Connor Leydecker is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn. He practices in the Firm’s Litigation department and primarily works with the Antitrust and Competition, Appellate and Constitutional Law, and Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Innovation Practice Groups.

Connor received his law degree from Duke University School of Law, graduating magna cum laude. During law school, he founded the Competition Law Society and served on a committee of the Duke University Board of Trustees. He also participated on the Moot Court Board and edited Judicature, the scholarly journal about the judiciary. The Duke Law Faculty recognized his Note, A Different Curse: Improving the Antitrust Debate about “Bigness,” 18 N.Y.U. J.L. & BUS. 845 (2022), with the school’s top award for student scholarly writing. Connor interned with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Bureaus of Competition (Anticompetitive Practices) and Consumer Protection, and the Honorable James A. Wynn on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Prior to law school, Connor worked at Delta Air Lines in various roles related to pricing, revenue management, marketing, and strategy. He earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in Business and Linguistics from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Connor is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia.

James Rex Lee is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson Dunn. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law, Public Policy, and Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Groups.

Before joining the firm, James served as a law clerk to Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Amul R. Thapar of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and Judge Howard C. Nielson, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. He graduated with honors from Brigham Young University Law School, where he was a J. Reuben Clark Scholar and Executive Editor on the BYU Law Review. He also earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with honors from Brigham Young University.

James is a member of the bar of California, and he is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Eli Lazarus is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department with particular focus on antitrust law and clients based or operating in Japan. Eli has also represented clients at the federal and state appellate and trial court levels in a variety of business-related disputes involving class action, professional malpractice, and breach of contract.

He has specialized in leading engagements with Japanese clients who are confronting legal issues in the United States. Eli communicates directly in Japanese with these clients, their employees, vendors, and Japanese counsel. Doing so has enabled Eli to understand each client’s needs and coordinate the most efficient ways for Gibson Dunn to address them—and to explain with clarity the risks, opportunities, and demands of U.S. litigation.

His experience includes international cartel matters, grand jury investigations, merger review work, and defense of civil class action lawsuits in industries including consumer electronics, automobile parts, and financial services. Eli has also managed internal and government investigations for corporate clients to address concerns relating to competition law, corruption, and economic sanctions.

In general commercial litigation, Eli and a Gibson Dunn team successfully represented the University of California in a seven-week bench and jury trial in California state court against an international consulting firm in a case alleging claims for professional malpractice, breach of contract, and violation of the False Claims Act. He and colleagues defended the Golden State Warriors from challenges to the team’s development of a new basketball arena in San Francisco. Eli is recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Antitrust Law, and Litigation – Antitrust, and has been listed in the publication since 2021.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Eli served as a law clerk for the Honorable J. Paul Oetken of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then for the Honorable Barrington D. Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

He received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2011, where he was a Submissions Editor for the Yale Journal on Regulation. While in law school, Eli also served as a member of the Faculty Committee on Nondiscrimination and as co-president of the Outlaws student group. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in International Relations in 2006 from Stanford University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Eli is currently admitted to practice law in the State of California. He has served on Gibson Dunn’s firm-wide Associates Committee and, outside the firm, on the board of the New Conservatory Theater Center.

Julian W. Kleinbrodt is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the Antitrust and Competition and Labor and Employment Practice Groups.

Julian handles a wide variety of antitrust matters through trial and appeal. He has particular experience with claims involving price-fixing, monopolization, attempted monopolization, refusals to deal, tying, bundling, exclusive dealing, disparagement, market allocation and division, and no-poach provisions. Julian has obtained dismissals on the pleadings of major putative antitrust class actions, won denial of class certification in sweeping nationwide cases, and prevailed at trial and after trial on behalf of multiple clients. He also has experience representing clients in civil and criminal investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, and regularly counsels clients on antitrust compliance.

A frequent author and recognized thought leader in the antitrust community, Julian has earned repeated recognition on The Daily Journal’s “Top Verdicts” lists. Most recently, he was named an “Up and Coming” lawyer in the California Antitrust category by Chambers USA. He was also recognized as one of Law360’s Rising Stars in Competition, and selected for Global Competition Review’s prestigious “40 Under 40″ list, which celebrates the “next generation of leading antitrust practitioners.”

Julian’s nationwide labor and employment practice focuses on discrimination and class action claims.

Representative Antitrust and Competition Experience

• Prevailed on behalf of a technology company in a historic multi-week bench trial, defeating Section 1, Section 2, and state antitrust claims.
• Prevailed on behalf of a technology company in multiple federal appeals, including successfully arguing before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case brought by a software developer seeking billions in damages.
• Won summary judgment on behalf of a technology company, defeating billion-dollar claims under the Sherman Act and state law.
• Secured denial of class certification and first-of-its-kind judgment no-poach antitrust litigation on behalf of an American multinational franchisor.
• Achieved dismissal of antitrust lawsuits accusing on-campus bookstore chains and college textbook publishers of conspiring to eliminate competition and raise prices by using agreements to sell course materials online.
• Set aside multi-million-dollar antitrust verdict due to fraud, and, following a successful appeal, obtained a multi-million-dollar sanction in a Section 2 case.
• Obtained full defense verdict at trial in a Section 1 price-fixing case against a food manufacturer.

Representative Labor and Employment Experience

• Secured denial of class certification on behalf of UPS in a putative state-wide class action of Kentucky workers alleging disability discrimination and then secured affirmance of that order on appeal, Hughes v. UPS Supply Chain Sols., Inc., 2021 WL 3008755 (Ky. Ct. App. July 16, 2021).
• Defending an American multinational automobile manufacturer against threatened and pending litigation over ADA accessibility on its websites.
• Advising an American multinational automobile manufacturer on its diversity and inclusion policies in the wake of increased legal challenges and scrutiny following the June 2023 Supreme Court rulings restricting affirmative action programs.

Julian received his law degree magna cum laude from the University of Michigan School of Law in 2014, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served on the Michigan Law Review’s editorial board. Before joining the firm, Julian served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen V. Wilson of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011 and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

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). 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

Christopher Harris is an English-qualified King’s Counsel and partner in the Zurich and London offices of Gibson Dunn. He is Global Co-Chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group and the Judgment and Award Enforcement Practice Group, and a member of the Litigation Practice Group and the Geopolitical Strategy and International Law Practice Groups. He is admitted to practice in England & Wales, Switzerland, the DIFC and the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI).

Christopher has a distinguished reputation as a trial and appellate advocate in court and arbitration, with a track record of significant cases over more than 20 years in practice across a range of disciplines and industry sectors. His arbitration practice (for which he is Band 1 ranked by Chambers UK) spans both commercial and investment treaty matters, having served as counsel in approximately 30 investment treaty arbitrations alone. Christopher also maintains a renowned practice in enforcement matters having successfully enforced and defended enforcement of dozens of arbitral awards and judgments over decades. He has been involved in many of the seminal cases to come before the courts relating to enforcement, especially where states are concerned, most recently leading for the investors on the question of whether states have immunity in relation to the enforcement of ICSID awards where he succeeded at first instance and before the Court of Appeal, and led before the UK Supreme Court in December 2025. Alongside his active counsel practice, Christopher is able to give his clients the benefit of his substantial experience from the other side of the bench, having been appointed as arbitrator in over 50 arbitrations, including proceedings under ICSID, ICSID annulment committees, LCIA, ICC, SIAC, SCC, FAI, LMAA, and ad hoc rules.

In recognition of his work, Christopher was named International Arbitration Silk of the Year by Chambers & Partners in 2024 and was runner-up as International Arbitration Silk of the Year by Legal 500 for 2025 (having previously won both awards as junior counsel). He has been recognized as a Global Elite Thought Leader by WWL for several years. Prior to moving to Gibson Dunn in September 2025,Christopherwasranked as a leading silk in five practice areas: banking and finance, commercial litigation, energy and natural resources, international arbitration, and public international law, where clients describe him as “fearless” and “extraordinarily compelling” as an advocate, while offering “top of the line strategic advice.” He is also praised as “understand[ing] the political, financial and personal pressures that [clients] are under, and they completely trust him.” He is also noted as: “mesmerising on his feet” with a “considerable presence in courtrooms and hearings” and is widely regarded as “one of the best cross-examiners at the Bar.” These attributes have made him a go-to lead advocate in numerous high-value and business-critical disputes for sophisticated clients.

His prominence in the arbitration and international law fields is further underscored by his reappointment as the UK Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration for a second term and his designation by HM Government to the ICSID Panels of Arbitrators and Conciliators.

Christopher’s international litigation work includes appearances at both trial and appellate levels in the DIFC Courts, the British Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islands.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Christopher was a King’s Counsel at a leading set of barristers’ chambers in London.

Kevin Orozco is a litigation associate in Gibson Dunn’s San Francisco office.

Kevin earned his JD from UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), graduating cum laude and as a member of the Honors Society.

In law school, Kevin served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Goodwin H. Liu of the Supreme Court of California and was President of the First-Generation Professionals Organization. He also worked in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and competed in the Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition. Kevin received CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Legal Research & Writing and Corporate Crimes.

Kevin earned a BA in International Relations from San Francisco State University and is a native Spanish speaker.

Kevin is admitted to practice law in California.

Manjinder Tiwana is an English qualified of counsel in the London office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice Groups.

Her practice focuses on representing sponsors in private equity transactions including domestic and cross-border acquisitions, disposals and portfolio acquisitions across a number of different sectors.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Manjinder practised in the London office of an international law firm.

Selected experience:*

• Advised Investcorp on its co-investment with TPG Rise in the Outcomes First Group, a specialist education provider, from Stirling Square Capital Partners
• Advised Intrum AB on the acquisition of Haya Real Estate from Cerberus Capital.
• Advised Veritas Capital on the acquisition of Wood Mackenzie, an energy, renewables and natural resources data and analytics provider from Verisk Analytics.
• Advised Carlyle on its acquisition of a majority stake in Spain-based plywood manufacturer Garnica from Intermediate Capital Group and certain shareholders.
• Advised a US private equity fund on the sale of the Altadia group to Carlyle.*
• Advised a US private equity fund on the sale of the Stark group to CVC Capital Partners Fund VII.*
• Advised Howden Group on the acquisition of the Aston Lark group from Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Bowmark Capital.*
• Advised Providence Strategic Growth on its investment in Sign-In App, a software company.*
• Advised Cornell Capital LLC on the bolt-on acquisition of supplement manufacturer Bee Health Limited by a portfolio company.*
• Advised Thryv Holdings Inc. on the English law aspects of its acquisition of the Sensis group in the UK.*
• Advised Montagu Private Equity on the acquisition of ISI Emerging Markets group (a business intelligence provider) from CITIC Capital and Caixin Global.*
• Advised a US private equity fund on the carve-out acquisition of the global tile coatings division from Ferro Corporation.*
• Advised Oaktree on the sale of Connected Fitness Labs Limited (a subsidiary of Fitness First) to Wexner Holding.*
• Advised Magenta Partners on its investment in Trustpay Global, a payment services provider.*
• Advised a UK private equity fund on the potential sale of a records management company in the UK and Ireland.*
• Advised a US private equity fund on its bid to acquire a supermarket group in the UK.*

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

Joseph Woodward is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group. Joe also maintains a robust pro bono practice focused on civil and disability rights.

Joe earned his Juris Doctor, with pro bono honors, from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 2025. At Berkeley, he served on the Berkeley Business Law Journal and was a member of the Berkeley Law Alternate Dispute Resolution Team. During law school, Joe served as judicial extern to Judge Troy L. Nunley of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. He also served as pro se judicial extern to Judges Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers, Araceli Martínez-Olguín, and Donna M. Ryu of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, primarily working on prisoner civil rights litigation and habeas corpus petitions.

Before attending law school, Joe graduated summa cum laude from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, and spent several years as a financial analyst at a large law firm in Boston.

Joe is admitted to practice in the state of California.

David Sandyk is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He represents private funds, other strategic investors and public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and other strategic transactions, along with ongoing general corporate and governance work.

He has extensive experience serving as the lead corporate associate on mergers, stock acquisitions, asset acquisitions (including carve-outs), stock and asset dispositions, preferred stock financings, joint ventures, convertible note issuances, corporate restructurings, and recapitalizations.

David has been recognized by his peers via his inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ in Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law for 2026.

David graduated summa cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 2015, where he served as Articles Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from New York University in 2010.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, David practiced with a global law firm in New York as a member of the Private Capital Transactions Group from 2015 to 2024.

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

Cason Moore is of counsel in the London office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Capital Markets Practice Groups. He is currently on secondment.

Cason advises on a broad range of corporate transactional and advisory matters, with a focus on cross-border M&A transactions representing sponsors and their portfolio companies. He also advises both issuers and underwriters on capital markets transactions, particularly in high-yield issuances (including green bonds) and solvent debt restructurings. Cason was recognised by the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom as a leading lawyer for Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Law.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Cason was a counsel at a prominent international law firm in London and also practiced with another international firm in New York and London. He has also worked at the Bank of England, in-house at a leading global asset manager and as a Director at a leading W&I insurance broker.

Cason received his B.A with distinction in 2003 from the University of Virginia, where he was a Jefferson Scholar, and received his J.D. in 2007 from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar and the recipient of the Andrew D. Fried Memorial Prize. He is admitted to practice in New York and is a Registered Foreign Lawyer (England & Wales).

Recent Transactions:*

• Advised KKR in their investment into Dukes Education, a UK-based premium school operator.
• Advised KKR and John Laing on John Laing’s agreement to acquire HICL Infrastructure PLC’s interest in four UK public-private partnership projects (the Oxford John Radcliffe Hospital PFI Project, the Queen’s Hospital PFI Project, the South Ayrshire Schools PFI Project and the Priority Schools Building Programme North East Batch.
• Advised Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) P.J.S.C. and ADNOC Gas plc (ADNOC Gas) in connection with the initial public offering (IPO) of ADNOC Gas, marking the largest-ever listing on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX).
• Advised H.R.L Morrison on its acquisition of 33.3% in Lyntia Networks, one of the leading dark fibre providers in Spain.
• Advised the consortium formed by AXA IM and Swiss Life in their acquisition of Lyntia Networks, a leading wholesale operator in the Spanish telecommunications market and the only neutral provider operating both lit and dark fibre.
• Advised The Carlyle Group in its acquisition of a majority stake in Spain-based plywood manufacturer Garnica from Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) and certain shareholders.
• Advised KKR and Oslo Pensjonsforsikring in their investment in 30% of Telenor Fibre ASA, Telenor’s fibre optic business, for $1 billion.
• Advised KKR in connection with the investment, alongside OTPP, in Caruna Oy, Finland’s largest electricity distribution company.*
• Advised Helios Towers plc in the acquisition of Airtel’s passive infrastructure operating companies in Madagascar and Malawi and the potential acquisition of Airtel’s passive infrastructure assets in Chad and Gabon, together with related long term service contracts.*
• Advised KKR in the sale of European Locomotive Leasing, a leading pan-European provider of electric locomotive leasing solutions, to AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets and Crédit Agricole Assurances.*
• Advised Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, the Belgium-based investment holding company, in its acquisition of a majority stake in Webhelp, one of the world’s leading call centre operators headquartered in Paris; Deal values Webhelp at €2.4 billion (enterprise value), making the acquisition both the largest LBO transaction in France in 2019 and the first for Groupe Bruxelles Lambert.*
• Advised the initial purchasers in connection with NH Hotels’ private placement offering of €400 million five year 4.00% senior notes due 2026.*
• Advised Vía Célere, the largest homebuilder in Spain and Värde Partners portfolio company, in its offering of €300 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Secured Notes due 2026 and €30 million super senior revolving credit facility. The offering represented the first green bond by a residential real estate developer in the Euro market.*
• Advised El Corte Inglés, the leading department store in Spain and one of the world’s largest retailers, in its offering of €600 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2024.*
• Advised KKR in its bid to acquire Miya Water, a water concession company, from Bridgepoint (ultimately acquired by Antin).*
• Advised Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund (MEIF 5) and its portfolio company, Empark, in the group’s issuance of €575 million Senior Secured Notes due 2028 and Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2027.*
• Advised the initial purchasers in multiple high yield issuances, including Altice, Neptune Energy, Tullow Oil, and Aker BP.*
• Advised a leading global asset manager in connection with its minority investments in several private companies, including (i) a developer and provider of cloud-based software to automate back-office financial operations for SMEs, (ii) a US-based online food delivery company and (iii) a farmer-to-farmer network and e-commerce platform offering online tools to assist farmers in agronomic resource management.*

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

Benjamin Haskins is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the firm’s Infrastructure, Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups.

Benjamin represents private equity and infrastructure firms on leveraged buyouts, divestitures, minority investments, joint ventures and fund formation matters. He also has extensive experience representing private and public companies on mergers, strategic acquisitions and carve-out transactions.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Benjamin served as in-house counsel at OMERS Infrastructure and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Benjamin received his Juris Doctor from George Mason University in 2009 and his Bachelor of Arts from Hillsdale College in 2006.

Benjamin is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.

Jared Snyder is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups.

Jared represents private equity funds and privately held and publicly traded companies in connection with mergers, equity and asset acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, controlling and minority investments, and other strategic business combinations, along with corporate governance and general corporate matters. 

Jared has been recognized by his peers via his inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ in Corporate Law (2023-2026) and Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2026).

 Jared graduated from New York University School of Law in 2014 where he served as a Staff Editor and Articles Editor on the Journal of Law & Business. He graduated cum laude from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Finance.

Jared is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.

Jason Sison is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice Groups.

Jason represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, minority investments, restructurings, and other corporate transactions, as well as corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Jason has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ for Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2024 – 2025) and Super Lawyers: New York Metro “Rising Stars” for Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2023 – 2025).

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Jason served as counsel in the New York office of an international law firm as a member of its Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions practice. 

He earned his Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law in 2015. He received a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Philosophy and English from Georgetown University in 2009.

Jason is admitted to practice in the States of New York and New Jersey.

Megan Meagher is a senior litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation, White Collar Defense and Investigations, and Law Firm Defense Practice Groups.

Megan’s practice includes representing clients involved in both internal and government investigations, including those conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice and other enforcement agencies. She also has experience representing corporate and individual clients in high-stakes, complex commercial litigation before state and federal courts. Additionally, Megan regularly advises clients in connection with commercial real estate disputes.

Megan maintains an active pro bono practice, focused on assisting individuals navigating the criminal justice system within the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

She received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 2018 from Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown, she held the position of Managing Editor for the Annual Survey of White Collar Crime, worked as a student attorney in Georgetown’s Domestic Violence Clinic, and served as a Legal Research and Writing Fellow. She received a Bachelor of Science from Wake Forest University in 2010.

Megan is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Deirdre Taylor is an English law partner in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.

Deirdre’s practice encompasses the full range of antitrust issues, including market studies and investigations, cartel investigations, merger control, and abuse of dominance. Deirdre has provided antitrust advice to clients across a number of industries, including: telecommunications, aviation, financial services, oil and gas, engineering, retail, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing. Since joining Gibson Dunn, she has counselled clients such as UBS, Asda, Gala Coral, Energizer, Marriott Hotels, William Hill, Debenhams, and a number of leading technology companies.

Deirdre’s recent experience includes market studies and a market investigation in the digital sector. In relation to cartel investigations, Deirdre’s experience includes defending a multi-national corporation in connection with worldwide antitrust and regulatory investigations in the financial sector and advising a client in the consumer goods sector in relation to a national, and potentially EU-wide, cartel investigation. Recent merger experience includes obtaining U.K. clearance in the engineering sector, U.K. clearance for a high-profile retail merger, and EC clearance for a merger in the electronics distribution sector.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Deirdre spent 5 years at the U.K. competition authority, most recently as Assistant Director of the Cartels and Criminal Enforcement Group. In this role, she was the project director responsible for a number of civil cartel investigations in the aviation, basic manufacturing and agricultural sectors. Deirdre was responsible for the authority’s investigation into collusion between British Airways and Virgin in relation to air passenger fuel surcharges on long-haul flights. She was also heavily involved in policy developments relating to the U.K.’s criminal cartel regime. Deirdre also previously practiced with another international law firm on a wide-ranging competition law, telecommunications, and aviation. She also served in the European Commission as Stagiaire with the Information Technology and Consumer Electronics Unit of DG Competition.

Deirdre is ranked for Competition Law in Chambers UK 2025, Chambers Global 2022 and Chambers Europe 2022, clients describe her as “tak[ing] the very complex and makes it beautifully simple”, having “a truly impressive command of everything, from the big picture and substantive law to the tiniest little details. She is really a full-service partner and extremely dependable”, “a super lawyer who is clever, hard-working and responsive”, “a joy to work with. She is pragmatic, practical and considered in all she delivers” and “a great partner for our business”. In previous years, clients noted her as “very smart, on top of her subject and exceptionally user-friendly” and “unbelievably clever, always on top of the detail, and has very good judgement”. She was recently named one of Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Antitrust and Competition Lawyers,” and is also recognised for EU and Competition Law as well as Competition Litigation in The Legal 500 UK 2025.

Deirdre is a member of the IBA Cartels Working Group. She is assistant editor of “Faull & Nikpay: The EC Law of Competition,” one of the leading practitioner texts in the antitrust and competition law field. She was also part of the team who won the ‘Innovation in legal expertise: enabling business growth’ category at the 2017 FT European Innovative Lawyer Awards.

Recent publications

• GCR Know-How – Immunity, Sanctions & Settlements 2016 – European Union Ali Nikpay, Deirdre Taylor and Attila Borsos
• The EU Damages Directive: Of Promontories and Whirlpools Patrick Doris and Deirdre Taylor, Cartel & Joint Conduct Review Spring 2015
• The New UK Competition Regime: Radically Different or More of the Same? Ali Nikpay and Deirdre Taylor, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2014 5 (5): 278-286

Representative Experience

• Civil cartel investigations, from initial leniency applications and ‘dawn raids’, through the investigative stages to final decision, including settlement. In particular, responsibility for the investigation into collusion between BA and VAA in relation to air passenger fuel surcharges and settlement with BA. Representation of a multi-national corporation in connection with worldwide antitrust and regulatory investigations in the financial sector.
• Wide-ranging conduct-related practice, covering Articles 101 and 102 TFEU and CA98, in sectors such as fast moving consumer goods, hospitality, utilities, aviation and telecommunications/media.
• Wide-ranging merger practice, including before the European Commission, UK CMA and national authorities worldwide, first and second phase merger proceedings. High profile merger deals worked on include Ladbrokes/Coral, Asda/Sainsbury’s, Alcatel/Lucent* and Tetra Laval/Sidel*.

*Includes experience gained prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Daniel G. Swanson is a partner in Gibson Dunn, with offices in Los Angeles and Brussels. Dan, who Co-Chaired Gibson Dunn’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group for 25 years, is a trial and appellate lawyer. His practice focuses on antitrust and competition law, including trial and appellate litigation, class actions, grand jury and civil investigations, merger review, regulatory and competition policy matters, and antitrust counseling. He is the past Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Antitrust Section (having served from 2020-22), the world’s largest organization of international antitrust practitioners. In addition to antitrust matters, Dan has handled a wide variety of commercial litigation disputes.

Dan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, where he was a Harvard Teaching Fellow. He is a member of the California and Brussels Bars, and is qualified as a solicitor of England and Wales and the Republic of Ireland. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, the D.C. Circuit and the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits. He is also a member of the American Economic Association.

Chambers USA gives Dan a “Band 1” ranking and reports that he “has a vast amount of antitrust expertise covering everything from merger investigations to civil and criminal litigation” and describes him as “a highly regarded trial lawyer with a wealth of experience” and as “a ‘tough opponent’ in civil and criminal litigation, alleged cartel matters and IP-related issues.” Additionally, Chambers Global recognizes Dan for his work in Antitrust: Cartel. Law360 has named Dan an MVP, which features attorneys who have “distinguished themselves from their peers in high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals and complex global matters.” Lexology/Who’s Who Legal ranks him as a “Thought Leader” and comments that “Daniel Swanson is a leading competition litigator whose ‘economics PhD is part of what makes him an outstanding attorney,’” and who “scores very highly for his ‘tenacious and persuasive’ litigation practice across a wide range of competition matters.” The Legal 500 places him in its “Hall of Fame” for U.S. Antitrust and Class Action litigation, reserved for “lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.” Benchmark Litigation describes Dan as “nationally recognized for [his] antitrust expertise” and as a California “Litigation Star” and named him California Antitrust Attorney of the Year for 2020. Expert Guide’s Best of the Best USA – 2022 lists him as one of 30 top antitrust practitioners in the country. He has repeatedly been recognized by Best Lawyers in America® since 2006 and has been named the “Lawyer of the Year” for Antitrust in Los Angeles seven times. He has been listed in every edition of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Litigators in America.

Dan has litigated dozens of Sherman Act Section 2 monopolization and dominance cases — including so-called “bet the company” cases — based on a wide range of alleged conduct (e.g., exclusive dealing, refusals to deal, tying, bundling), including defeating the landmark predatory pricing case brought by the Department of Justice, United States v. AMR Corp., 140 F. Supp. 2d 1141 (D. Kan. 2001), aff’d, 335 F.3d 1109 (10th Cir. 2003). For many years, he has given the annual lecture on monopoly law for the Practicing Law Institute’s Annual Developments in Antitrust Law program.

Dan’s practice has a strong focus on the tech sector, network industries, digital platforms, and media and entertainment businesses. He regularly handles antitrust matters involving patents, copyrights and other intellectual property rights and was asked to testify about standard setting in the DOJ-FTC Joint Hearings regarding Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy.

Dan is a regular speaker on antitrust and competition topics and contributes to leading antitrust journals and treatises. He is the author (with Prof. William J. Baumol) of Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory (RAND) Royalties, Standards Selection, and Control of Market Power, 73 Antitrust L.J. 1 (2005) and The New Economy and Ubiquitous Competitive Price Discrimination: Identifying Defensible Criteria of Market Power, 70 Antitrust L.J. 661 (2003), on which the U.S. Supreme Court relied in Illinois Tool Works v. Independent Ink, 547 U.S. 28 (2006).

Dan frequently represents clients in connection with price-fixing allegations, and has handled more than 25 international cartel investigations. He has extensive experience in litigating civil claims based on alleged conspiracy, including price fixing, group boycott, and market allocation claims, and he has defended scores of class action lawsuits asserting such claims (e.g., involving e-books, industrial chemicals, air cargo, financial instruments, food, automotive coatings, polyurethane foam, air travel, gasoline refining, cable, and broadcast television).

Dan also counsels clients on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, and handles merger-clearance matters before the FTC, DOJ, and European Commission, and represents clients in merger‑related civil litigation.

Dan regularly draws upon his experience as a U.K. solicitor and member of the Brussels Bar in handling international antitrust matters. He has served as a Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) to the International Competition Network (ICN) and has participated in multiple ICN Annual Meetings. He previously served as Co-Chair of the ABA Antitrust Section’s International Committee (2002-06) and as Editor-in-Chief of the Antitrust Section’s First Supplement to Competition Laws Outside the United States (2005). He has taught antitrust law at the LSIW Program of the Executive School of Management, Technology and Law of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Dan’s major representations include the following:

• Lead counsel for major technology company in antitrust action in federal court (N.D. Cal. 2024), obtaining dismissal of antitrust claims alleging market division, restraint of trade and conspiracy to monopolize;
• Co-lead counsel for Apple in Epic Games v. Apple Inc., 67 F.4th 946, 967 (9th Cir. 2023), winning judgment for Apple on all antitrust claims for monopolization and restraint of trade after a bench trial (subsequently affirmed on appeal)
• Co-lead counsel for Swisher International in Trendsettah USA, Inc. v. Swisher International, Inc., 31 F.4^th 1124 (9th Cir. 2022), winning order setting aside jury verdict on Section 2 monopolization claim based on plaintiffs’ fraud;
• Lead counsel for major technology company in antitrust action in federal court (D. Del. 2021), obtaining dismissal of antitrust claims alleging monopolization and tying and affirmance on appeal by the Federal Circuit;
• Lead counsel for MGM and United Artists Corporation in connection with the successful termination of the Paramount Decrees, which had “regulated aspects of the movie industry for the last seventy years.” United States v. Paramount, 2020 WL 4573069 (S.D.N.Y. 2020);
• Lead counsel for Nasdaq in a bench trial before the Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Securities and Exchange Commission in In the Matter of the Application of Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, resulting in the rejection of all challenges to the alleged “monopoly” pricing of Nasdaq’s depth-of-book market data, and, on appeal, the overturning of the SEC’s reversal of the ALJ’s decision, see Nasdaq v. SEC, 961 F. 3d 421 (D.C. Cir. 2020);
• Lead antitrust counsel for defendant contract manufacturers in Qualcomm Inc. v. Compal Electronics, Inc., 283 F. Supp. 3d 905 (S.D. Cal. 2017), winning denial of Qualcomm’s preliminary injunction motion seeking billions of dollars in royalties where court held that defendants had asserted “a number of valid defenses and counterclaims” intended to “prevent Qualcomm from continuing to profit from [its] allegedly illegal business model and from continuing to inflict anticompetitive harm”;
• Lead counsel for NBCUniversal in In re National Football Leagues Sunday Ticket Antitrust Litigation (C.D. Cal 2016), obtaining voluntary dismissal of NBCU from antitrust class action against NFL teams, DirecTV, and various networks alleging agreement to eliminate competition in broadcasting and sale of live telecasts of professional football games;
• Lead counsel for UBS in the European Commission’s Credit Default Swap (CDS) investigation, in which the Commission in December 2015 — subsequent to the presentation of UBS’s defense during a 6-day Oral Hearing—dropped its Statement of Objections and withdrew allegations that UBS and other banks infringed Article 101 TFEU by conspiring to prevent CDS exchange trading;
• Lead counsel for Time Warner Cable in Fischer v. Time Warner Cable, 234 Cal. App. 4^th 784 (2015), obtaining dismissal, affirmed on appeal, of a class action complaint seeking over $6 billion in restitution for alleged unfair competition alleging that Time Warner Cable denied subscribers the opportunity to opt out of new Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Lakers sports channels;
• Lead counsel for AkzoNobel subsidiary International Paint in MYD Marine Distributor, Inc. v. International Paint Ltd. (Florida 2014), obtaining summary judgment, subsequently affirmed on appeal, and a multi-million-dollar award of attorney’s fees to be paid by plaintiffs in an antitrust case brought by terminated distributors of yacht paint for an alleged vertical price-fixing conspiracy;
• Lead counsel for Riverside Seat Company, Woodbridge Foam Fabricating, Inc. and SW Foam LLC in United States v. Riverside Seat Company (E.D.N.Y. 2014), resolving criminal charges and obtaining a substantial downward sentencing departure for cooperation in polyurethane foam price fixing investigation;
• Lead counsel for Cox Communications in Brantley v. NBC Universal, 675 F.3d 1192 (9th Cir. 2012), obtaining dismissal of antitrust claims brought by a putative class of over 90 million cable and satellite television subscribers challenging vertical distribution agreements requiring the bundled sale of television programming;
• Lead counsel for Occidental Petroleum Corporation in Massbaum v. SCS Energy (C.D. Cal. 2012), obtaining voluntary dismissal with prejudice after moving to dismiss all antitrust and fraud claims purportedly arising out of defendants’ alleged “monopoly” of “Big Coal” industry;
• Lead counsel for Dole Food in In re Fresh and Process Potatoes Antitrust Litigation (D. Idaho 2011), winning dismissal of an antitrust nationwide class action asserting direct and vicarious liability for alleged conspiracy to restrict the supply and raise the price of potatoes;
• Lead counsel for DreamWorks in DOJ “employee hiring practices” antitrust investigation, obtaining a no-charge disposition;
• Lead counsel for Flexsys N.V. in numerous cases including Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co. v. Flexsys 2010 Trade Cas. 76,930 (CCH) (9th Cir. 2010), obtaining the dismissal, affirmed on appeal, of an antitrust case brought by a competitor alleging a group boycott and “sham” patent litigation; and a series of “indirect purchaser” price-fixing class action lawsuits in over 20 states, obtaining denial of class certification of an alleged class of millions of California consumers and dismissals of 16 other cases prior to class certification;
• Lead counsel for Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. in RealNetworks v. DVD Copy Control Ass’n and Universal City Studios Productions LLLP v. RealNetworks (N.D. Cal 2010), obtaining dismissal of “group boycott” antitrust claims challenging licensing arrangements protecting DVDs from unlawful copying;
• Lead counsel for AkzoNobel in In re Hydrogen Peroxide Antitrust Litigation, 552 F.3d 305 (3d Cir. 2009), obtaining advantageous settlement of price fixing claims and highly favorable appellate decision imposing exacting requirements for certifying price fixing class actions;
• Lead counsel for Pfizer in RxUSA Wholesale v. Alcon Laboratories, 2010-1 Trade Cas. 77,083 (CCH) (E.D.N.Y. 2009) in which Pfizer’s motion on behalf of more than a dozen major drug manufacturers was granted resulting in the dismissal of Section 1 and 2 refusal-to-deal claims by plaintiff secondary wholesaler;
• Lead antitrust counsel for Vivendi in connection with Vivendi’s agreement with GE to sell its 20 percent stake in NBC Universal for $5.8 billion;
• Lead counsel for Martinair Holland N.V. (a subsidiary of KLM) in United States v. Martinair (D.D.C. 2008), resolving criminal charges and obtaining a substantial downward sentencing departure for cooperation in air cargo price fixing investigation;
• Lead appellate counsel for McDonald’s in Abbouds’ McDonald’s LLC v. McDonald’s Corporation, 2006-2 Trade Cas. 75,324 (CCH) (9th Cir. 2006), winning affirmance of summary judgment dismissal of “bid rigging” claims under Section 1 of the Sherman Act;
• Lead counsel for Cox Communications in connection with DOJ and FTC review of the 2006 acquisition of CableAmerica Corporation;
• Lead counsel for the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association, the National Football League, the Business Software Alliance, the Independent Film & Television Alliance and other intellectual property holders as amicus curiae in the Supreme Court in Illinois Tool Works v. Independent Ink, 547 U.S. 28 (2006), successfully arguing that antitrust market power should not be presumed from ownership of a patent or copyright;
• Lead counsel for AkzoNobel in Latino Quimica-Amtex S.A. v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals B.V., 2005-2 Trade Cas. (CCH) 74,974 (S.D.N.Y. 2005) (appeal dismissed with prejudice), obtaining dismissal of extraterritorial price-fixing claims brought by foreign plaintiffs for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act (FTAIA);
• Lead counsel for AkzoNobel in In re Automotive Refinishing Paint Litigation and a related DOJ grand jury investigation into the pricing of automotive refinishing paints, resulting in a favorable civil settlement and the closure of the DOJ investigation without charges;
• Lead counsel for Jostens in Pocino v. Jostens, obtaining the dismissal (affirmed on appeal) of a California state court consumer class action asserting unfair competition and false advertising claims in connection with the on-line sale of insignia merchandise;
• Lead appellate counsel for Jostens in Epicenter Recognition, Inc. v. Jostens, Inc., 2003-2 Trade Cas. 74,270 (CCH) (9th Cir. 2003), obtaining a complete reversal of a judgment of monopolization in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act;
• Lead counsel for AkzoNobel in Coatings Resource v. Akzo Nobel, 2003-1 Trade Cas. (CCH) 73,983 (9th Cir. 2003), obtaining summary judgment (affirmed on appeal) in an alleged predatory pricing case;
• Co-counsel for American Airlines in United States v. AMR Corp., 140 F. Supp. 2d 1141 (D. Kan. 2001), aff’d, 335 F.3d 1109 (10th Cir. 2003), in which American obtained summary judgment in an alleged monopolization and predatory pricing case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice;
• Co-counsel for Toyota at trial and lead counsel on appeal of an antitrust and tort case over Lexus distribution and export policies culminating in a jury verdict for Toyota and a landmark decision of the California Supreme Court modernizing the state’s law of tortious interference, Della Penna v. Toyota, 11 Cal. 4th 376 (1995);
• Lead counsel for National Cable Advertising in Thompson Everett v. National Cable Advertising, 57 F.3d 1317 (4th Cir. 1995), obtaining summary judgment on Section 1 and Section 2 exclusive dealing claims;
• Co-counsel representing a major utility at trial and in summary judgment and appellate proceedings, all resolved successfully: Vernon v. Southern California Edison, 955 F.2d 1361 (9th Cir. 1992); Anaheim v. Southern California Edison, 955 F.2d 1373 (9th Cir. 1992); Anaheim v. FERC, 941 F.2d 1239 (D.C. Cir. 1991).

Sarah Kushner is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department, primarily in the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. Sarah represents clients across a variety of industries, including real estate, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products.

Recent representative matters include:

• Obtaining a complete dismissal of a nationwide antitrust class action brought against a real estate brokerage alleging a conspiracy to inflate real estate commissions. Sarah earned a Litigator of the Week shout-out from AmLaw Litigation Daily for this win.
• Obtaining a complete victory for a law firm client, persuading the court to dismiss with prejudice all claims in a class action alleging fraud in connection with conservation easement transactions.
• Persuading numerous courts to dismiss various claims asserted against a large pharmaceutical company in cases alleging an unlawful agreement and conspiracy to delay generic competition.

Sarah also maintains an active pro bono practice where, among other things, she represents immigration clients seeking asylum. Sarah also represented a journalist pursuing civil rights claims stemming from her improper arrest while reporting on a public protest, which resulted in a settlement for damages and injunctive relief. In November 2023, the Litigator of the Week column in AmLaw Litigation Daily gave Sarah a shout-out for her work on that matter.

From 2019 to 2020, Sarah served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jacqueline H. Nguyen of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before joining Gibson Dunn, she clerked for the Honorable John A. Kronstadt of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Sarah earned her law degree from Stanford Law School in 2017. While in law school, she was a finalist in the Marion Rice Kirkwood Moot Court competition and served as a notes editor for the Stanford Law Review. In 2011, Sarah graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Occidental College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. Prior to entering law school, Sarah worked as a paralegal at the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice.

She is admitted to the State Bar of California.

Michael Klurfeld is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He has represented clients in high-stakes litigation at the trial and appellate levels. His matters have touched on areas including media and entertainment, technology, the First Amendment, commercial disputes, and class actions. He has particular experience with complex substantive and procedural legal issues. Michael has also advised clients on the constitutionality of desired legislation.

Michael has litigated a number of high profile First Amendment cases on behalf of journalists, including CNN v. Trump and Karem v. Trump, in which he helped secure the return of White House correspondents’ suspended press credentials. He also aided the firm’s representation of Mary Trump, the niece of former President Donald Trump, in successfully opposing the Trump family’s attempt to stop the publication of her bestselling memoir.

In his pro bono practice, Michael has represented non-profits and public interest groups on a variety of policy matters. His immigration work includes having secured asylum for an LGBTQ+ individual who fled persecution in her home country.

Michael served as a law clerk to the Honorable Eunice C. Lee of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Vernon S. Broderick of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Michael graduated from New York University School of Law magna cum laude in 2018, where he served as the Executive Editor of the Proceedings journal for NYU’s Moot Court Board and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He also worked as a research assistant for Professor Arthur R. Miller and helped revise the leading treatise on civil practice and procedure in the federal courts. In 2012, Michael graduated with honors from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Mathematics.

Michael is a member of the New York bar. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Min soo Kim is a litigation associate in the Orange County office of Gibson Dunn.

Before joining the firm, Min soo clerked for the Honorable James C. Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Honorable Martha M. Pacold of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Min soo received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2021. While in law school, he served as a publishing editor on the California Law Review. Min soo earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he graduated summa cum laude in 2017.

Min soo is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice before the the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the Fifth Circuit.