Jeff Wall is Co-Chair of the Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group at Gibson Dunn and a former Acting Solicitor General of the United States. He has argued more than 30 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and is widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading appellate advocates. Last year, he was named Appellate Attorney of the Year by The National Law Journal. He has been honored as The American Lawyer’s “Litigator of the Week” three times since 2024, for securing the elimination of a $650 million award against several national pharmacy chains; persuading the Delaware Supreme Court to reinstate Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $60 billion incentive-compensation plan; and delivering what was described as a “knockout blow” to the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules in the Sixth Circuit after more than a decade of regulatory uncertainty.

A Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Jeff is widely regarded for his ability to distill complex legal issues into clear, persuasive arguments. He is ranked Band 1 by Chambers USA, which has praised his “formidable reputation,” describing him as a “sophisticated” and “brilliant advocate” with an “impressive track record before the Supreme Court.” He is also a three-time Law360 Appellate MVP, most recently earning back-to-back honors in 2024 and 2025.

Jeff is a member of the American Law Institute, President of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court, trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society, and former member of the Advisory Committee on Procedures for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Before his service in the Solicitor General’s Office and time in private practice, Jeff clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Jeff has a robust pro bono practice and role in his community, serving on the board of the St. Albans School and its School of Public Service.

Select Representations*

• Tesla in persuading the Delaware Supreme Court to reverse the Chancery Court and reinstate a more than $50 billion incentive compensation plan for Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Jeff and Morgan Ratner were named “Litigators of the Week” by The American Lawyer for this win.
• NCTA – The Internet & Television Association, USTelecom – The Broadband Association, and Ohio Telecom Association in their successful challenge to the FCC’s reclassification of broadband under Title II of the Communications Act in the Sixth Circuit. Jeff received The American Lawyer’s “Litigator of the Week” award for this win.
• Walgreens Boots Alliance in obtaining a ruling from the Ohio Supreme Court, on certification from the Sixth Circuit, eliminating a $650 million public nuisance judgment in the national opioid multidistrict litigation. Jeff received The American Lawyer’s “Litigator of the Week” award for this win.
• Valero Energy Corporation subsidiaries, including Diamond Alternative Energy, in obtaining a Supreme Court victory on standing that will clear the way for targets of government regulation to bring legal challenges.
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, Texas Association of Business, and Longview Chamber of Commerce in their challenge to the FTC’s rule banning noncompete agreements, securing the first nationwide decision declaring the rule unlawful.
• Bayer in obtaining the dismissal—affirmed on appeal by the Delaware Supreme Court sitting en banc—of a lawsuit brought by Merck & Co. alleging M&A-related contract claims.
• Danske Bank and Standard Chartered Bank in persuading the Second Circuit to reject any liability for allegedly aiding and abetting terrorist organizations, the first major appellate decision on antiterrorism statues to apply the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in Twitter v. Taamneh. Jeff was named a runner-up “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer for this win.
• National Association of Private Fund Managers, Managed Funds Association, and Alternative Investment Management Association in obtaining a precedent-setting win from a unanimous U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which remanded two SEC rules related to short-selling due to the agency’s failure to consider the economic impact of adopting both rules at once. Jeff was named a Law360 “Legal Lion” and runner-up “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer for this win.
• CPI Security in a successful appeal before the Fourth Circuit defending a $180 million jury award in a dispute with competitor Vivint Smart Home Security. Jeff was named a runner-up “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer for this win.
• Blockchain Association and the Crypto Freedom Alliance of Texas in obtaining a judgement vacating an SEC rule that sought to substantially expand the definition of who must register as a “dealer” under the Securities Exchange Act. Jeff was named a runner-up “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer for this result.
• Boeing and certain of its current and former officers in a securities-fraud class action in the Eastern District of Virginia, including a class-certification appeal to the Fourth Circuit.
• Canadian Pacific before the Second Circuit in securing affirmance of judgment in a multi-billion-dollar noteholder dispute and before the D.C. Circuit in successfully defending its acquisition of Kansas City Southern.
•  eBay in successfully dismissing an EPA enforcement action over the sale of certain prohibited items on its online marketplace.
• Great Lakes Insurance in obtaining a unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court in a maritime insurance dispute over a contractual choice-of-law provision.
• JPMorgan in securing the affirmance of the dismissal of a lawsuit in connection with a syndicated loan arranged by a group of banks led by JPMorgan for Millennium Laboratories.
• Major League Baseball in an appeal before the Second Circuit defending the league’s exemption from the federal antitrust laws.
• Spirit AeroSystems in two appellate victories in the Tenth Circuit in a case involving compensation for the company’s former CEO—first reversing a $45 million judgment, then winning again on a subsequent appeal.
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable in litigation against the Securities and Exchange Commission over its revision of the rules governing proxy voting advice.
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce in briefs to the Supreme Court and Fourth Circuit about public-company disclosures regarding cybersecurity risks.
• Valero Energy Corporation in a set of consolidated appeals to the Supreme Court and D.C. Circuit challenging vehicle-emission and fuel-economy rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups in securing a significant Eighth Circuit ruling holding that the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its statutory authority in adopting sweeping disparate-impact regulations. The decision vacated the FCC’s digital-discrimination rules related to broadband access and held that compliance obligations could not be extended to entities outside the broadband industry.

Representative Supreme Court Arguments*

Arbitration

• Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 138 S. Ct. 1612 (2018): whether the National Labor Relations Act prohibits enforcement of an individual arbitration agreement

Bankruptcy

• Schwab v. Reilly, 130 S. Ct. 2652 (2010): whether the bankruptcy trustee is required to object to a debtor’s market valuation of property

Civil Rights

• Hernandez v. Mesa, 140 S. Ct. 735 (2020): whether a Bivens remedy is available for cross-border incidents
• McDonough v. Smith, 139 S. Ct. 2149 (2019): when the statue of limitations for a Section 1938 claim based on fabrication of evidence in criminal proceedings begins to run
• Nieves v. Bartlett, 139 S. Ct. 1715 (2019): whether probable cause defeats a claim of retaliatory arrest under the First Amendment
• Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Florida, 138 S. Ct. 1945 (2018): whether probable cause defeats a claim of retaliatory arrest under the First Amendment

Class Actions

• Frank v. Gaos, 139 S. Ct. 1041 (2019): whether a class-action settlement that distributes cy pres funds satisfies Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(e)(2)

Constitutional Law

• Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, 140 S. Ct. 2246 (2020): whether schools may be excluded from a state scholarship program based on their religious character
• Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, 140 S. Ct. 1649 (2020): whether the Appointments Clause governs the appointment of member of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
• Gundy v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2116 (2019): whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act’s delegation of authority to the Attorney General to issue regulations under 42 U.S.C. § 16913 violates the nondelegation doctrine
• The American Legion v. American Humanist Association, 139 S. Ct. 2067 (2019): whether the display and maintenance of a religious symbol violate the Establishment Clause
• Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission, 138 S. Ct. 2044 (2018): whether administrative law judges of the Securities and Exchange Commission are Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause

Criminal Law and Procedure

• United States v. Briggs, 141 S. Ct. 467 (2020): whether the Uniform Code of Military Justice allows for the prosecution of certain rapes only within five years
• Henderson v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 1121 (2013): whether an error is plain for purposes of plain-error review when the law is unclear at the time of the error but subsequently becomes clear
• Bailey v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 1031 (2013): whether the Fourth Amendment permits police officers executing a search warrant to detain an occupant who has left the immediate vicinity of the premises
• Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S. Ct. 1309 (2012): whether a prisoner has a constitutional right to the assistance of counsel on collateral review when that is the first opportunity to raise a particular claim of error
• Sykes v. United States, 131 S. Ct. 2267 (2011): whether a felony conviction for fleeting from law enforcement in a vehicle qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act
• Barber v. Thomas, 130 S. Ct. 2499 (2010): whether good conduct time for federal inmates should be calculated on the basis of the sentence imposed or time served

False Claims Act

• United States ex rel. Eisenstein v. City of New York, 556 U.S. 928 (2009): whether the government is a party to a qui tam action under the False Claims Act when it declines to intervene

Intellectual Property

• Halo Electronics v. Pulse Electronics; Stryker v. Zimmer, 136 S. Ct. 1923 (2016): when enhanced damages should be available in patent infringement cases

Jurisdiction and Standing

• Diamond Alternative Energy LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 24-7 (2024): whether a party may establish the redressability component of Article III standing by relying on the coercive and predictable efforts of regulation on third parties

Labor and Employment

• Kasten v. St. Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., 131 S. Ct. 1325 (2011): whether the anti-retaliation provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act prevents an employer from discharging an employee for oral complaints

Maritime Insurance

• Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC, No. 22-500 (2023): whether a choice of law clause in maritime insurance contract is unenforceable if it would conflict with state public policy

Securities

• Gabelli v. SEC, 133 S. Ct. 1216 (2013): when a statute of limitations begins to run for civil penalty claims against investment advisers
• Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC v. Simmonds, 132 S. Ct. 1414 (2012): when a statute of limitations begins to run for short-swing trading claims against financial institutions, officers, and directors

Sports Gambling

• Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 138 S. Ct. 1461 (2018): whether the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act’s preemption of state laws authorizing sports-gambling schemes violates the Tenth Amendment

* Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Morgan Ratner is an experienced appellate advocate and legal-issues specialist who handles the most important cases around the country. She has argued ten cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, where she has had remarkable success at both the certiorari and merits stages.

Morgan regularly briefs and argues appeals and dispositive motions; provides strategic guidance for trial and administrative proceedings; and counsels clients confronting high-stakes legal issues. She has had particular success helping clients navigate—and, when appropriate, challenge—federal regulations. In the last 18 months, she has twice been named The American Lawyer’s “Litigator of the Week” (and her matters have been named three times more), including for prevailing in a landmark Delaware corporate-governance dispute and striking down the FCC’s net-neutrality rules. The American Lawyer named her the 2024 “Young Lawyer of the Year — Litigation”, and Law360 recently profiled her as one of “12 Lawyers Who Are The Future Of The Supreme Court Bar.”

Morgan served for more than four years in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she argued securities regulation, bankruptcy, employment, and intellectual property cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. During her tenure, she also filed more than 150 Supreme Court briefs at the merits and certiorari stages and received a John Marshall Award, DOJ’s highest award offered to lawyers for exceptional service to the Office of the Solicitor General and DOJ.

After graduating Harvard Law School—where she was awarded the Fay Diploma as the top student in her class—Morgan clerked for Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court and then-Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She is a member of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court, a volunteer with Street Law, Inc., and a trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society.

Representative Experience*

• Tesla in two major wins in the Delaware Supreme Court, first persuading the Court to reverse the Chancery Court and reinstate a more than $50 billion incentive compensation plan for Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and then persuading the Court to reduce a challenged fee award by more than $100 million. Morgan was named a “Litigator of the Week” by The Am Law Litigation Daily for the compensation-plan win.
• NCTA – The Internet & Television Association, USTelecom – The Broadband Association, and Ohio Telecom Association in their successful challenge to the FCC’s reclassification of broadband under Title II of the Communications Act, in the Sixth Circuit. Morgan received The Am Law Litigation Daily‘s “Litigator of the Week” award for this win.
• Volkswagen in obtaining a reversal from the Ninth Circuit, which held that the Department of Justice cannot be forced to produce six million internal company documents that Volkswagen had produced in connection with the government’s investigation into a diesel-emissions matter. This was the first time the Ninth Circuit addressed the issue of whether revealing information that the government obtained solely due to a grand jury’s subpoena would compromise the grand jury’s integrity.
• Goldman Sachs in obtaining a major victory from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a $13 billion securities case, with the court reversing class certification after 13 years of litigation and establishing important guardrails to the “inflation-maintenance” theory of securities fraud. The Second Circuit’s 2023 ruling followed a third discretionary Rule 23(f) appeal, marking just the second time a federal appeals court has granted interlocutory review of class certification three times.
• Walgreens Boots Alliance in obtaining a ruling from the Ohio Supreme Court, on certification from the Sixth Circuit, eliminating a $650 million public nuisance judgment in the national opioid multidistrict litigation.
• Valero Energy Corporation subsidiaries, including Diamond Alternative Energy, in obtaining a Supreme Court victory on standing that cleared the way for targets of government regulation to bring legal challenges.
• Great Lakes Insurance in securing a unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court in a maritime insurance dispute that the parties’ contractual choice-of-law provision is binding.
• Major League Baseball in an appeal before the Second Circuit defending the league’s exemption from the federal antitrust laws.
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups in securing a significant Eighth Circuit ruling holding that the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its statutory authority in adopting sweeping disparate-impact regulations. The decision vacated the FCC’s digital-discrimination rules related to broadband access and held that compliance obligations could not be extended to entities outside the broadband industry.
• Duke Energy in an appeal before the Fourth Circuit defending a judgment dismissing antitrust claims brought by a competitor.
• Spirit AeroSystems in two appellate victories in the Tenth Circuit in a case involving compensation for the company’s former CEO—first reversing a $45 million judgment, then winning again on a subsequent appeal.
• The American Fintech Council in securing a preliminary injunction in an action in the District of Colorado challenging the legality and scope of Colorado legislation opting out of the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980.
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups as amici in several Fair Credit Reporting Act cases before the Second and Eleventh Circuits.
• Valero Energy Corporation in a set of consolidated appeals to the D.C. Circuit challenging vehicle-emission and fuel-economy rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
• Volkswagen as intervenor in successfully defending on appeal to the Second Circuit a Freedom of Information Act judgment with implications for companies attempting to shield confidential information shared with the government from public disclosure.

Representative Supreme Court Arguments*

Bankruptcy

• U.S. Bank National Association v. Village at Lakeridge (2018): whether a designation of non-statutory insider status is reviewable for clear error

Intellectual Property

• Minerva Surgical v. Hologic (2021): whether and when the doctrine of assignor estoppel applies

Securities

• Emulex Corp. v. Varjabedian (2019): whether an inferred private right of action exists under Section 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act for misstatements or omissions made in connection with a tender offer

Foreign Sovereign Immunity

• Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporacion Cimex (2026): Whether the Helms-Burton Act abrogates foreign sovereign immunity in cases against Cuban instrumentalities

Civil and Constitutional Rights

• Comcast Corp. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media (2020): whether a claim of race discrimination in contracting under 42 U.S.C. 1981 requires but-for causation
• Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru (2020): whether the First Amendment’s “ministerial exception” applies when an employee carries out important religious functions
• Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill (2019): whether the Virginia House of Delegates had standing to appeal, and whether the redistricting plan was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander

Criminal Law and Procedure

• Caniglia v. Strom (2021): whether the Fourth Amendment permits a non-investigative warrantless home search for “community caretaking”
• Holguin-Hernandez v. United States (2020): whether a defendant must object after sentencing to preserve a substantive-reasonableness challenge
• Jones v. Hendrix (2022): whether a federal inmate who previously sought post-conviction relief may apply for habeas relief after an intervening Supreme Court decision construing his statute of conviction

* Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Hazel Granada is a litigation associate in Gibson Dunn’s Palo Alto office. She handles a wide variety of complex commercial litigation matters in federal and state court, including complex commercial and contract disputes and securities litigation matters. Hazel has experience litigating matters from inception through trial. Hazel also has experience conducting independent investigations, and responding to books and records demands and inquiries from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).  

Hazel also maintains a robust pro bono practice in the areas of immigration and civil rights. Hazel previously secured asylum for a client in proceedings before the Immigration Court and conducted the examination of a key witness in those proceedings. She also serves on the firm’s Associates Committee and on the Board of the San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association.

She earned her law degree in 2020 from the University of California, Irvine School of Law, where she served as co-chair of the Latinx Law Student Association, Dean’s Fellow, Community Fellow, and Research Fellow for the Lawyering Skills Program for first year students. Hazel competed in the Moot Court competition where she argued before a District Court Judge and was named among the Top 16 participants. She also argued a motion before the California Superior Court as part of the Consumer Law Clinic, securing a significant reduction in fees for an indigent client. While in law school, Hazel served as an extern with the criminal division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, where she appeared before various magistrate judges in criminal arraignments.

Hazel earned her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California where she received the Dean’s Merit Scholarship.

She is a member of the California Bar and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Northern and Central Districts of California.

Felicia L. Reyes is a litigation associate at Gibson Dunn’s New York office and practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Felicia earned her Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 2024, where she received the Harlan Fiske Stone and James Kent Scholar recognitions. During her tenure at Columbia, Felicia was a staff editor for the Columbia Law Review and served on its Development Committee. She gained valuable experience as a summer judicial intern with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and as a legal extern for the Bronx Defenders. Additionally, Felicia was a member of the Latino Law Students Association and First Generation Professionals.

Felicia holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California, graduating magna cum laude in 2017 and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to attending law school, Felicia taught English in Mexico through the Fulbright program and worked on advocacy efforts for system-impacted youth.

Felicia is admitted to practice law in New York.

Celina Jackson is a litigation associate in Gibson Dunn’s Palo Alto office. She received her J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she served as the Deputy Senior Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review. During law school, Celina also worked at the San Mateo County Attorney’s Office and participated in the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.

Before law school, Celina worked in the technology, financial services, and philanthropy sectors. She was also a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Madrid, Spain. She graduated with distinction from Stanford University and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. 

She is admitted to practice in California.
 

Annekathrin Schmoll is an associate in the Frankfurt office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation, International Arbitration, Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement, and ESG Practice Groups.

Annekathrin’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border arbitration and litigation. Annekathrin represents German and international clients in commercial, corporate and civil disputes before institutional and ad hoc arbitral tribunals, as well as before German courts. A particular focus of her practice is advising private equity investors in complex disputes, including post-M&A, shareholder and valuation-related matters. Her expertise includes appraisal proceedings (Spruchverfahren) and release proceedings, as well as model declaratory actions.

In arbitration, she has extensive experience as counsel, arbitrator and arbitral secretary under various rules (ICC, DIS, CEAC, FAI, UNCITRAL). She also has experience in neutral auditor proceedings (Schiedsgutachterverfahren), particularly in the context of closing adjustment mechanisms. In addition, she provides comprehensive advice on the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards and judgments and advises on transactions involving international private and procedural law. Annekathrin is also actively involved in matters related to the energy transition and the renewable energy sector. She also advises her clients on litigation funding and assists them in securing financial resources for their legal disputes.

Her experience includes representing:

• German companies in complex appraisal proceedings (including Douglas, ISRA Vision, Aareal Bank, Lotto24).
• A private equity investor in a high-value cross-border post-M&A arbitration under ICC rules.
• A U.S. company in a cross-border post-M&A arbitration under ICC rules.
• A gas company in a cross-border post-M&A arbitration under DIS rules.
• An international pharmaceutical company in a cross-border arbitration under ICC rules.
• An international company in complex proceedings before the Regional Court and Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt in an M&A advisor dispute.
• One of the world’s largest solar module manufacturers in defending against alleged damages claims in a cross-border arbitration under CEAC rules according to German law and the CISG.
• An international company in the enforcement of an arbitral award based on the Energy Charter Treaty.
• A German company in recognition and enforcement proceedings of an arbitral award before the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt.
• Mercedes-Benz in a model declaratory action.

WirtschaftsWoche recognized Annekathrin in 2024 as one of the top lawyers in arbitration. Moreover, from 2022 to 2025, Handelsblatt / The Best Lawyers™ in Germany included her in the “Ones to Watch” list for Litigation, International Arbitration, and Arbitration & Mediation. Since 2026, she has been recognized in the “The Best Lawyers in Germany™” list.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Annekathrin was a Senior Associate and a member of the Litigation, Arbitration & ADR practice group in the Frankfurt office of a renowned international law firm.

She studied law at the Universities of Giessen and Kiel and earned her doctorate in 2014 from the University of Göttingen. Before completing her second state examination at the Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig in 2016, she was a research assistant at a chair for German and foreign civil procedural law as well as a research assistant and trainee lawyer at international law firms in Frankfurt. She has been admitted as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwältin) since 2016.

Annekathrin is a member of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS), where she is Co-Chair of the Frankfurt region since May 2024.

Annekathrin regularly publishes on topics related to international arbitration/litigation and legal tech, and frequently delivers lectures in these areas. She also lectures at the University of Göttingen on “Legal Tech and the Use of AI from the Perspective of Lawyers,” with a particular focus on mass proceedings and arbitration.

In addition to her native German, she is fluent in English.

Lauren Cook Jackson is counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she advises financial services firms on regulatory, compliance, and enforcement matters. She practices across the firm’s Financial Institutions, Global Financial Regulatory, Fintech and Digital Assets, Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance, Securities Enforcement, White Collar Defense and Investigations, and Investment Funds practice groups.

Ms. Jackson represents a broad range of industry participants, including global financial institutions, broker-dealers, investment advisers, fund companies, private equity and hedge fund managers, public companies, swap dealers, commodities traders, and fintech companies. Her advisory work spans enterprise-wide compliance across platforms and business lines, the implementation of new regulations, expansion into new business activities and associated regulatory requirements, including the use of emerging technology such as AI and related disclosure obligations, supervisory and internal controls, cross-border securities activities, and digital assets. She also counsels financial institutions on U.S. regulatory requirements related to broker-dealer registration, acquisition, and disposition.

Ms. Jackson has extensive experience managing investigations and enforcement proceedings involving systemic compliance failures, supervision deficiencies, sales practice violations, and alleged breaches of fiduciary duties. She has represented clients before the SEC, CFTC, FINRA, the U.S. Department of Justice, the NYSE, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the NFA, many different NASAA task force groups, state securities divisions, and state attorneys general. She advises on the collateral consequences of enforcement, civil, and criminal actions and engages with FINRA and SEC staff regarding waivers, no-action relief, and interpretive guidance for domestic and non-U.S. entities.

Ms. Jackson conducts internal investigations into potential violations of state and federal securities laws and counsels clients on both routine (e.g., Forms U4 and U5) and self-reporting (e.g., FINRA Rule 4530) filing obligations. She has designed and overseen large-scale remediation programs that balance internal priorities, mitigate follow-on litigation risk, and satisfy regulatory undertakings.

Ms. Jackson serves on the board of directors of the Children’s Law Center of Central North Carolina and volunteers as a guardian ad litem through the CLC’s Custody Advocacy Program, advocating for vulnerable children in domestic violence and high-conflict custody proceedings.

Ms. Jackson graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000 and received her law degree magna cum laude from the University of Richmond School of Law in 2008. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and North Carolina.

Representative Matters*

• Represented multiple firms investigated and/or disciplined by SEC, FINRA, the CFTC and/or NFA for deficiencies relating to the preservation of required regulatory records by broker-dealers and swaps dealers in the prescribed form and manner (including that such records be kept in “WORM” format pursuant to SEC Rule 17a-4(f) and CFTC Rule 1.31). Assisted firms in conducting expansive remediation programs including top-down inventory of all required regulatory records, and the overhaul of related technology, governance and supervisory systems.
• Conducted internal investigation into potential violations of the Investment Company Act of 1940 in the pricing of certain mutual fund orders received by a brokerage unit of a Fortune 500 insurance and investment management company, coordinating the self-reporting of findings to FINRA and negotiation of favorable settlement terms for resolution of the matter and restitution to impacted investors.
• Managed a top-tier global financial institution’s response to a complex regulatory inquiry into the possible manipulation of key interest rate indices, including LIBOR, TIBOR, and EURIBOR, as well as investigations by the DOJ, CFTC, SEC, UK FSA, and EC, and conducted an internal investigation of the firm’s corporate treasury, chief investment office, and six business lines in response to related civil and criminal inquiries and class action litigation.
• Represented one of the nation’s largest independent broker-dealers in resolving multi-state investigations and subsequent global settlements regarding allegations relating to the sale of certain alternative investments, and compliance with so-called “Blue Sky” securities requirements.
• Represented one of the nation’s largest broker-dealers in resolving dozens of separate enforcement matters relating to alleged violations of SEC Rule 15c3-5 (the Market Access Rule) and related exchange supervisory rules relative to trading on the NYSE, CBOE, NASDAQ, and Bats.
• Represented four of five broker-dealers in a NASAA task force sweep investigation into the supervision and state-registration status of retail brokerage sales assistants and in negotiating and executing subsequent global multistate settlements.
• Advised client’s internal governance committee in reaching determinations regarding whether discipline imposed against associated persons during the annual incentive compensation review process and otherwise throughout the year required a reporting to FINRA pursuant to FINRA Rule 4530.
• Represented investment banking and retail brokerage businesses in response to DOJ, SEC, and state securities divisions’ inquiry into the handling of information and treatment of different categories of customers relative to the initial public offering of a social media platform.
• Represented broker-dealer in negotiating an end to an ongoing administrative hearing, including a settlement that absolved individual executives of all sanctions sought, and provided favorable terms for the repurchase of outstanding auction rate securities.

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Recent Speaking Engagements

• PLI’s Broker/Dealer Regulation and Enforcement (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022)
• Securities Enforcement Forum West, The SEC’s Active Rulemaking Agenda and its Impact (2024)
• PLI’s Fiduciary Investment Advice and the Evolving Retail Investor Landscape (2022)
• PLI Fundamentals of Broker-Dealer Regulation (2021)
• NASAA Policy Symposium, Lessons Learned for Retail Investors from the GameStop Saga (2021)
• IAA, SEC Examination and Enforcement Update for Investment Advisers (2020)
• NASAA State Securities Regulatory Training, Effective Records Requests: An Industry Perspective (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019)

Publications

• Author of Chapter 33: Required Regulatory Records and Electronic Storage, in the PLI Broker-Dealer Regulation (Second Edition) Treatise

Samantha Moulton is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn, where she is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department.

Samantha earned her Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School in 2025, graduating magna cum laude and as a member of the Order of the Coif, and she finished in the top three percent of her class. She served as a Senior Developments Editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.

Prior to attending law school, Samantha earned a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Holyoke College in 2018, where she majored in Political Science and minored in Art History.

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

Brandon Wolf is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office. Brandon practices in the firm’s Litigation Department, and his practice spans complex commercial, regulatory, and appellate litigation.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Brandon served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to the Honorable Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Before his clerkships, Brandon practiced in the Los Angeles office of a major law firm, where he focused on commercial and securities litigation.

Brandon received his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and received a Dean’s Merit Scholarship. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, cum laude, from the University of Southern California.

Brandon is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia. He is also admitted to the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits, and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Matt Donnelly is a partner in the New York and Washington, D.C. offices of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group. Matt represents public and private companies on a broad range of U.S. federal and state income tax matters, with a concentration on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, Reverse Morris Trust transactions, joint ventures, financing transactions, capital markets transactions, restructurings, and internal reorganizations.

In addition, Matt regularly advises clients on tax issues relating to the development, financing, acquisition, and disposition of energy and real estate projects.

Matt is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section. He is also Conference Co-Chair of Practicing Law Institute’s Understanding the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax conference. In addition, Matt is an adjunct professor at Howard University School of Law, where he has taught corporate tax law since 2017, and at Georgetown University Law Center, where he has taught since 2020 and since 2024 has taught a first-of-its-kind course on tax incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Matt regularly speaks and writes on tax-related topics, including for the International Fiscal Association and at the New York State Bar Association Tax Section’s Annual Meeting, USC’s Gould School of Law’s Tax Institute, the American Petroleum Institute Federal Tax Forum, Practising Law Institute’s Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances conference, the World Hydrogen North America conference, the Tulane Tax Institute, and the University of Chicago Federal Tax Conference. Matt was featured in the inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers (2025).

Matt is the author of The Imperfect Approach, 102 Taxes 25 (Mar. 2024), presented at the University of Chicago Federal Tax Conference (2023), and Observations on Certain Investment Tax Credit Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, 75. Maj. Tax Planning 5-1 (2023), prepared for the USC Gould School of Law’s Tax Institute (2023). Matt is also the co-author of three reports by the New York State Bar Association Tax Section (Report on Section 704(b) (2024); Report on Partnership Aspects of the Proposed PTEP Regulations (2025); and Report on the Prohibited Foreign Entity Rules (2026)). He has also contributed to chapters in several treatises, including Business Separation Transactions: Spin-Offs, Subsidiary IPOs and Tracking Stock and Partnerships, Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances.

Matt received his law degree with high honors from the University of Iowa College of Law, where he also served as the Editor in Chief of the Iowa Law Review and won a Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing. Matt received a B.S.J. from Northwestern University, where he served as Editor in Chief of The Daily Northwestern. He is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia.

Representative matters include:*

Private Equity and Fund Transactions

• Numerous representations for Veritas Capital, including its pending acquisition of Global Healthcare Exchange, its $2.45 billion acquisition of NCR Voyix’s cloud-based digital banking business, its $10.5 billion acquisition of Cotiviti with KKR, its $3.1 billion acquisition of the Wood Mackenzie business from Verisk, the acquisition of the CAES business from Cobham, the acquisition of Sequa Corporation from entities affiliated with Carlyle Partners, and the acquisition by Finalsite (a Veritas portfolio company) of the Blackboard K-12 division of Anthology
• Numerous fund-level and portfolio company-level representations for KKR, Ares Capital, BTG Pactual, Crestview Partners, MidOcean Partners, Quad-C Management, Arlington Capital Partners, Trilantic Capital Partners, ATL Partners, Grain Management and FTV Capital

Spin-off, Split-off, Reverse Morris Trust (RMT) and Tracking Stock Transactions

• Biogen in connection with its spin-off of Bioverativ Inc.
• Citrix Systems Inc. in connection with the Reverse Morris Trust disposition of its GoTo business to LogMeIn
• Leidos in connection with the Reverse Morris Trust acquisition of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems and Global Services business
• EMC Corporation in connection with its acquisition by Dell for cash and tracking stock

Other Public and Private Company Transactions

• Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. on the $2.5 billion sale of its renewable energy business (excluding hydro) to LS Power
• Marriott International, Inc. in several transactions
• Essential Utilities in its pending $63 billion merger with American Water
• CACI International, Inc. in several transactions, including its pending $2.6 billion acquisition of ARKA Group and its $1.275 billion acquisition of Azure Summit Technology
• Lupa Systems in numerous representations
• Liberty Media and related (and formerly related) companies in several transactions, including GCI Liberty in its $8.7 billion acquisition by Liberty Broadband, Qurate Retail Inc. in its $2 billion dividend to public stockholders of a new class of cumulative redeemable preferred stock and cash, Liberty Media in its $1.5 billion reattribution of assets and liabilities among Formula One Group and Liberty SiriusXM Group, and Liberty Expedia Holdings, Inc. in its acquisition by Expedia Group, Inc.
• Mars Incorporated in several transactions, including in connection with the worldwide integration of Mars Wrigley Confectionery
• Two Sigma Investments LLC in connection with its participation in the formation of Hamilton Re Ltd. and the acquisition of SAC Re Ltd.

Tax Credit Financing and Energy Transactions

• Numerous representations of buyers and sellers of federal tax credits pursuant to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
• Numerous representations of tax-equity investors in solar and wind energy projects
• Sunnova Energy Corporation in several tax-equity funds and related credit facilities, as well as in connection with its acquisition of Lennar Corporation’s residential solar platform
• NRG Energy, Inc. in connection with a $900 million issuance of pre-capitalized trust securities, a $5.5 billion bridge financing for acquisition of Direct Energy, the first-ever U.S. issuance of sustainability-linked bonds, and numerous other financing transactions
• EDP Renewables North America LLC in connection with tax-equity financing of 200 MW Meadow Lake VI and 199 MW Prairie Queen wind projects

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn

Dennis Seifarth is a partner in the Munich office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions and Energy and Infrastructure Practice Groups.

Dennis advises strategic and financial investors on mergers and acquisitions with a particular focus on private equity transactions. His experience includes complex domestic and cross-border corporate, M&A and Private Equity matters, including energy transition and infrastructure, sponsor-led acquisitions and dispositions, carve-outs, joint ventures, portfolio acquisitions, minority, and growth equity investments. He regularly represents private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and management teams throughout all stages of the investment lifecycle, from structuring and negotiation through execution and exit across a broad range of industries.

Dennis is recommended by The Legal 500 Deutschland and The Legal 500 EMEA 2026 for corporate law. In the 2025 edition, clients recognized him as “[…] ambitious, energetic, motivated […]! Very intelligent and pays attention to detail, quick and competent answers.” IFLR1000 listed him as Rising Star 2024 and 2025 in the categories M&A and Private Equity in Germany.

Experience

Representative transactions* include advising:

• Astorg on the acquisition of hg medical from Nord Holding
• Triton on the acquisition of Arrowhead Industries
• Triton on the sale of Norres Group
• Advent International and Centerbridge on the public tender offer for Aareal Bank AG
• Triton on the sale of Meine Radiologie Holding to EQT Infrastructure
• Triton on its acquisition of a majority stake of Inwerk GmbH
• Gilead Sciences, Inc. on its acquisition of MYR GmbH (approx. €1.15 billion plus up to €300 million milestone payment, named Deal of the Month by JUVE, February 2021)
• CENTROTEC SE on the acquisition of all shares of PARI Group
• Heska Corporation on the acquisition of scil animal care GmbH, a veterinary point of care laboratory and imaging diagnostics leader, from Covetrus, Inc.
• Triton on its acquisition of Lamina Technologies SA
• Advent International on its $3.25 billion acquisition of Distributed Power Business from GE
• Schoeller on the partnering with Brookfield
• LGT on financing round in aviation start-up Lilium
• ProSiebenSat.1 on partnership with General Atlantic for NuCom
• Philipp Lahm Holding on investment in Schneekoppe
• ProSiebenSat.1 on acquisition of majority stake in Jochen Schweizer GmbH
• Qatar Solar Technologies on insolvency of SolarWorld and acquisition of SolarWorld’s assets 
• ProSiebenSat.1 on acquisition of majority stake in Virtual Minds
• PAI Partners and Goldman Sachs on sale of Xella
• General Atlantic on investment in FlixBus and merger of Mein Fernbus with FlixBus
• Advise on sale of mytheresa.com to Neiman Marcus Group
• Goldman Sachs on acquisition of Flint Group in partnership with Koch Industries
• RHJ International on the Acquisition of BHF-Bank AG from Deutsche Bank

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he worked in the Munich office of a renowned U.S. law firm.

He studied law at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, from which he also received his doctor’s degree in 2015. Dennis has been admitted as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) since 2013.

Dennis speaks fluent German and English.

*Includes experience prior to joining Gibson Dunn

Kai Gesing is a partner in the Munich office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition, Technology Transactions, Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Privacy and Cybersecurity, and White-Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Groups.

Kai has a wealth of experience in advising clients particularly from technology-driven industries, such as automotive, information technology, semiconductor, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical companies, on complex M&A, licensing and technology transactions and in disputes involving technology, antitrust, intellectual property, data privacy, data security, and the legal framework for modern technologies.

Kai particularly focuses on antitrust and competition law and advises clients in all aspects of European and German antitrust issues, including defense in cartel investigations, antitrust damage claims, antitrust compliance and merger control proceedings before the German Federal Cartel Office, the European Commission and other international competition authorities.

The Legal 500 Deutschland and The Legal 500 EMEA again recommend him for Antitrust and Commercial Litigation in 2026 and for Internal Investigations in 2024. The Legal 500 referred to his focus “in German and European antitrust law as well as technology transactions, data protection and cybersecurity” and highlighted his strength in the IT sector, among other areas. JUVE Handbuch 2022/2023 cites clients praising him “for his expertise in claiming antitrust damages”. WirtschaftsWoche recognized him as a Top Lawyer 2026 in Antitrust in Germany and as Top Lawyer 2024 in IT Law. As in previous years, Handelsblatt / The Best Lawyers™ in Germany have recognized Kai as one of the best lawyers 2025/2026 for Litigation and Competition / Antitrust Law. Lawdragon 500 2026 names him Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyer.

Kai has successfully represented and defended clients in various important national and international litigation and arbitration cases related to antitrust, intellectual property, technology, and other complex commercial law disputes.

In addition, Kai’s practice has a focus on white-collar defense and advice on antitrust compliance, technological compliance and data privacy compliance (including under the GDPR). He represented and advised clients in a number of high-profile white-collar crime investigations in Germany and various other jurisdictions in Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia concerning the prevention and detection of, and reaction to, various types of banned business practices such as cartels, cybersecurity incidents, fraud, corruption, and money laundering.

Kai studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and has been admitted as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) since 2005. He also obtained a degree in business administration (Dipl.-Kfm.), and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Business Law from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He speaks German and English.

Kai is a member of the German association of antitrust professionals (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht), the German intellectual property association (GRUR), the international association of privacy professionals (iapp) and the German association for data protection and data security (GDD) as well as the American Bar Association.

Brian Buroker is a trial lawyer who represents companies in high-stakes intellectual property disputes where the outcome matters to the business—not just the case. He has served as lead counsel in patent and trade secret trials and appeals across U.S. district courts, the International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the Federal Circuit. Brian is frequently called on to handle bet-the-company litigation, combining trial, PTAB, and appellate strategy to position cases for early wins, favorable settlements, or decisive verdicts. His recent work includes leading trial and appellate teams in matters resulting in invalidation of asserted patents, dismissal of multi-patent claims at the pleading stage, and successful defense verdicts in complex technology disputes. With a background in electrical and computer engineering, Brian represents clients across a wide range of industries, including software, electronics, telecommunications, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products. His technical fluency allows him to engage directly with engineers and experts and translate complex issues into persuasive arguments for judges and juries. Clients turn to Brian for his ability to integrate litigation strategy across forums—aligning district court litigation, PTAB proceedings, and appeals to maximize leverage and minimize risk. He has also led trial teams in IP arbitrations and advises on litigation strategy in parallel proceedings. Brian is consistently recognized as a leading IP litigator. He has been ranked by Chambers USA for over a decade, named an “IP Star” by Managing Intellectual Property, and recognized by IAM Patent 1000, Benchmark Litigation, and The Legal 500. Representative Litigation Matters* Lead appellate counsel for J.R. Simplot at the Federal Circuit against McCain Foods, resulting in affirmance of invalidity judgment in the District of Idaho (2026); representing J.R. Simplot in District of Idaho resulting in jury verdict in favor of Simplot on design patent infringement allegations by McCain Foods (2024). Lead appellate and IPR counsel for Western Digital/ SanDisk invalidating patent asserted by Viasat at the PTAB and on appeal at the Federal Circuit (2025).  Lead trial counsel for Indeed Inc. in the Western District of Texas defeating infringement claims by Flexiworld on patent ineligibility grounds; four patents were found ineligibility on a motion to dismiss, a first of its kind ruling by the judge finding all claims of four patents ineligible (2025). Lead IPR counsel for SmaXtec at the PTAB invalidating all challenged claims of three patents asserted by ST Reproductive Technologies (2025). Lead IPR counsel for SharkNinja at the PTAB invalidating all challenged claims of five patents assigned to Bissell. Lead counsel for several telecommunications companies in patent infringement actions in the District of Delaware and Eastern District of Texas related to WiFi, VoIP, and LTE technologies involving dozens of patents. Counsel for T-Mobile adverse to Intellectual Ventures in a 16 patent action in the District of Delaware (D. Del. 2012-2017) in which 15 of the 16 patents were dismissed. On appeal, Intellectual Ventures sought to overturn the dismissal as to seven of the patents, and that appeal was denied. Lead trial and appellate counsel for patent holder in Energy Transportation Group, Inc. v. Sonic Innovations, Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 05-422 (D. Del.) and (Fed. Cir.), involving hearing aid patents. The jury returned a verdict for client ETG, finding willful patent infringement and awarding damages of $31 million against two defendants. Argued appeal before the Federal Circuit, which affirmed the verdict and pre and post-judgment interest, bringing the total award to around $44 million. Counsel for patent holder Ingevity in multiple patent infringement actions involving emissions control systems in the United States District Court and at the United States International Trade Commission. Counsel for a major pharmaceutical company in an International Trade Commission action against potential competitors alleging misappropriation of trade secrets. Trial counsel for smartphone manufacturers in multiple matters, resulting in favorable outcomes in the Eastern District of Texas and the Northern District of California. Appellate counsel for CLS Bank in CLS Bank Int’l v. Alice Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2013) (en banc) and (S. Ct. 2014). Convinced the Federal Circuit to hear appeal related to patent eligibility of financial services software patent, resulting in a reversal of the panel decision and an affirmance of the district court victory for client CLS Bank.  Counsel at the Supreme Court in decision in victory for CLS Bank. Lead counsel for Plaid Technologies, Inc. defending a seven-patent lawsuit brought by competitor Yodlee, Inc. in the District of Delaware (2014-2017). After initial determinations of invalidity and PTAB institutions, the case settled in 2017. Trial and appellate counsel for The New York Times in Helferich Patent Licensing, LLC v. The New York Times (N.D. Ill. 2013 and Fed. Cir. 2015). Lead PTAB counsel in numerous matters, resulting in favorable outcomes for both patent owners and patent challengers. Lead counsel in arbitrations involving IP licensing agreements. Lead counsel for Capital One Services, LLC in numerous matters, including Pi-Net International (D.Del.) (pending); N5 Technologies (E.D. Va.) (pending); LML Patent Corp. v. Capital One, et al. (E.D. Tex.) (resolved) and others. Argued over a dozen Federal Circuit appeals with a high success rate.  * Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Brian received his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University in 1996, where he served as an editor of The Georgetown Law Journal. He graduated cum laude from North Carolina State University in 1992 with Bachelor of Science degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, where he was also a Caldwell Scholar. Brian served as a law clerk to the Honorable William C. Bryson on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Brian is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the State of Virginia, and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal and Fourth Circuits, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Eastern District of Texas, the Western District of Texas, the District of Maryland, the District for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. He is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Speaking Engagements Speaker, “Panel Discussion: Alice Corp Pty. v. CLS Bank” at the Florida Bar 6th Annual Intellectual Property Law Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Feb. 2015) Speaker, “Alice Arrived and Look What Happened: A review of the Supreme Court’s June 2014 decision and its impact on patents” at the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association Patent Litigation Seminar in Iselin, NJ (March 2015)

Hodong Chyung is a litigation associate in the Palo Alto office of Gibson Dunn.

Hodong earned his J.D. with Honors from Columbia Law School. While in law school, he served as a staff editor on the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review and as a teaching assistant for Property and for Evidence. Hodong also placed first and won best brief in his region at the American Intellectual Property Law Association Moot Court Competition.

Prior to law school, Hodong worked in forensic consulting and data privacy investigations. He holds a Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

He is admitted to practice in the State of California and before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.

Stephanie Li is an associate in the Singapore office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Projects & Infrastructure, Power and Renewables, and Finance Practice Groups. Stephanie’s practice focuses on the financing, acquisition, and development of energy and infrastructure projects, as well as asset and general financing. Her experience spans Asia, the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Africa, and Latin America.

Stephanie advises investors, sponsors, project companies, export credit agencies, and commercial lenders on the financing, acquisition, and development of a wide range of energy, infrastructure, transport, and other projects. She also advises companies on bridge loans, represents underwriters and issuers in capital markets transactions, and counsels clients on strategic alliances, joint ventures, restructurings, data protection, and other corporate matters. She has advised banks and corporates across multiple jurisdictions, including Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Stephanie practiced at leading international law firms in Singapore.

Stephanie received her Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School in 2016, and her Bachelor of Laws from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2013. She is admitted to practice in New York and is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Representative Experience*

• Advised Cathay Life, one of Taiwan’s largest life insurance companies, and Cathay Power, the renewable energy investment arm of Cathay Financial Holdings Group, on their acquisition of a 50% interest in Ørsted A/S’s 583 MW Greater Changhua 4 offshore wind project in Taiwan, including related project financing arrangements. This transaction marked Cathay Life’s first equity investment in the offshore wind sector, and the largest energy sector investment by a Taiwanese financial institution to date. The project received multiple industry accolades, including PFI Power Deal of the Year 2024, the Asset Triple A Sustainable Infrastructure Award 2025, and Finance Deal of the Year at the ALM Asia Legal Awards 2025.
• Advised Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), and a syndicate of international lenders on post-closing matters relating to the financing of the 1.32 GW Van Phong 1 coal-fired power project in Vietnam.
• Advised subsidiaries of one of the world’s largest renewable energy companies on a hybrid green loan financing totaling NTD 3.868 billion (approximately USD 119 million) to support the development, construction, and operation of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Taiwan. The hybrid facility was structured to address the unique challenges of financing merchant market projects.
• Advised a large syndicate of international and Taiwanese commercial banks, life insurance companies, and export credit agencies on the project financing of the Changfang and Xidao offshore wind projects in Taiwan, developed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, Taiwan Life Insurance Co., Ltd., and TransGlobe Life Insurance Inc.
• Advised a collaborative platform sponsored by Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, and CHC, a Singapore-headquartered battery energy storage system (BESS) developer, on its participation in Japan’s inaugural long-term decarbonization auction.
• Advised a syndicate of international lenders on a USD term loan facility for the KOBC-backed financing of eight containerships. The transaction was named The Project Finance Deal of the Year – East in 2021 by Marine Money.

* Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Waleed Rasrommani is a partner in the firm’s Riyadh office, and a member of the global Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Having led on some of the largest and most complex M&A transactions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, he advises clients across a broad range of transactional matters, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors, and brings extensive experience in private capital and strategic investment transactions.

Waleed regularly works with leading Saudi institutions, as well as multinational companies with operations, investments, or joint ventures in Saudi Arabia, guiding them through high‑value, cross‑border transactions and navigating the Kingdom’s evolving legal and regulatory landscape.

In 2016, Waleed completed a secondment with Hutchison 3G (Three UK) in London, where he supported the in‑house legal team on a wide range of commercial contracts and the proposed acquisition of O2, gaining valuable insight into the commercial and strategic considerations of a major international telecommunications business. Before qualifying as a lawyer, Waleed built a diverse professional background, having worked as a programmer in Silicon Valley, as well as a banker and journalist in the Middle East.

Waleed is admitted to practice in England and Wales. 

Representative Experience*

• Vision Invest on its investment in ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP), a pan-African developer and operator of integrated industrial zones. The investment forms part of a landmark US$700m capital raise by ARISE IIP, introducing Vision Invest into its shareholder base. This transaction marks one of the largest private infrastructure capital raises in Africa to date, with both primary and secondary components.
   
• Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) on:
  • the sale of 20.62% of Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. to Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden).
  • the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Saudi Iron & Steel Company (Hadeed), to the Public Investment Fund for SAR12.5bn (US$3.3bn).
     
• stc on the acquisition and hedging of a 9.9%, €2.2bn, stake in Spanish telecom provider Telefonica, making stc the Spanish telecom giant’s top shareholder at the time.
   
• center3, a wholly-owned subsidiary of stc, on the acquisition of CMC Networks, a global service provider offering network solutions across the Middle East and Africa, from Carlyle.
   
• stc and ESM Holdings Limited on the SAR450m (US$120m) sale of 100% shares in Contact Center Company, a premier provider of customer experience solutions to enterprises in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to Arabian Internet and Communications Company (Solutions).
   
• Naver Corporation on a framework agreement with the Saudi National Housing Company to develop a “digital twin platform”, a tool that creates a virtual replica of a real-world environment covering five Saudi cities (including Riyadh and Mecca).
   
• SABIC Agri-Nutrients Company on:
  • the acquisition of the SAR4.76bn (US$1.27bn) agricultural nutrients businesses of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) in exchange for shares listed on the Saudi Exchange (Tadawul).
  • the US$320m acquisition of a 49% stake in ETG Inputs Holdco Limited, which distributes agri-nutrients in Africa, from ETC Group.
     
• DigitalBridge on its partnership with the Public Investment Fund to set up data centers across Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region.
   
• Hassana Investment Company on:
  • its acquisition of a 40% equity stake in Berain Company, one of the leading bottled water brands in Saudi Arabia.
  • its acquisition of a minority interest in Rabigh Arabian Water & Electricity Company from ACWA Power.
  • its US$2.4bn strategic investment in DP World’s flagship UAE assets (Jebel Ali Free Port, Jebel Ali Free Zone and the National Industries Park) valued at approximately US$23bn.
     
• Diriyah Gate Development Company on the privatization and transfer of the Diriyah Sports Club from the Ministry of Sport.
   
• NEOM on:
  • the partnerships with mirror façade/glass suppliers for THE LINE.
  • a SAR1.3bn (US$347m) joint venture with Samsung C&T for the world’s largest deployment of rebar construction automation technology.
  • a US$200m joint venture with OneWeb to bring high-speed satellite connectivity to NEOM, Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East and neighboring East African countries.
     
• NEOM Investment Fund on a US$100m investment in Pony.ai and a related joint venture with Pony.ai to develop, manufacture and deliver autonomous vehicles, an autonomous driving service and smart vehicle infrastructure in the Middle East.
   
• Zain Saudi Arabia on the carve-out and sale of a majority state in tower infrastructure to the Public Investment Fund and others.
   
• Al Rajhi Holding and other shareholders on the sale of shares in ACWA Power to the Public Investment Fund and others, increasing the fund’s shareholding from 33.35% to 50%.
   
• Saudi Electricity Company on:
  • the carve-out and transfer of its power procurement business to the Saudi Government.
  • the acquisition of a 25% stake in EVIQ, a joint venture with the Public Investment Fund to build electric vehicle infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.
     
• SLB on:
  • the carve-out and partial sale of its land rigs business in Oman and Kuwait to ADNOC Drilling.
  • the initial public offering of Arabian Drilling Company on the Saudi Exchange (Tadawul).
     
• Linde on the establishment of an industrial gases joint venture in Saudi Arabia with Sipchem.
   
• Advanced Petrochemical on a joint venture with SK Gas to construct and operate a US$1.8bn propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene plants in Jubail.
   
• Ahli United Bank B.S.C. on the acquisition of AUB by Kuwait Finance House. This the largest cross-border public takeover over in the GCC and the first ever cross-border public takeover involving a share issuance in the GCC (M&A Deal of the Year, IFLR Middle East Awards 2023, M&A Deal of the Year and Country Deal of the Year – Kuwait, IFN Deal of the Year Awards 2022).
   
• LetterOne on the €5.1bn acquisition of DEA, comprising the upstream oil and gas business of RWE globally including Algeria, Egypt and Libya.
   
• CK Hutchison on the proposed £10.5bn acquisition of O2 UK and co-investment arrangements for the combined Three UK/O2 business.

* Includes representations prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Laura Wang is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. 

Laura earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where she served as a Certified Law Student for the Post-Conviction Justice Project clinic, the Executive Submissions Editor of the Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice, and a teaching assistant for Legal Writing for L.L.M. students.

Prior to law school, she received Bachelors of Arts in English and in Chinese from the University of Iowa. She was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship grant in 2016 and 2017 to teach English in Taiwan.

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

Kevin Simmons is a litigation associate in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He has significant experience in every phase of a dispute, from initial investigation to trial to defense on appeal, in federal and state courts across the country. Kevin’s experience includes representing the world’s largest technology, oil and gas, and finance companies, among others.

Representative Matters Include: *

• Represented five hospitals in a successful week-long trial against a rating agency for its unfair and deceptive business practices.
• Represented a leading technology company in a lawsuit in which the State of Texas demanded $300 billion for privacy violations.
• Represented a leading debit card company in a lawsuit brought by another leading debit card company alleging Sherman Act violations.
• Represented a leading cellphone producer in its defense against product liability claims.
• Represented a leading investment bank in investigating potential violations of non-compete agreements.
• Represented an oil and gas producer at trial and in arbitration against an oil major in a contract dispute over a subsea pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Represented an oil and gas producer at trial and on appeal to the Fifth Circuit in a complex dispute involving the intersection of federal bankruptcy law, a Louisiana statute, and Texas and Louisiana contract law.
• Represented a major investment bank in its $200 million contract dispute against foreign banks regarding currency exchange rates.
• Represented multiple debtors in adversary proceedings, evidentiary hearings, and other litigation during their Chapter 11 bankruptcies, concerning contractual, statutory, regulatory, and constitutional claims.
• First-chaired a bench trial on behalf of a woman from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in her application for asylum after she was tortured for her political activity.
• Represented a Jewish all-girls school at the trial court and on appeal to the Second Circuit against a town for its abuse of its zoning laws against the school.

*Includes representations prior to Kevin’s association with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Before joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Kevin clerked for the Honorable Eva Guzman of the Supreme Court of Texas. 

He graduated from Duke Law School, where he served as managing editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. He earned his Masters of Bioethics and Science Policy from Duke Graduate School. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Dallas with a double major in Philosophy and Classics. 

 Kevin is admitted to practice in the State of Texas.

Connor Sullivan is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He represents technology and media companies in high-stakes litigation in state and federal court, including multiple jury trials involving billions of dollars in potential damages. His experience includes founders’ disputes, breach of contract litigation, tort claims, and copyright and trademark issues, involving products ranging from social media platforms to artificial intelligence and fintech applications.

Connor is Co-Chair of the firm’s First Amendment and Free Expression practice group and has significant experience in litigation involving the First Amendment, especially defamation defense, for technology companies, media and entertainment clients, and news media organizations. He has been involved in some of the firm’s major recent First Amendment victories, including winning a complete victory at summary judgment in defeating the first-ever defamation claim arising from generative artificial intelligence output. Before joining the firm, Connor served as a member of the trial team in one of the largest defamation suits ever tried. He is a co-author of “Defamation and Reputation Management in the United States” for the global research platform Lexology and co-hosts the firm’s regular webinar on developments in First Amendment jurisprudence. Connor has also worked on behalf of pro bono clients in connection with immigration and First Amendment rights.

Connor was a member of the team honored with the Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyers North America 2025 award for Disputes and Litigation. For his role in securing a precedent-setting victory based on “hallucinated” AI output, The American Lawyer recognized Connor in its “Litigators of the Week” feature. He has been repeatedly recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America in Entertainment and Sports Law and Appellate Practice, and named to Super Lawyers New York Metro “Rising Stars” for litigation since 2020. 

Significant representations include:*

• Secured a complete defense victory at summary judgment against the first-ever defamation claim arising from generative artificial intelligence output.
• Successfully argued the motion to dismiss a $100 million defamation lawsuit filed by Sean “Diddy” Combs against NBCUniversal and Peacock arising from the streaming documentary “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.”
• Represented the founders, early executives, and employees of the online dating application Tinder in a four-year multibillion-dollar litigation, which settled at the conclusion of a month-long jury trial with the defendants paying Gibson Dunn’s clients $441 million.
• Represented an AI developer in successfully enforcing a non-competition and non-solicitation agreement against a former employee.
• Represented a major grocery retailer and wholesaler in a $125 million breach of contract lawsuit arising from a failed merger.
• Defending Warner Bros. Discovery and Sony Pictures Entertainment against a defamation claim brought by a prominent television producer arising from a streaming documentary.
• Defended multiple consumer products manufacturers against trademark infringement litigation.
• Defending a global entertainment company against a breach of contract claim arising from production of an Emmy-winning streaming drama.
• Representing the MSNBC host Joy Reid in defending against a defamation claim.
• Defended a national news network against multibillion-dollar defamation and product disparagement claims seeking billions of dollars in damages, including a month-long jury trial.
• Successfully represented White House in First Amendment and Due Process Clause challenges to obtain the return of their press credentials after they were suspended by the White House Press Office.
• Defended a global news agency against defamation claims involving international financial fraud.
• Represented Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, in successfully defeating an attempt by the Trump family to prevent the publication of her bestselling family memoir Too Much and Never Enough.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Connor was an associate at a prominent firm in Washington, D.C., where he focused on defending news organizations in defamation actions. He was also involved in significant copyright, product liability, and breach of contract actions.

He clerked for the Honorable Thomas B. Griffith of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the Honorable Katherine Polk Failla of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. In the summer after law school, he served as what is now called a Phillips Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the Department of Justice.

Connor graduated from Yale Law School in 2013, where he was a director of the law school’s Supreme Court clinic, an editor of the Yale Law Journal, the Executive Editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation, and a winner of the Morris Tyler Moot Court competition. He published an academic comment entitled A First Amendment Approach to Generic Drug Manufacturer Tort Liability, 123 Yale L.J. 495 (2013). Prior to law school, Connor was a strategy and operations consultant for McKinsey & Company. He graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia in 2008, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Connor is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia, and before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, and District of Columbia Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of Columbia.

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

Ibrahim Soumrany is a partner in the Dubai and Riyadh offices of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher and is a member of the firm’s Capital Markets practice group.

Ibrahim’s capital markets experience includes advising public and private issuers and investment banks on a broad range of capital markets transactions including equity offerings (IPOs and secondary offerings) and debt offerings (conventional and Islamic). Ibrahim has extensive experience advising on transactions across a number of jurisdictions in the Middle East, the US and Europe. Ibrahim also regularly advises on public M&As as well as companies and their boards on listing requirements, securities and corporate governance matters and reporting obligations.

Ibrahim previously worked in the New York, London and Riyadh offices of leading US law firms, where he advised international financial institutions and companies on capital markets, M&A and leveraged finance transactions, including IPOs, high yield debt offerings, Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings and acquisition financings.

Ibrahim is ranked by Chambers Global as an Up & Coming Individual and Foreign Expert for Capital Markets: Equity in UAE. He is also ranked in the Expertise Based Abroad category for Capital Markets in Saudi Arabia.

Ibrahim was a J. William Fulbright Scholar in Washington, DC for the year 2010-2011.

Representative Experience*

• Investment Corporation of Dubai and ALEC, a leading diversified engineering and construction group operating in the UAE and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in connection with the initial public offering (IPO) and listing of ALEC on the Dubai Financial Market — the UAE’s largest construction sector IPO ever by both valuation and size.
• Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Saudi Fransi Capital as joint global coordinators, underwriters and bookrunners and Citi Saudi Arabia, ANB Capital, Al Rajhi Capital and ENB KSA as joint bookrunners, in connection with the US$1.1 billion IPO of Flynas and listing of its shares on the Saudi Stock Exchange.
• AlRajhi Capital as lead manager, financial advisor and underwriter in relation to the IPO of United Carton Industries Co., the leading and largest carton manufacturer in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, on the Main Market of the Saudi Stock Exchange.
• Delivery Hero and talabat in connection with the $2 billion initial public offering (IPO) and listing of talabat on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM), marking the largest technology sector IPO globally and the largest IPO in the GCC in 2024.
• ADNOC on an accelerated book build offering of shares in ADNOC Drilling.
• Helmerich & Payne on an accelerated book build offering of shares in ADNOC Drilling.
• J.P. Morgan Saudi Arabia, Goldman Sachs Saudi Arabia, SNB Capital and EFG Hermes Saudi Arabia as joint global coordinators, financial advisors and underwriters, and HSBC Saudi Arabia, SFC Capital, GIB Capital and AlRajhi Capital as bookrunners and underwriters, on the US$ 1.2 Billion IPO of ADES Holding Company, a leading oil and gas drilling services provider in the MENA region, and the listing of its share on the Main Market of the Saudi Stock Exchange.
• FIVE Holdings (BVI) Limited, a vertically integrated hospitality group operating luxury hotels primarily in Dubai on its debut Reg S / Rule 144A bond offering of US$350 million 9.375% Senior Secured Guaranteed Green Notes.
• Saudi Fransi Capital and J.P. Morgan Saudi Arabia Company as joint financial advisors, joint bookrunners and joint underwriters, Saudi Fransi Capital as lead manager and AlRajhi Capital Company as joint bookrunner and joint underwriter on IPO of Jamjoom Pharmaceuticals Factory Company.
• Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, EFG-Hermes and Emirates NBD Capital as joint global coordinators on the IPO of Al Ansari Financial Services PJSC (Al Ansari), on the DFM.
• Saudi Aramco on the US$1.3 billion IPO of its subsidiary, Saudi Aramco Base Oil Company (Luberef) on the Main Market of the Saudi Stock Exchange.
• Riyadh Cables Group on its US$378 million IPO on the Main Market of the Saudi Stock Exchange.
• Taaleem Holding on its US$200 million IPO on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM).
• Perfect Presentation on its U$200 million IPO on the Main Market of the Saudi Stock Exchange.
• Empower on its US$700 million IPO on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM).
• Borealis as selling shareholder in connection with the US$2 billion IPO of Borouge on the Abu Dhabi Exchange (ADX), a JV between Borealis and ADNOC.
• DEWA on its US$6.1 billion IPO on the DFM, the largest ever IPO in the UAE.
• HSBC Saudi Arabia as Lead Manager, Financial Advisor, Bookrunner and Underwriter on the US$320 million IPO of Alamar Foods Company (the master franchisor of Dominos and Dunkin Donuts in MENA) on the Main Market of the Saudi Stock Exchange.
• HSBC Saudi Arabia, SNB Capital Company as Financial Advisors and Co-underwriters, in relation to the US$1.36 billion IPO of AlNahdi Medical Company on the Main Market of the Saudi Stock Exchange.
• Mubadala in relation to its US$281 million global Reg S secondary offering of its shares held in Cosmo Energy Holdings, one of the largest, fully integrated oil refining and marketing companies in Japan.
• stc on a sell-down by the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of six percent of stc’s share capital worth US$ 3.2 billion, through a Reg S/144A FMO. The Underwriters and Bookrunners in relation to the US$400 million IPO of Arabian Contracting Services Company (Al Arabia) on the Main Market of the Saudi Stock Exchange.
• Nayifat Finance Company (Nayifat) on its US$317 million global Reg S IPO on the Main Market of the Saudi Stock Exchange.
• HSBC Saudi Arabia, Morgan Stanley Saudi Arabia and SNB Capital Company as Financial Advisors and Co-Underwriters in relation to the US$ 966.4 million IPO of Solutions by stc on the Main Market of the Saudi Stock Exchange.
• Fawaz Alhokair Group’s Arabian Centres Company (ACC), the owner, developer and operator of shopping centres, on its follow-on Reg S/Rule 144A US$225 million Sukuk tap issuance.
• Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) on the establishment of its Trust Certificate Issuance Programme and inaugural Reg S/Rule 144A US$6 billion triple tranche Sukuk issuance thereunder. The offering, which has attracted more than US$60 billion in orders represented the largest Sukuk offering undertaken by a corporate.
• Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) on the update to its Rule 144A/Regulation S Global Medium Term Note Programme and the issuance of US$8 billion of notes thereunder.
• Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, GIB Capital and NCB Capital Company as bookrunners and underwriters, in relation to the US$585 million global Reg S IPO of Bindawood Holding Company on the Saudi Stock Exchange.
• Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) on its US$29.4 billion IPO — the world’s largest IPO to date.
• Deutsche Bank as depositary on numerous ADR issuances in connection with US offerings.
• The underwriters led by Barclays, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs on the £306 million (approximately US$400 million) IPO of Finablr PLC on the London Stock Exchange.
• Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) on its US$69.1 billion acquisition of a 70% stake in Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) from the Public Investment Fund (PIF). The transaction was named “M&A Deal of the Year (Over US$50 billion)” by the M&A Advisor (2020).
• RBC Capital Markets, Credit Suisse, Barclays, BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in connection with a US$1.15 billion senior unsecured bridge facility and related US$1.15 billion senior notes offering by Olympus Merger Sub, Inc. used to finance the acquisition of West Corporation by Apollo and related notes tender offer.
• Jefferies in connection with a US$375 million senior secured senior notes offering by Canyon Resource Holdings, LLC and Canyon Finance Corp. LLC.
• A leading US investment bank in connection with a US$750 million secured royalty backed structured notes offering by a large US retail company.
• American Airlines in its US$500 million senior notes Offering.
• Several banks in connection with senior unsecured bridge facilities and related senior notes offerings in relation to several acquisition financings.
• BCP Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board on the IPO of Altice on the NYSE.
• The Capital Market Authority (CMA) in Saudi Arabia in relation to the redrafting of the public Merger & Acquisition Regulations and the drafting of a number of implementing regulations relating to the New Companies Law.
• Middle East Healthcare Company in relation to its US$480 million IPO on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul).
• Al-Yamamah Steel Industries Company in relation to its US$146 million IPO on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul).
• The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) on its US$1.5 billion capital increase by way of rights issue.
• The National Commercial Bank (NCB) on its US$6 billion initial public offering (IPO) and listing on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul)— the largest equity offering in Saudi Arabia, and the second largest IPO globally in 2014.

  * Includes representations prior to joining Gibson Dunn.