Alana Bevan is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and Labor & Employment Practice Group.

Alana has represented clients in a wide range of employment litigation and investigation matters, including those involving allegations of discrimination, retaliation, and wage-and-hour violations.  She has particular experience in defending collective and class actions alleging misclassification under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”).  For example, Alana was recently part of a trial team that secured a complete verdict for a trucking company facing FLSA minimum wage claims from over 6,000 trainee drivers.

Prior to joining the firm, Alana served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harris L Hartz, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2022-2023), and the Honorable Anita B. Brody, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2021-2022).

She graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a Levy Scholar and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law & Public Affairs. She also externed at the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Federal Community Defender’s Capital Habeas Unit and served as a Littleton Writing Fellow for the Legal Practice Skills Program.

Alana also holds a PhD in History from the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the University of Alberta.

Romni Ritherdon is an associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Finance Practice Group.

Romni has a broad practice advising financial institutions, investment funds, private equity sponsors and corporates on a range of finance transactions, including leveraged finance, acquisition finance and private credit.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Romni worked in the Sydney office of another international law firm.

Imogen Ormerod is an associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions, Projects, and Energy and Infrastructure Practice Groups.

Imogen has a broad practice advising both public and private sector clients on a variety of energy and infrastructure project development and financing transactions, including a number of first-of-a-kind project financings. Her experience includes a particular focus on the regulatory aspects of renewables and energy transition.

Imogen has extensive experience working with the UK government and EU institutions. Prior to retraining as a lawyer, Imogen worked in the civil service for over 12 years in a range of operational and policy roles, including in the UK Space Agency, and her practice now includes advising clients in the space sector on a range of issues. 

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Imogen worked in the London office of another major international law firm. Imogen received her undergraduate History degree from the London School of Economics, GDL from the University of the West of England, and LPC MSc from the University of Law. Imogen is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Till is a partner in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Private Equity Practice Group. He advises clients on cross-border acquisitions and divestitures, growth capital investments, buy-outs, shareholder arrangements, minority investments, and management equity arrangements.

Till is recognised by The Legal 500 UK 2024 for Private Equity: Transactions – High-Value Deals (£250m+). He is also recognised by the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom as a leading lawyer for Private Equity Law.

His recent experience includes advising:

  • KKR on a number of investments and divestitures, including
    • KKR’s tech investments in OutSystems, +Simple, Qonto, Wolt, iValua, Contentsquare, Ornikar, Privy, Musinsa and SmartHR
    • KKR’s healthcare investments in Argenta, Nordic Bioscience and Alliance Pharma
    • KKR’s infrastructure investment in STT GDC
  • Morgan Stanley on a number of climate investments, including Morgan Stanley’s investments in Huel, instagrid, XOcean, Corvus, Vyntelligence and InsightM
  • Goldman Sachs on its investment in tech platform LumApps, Navina and Neural Concept
  • GIC on its investment in software provider Septeo
  • Macquarie Capital on its investment in case management software Aryza
  • H.I.G. on its strategic investment in IT solutions company TIMETOACT

Till received an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School in 2008 and a Master in Business Law (magna cum laude (valedictorian)) from the University of Paris II Assas in 2007. He is admitted to practice in New York and speaks fluent French.

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

Steven R. Shoemate is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. Steven previously served as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and as a Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Private Equity Practice Group. 

Steven is a corporate transactional lawyer whose practice includes extensive private equity and public and private mergers and acquisitions representations, growth equity investments, public and private securities offerings, corporate governance, and general corporate counseling. He is ranked among the top private equity and mergers and acquisitions lawyers by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Legal 500 and The Best Lawyers in America®. He was also named as one of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America. In Chambers USA, Steven is noted as an “expert in corporate, M&A and securities matters” who is “a very savvy lawyer and highly commercial – having him on your side is incredibly productive”; he has the “rare ability to present a balanced perspective and find a way to negotiate a fair outcome”; his approach is “practical, thoughtful and creative when it comes to problem solving”; and he “gives a unique view on critical issues,” “excels at balancing competing interests in the most complicated deals,” is “able to marshal the experts within his firm” and is “an exceptionally good negotiator and he has a good understanding of the business side of things.”

Steven’s private equity investor representations include L Catterton, TPG, Trilantic Capital Partners, Oaktree Capital Management, Morgan Stanley, Verlinvest, Eurazeo, and Harkness Capital, among others. Transactions for private equity clients include leveraged acquisitions, going-private transactions, club deals, and recapitalizations.

Steven’s corporate clients include General Electric, Marsh & McLennan, Coeur Mining, Monro, Inc, Summit Materials, and Noodles & Company. Transactions for corporate clients include public mergers, tender offers, exchange offers, joint ventures, and a variety of cross-border transactions.

Steven received his Juris Doctor with high honors in 1988 from Duke University, where he was a member of the Duke Law Journal and the Duke chapter of the Order of the Coif. Steven received his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting, graduating cum laude from Lehigh University in 1985.

Steven is a member of the New York Bar.

Representative Transactions

  • L Catterton in connection with:
    • its sale of StriVectin, an independent prestige skincare company, to Crown Laboratories.
    • Its “PIPE” investment in NCL Corporation Ltd., a subsidiary of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.
    • its $150 million strategic minority investment in Function of Beauty, a leading creator of customizable hair, skin and body care products.
    • its acquisition of Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group in a going-private transaction.
    • its acquisition of Uncle Julio’s, a chain of casual Mexican restaurants.
    • its sale of Ferrara Candy Company to The Ferrero Group, a global chocolate confectionary company.
    • its sale of Baccarat, a designer and manufacturer of luxury crystal products.
    • its sale of ClearChoice, a national network of providers delivering same-day dental implant services, to Sun Capital Partners.
    • its acquisition of MedCenterDisplay, a provider of digital signage, mobile apps and digital marketing solutions for hospitals, by portfolio company PatientPoint LLC.
    • the sale of its remaining stake in portfolio company Nature’s Variety, a provider of premium natural pet foods, to Agrolimen, a manufacturer of consumer goods in the food and pet food industries.
    • its acquisition of John Hardy, a luxury designer jewelry brand.
  • TPG Growth Partners in connection with:
    • its acquisition of Q-Centrix, a provider of outsourced data management solutions for hospital and healthcare providers, from Sterling Partners, an investment management firm.
    • its acquisition of Dreambox Learning, an online software provider focused on mathematics education at the elementary and middle school levels, by TPG Growth Partner’s RISE Fund, and its subsequent sale to Evergreen Coast Capital Corp.
  • Oak Hill Capital Partners in connection with its $750 million sale of portfolio company Jacobson Companies, a third-party logistics firm, to Norbert Dentressangle, an air, sea, and land transportation and logistics company.
  • Trilantic Capital Partners in connection with:
    • its acquisition of Sunbelt Transformer, a provider of power solutions, equipment and services to commercial industrial and utility end markets, from Solomon Corporation.
    • its $475 million sale of United Subcontractors Inc. to TopBuild, an installer and distributor of insulation products to the construction industry.
    • its equity investment in United Subcontractors, Inc.
    • its acquisition of a minority interest in Highgate Hotels.
  • Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. in connection with:
    • its acquisition of Huron’s life sciences strategy consulting practice, by Oliver Wyman, a business unit of Marsh & McLennan.
    • its sale of Marsh ClearSight, a provider of risk, safety and claims software and services and a business unit of Marsh & McLennan, to Riskonnect, a developer of integrated risk management solutions.
    • its acquisition of Wortham Insurance, an independent insurance brokerage firm.
    • its acquisition of Dovetail Insurance, a developer of a cloud-based technology platform enabling insurance solutions.
    • its acquisition of SeaFire Insurance Services, an underwriter of property/casualty insurance for the auto dealership and auto repair market.
    • its acquisition of International Catastrophe Insurance Managers (ICAT), a managing general agent which provides property catastrophe insurance to businesses and homeowners.
    • its acquisition of Torrent Technologies, a service provider to Write Your Own (WYO) insurers participating in the National Flood Insurance Program.
  • Eurazeo North America Inc. in connection with:
    • its acquisition of Waterloo Sparkling Water Corporation, a manufacturer of flavored sparkling water products.
    • its investment in Q Mixers, a premium carbonated mixer brand.
    • its growth equity investment in Bandier Holdings, a women’s luxury activewear retailer.
  • Morgan Stanley’s Tactical Value Fund in connection with its investment in NN Inc., a diversified industrial company.
  • U.S. Concrete, Inc., a leading supplier of aggregates and ready-mixed concrete, in connection with its $1.29 billion merger with Vulcan Materials Company, a leading producer of construction aggregates.
    • its acquisition of Day Concrete Block Company, a manufacturer of cement block products, and Hodges Materials, a ready-mix concrete company.
    • its acquisition of Price Construction & Laredo Paving, an aggregates, asphalt and construction services company in the West Texas region.
    • its acquisition of Mertens Construction Company, a pure-play aggregates and ready-mix concrete company.
    • its acquisition of Metro Ready Mix, an aggregates and ready-mix concrete company.
    • its acquisition of Great Southern Ready Mix, Great Southern Stabilized and Southern Cement Slurry.
    • its acquisition of Glasscock Company and Glasscock Logistics.
    • its acquisition of Columbia Silica Sand and Columbia Aggregates.
    • its acquisition of Ready Mix Concrete of Somerset, a cement and concrete manufacturer.
    • its acquisition of Sandidge Concrete, a ready-mix concrete business.
  • Heineken N.V. in connection with:
    • its acquisition of The Lagunitas Brewing Company, a California-based craft brewer.
    • its sale of its packaging business, Empaque, to Crown Holdings, a manufacturer of consumer packaging for food and beverage products.
  • General Electric Capital Corporation in connection with:
    • its sale of an approximately $1 billion portfolio of energy infrastructure assets to funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management.
    • its $1.1 billion sale of GE’s equipment lending and leasing business in Mexico to Linzor Capital Partners.
    • its $16 billion sale of GE Capital Bank’s U.S. online deposit platform to Goldman Sachs Bank USA.
    • its $7.5 billion acquisition of the U.S. retail deposit business of MetLife by GE Capital’s wholly-owned bank affiliate, GE Capital Financial.
  • Coeur Mining, Inc. in connection with:
    • its acquisition of the Lincoln Hill Project, Wilco Project, Gold Ridge Property and other claims from Alio Gold, a gold mining company.
    • its acquisition of Northern Empire Resources, a gold exploration and development company.
    • the sale of Empresa Minera Manquiri, the owner and operator of the San Bartolome Mine and processing facility in Bolivia, to Argentum Investments.
    • its acquisition of the Wharf Mine in South Dakota, from Goldcorp.
    • its acquisition of Paramount Gold and Silver Corporation.
    • its acquisition of Orko Silver, a gold and silver mining company.
  • Altour International, Inc., a travel management company, in a sale to Travel Leaders.
  • Verlinvest S.A. in connection with its sale of Sir Kensington’s, a food and condiment manufacturer, to Unilever North America.
  • PatientPoint LLC in connection with its merger with Outcome Health.
  • Alert 360 in connection with its merger with My Alarm Center.

Yehuda (Jay) Zwick is an associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He currently practices in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Jay earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 2023, where he was the Co-President of the Harvard Association for Real Estate and Law. He received his First Talmudic Law Degree in 2018 from Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Jay was an associate in the Real Estate Department of a global law firm.

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

Armando Albarrán is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets practice groups.

Armando’s practice specialises in public and private M&A, private equity transactions, securities offerings, restructurings and corporate governance issues.

Armando has been involved in many landmark transactions with a Spanish element. His regular clients include corporates, investment banks, financial institutions, private equity firms and financial investors. Armando advises them on a wide range of cross-border and domestic corporate finance transactions across energy and infrastructure, real estate and telecommunications industries.

Armando is recognized by Chambers & Partners Europe and Global 2025 guides as Band 1 lawyer in Capital Markets: Corporate M&A: High-end Capability and Private Equity in Spain.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Armando was a partner at a prominent international law firm based in their Madrid office.

Armando received his Degree in Law and Economics and Business Administration from ICADE. He is admitted to practice law in Spain.

Armando speaks Spanish and English.

Daniel Alterbaum is a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice Groups, where he represents buyers, sellers, and investors in a wide variety of transactions in the private equity, fintech, renewable energy, and infrastructure sectors. His experience includes leveraged buyouts, negotiated sales of private companies, carve-out sales and spinoffs of subsidiaries, and cross-border asset sales. He also represents issuers and investment funds in connection with venture capital, growth equity, and structured preferred equity investments.

Dan has been recognized as a Rising Star by New York Metro Super Lawyers in the area of mergers and acquisitions from 2015 to present, as well as by The Deal. He has also been recognized for his M&A and Private Equity work, in the 2024 and 2025 editions of Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation list, a guide highlighting attorneys who are “multi-talented, dedicated, focused” and whose “leadership will be called upon by businesses and individuals when they face their crossroads.”

His recent experience in the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors include advising:

  • ACS Group on its joint venture with Global Infrastructure Partners to develop and operate a portfolio of data centers worldwide, including ACS’s existing 1.7 GW portfolio of data center assets under development in Europe, the United States and Australia
  • Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. on the $2.5 billion sale of its renewable energy business (excluding hydro) to LS Power
  • Pine Gate Renewables, LLC in connection with its preferred equity investment from and related formation of a joint venture with Generate Capital and its subsequent preferred equity investment from Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, as well as its acquisitions of Horne Brothers Construction Inc. and ACT Power Services
  • energyRe, LLC in connection with its $1.2 billion capital raise Glentra Capital and Elia Group
  • Macquarie Infrastructure Partners III in connection with its sale of Ceres Terminals Holdings LLC to Carrix and its subsequent sale of Dames Point Jacksonville LLC to the Jacksonville Port Authority
  • Ferrovial Aeropuertos in connection with its purchase of The Carlyle Group Infrastructure Fund’s stake in New Terminal One, the consortium appointed to design, build and operate the new Terminal One at JFK International Airport
  • SB Energy, SoftBank Group Corp.’s U.S.-based solar and storage platform, in connection with its financing and construction of utility scale projects, its negotiation of a senior revolving credit facility and its acquisition of five U.S. solar power plans with a combined capacity of more than 1.7 GW from Intersect Power, LLC

In addition, his recent experiences in the private equity and fintech sectors include advising:

  • Hazel, the independent fintech launched in partnership with Walmart and investment firm Ribbit Capital, on its acquisition of fintech platforms Even and ONE
  • J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners and the JPM Sustainable Growth Equity Fund in connection with their respective investments in Airtable, AlphaSense, Arcadia Power, Codat, Eye Security, Laika, Loop Technologies, MineSense Technologies and Plaid, among others
  • Dorilton Capital in connection with the sale of its portfolio company MEI Rigging & Crating to Olympus Partners, among others
  • RedBird Capital Partners in connection with its investments in Hidden Pigeon Holdings, LLC and Media Res Studio, LLC, among others
  • BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group in connection with its recapitalization of Caddo Sustainable Timberlands, LP with British Columbia Investment Management Corporation
  • BTG Pactual Strategic Capital in connection with its financing of the management buyout of Fortress Investment Group and its strategic investment in PSN Group, LLC, among others
  • IRIS CRM in connection with its sale to NMI

Dan graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentrations in Finance, Marketing, and Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he served as a Business Analyst in the Boston office of McKinsey & Company. He then received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation and as Features Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He also received his Master of Business Administration from the Yale School of Management, where he was a Dean’s Scholar. From 2012 to 2013, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Christopher F. Droney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Mike Norton is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson Dunn where he practices in the firm’s litigation department with a focus on internal and governmental investigations as well as regulatory compliance.

Mike takes an interdisciplinary approach to client challenges, using pragmatic grit from growing up on a chicken farm down a dirt road in the Ozarks and his background in quantitative social science and policy to find the best solutions to complex problems. He advises clients on investigations, regulatory compliance, and litigation on federal, state, and local issues in a broad array of industries. Mike maintains an active and wide pro bono practice, where he helps indigent clients with criminal expungement, eviction defense, voter protection, asylum, and civil dispute issues.

Mike also serves as a judge advocate general (JAG) officer in the U.S. Army Reserve at the 440th Civil Affairs Battalion out of Fort Carson, Colorado, where he advises on international and domestic law as the battalion’s international law officer. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he worked for the ranking member on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, at the White House Domestic Policy Council, and as the deputy voter protection director running the ballot cure program for a 2020 presidential campaign in a hotly contested battleground state.

He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School on the Harry S. Truman Scholarship (awarded in undergrad), where he served as a member of the Stanford Law & Policy Review and participated in the Election Law Project and the Community Law Clinic, crafting many of the legal skills he uses today. Before law school, Mike received his Ph.D. (passed defense with no corrections) and M.Sc., both in political science, from the University of Oxford on the Marshall Scholarship, worked in Washington, D.C., and was a first-generation college farm kid receiving his B.S., summa cum laude, in agricultural business and poultry science from the University of Arkansas. He is published in the Election Law Journal and the Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development.

Mike is admitted to practice law in Colorado, Minnesota, and Arkansas.

Cecilia Bermudez is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices with the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

In 2022, she received her J.D. from New York University Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the NYU Law Review. Cecilia received her Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. Prior to law school, she worked at a civil rights organization on immigrants’ rights and economic justice issues.

Cecilia is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Chris Dusseault is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. He practices in the Firm’s Litigation Department, and the Antitrust and Competition and Trials Practice Groups. Chris previously served as Partner in Charge of the Firm’s Los Angeles and Century City offices.

Chris is an accomplished trial and appellate lawyer who has spent more than three decades defending the nation’s largest and most successful companies in their most significant legal matters. His practice focuses on high-stakes antitrust class actions raising claims of horizontal and vertical conspiracy, monopolization, exclusive dealing, and predatory contracting practices. In addition to hiring Chris when a case is first filed, clients have repeatedly turned to Chris when they have gone to trial and lost and are facing a judgment in the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, seeking his assistance with post-trial motions, appeals, and follow-on class actions. Chris also represents clients in a broad range of cases outside of antitrust, including claims of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, product liability, and wrongful death. Chris was one of the lead trial lawyers in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the landmark civil rights case that established marriage equality in California.

Chris is recognized as one of the leading antitrust litigators in the country. Chambers USA 2025 ranks Chris in its California Antitrust category, reporting that clients describe him as “a fantastic antitrust litigator,” a “creative problem solver,” and “very practical and smart.” Best Lawyers in America recognizes Chris in both the Antitrust and Commercial Litigation categories. Lawdragon included Chris on its list of “500 Leading Antitrust and Competition Lawyers” (2024 and 2025). The Daily Journal included Chris on its list of “Top Antitrust Lawyers” (2024 and 2025), and on its list of “Top 100 Lawyers in California” (2024). The Los Angeles Business Journal included Chris on its “Top 100 Lawyers” list for 2024. In July 2025, Chris received “Shout Out” honors from AmLaw Litigation Daily for winning the early dismissal of all claims in a nationwide antitrust class action alleging price fixing with respect to real estate commissions.

Chris’s representative matters include the following:

Antitrust Matters

  • Representing Berkshire Hathaway affiliate HomeServices of America in a nationwide class action brought by home sellers alleging price fixing with respect to broker commissions, handling post-trial motions after an adverse jury verdict and recently arguing a consolidated group of appeals before the Eighth Circuit.
  • Representing Berkshire Hathaway affiliate HomeServices of America in a nationwide class action brought by home buyers alleging price fixing with respect to broker commissions, leading the team that won dismissal of all claims in the Southern District of Florida. 
  • Representing Energizer Holdings, Inc. in three nationwide antitrust class actions alleging that Energizer and a major national retailer conspired to inflate wholesale and retail battery prices.
  • Representing the National Football League in connection with post-trial motions and appeal before the Ninth Circuit in a nationwide antitrust class action alleging that the NFL conspired with its business partners to inflate the price of its NFL Sunday Ticket television offering.
  • Representing Duke University in three antitrust class actions alleging that private universities conspired to inflate the cost of attendance for students, resolving one such case and securing dismissal of all claims in another.
  • Representing UnitedHealth Group in an MDL proceeding alleging that managed care providers and a vendor violated the antitrust laws by conspiring to deflate compensation for visits to out-of-network providers.  
  • Representing Chevron in a nationwide antitrust class action alleging that manufacturers of plastic resins conspired to mislead the public about the recyclability of end-use plastic products, thereby increasing demand and prices.
  • Representing Covidien (formerly Tyco Healthcare and currently a unit of Medtronic) in an antitrust class action in which purchasers of pulse oximetry products challenged Covidien’s product design changes and contracting practices under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. Chris led a Gibson Dunn team that defeated class certification and won summary judgment on all claims. The Ninth Circuit affirmed the victory in  Allied Orthopedic Appliances v. Tyco Healthcare, 592 F. 3d 991 (9th Cir. 2010).
  • Representing Covidien (formerly Tyco Healthcare and currently a unit of Medtronic) in connection with post-trial motions and appeal of an antitrust case in which a competitor alleged that Covidien violated the antitrust laws through contracting practices such as sole-source contracts, market share discounts and bundling discounts with respect to pulse oximetry products. The district court reduced damages from $140 million to $14.5 million and ruled in Covidien’s favor on the bundling claims. The Ninth Circuit affirmed.
  • Representation of CFM International, Inc. in an antitrust case in which a nascent business challenged as an unlawful conspiracy defendants’ decision not to sell aircraft engines to plaintiff for use in the re-engining of 727 aircraft. Chris led a Gibson Dunn team that won the dismissal of all claims on a motion for summary judgment. Chirs argued the appeal before the Ninth Circuit, and the Ninht Circuit affirmed in Aviation Upgrade Tech. v. Boeing Co, 78 Fed. Appx. 623 (9th Cir. 2003).
  • Representation of American Airlines in an antitrust case brought by the United States Department of Justice alleging monopolization of routes to and from DFW airport. The Gibson Dunn team prevailed at summary judgment and on appeal.
  • Representation of Merck in a group of antitrust class actions alleging that Merck conspired with a generic drug manufacture to delay generic entry through the settlement of patent litigation.

Commercial Litigation Matters

  • Representing and obtaining a complete victory for a health care company in a confidential, two-week arbitration involving a business dispute with a medical group. The health case company is currently seeking recovery of its legal fees and costs.
  • Representing ev3, a subsidiary of Medtronic, in a lawsuit alleging breach of a merger agreement with respect to the pursuit of certain deal milestones. Ev3 retained Chris and the Gibson Dunn team to handle an appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court after a jury awarded $250 million in damages and interest. The Delaware Supreme Court reversed, and Chris led the team that prepared the case for retrial in Delaware.
  • Representing Inter-Con Security Systems in a lawsuit in the Central District of California seeking to enforce a substantial judgment entered against the company in Honduras. Chris led the Gibson Dunn team that secured dismissal of all claims on a motion for summary judgment.
  • Representing and securing injunctive relief and attorneys’ fees for a leading independent power producer in a confidential international arbitration involving allegations of design defects and breach of contract with respect to the purchase of hundreds of wind turbines.
  • Representing TSL and Sofradim, subsidiaries of Medtronic, in a multidistrict litigation asserting product liability claims with respect to pelvic mesh products. Chris led the team that litigated claims for indemnification and declaratory relief against C.R. Bard arising out of more than 11,000 cases.
  • Representing Prime, Inc. in a wrongful death action in New Mexico arising out of a truck accident. Chris was lead counsel in the case, which resolved shortly before trial.
  • Representation of Voom, Inc. as plaintiff in a three-week trial involving claims of breach of contract against Dish Network. The Gibson Dunn team secured a highly favorable settlement after three weeks of trial in state court in New York.

Civil Rights Matters

  • Representing plaintiffs Kris Perry, Sandy Stier, Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo in Hollingsworth v. Perry (N.D. Cal.), the lawsuit that successfully challenged Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriages. Chris was one of the lead trial lawyers during the three-week bench trial that resulted in a finding that Proposition 8 violated the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment and an injunction barring enforcement of Proposition 8. In June 2013, the United States Supreme Court upheld the district court’s decision and permanently restored marriage equality in California. Chris also successfully argued a separate appeal before the Ninth Circuit resulting in the unsealing of video recordings of the trial.

Chris received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1991. He received his J.D., with high honors, from Duke University School of Law in 1994, where he was Special Projects and Notes Editor of Law and Contemporary Problems and Vice-Chairman of the Moot Court Board. Prior to joining the firm, Chris served as law clerk to The Honorable Robert E. Payne in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Chirs served for 22 years on the Governing Board of LA’s BEST, a nationally recognized expanded learning program serving the children of Los Angeles, and he was Board Chair for 7 years. Chris currently serves as a Senior Member of the Board of Visitors of Duke Law School, and he is one of four Board members of The Riordan Foundation, a non-profit created by former Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan.

Brette Berman is a real estate associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn.

She received her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, in 2018 from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was an associate editor of the Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, a member of the Indie Film Clinic, and elected to Order of the Coif.

Brette received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, cum laude, from the University of Florida in 2015.

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

Ryan Beil is an associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. Ryan focuses on corporate restructurings, including liability management transactions, distressed financings and exchanges, chapter 11 reorganizations, and out-of-court recapitalizations.

Representative Matters*

  • Aerofarms: Represented Doha Venture Capital, the global venture capital arm of Qatar Free Zones, in the chapter 11 cases of Aerofarms, Inc. and in their investment in AF NewCo, Inc.
  • Anchor Glass Container Corp.: Advised the company on a comprehensive recapitalization, reducing nearly $900 million of total indebtedness by more than 60% and injecting $100 million of fresh liquidity into the company.
  • Fisker: Represented the primary Secured Creditor in the chapter 11 cases of Fisker Inc.
  • FTX: Represented the Joint Official Liquidators of FTX Digital Markets Ltd. in the chapter 11 cases of FTX Trading Ltd., and the chapter 15 case of FTX Digital Markets Ltd.
  • Franchise Group: Represented the Ad Hoc Group of Freedom Lenders in the chapter 11 cases of Franchise Group, Inc.
  • GOL: Represented Aircraft Lessors and Noteholders in the chapter 11 cases of GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A.
  • Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd.: Advised the company on a cross-border restructuring that (i) restructured approximately $1.5 billion in liabilities; (ii) resolved insolvency proceedings and related litigation in the United States, Chile, Ireland, and Spain; and (iii) enabled vital wind and solar projects to the Chilean power grid to proceed to completion and operation.
  • Sunnova: Represented lenders under certain warehouse facilities in the chapter 11 cases of Sunnova Energy International, including: (i) the purchase of certain solar systems from the Debtors and (ii) the providing of incremental financing to certain non-Debtors through an amendment of one of the warehouse facilities.
  • Trinseo: Represented Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Administrative Agent, in notes exchange and refinancing revolving credit facility for Trinseo PLC.

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

Ryan received his Juris Doctor in 2020 and his LL.M. in Bankruptcy in 2021 from the St. John’s University School of Law, where he was awarded the American Bankruptcy Institute Medal for Excellence in Bankruptcy Studies, given annually to top law students from across the United States who demonstrate excellence in bankruptcy coursework and scholarship. He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Boston University in 2016.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ryan served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Alan S. Trust, Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of New York and was an associate in the Restructuring Department of another international law firm.

Ryan is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Cindy Cai is an associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group.

Cindy received her Juris Doctor in 2023 from Northwestern University. She graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting.  

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

Eugene Park is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He focuses on advising borrowers, equity sponsors, and credit investors in a wide range of financing transactions.

Eugene was recognized in Lawdragon’s 2026 “500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers” list.

Representative Clients and Transactions*:

Company Representations

  • Cision in connection with a $250 million new money financing and a $2.4 billion recapitalization of its credit facilities and senior notes.
  • Oregon Tool in connection with a $150 million new money financing and a $1.3 billion recapitalization of its credit facilities and senior notes.
  • United Site Services in a $300 million new money financing and the recapitalization of $2.6 billion of secured and unsecured liabilities.
  • Aventiv Technologies in multiple new money and uptier refinancing transactions involving more than $1.6 billion of first and second lien liabilities.
  • Petmate in a new money drop-down financing and out-of-court restructuring of over $800 million of liabilities.
  • Envision Healthcare in a series of landmark liability management transactions including $1.1 billion of new money and de-leveraging of $1.9 billion of liabilities.
  • US Renal Care Inc. in a $328 million new money drop-down financing.
  • Curo Group Holdings Corp. in connection with liability management transactions comprised of $150 million of new money and a $680 million uptier bond exchange.
  • Anywhere Real Estate Inc. in a $800 million uptier bond exchange.
  • Bed Bath & Beyond in a highly anticipated $500 million “first-in-last-out” IP-backed rescue financing.
  • WeWork Companies in connection with an amendment and extension of its $1.45 billion letter of credit facility.
  • David’s Bridal in a strategic rescue financing.
  • Center for Autism Related Disorders in a strategic rescue financing.

Creditor Representations

  • Diameter Capital Partners in a $250 million financing to Liberty Puerto Rico.
  • Ares Capital Management in a $250 million financing to FORTNA Group.
  • Elliott Investment Management as the anchor lender to Magenta Buyer in drop-down liability management transactions that raised $400 million of new money and refinanced over $4 billion of 1L and 2L liabilities.
  • An ad hoc group of bondholders of debt securities of DISH Network Corporation and DISH DBS Corporation in successful opposition to proposed exchange offers.
  • An ad hoc group of term lenders to Tosca Services in connection with a $100 million super-priority new money and $600 million uptier refinancing transaction.
  • An ad hoc group of term lenders to SI Group in connection with a $1.8 billion uptier recapitalization transaction.
  • An ad hoc group of term lenders to Maverick Gaming in a comprehensive amendment and uptier exchange.
  • An ad hoc group of bondholders of Exide Technologies in connection with multiple out of court exchange and restructuring transactions which resolved complex disputes with numerous state and local environmental agencies.
  • The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in the chapter 11 cases of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas Electric Company involving over $70 billion in liabilities.
  • TPG Capital in connection with the chapter 11 proceedings of its portfolio company, J. Crew.
  • An ad hoc group of term loan lenders to American Tire Distributors in connection with the company’s chapter 11 proceedings that restructured over $2 billion of liabilities.

Eugene earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School and his Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University.

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

Ferdinand Fromholzer is a partner in the Munich office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Transactional Department. Ferdinand’s practice focuses on corporate law, in particular advising strategic and private equity investors on public and private M&A transactions. He also advises public companies on a wide range of legal issues, including disclosure requirements under capital market law, annual shareholders’ meetings, corporate structure measures, and ESG aspects. He is also experienced in counseling on the duties and obligations of directors and officers, including in the context of compliance investigations.

Handelsblatt / The Best Lawyers™ 2025/2026 list him among the best lawyers in Germany for Corporate Law, M&A, Private Equity and Corporate Governance and Compliance. Kanzleimonitor 2025/2026 lists him among the leading lawyers for Stock Corporation and Corporate Governance law, a ranking which for several years recognized him as the most frequently recommended lawyer in that category (“The gold medal goes to Dr. Ferdinand Fromholzer, as in the previous year”; 2024/2025). The JUVE Handbook 2025/2026 recognizes him as “frequently recommended” in the categories Corporate, M&A and Private Equity. Clients described him as “very knowledgeable” (JUVE Handbook 2019/2020) and as an “excellent lawyer with always creative and solution-oriented approaches” who is “very pragmatic and experienced” (JUVE Handbook 2018/2019). Ferdinand is recommended by Who’s Who Legal Germany 2025 for Corporate Governance and M&A. The Legal 500 Deutschland 2026 and The Legal 500 EMEA 2025 recommend him for Corporate, M&A, Private Equity and Internal Investigations. Over the years, clients described him as “characterized by distinctive objectivity, legal expertise and reliability”. He was named an “excellent and very experienced advisor” who has a “broad, valuable wealth of experience” and “in addition to his in-depth knowledge, also has the ability to argue constructively, objectively and in a result-oriented manner in difficult negotiation situations, thereby making a significant contribution to the success of the respective transaction.” And “Ferdinand Fromholzer is characterized by excellent detailed knowledge of the projects, very good accessibility and overview. Dr. Fromholzer can always provide information on the status of individual disciplines (e.g. tax, IP, etc.). His negotiation is tailored to the respective counterpart.”

His experience includes advising*:

  • Perusa, an international Private Equity Firm, on the sale of MÜPRO Group GmbH to IK Partners
  • CCL Industries Inc. on the multi-national acquisition of Treofan America Inc. and Trespaphan Mexico Holdings GmbH from M&C S.p.A.
  • Wacker Chemie AG on M&A transactions, the annual shareholders’ meeting and stock corporation law matters
  • BayWa AG on M&A transactions and stock corporation law matters
  • Burda on M&A transactions and stock corporation law matters
  • Infineon Technologies on various M&A transactions
  • CENTROTEC SE on the acquisition of all shares of PARI Group, including capital markets transparency and related party transaction rules, and on all corporate and capital markets aspects in connection with its delisting
  • Daimler AG on various M&A transactions, e.g, the participation in Automotive Cells Company (ACC), together with Stellantis and TotalEnergies, the public takeover of Tognum together with Rolls Royce, and corporate law matters (in particular the annual shareholders’ meeting)
  • Allianz SE on corporate law matters
  • Baird Capital, an international private equity firm, on various acquisitions and disposals, e.g. together with VR Equitypartner on the sale of Zarges Group to Triton
  • ZT Management Holding GmbH on the sale of Tubesca Comabi to Frénéhard & Michaux
  • Corporate law and corporate governance advice including annual shareholders’ meetings (Hauptversammlungen) to Daimler AG, Infineon Technologies AG, Airbus, Wacker Chemie AG, Siltronic AG, BSH Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, Kabel Deutschland and Centrotec Sustainable AG

Ferdinand regularly publishes on corporate law matters. Among others, he is co-author of the online legal commentary on the German Transformation Act (Beck OGK UmwG), published by Habersack/Wicke in its 3rd edition 2023, of the chapter on Public Takeovers in the Private Equity Handbook, published by Eilers/Koffka/ Mackensen/Paul in its 4th edition 2022, and of various client alerts and articles.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ferdinand was a corporate partner in the Munich office of a global law firm for more than a decade.

Ferdinand studied law at the University of Regensburg, where he also earned his doctor’s degree in 1997. He also holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of California – Berkeley. He has been admitted as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) since 1998. Ferdinand is fluent in German and English.

*Includes experiences prior to joining Gibson Dunn

Carmen Heredia is an associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Capital Markets Practice Groups.

Carmen has experience advising a range of clients on a broad range of private equity and corporate matters including acquisitions, capital markets transactions and cross-border M&A.

She is a Spanish national and regularly advises on transactions involving Spanish buyers, sellers, target companies and issuers.

Gwenlynne Lee is an of counsel in the Singapore office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups . She represents private equity funds, corporations, and emerging companies in cross-border acquisitions, take-privates, growth equity investments, series financings, and joint ventures.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Gwenlynne had worked with leading international law firms in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Gwenlynne earned her Bachelor of Arts (Jurisprudence) from the University of Oxford and received her Master of Laws from the London School of Economics. She is admitted to practice in Singapore, Hong Kong, and New York.  She is fluent in English and Mandarin. 

Jordan Ehrlich is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Jordan represents institutional lenders, developers and investors in a broad range of complex real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, debt and equity financings, construction and development, joint ventures and leasing across a variety of real estate asset classes.

He received his Juris Doctor in 2012 from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland in 2009. He is admitted to practice law in Colorado and New York.

Vanessa Ajagu is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group.

Vanessa has broad experience in high-stakes complex litigation before federal and state courts, representing clients in the technology, labor and employment, and finance sectors. These matters include defending a major technology company in a securities class action, representing clients in multiple shareholder litigation matters before the Delaware Court of Chancery, achieving victory on behalf of a leading beverage company in arbitration, and reversing a lower court ruling in favor of a streaming company in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Vanessa has a robust pro bono practice centered on appellate advocacy and women’s rights. She has argued and briefed matters before appellate courts, including successfully challenging a decision that reduced attorneys’ fees awarded to The Legal Aid Society based solely on its nonprofit status. She is a member of the Third Circuit’s Pro Bono Panel and has contributed to multiple amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court. Beyond her appellate work, Vanessa advocates for survivors of domestic violence—obtaining a restraining order on behalf of one client following an evidentiary hearing and successfully achieving a reduced sentence for another under New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA).  Vanessa currently serves on the African Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar Association and is a Board Member of Empowered Network, a nonprofit that supports human trafficking survivors.

Before joining the firm, Vanessa served as a law clerk to the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Margo K. Brodie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Vanessa received her Juris Doctor in 2020 from Columbia Law School, where she was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as a Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review. At Columbia Law, she was awarded a Parker School Recognition of Achievement in International and Comparative Law and selected as a fellow for the Salzburg Lloyd N. Cutler Fellows Program in International Law. She received a Master’s in International Criminal Law from the University of Amsterdam in 2020 and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with high distinction from Queen’s University in 2017.

Vanessa is admitted to practice before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Ninth Circuits; the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; and New York state courts.

Publications

• Co-Author, A Second Look, With Limits: Court of Appeals Defines Scope of the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act, New York Law Journal (Oct. 20, 2025).

• Author, Bypassing #MeToo: A Blueprint for Sexual Harassment Protections in Nigeria, 4 UNILAG L. Rev. 1, 26–71 (2020).