dollars AUM, across various strategies including private equity, real estate, digital infrastructure, healthcare services, fund of funds and debt funds.

He earned his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review and as the Chief Research Officer of Rivanna Investments. Prior to attending law school, Jeff was an auditor with Ernst & Young. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Maryland.

Jeff is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland.

Curtis Vella is a corporate associate in the Washington D.C. and New York offices of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Investment Funds Practice Group.

He advises sponsors on the formation, structuring, marketing and operation of their investment funds, across a range of strategies including private equity, infrastructure, real estate and credit. Curtis frequently works with sponsors seeking to establish private funds for the first time and also represents institutional investors in connection with their investments in private investment funds.

Curtis’ representative clients include J.P. Morgan, Liberty Hall Capital Partners, Meridiam Infrastructure, Motive Partners, Otro Capital, The Halifax Group and Welltower.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Curtis was an associate at an international law firm where he was a member of the Private Funds practice group in New York. Before practicing in New York, he was a solicitor in the Sydney office of another international law firm, where he advised clients on a range of domestic and cross-border matters, including M&A, equity capital markets, and other structured transactions.

In addition to his day-to-day practice, Curtis acts on a variety of pro bono matters.

He received his Juris Doctor (with Distinction) from The University of New South Wales in 2017 and his Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Sydney in 2014.

Curtis is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the District of Columbia. He is also admitted (not practicing) in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.

Sharanya Sukumar is an Associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Investment Funds Practice Group.

She represents institutional investors and leads negotiations in a variety of transactions in the private funds space including primary, co-investment and secondary deals. She also advises first-time and experienced asset managers on fundraising activities across a wide range of asset classes.

Sharanya brings a global perspective to her practice, having worked in India in her early career days, and pursuing legal projects in the US, prior to furthering her career in London. She has advised sponsors on fund formation in the US, Europe and India, and regularly advises institutional LPs on investments in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. She has a special interest in impact finance and has represented leading global players in this space including DFIs and government entities. During her time in the US, she worked with a research consortium comprising Wharton, Harvard Business School and Chicago Booth to advance research on impact investing.

Sharanya holds an LLM degree from University of Pennsylvania, and earned her B.A.LLB degree at Symbiosis Law School, Pune. She is admitted to practice in India and has cleared the New York Bar Examination.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Sharanya worked at another major international law firm in London, and prior to that, at leading law firms in India.

Philip Stachnik is a corporate associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn, where his practice focuses on Investment Funds matters.

Philip received his Juris Doctor in 2019 from Harvard Law School, where he served as Managing Editor for the Harvard International Law Journal. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in History from McGill University and a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree in History from the University of Alberta.

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

Sam Stender is a corporate associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn and a member of Gibson Dunn’s Investment Funds Practice Group.

His practice focuses on counseling sponsors in the formation and structuring of private investment funds. He also has experience advising clients on a variety of matters including the operation, internal governance and ongoing management of private investment funds.

Sam received his Juris Doctor with high distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law. While attending law school, he was a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Kathleen M. O’Malley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Prior to attending law school, Sam served in the Marine Corps on active duty, reaching the rank of Captain. He earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science from St. Norbert College.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Sam was an associate at a leading international law firm, where he was a member of the Fund Formation and Investment Management Group in New York.

He is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia and has been admitted to appear before the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

Rachel Spinka is a corporate associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group.

Her practice focuses on counseling sponsors on the formation, marketing and operation of private investment funds across a range of investment strategies, including real estate, private equity, natural resources, debt and infrastructure funds. She also advises sponsors on a variety of matters related to private funds, including co-investments, separate accounts, firm governance and internal sponsor arrangements.

Rachel received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 2018 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as Production Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. She also received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, with High Distinction, from the University of Michigan in 2014.

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

Virinchi Sindhwani is a corporate associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group.

Virinchi advises on and assists with the formation and operation of U.S. private investment funds across a range of investment strategies, including real estate funds, private equity funds and credit funds. He also has experience with co-investments, regulatory matters, non-U.S. funds and continuation vehicles. In addition, Virinchi maintains an active pro bono practice.

Virinchi graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as Senior Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and President of the South Asian Law Students Association. Upon graduation, Virinchi received the Distinguished Pro Bono Award. He also earned a Certificate in Management from the Wharton School.

Virinchi received his bachelor’s degree cum laude and with College Honors from the University of Southern California, where he was a Trustee Scholar.

Virinchi is admitted to practice in the State of California.