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Stephanie Chen is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn.

Stephanie received her J.D. from the New York University School of Law. During law school, she served as an Articles Editor of the New York University Law Review and was a judicial extern for the Honorable Hector Gonzalez of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Prior to law school, Stephanie received a B.S. and M.S., both in Computer Science, from Stanford University and worked as a software engineer.

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

Patrick W. Dennis is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice Group. Pat has extensive experience representing clients in general manufacturing, energy, banking, aerospace, real estate, construction, electronics, oil and gas, cement making, and lead recycling in a wide range of environmental matters. He has substantial experience in the following areas:

Pat is consistently named among the nation’s leading environmental law attorneys. Lawdragon includes him in its recent Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law guide, the sixth consecutive edition of the guide in which he is recognized. Who’s Who Legal recognizes Pat in its 2024 Thought Leaders: USA guide, which features lawyers with “vast expertise and experience advising on some of the world’s most significant and cutting-edge legal matters,” and the “ability to innovate, inspire, and go above and beyond to deliver for their clients.” He is also recommended for outstanding work in environmental law in Who’s Who Legal’s Environment & Climate Change guide. Since 2020, Pat has been included by Legal 500 US as a member of the “Hall of Fame” for Environmental Litigation, most recently being honored in 2024. In 2019, and all years prior since 2009, he was nationally ranked as one of just ten “Leading Lawyers” in Environmental Litigation by Legal 500US. For the past 21 years Pat has been ranked by Chambers USA, often in the Band One category, and for 2024 he is the “Senior Statesman” for California Environmental Law. He has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© for Environmental Law and Environmental Litigation. In 2017, he was listed in Expert Guide’sEnergy and Environment guide as a leading practitioner in Environmental Law. From 2012 to 2014, Best Lawyers named him Los Angeles Litigation – Environmental “Lawyer of the Year.” Pat received the 2016 CLAY (California Lawyer Attorney of the Year) award in the Real Estate and Development category for his role in the redevelopment of the Hollywood Park racetrack into a world class football stadium to house the Los Angeles Rams for their return to Los Angeles.

In 2009, Pat was elected to the exclusive American College of Environmental Lawyers by his peers. He was also a Chair and founding member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Environmental Law Section. Between 2017-2019, Pat was the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the California Science Center Foundation.

Among other successful appellate arguments, Pat represented (1) the Atlantic Richfield Company in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal decision reported at Wilshire Westwood Associates v. Atlantic Richfield Corporation, 881 F.2d 801 (1988) (excluding refined petroleum products from CERCLA coverage under the so-called “petroleum exclusion”); (2) the Climate Action Reserve in the California Second Appellate District decision reported at Our Children’s Earth Foundation v. California Air Resources Board, 234 Cal. App. 4^th 870 (2015) (upholding the validity of the offset protocols for voluntary carbon emission reductions as part of California’s landmark Greenhouse Gas cap and trade regulations); Philip Morris USA in the trial court and appeal in Aranda v. Philip Morris USA Inc., 183 A.3d 1245 (Del. 2018) (establishing a new and more rigorous test for fórum non conveniens in Delaware by Delaware’s Supreme Court).

He received a B.S. (Civil Engineering – 1976); M.S. (Mechanical Engineering – 1978); and a J.D./MBA (1982), all from the University of California, Los Angeles. Pat has practiced exclusively in the environmental law area since graduating from law school.

Stacie B. Fletcher is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is co-chair of the Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice Group. Stacie has handled a wide variety of cases under federal and state environmental statutes, including serving as lead counsel on numerous high-profile enforcement defense matters with U.S. EPA and state agencies.

Stacie has been recognized by Chambers USA as a leading environmental lawyer in the District of Columbia each year since 2021. According to Chambers USA, clients note that “she is highly skilled and her advice is to the point. She is very strong in strategic and operative advice, and she is fully trusted.”

Law360, which recognizes attorneys who have “distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals,” named Stacie a 2023 “Environmental MVP.” Stacie is also recognized as a “Leading Partner” in the area of Environmental Litigation by The Legal 500 US from 2022-2025. She is named by Lawdragon among the Leaders in Environmental Law in 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. In 2018 and 2019, Stacie was recognized as a Euromoney LMG “Rising Star” in the area of Environmental Law. From 2017 to 2021, she was recognized by The Legal 500 US as an up-and-coming “next generation” lawyer in the area of Environmental Litigation and, from 2014 until 2017, as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star” in Environmental Litigation for the Washington D.C. area. In 2025, the Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice Group was named Practice Group of the Year by Law360.

Representative engagements include:

Secured a comprehensive multistate settlement on behalf of Mercedes-Benz USA LLC and Mercedes-Benz Group AG resolving environmental and consumer protection claims related to diesel emissions, following a coordinated investigation by 50 U.S. states and territories (2025).
Representing Daimler Truck North America in litigation seeking to clarify heavy-duty emissions obligations under California law following federal statutory revocation of California’s mobile source requirements. Secured a preliminary injunction against the California Air Resources Board and state officials, halting enforcement of California’s “Clean Truck Partnership” as preempted by federal law. The victory, recognized as an American Lawyer Litigator of the Week Runner-Up, followed coordinated resolutions of parallel federal antitrust and environmental proceedings challenging the “Clean Truck Partnership” and ensured that manufacturers can sell federally compliant trucks nationwide. Daimler Truck North America LLC et al. v. California Air Resources Board et al. (E.D. Cal. 2025).
Successfully obtained on behalf of eBay Inc. Rule 12 dismissal of claims by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency alleging violations of three major federal environmental statutes, a victory recognized as an American Lawyer Litigator of the Week Runner-Up. United States v. eBay Inc., No. 23-CV-7173, 2024 WL 4350523 (E.D.N.Y. Sept. 30, 2024).
Defended upstream oil and gas company in an enforcement action by the United States and the State of New Mexico relating to emissions from the company’s production facilities. The resulting consent decree resolving the case contained one of the first Supplemental Environmental Projects approved by US DOJ and EPA since the policy was reintroduced under the Biden Administration. The vast majority of money committed under the consent decree went directly to improved operations and projects that benefitted the environment and local communities through reduced emissions. United States & New Mexico Environment Department v. Matador Production Company (D.N.M. 2023).
Represented oil and gas company in enforcement action by the United States alleging violations by the company’s predecessor at a refinery in California. The resulting settlement and modification of an earlier consent decree allowed the company to transform its refinery into a renewable fuels plant. United States v., et al v. Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company, L.L.C. (W.D. Tex. 2023).
Secured dismissal with prejudice of local jurisdiction’s tampering claims against Mercedes-Benz and Daimler. This case involved novel issues surrounding the application of state and local anti-tampering laws, including the preemption of those laws and post-sale actions they may apply to. Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County v. Mercedes Benz USA, LLC, et. al. (M.D. Fla. 2022).
Represented Mercedes-Benz and Daimler in an investigation relating to compliance with Clean Air Act requirements governing emissions after-treatment and in related settlement of civil claims with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the California Attorney General, the California Air Resources Board, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. United States v. Daimler AG et al., No. 02564 (D.D.C. 2020) & California v. Daimler AG, No. 02565 (D.D.C. 2020).
Obtained summary judgment for a pulp and paper manufacturer in a series of lawsuits alleging that air emissions from the client’s facilities have caused personal injuries and property damage. International Paper v. Brantley, 09-cv-230, 2017 WL 2292767 (M.D. Ala. May 24, 2017). In 2018, Euromoney LMG recognized this victory as a “Matter of the Year.”
Successfully prosecuted a $250 million CERCLA cost recovery action against the United States represented by the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division. During a two-week bench trial in federal district court, Stacie cross-examined key government experts and directed examination for a critical fact witness on the government’s affirmative defenses. The court entered declaratory judgment requiring defendant United States to pay 29% of the client’s future remediation costs. Lockheed Martin Corporation v. United States (D.D.C.).
Representing energy and chemical manufacturing clients in enforcement actions alleging violations of the Clean Air Act’s New Source Review program, the New Source Performance Standards, and the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants. Most recently, Ms. Fletcher was counsel representing Tesoro Corporation in a company-wide federal enforcement action alleging violations at six of the company’s seven refineries. In crafting the settlement for this enforcement action, the parties developed several initiative measures under EPA’s Next Generation program. EPA promoted the innovative aspects of the settlement in its annual report and listed Tesoro as its third most important enforcement matter in 2016, following the Volkswagen diesel settlement and BP Deepwater Horizon.
Defended refiner in federal enforcement action alleging violations of the Title II regulations governing fuel quality. United States v. Tesoro Corporation (D.D.C.). In lieu of responding to defendant’s motion to dismiss, the government dropped over one-half of its claims. The matter later settled on favorable terms.
Counsel for Fortune 500 company and its subsidiaries in three four separate hazardous waste and/or Clean Air Act federal enforcement matters relating to chemical manufacturing and hazardous waste management.
Defended rocket motor manufacturing company in state court toxic tort litigation alleging personal injuries and medical monitoring damages for alleged groundwater contamination. This case was brought by Tom Girardi (the famed plaintiffs’ counsel featured in the movie “Erin Brockovich”). After securing a pivotal ruling from the San Bernardino Superior Court excluding key expert witnesses for the plaintiffs, the court dismissed all claims raised by the bellwether plaintiffs. Stacie handled key experts on the source of the groundwater contamination and the standard of care for waste disposal practices.
Representing trade association of automobile manufacturers challenging state regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. Green Mountain Chrysler Jeep v. Crombie; Central Valley Chrysler Jeep v. Goldstene; and Association of International Automobile Manufacturers v. Sullivan.

Stacie received her law degree from the University of Virginia, where she was Executive Editor of the Virginia Law Review. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Davidson College.

Stacie is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia.

U-Shaun Lim is an of counsel in the Singapore office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Finance Practice Group.

U-Shaun’s experience spans a range of markets including South and Southeast Asia. In his practice, he regularly represents sponsors, borrowers and lenders on complex cross-border leveraged and acquisition finance transactions as well as project finance, sustainable finance, debt buy-backs, asset-backed lending, receivables financing, reserves-based financings and pre-IPO financings. Recently, U-Shaun has been advising a number of lenders and borrowers on fund financings and loan transactions including subscription line, NAV and “hybrid” facilities.

In addition, he has extensive experience advising private equity, credit and hedge funds, as well as their portfolio companies on highly complex structured products and OTC derivative transactions, including credit default swaps, equity derivatives and stock-lending transactions. His experience also includes secondments to two leading investment banks as legal counsel to their prime brokerage and foreign-exchange desks.

U-Shaun is ranked as an “Associate to watch” for Banking & Finance: International in Singapore in Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide 2026. Clients say “we very much enjoy working with U-Shaun Lim. He is very bright, technically excellent and has a great attitude.” He is also recognized as a leading lawyer “Rising Star” in Banking by IFLR1000. He sits on various finance committees in Asia and is a member of the Indonesian Steering Committee of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (APLMA).

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn in 2015, U-Shaun was a senior associate in the Singapore office of a major international law firm, and before that, he spent five years at a Magic Circle firm in London.

He gained his Bachelor of Laws from University College London in 2005 and his law qualifications (LPC) from BPP with distinction in 2006. He is also an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. His working languages are English and Mandarin.

Recent Awards

2024: “Telecom Deal of the Year – Indonesia” by The Asset at its Triple A Sustainable Infrastructure Awards 2024.
2024: “Energy Transition Deal of the Year – Indonesia” by The Asset at its Triple A Sustainable Infrastructure Awards 2024.
2023: “Indonesian Transition Energy Refinancing Deal of the Year” by The Asset at its Triple A Sustainable Infrastructure Awards.
2022: “Indonesian Transition Energy Deal of the Year” by The Asset at its Triple A Sustainable Infrastructure Awards.
2022: “APAC Deal of the Year” by the Energy Council at its Asia Pacific Awards.
2021: “Debt Market Deal of the Year (Premium)” by Asian Legal Business at its Indonesia Law Awards.
2021: “Finance Deal of the Year: Insolvency and Restructuring” by The Asian Lawyer at its Asia Legal Awards.
2021: Finalist for “Restructuring Team of the Year” and “Restructuring Deal of the Year” by IFLR at its Asia-Pacific Awards.
2021: Finalist for “Debt Market Deal of the Year (Premium)” by Asian Legal Business at its SE Asia Law Awards.
2020: “Restructuring Deal of the Year” by IFLR at its Asia-Pacific Awards.
2020: Finalist for “Restructuring Team of the Year” by IFLR at its Asia-Pacific Awards.
2019: “Debt Market Deal of the Year” by Asian Legal Business at its SE Asia Law Awards; “Asia Pacific Upstream Oil & Gas Deal of the Year” by IJGlobal at its Asia Pacific Awards; “Indonesian Oil and Gas Deal of the Year” by The Asset at its Triple A Asia Infrastructure Awards.
2018: “Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Deal of the Year” by IJGlobal at its Asia Pacific Awards.
2017: “APAC Deal of the Year” by the Oil & Gas Council at its Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Awards.
2016: “Indonesian Project Finance Deal of the Year” by The Asset at its Asia Infrastructure Awards.

Betty Yang is a partner in the Dallas office of Gibson Dunn and a co-chair of the firm’s global Trial Practice Group. Betty represents clients in jury trials, bench trials, and arbitrations across the country in a variety of disciplines, including antitrust, life sciences, intellectual property, and oil & gas.

Betty’s extensive experience as a trial lawyer includes some of the most significant trials of the last 20 years. In a case described in the press as “the Super Bowl of Antitrust,” Betty defended Apple against unprecedented antitrust claims brought by Epic Games Inc. After a three-week bench trial, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled in favor of Apple on all of the antitrust claims. Less than a year later, Betty served as trial counsel for a leading insurance company in the highly publicized month-long trial relating to confirmation of the bankruptcy plan filed by the insured, Boy Scouts of America. Earlier in her career, Betty was trial counsel for BP America Production Co. in the multidistrict litigation relating to the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon and was one of the youngest attorneys to take depositions, including one notable deposition that received national press coverage and led to the imposition of sanctions against one of the parties.

Betty has earned wide recognition for her work on trials, antitrust cases, and complex civil litigation. Chambers USA ranks Betty among the top commercial litigators and antitrust lawyers in Texas. Law360 has recognized Betty as a “Rising Star” in the Trial category. Lawdragon has named Betty to its “500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers,” “500 Leading Litigators in America,” and “500 Leading Global Litigators guides.” Betty has also been recognized by Benchmark Litigation as a “Future Star,” included in the Dallas Business Journal’s“40 Under 40” list celebrating the region’s brightest and most talented leaders, named by Texas Lawyer as an attorney “On the Rise,” and honored by Business Insider as a “Rising Star of the Courtroom.”

Other Representative Matters*

Trial counsel for a large U.S. manufacturer in an international arbitration where the claimant alleged fraud and breach of contract and sought over one billion dollars in damages. After a three week arbitration, the three-member tribunal ruled entirely in favor of the client, awarding it attorneys’ fees and costs from claimant.
Trial counsel for EPC contractor clients defending a $10 billion arbitration relating to the construction of an oil refinery. Obtained a unanimous take-nothing judgment.
Trial counsel for Fortune 100 company in case alleging patent infringement, fraud, and breach of contract in connection with a medical device. Case reached favorable settlement soon after trial began.
Trial counsel for a private equity firm in a dispute with an operator. After a two week arbitration, the three-member tribunal ruled in favor of the client.
Trial counsel for pharmaceutical company client in False Claims Act qui tam suit brought by a generic competitor, with hundreds of millions of dollars at issue. Obtained full dismissal and award of costs and attorneys’ fees for client.
Represented global pharmaceutical company in antitrust action asserting novel “product switching” or “product hopping” theory brought by generic pharmaceutical manufacturer.
Represented leading fintech company in litigation brought by Federal Trade Commission alleging violations of Section 5 of the FTC Act and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in company’s personal and auto loan businesses.
Represented major oil and gas company in litigation relating $500 million acquisition of midstream assets.

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

Outside of the courtroom, Betty is committed to advancement of the legal profession on issues of equality and justice. Betty maintains an active pro bono practice and serves on the board of directors for the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas. Betty also serves as the co-chair of the Texas chapter of the ChIPs Network, an organization that advances and connects women in technology, law, and policy.

Betty received her Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Emory University. During college, Betty worked in the physiology department of Emory University School of Medicine, where she studied the myosin heavy chain composition of the styloglossus muscle in rhesus macaque monkeys.

Betty is a member of the Texas Bar. She is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.

Rod J. Stone is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and has extensive experience in antitrust, intellectual property, unfair competition and competitive business practices litigation, including class actions. Mr. Stone’s antitrust litigation practice encompasses a broad range of antitrust issues under the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, the Robinson-Patman Act, the FTC Act, and state antitrust and unfair competition laws. He has litigated claims of alleged monopolization, tying, exclusive dealing, price fixing, group boycott, refusal to deal and price discrimination, among others, in civil litigation and government investigations throughout the country. He was recently named one of Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Antitrust and Competition Lawyers,” reflecting his standing as a leading practitioner in the field.

Mr. Stone served as lead counsel representing DreamWorks Animation in In re Animation Workers Antitrust Litigation, a federal class action in the Northern District of California alleging a conspiracy among animation studios not to recruit employees and to fix salaries. The case arose out of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into alleged “no poaching” agreements in the high tech industry in which Mr. Stone also represented DreamWorks Animation.

Mr. Stone was a member of the trial team representing Hewlett-Packard Company in Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Oracle Corporation (Santa Clara Superior Court, California), where HP brought suit against Oracle for breach of contract and unfair competition following Oracle’s decision in March 2011 to cease offering new versions of its software products to customers running HP’s mission-critical Itanium servers. The case was tried in two phases. Following a four-week bench trial in June of 2012, the court issued a Statement of Decision that gave Hewlett-Packard a complete victory on all claims tried against Oracle. Following an interlocutory appeal, the damages phase was tried to a jury in 2016 and the jury awarded HP $3.0 billion in damages. The judgment was affirmed by the California Court of Appeal and the California Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court denied Oracle’s petitions for review. In 2021, The Am Law Litigation Daily named Mr. Stone and two other partners Litigators of the Week after the Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment.

Mr. Stone was a member of the trial team that represented Deutsche Telekom AG in a case brought by 14 state attorneys general seeking to block the $26 billion purchase of Sprint by DT’s subsidiary, T-Mobile. Following a bench trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, in February 2020 the court rejected the claims of the states and held that the merger should be allowed.

Mr. Stone also represented Intel Corporation in a monopolization suit filed by Advanced Micro Devices in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, a case which has been frequently characterized as the largest antitrust suit ever filed. AMD alleged that Intel monopolized a worldwide market for microprocessors through alleged exclusive dealing agreements, below cost pricing, manipulation of technological standards and other purportedly anticompetitive conduct. The parties reached a favorable global settlement in November 2009 to end all outstanding litigation, including AMD’s antitrust suit, two claims pending in Japan, and cross-license disputes. Mr. Stone also represented Intel in government investigations and enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission, the New York Attorney General and the European Commission related to Intel’s alleged monopolization of the worldwide market for microprocessors.

Mr. Stone served as lead counsel for Raytheon in Adaptive Power Solutions, LLC v. Hughes Missile Systems Co., 141 F.3d 947 (9th Cir. 1998), in which the Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of Raytheon and another major defense contractor in a Section 1 conspiracy case. Mr. Stone also served as lead counsel for the World Poker Tour in Ferguson v. World Poker Tour Enterprises, Inc., in which the district court denied plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment on the antitrust claims brought by a group of professional poker players against WPTE. A favorable settlement in which the players received no financial compensation was achieved following the denial of the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment.

Mr. Stone represented CFM International, Inc. (a joint venture of GE Aircraft Engines and Snecma), in Aviation Upgrade Technologies, Inc. v. Boeing et al., 78 Fed. Appx. 223 (9th Cir. 2003), in which CFM International obtained summary judgment on plaintiff’s claims under Section 1 of the Sherman Act alleging defendants’ decision not to sell aircraft engines to plaintiff for use in the re-engining of 727 aircraft constituted an anticompetitive group boycott.

Mr. Stone represented 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 Airlines obtained summary judgment in a major predatory pricing and monopolization case brought by the United States Department of Justice. Mr. Stone also was a member of a trial team that successfully defended one of the nation’s largest high-tech companies in a jury trial involving claims of alleged tying and monopolization.

Mr. Stone has extensive experience in handling state and federal government investigations. He has represented a wide range of companies by the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Securities Exchange Commission and state attorneys general involving antitrust, health care fraud, consumer protection, securities, false claims and other issues.

Mr. Stone also has significant class action experience in antitrust and unfair competition cases, including representations of Tenet Healthcare Company, DreamWorks Animation, Smithfield Foods, and Hewlett-Packard Company.

In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Stone also regularly counsels technology and entertainment clients in antitrust matters involving patents, copyrights and other intellectual property.

Eric J. Stock is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. Eric’s practice focuses on antitrust litigation and investigations, especially for clients in the pharmaceutical, financial services, high tech, and health care industries. He is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Antitrust and Competition and Litigation Practice Groups.

Eric is a leading antitrust litigator and one of the few attorneys to earn a Band 1 ranking in Antitrust for New York from Chambers USA. Clients describe him as “a phenomenal powerhouse,” who is “a fantastic litigator,” with “complete command of the law” (Chambers USA). Who’s Who Legal referred to him as “an outstanding competition lawyer” who is “highly esteemed by peers,” particularly in pharmaceutical matters. In 2022, 2024, and 2025, Eric was shortlisted for Life Sciences Antitrust Practitioner of the Year by LMG Life Sciences. Eric has also been recognized as a leading antitrust lawyer by Global Competition Review, The Best Lawyers in America®, Law360, Lawdragon, and Benchmark Litigation—underscoring his reputation as one of the foremost advocates in the field.

Eric’s practice involves all aspects of antitrust enforcement, including civil litigation, government investigations, and merger clearance. He frequently is responsible for coordinating a client’s response to antitrust investigations and civil litigation in multiple jurisdictions and proceedings. He has extensive experience litigating class actions and other civil antitrust cases in federal court, including defending clients accused of unlawful monopolization, collusion, and anticompetitive transactions. Eric has particular experience counseling and litigating matters where a client faces antitrust scrutiny as a result of its defense of its intellectual property rights. His litigation experience includes serving as the lead trial lawyer in a pharmaceutical monopolization case in the Southern District of New York, where his trial victory was upheld on appeal by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Eric served for three years as Chief of the Antitrust Bureau at the New York Attorney General’s Office (“NYAG”). In that role, he was responsible for overseeing the enforcement of New York State’s antitrust laws and representing the interests of New York and its consumers in national antitrust matters. During Eric ’s tenure at NYAG, he served as lead counsel and lead trial attorney for New York in several noteworthy antitrust litigation matters and supervised dozens of antitrust investigations led by the state. He also had extensive experience partnering with the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission in joint federal and state investigations of proposed mergers or other business conduct. For example, he served as lead counsel for New York in the successful lawsuit brought by New York and the U.S. Department of Justice challenging an allegedly anticompetitive merger of Manhattan tour bus operators.

During his time at NYAG, Eric regularly worked with other state AG offices throughout the country on antitrust or related complex business litigation issues. In addition, in early 2016, he served as NYAG’s Acting Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice, a position which supervises much of the office’s business-related affirmative litigation, including cases filed under the Martin Act and state deceptive practices laws.

Eric has recently achieved several important victories for his clients. In a class action brought by purchasers of Eurodollar futures against financial institutions accused of manipulating the LIBOR benchmark, Eric defeated class certification after deposing plaintiffs’ lead economist, leading the briefing, and handling oral argument in both the District Court and Second Circuit. In an action brought against a major branded pharmaceutical company by a competitor alleging that the defendant unlawfully monopolized the market for dry eye medications through the use of bundled discounts, Eric won dismissal on the pleadings. Eric also won a motion to dismiss on behalf of a group of five major New York hospital systems that were accused by a competitor of colluding in violation of the antitrust laws.

Other examples of Eric’s recent representations include:

Pharmaceuticals

Representing major branded pharmaceutical companies in antitrust class actions alleging unlawful “reverse payment” patent settlements (ongoing).
Representing a major biotech company in an antitrust action filed by a competitor alleging monopolization of the market for certain cholesterol reducing medications through the use of bundled discounts (ongoing).
Assisting a branded pharmaceutical manufacturer in obtaining FTC clearance of several important acquisitions (clearance granted).

Financial Services

Representing a major European financial institution in the defense of more than a dozen class actions filed in the S.D.N.Y. alleging manipulation of various interest rate and foreign exchange benchmarks (ongoing).
Representing a major European financial institution in defending class actions filed in the S.D.N.Y. alleging manipulation of precious metals benchmarks (motion to dismiss granted).
Representing a major seller of financial services solutions in a class action alleging antitrust violations in connection with the operation of the “CUSIP” system for identifying North American securities (ongoing).

High Tech and Health Care

Represented major telecommunications company in a civil antitrust lawsuit brought against it by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (resolved).
Representing a major hospital system in Connecticut against accusations by a competing hospital system that it engaged in unlawful monopolization of the local market.

Examples of antitrust litigation matters that Eric is currently litigating, or litigated previously during his time in private practice and government include: In re Zetia (Ezetimibe) Antitrust Litig., 18-MD-02836 (E.D. Va.) (class action alleging unlawful “reverse payment” patent settlement between Merck and generic manufacturer); Shire US, Inc. v. Allergan, Inc. et al., 17-7716 (D.N.J.) (competitor lawsuit alleging Allergan monopolized drug market by bundling and exclusive dealing practices); In re Restasis Antitrust Litigation, 18-MD-2819 (S.D.N.Y.) (class action alleging Allergan monopolized drug market through patent and regulatory actions); In Re: Libor-Based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litig., 11-MD-0262 (S.D.N.Y.) (class action against banks alleged to have manipulated Libor benchmark); In re Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust Litig., 13-CV-07789 (S.D.N.Y.) (class action against banks alleged to have manipulated foreign exchange markets); In re Commodity Exchange, Inc. Gold Futures and Options Trading Litigation, 14-MD-2548 (S.D.N.Y.) (class action against banks alleged to have manipulated precious metals benchmark); U.S. v. AT&T Corp. et al., 17-cv-02511 (D.D.C.) (government antitrust lawsuit seeking to block AT&T/Time Warner transaction); Beltran, et al v. Interexchange, Inc., et al, 14-CV-03074 (D. Col.) (class action against au pair agencies alleged to have fixed au pair stipend levels); United States and New York v. Twin America, LLC et al., Civ. No. 12-8989 (S.D.N.Y.) (government antitrust lawsuit seeking to undo consummated merger of Manhattan tour bus companies); New York v. Actavis plc et al., Civ. No. 14-7473 (S.D.N.Y.) (government challenge to alleged pharmaceutical “product hopping”); In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litig., 06-MD-1775 (E.D.N.Y) (class actions and investigations concerning alleged collusion in air cargo industry); In re Packaged Ice Antitrust Litig., 08-MD 1952 (E.D. Mich) (class actions alleging collusion in packaged ice industry); and IBM v Platform Solutions, Inc., Civ. No. 06-13565 (S.D.N.Y.) (antitrust dispute between IBM and competitors that sought to emulate IBM’s mainframe computers).

Earlier in his career, Eric was an antitrust litigation partner at another major international law firm. He is a past Chair and current Executive Committee member of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association; he previously served as the Section’s Vice Chair, Secretary and Financial Officer. Eric serves as Co-Chair of the Global Private Litigation Committee of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association.

Eric served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Allen Schwartz in the Southern District of New York. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998.

Eric is the author of “State Antitrust Enforcement in the National Economy: Promoting More Democratic and Effective Outcomes Through State Reliance on Federal Law,” published in Antitrust, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring 2025), by the American Bar Association. He is also the co-author of the publication “What the Antitrust Case Against Martin Shkreli Tells Us About the Latest Trends in Antitrust Enforcement and Shareholder Liability,” originally published by the New York Law Journal on February 28, 2022, which was selected in 2023 by Concurrence as the winning Business Article in the Concerted Practices category.

Cynthia (“Cindy”) Richman is Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. Her practice focuses on trial and appellate litigation, class actions, grand jury and civil investigations, merger review, regulatory and competition policy matters, and antitrust counseling. Over the past two decades Cindy has litigated, including through trial, “bet the company” cases touching almost every aspect of antitrust in a wide range of industries. Cindy’s practice has a strong focus on the tech sector, network industries, and digital platforms.

Cindy has been repeatedly recognized by her peers for inclusion in Chambers USA’s Antitrust: Litigation, Best Lawyers in America®’s Litigation: Antitrust, and in the Legal 500 United States as a “Leading Lawyer” in the fields of merger control, cartels and civil litigation/class action defense. She was also featured as one of Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Litigators in America” (2023-2026) and “500 Leading Antitrust and Competition Lawyers for 2025 and 2026.” Global Competition Review named Cindy to its list of Top 100 Women in Antitrust 2021; it also shortlisted her for GCR’s 2021 Litigator of the Year award. Who’s Who Legal has repeatedly recognized Cindy for her “impressive advocacy skills” and “strong track record in important cases.”

A sample of Cindy’s recent and ongoing representations include:

Lead counsel to major technology company in numerous class actions and private damages actions in cases around the country alleging violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act;
Co-led the team that successfully defended Apple Inc. against antitrust claims in the three-week Epic v. Apple trial that The New York Times referred to as “one of the biggest antitrust trials in Silicon Valley’s history”; and
Co-lead counsel for Swisher International in Trendsettah USA, Inc. v. Swisher International, Inc., 31 F.4th 1124 (9th Cir. 2022), winning order setting aside jury verdict on Section 2 monopolization claim based on plaintiffs’ fraud.

Cindy is an active member of the antitrust bar. Among other activities, she serves as the Vice-Chair of the Unilateral Conduct Committee of the ABA’s Antitrust Section, is a member of the International Bar Association’s Antitrust Section Unilateral Conduct Working Group, authors a yearly paper for PLI on monopolization, speaks widely on a range of antitrust topics and has contributed to leading antitrust journals and treatises including Antitrust Law Developments, Antitrust Source, The Antitrust Adviser, and The Antitrust Report.

Cindy served as a law clerk to the Honorable Thomas Penfield Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She received her law degree magna cum laude in 2002 from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as Executive Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Cindy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 1998.

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

Joshua Lipton is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn. He maintains a broad-based antitrust and consumer protection practice, including litigation in state and federal courts, merger and acquisition investigations, civil and criminal antitrust and consumer protection investigations by government authorities, and antitrust counseling.

Josh has been listed as a leading antitrust lawyer in a number of publications, including Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Practical Law Company’s Competition, The Law and Leading Lawyers Worldwide, and Super Lawyers in its Antitrust Litigation and Mergers & Acquisitions categories. Lawdragon has named him to its “500 Leading Litigators in America” and “500 Leading Antitrust and Competition Lawyers,” featuring attorneys who excel representing principally corporations and other organizations in litigating claims. He has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal Competition and has also been ranked as a “Client Service All-Star” by BTI Consulting.

Josh’s representative matters include:

In re MultiPlan Health Insurance Provider Litigation (N.D. Ill. 2025). Representing UnitedHealth Group in defending multidistrict class action antitrust claims alleging a conspiracy among managed care organizations to use MultiPlan’s services to systematically underpay benefits for visits to out-of-network providers.
Nielsen / NCS / Circana (2025). Lead counsel for Nielsen and NCS in seeking FTC clearance for the sale of advertising targeting and measurement businesses to Circana.
SES / Intelsat (2025). Lead counsel for SES in seeking clearance from DOJ and competition authorities on six continents for the acquisition of Intelsat, a global satellite competitor.
FTC v. Novant and Community Health Systems (W.D.N.C. 2024). Member of trial team representing CHS that secured district court order rejecting the FTC’s attempt to enjoin Novant’s acquisition of two suburban Charlotte hospitals from CHS.
ExxonMobil / Pioneer Natural Resources (2024). Represented Pioneer in securing FTC clearance for ExxonMobil’s $64.5 billion acquisition of Pioneer, which created the largest oil and gas producer in the Permian Basin.
OJ Commerce, LLC v. KidKraft, Inc. (S.D. Fla., 11th Cir. 2022). Led the team that secured summary judgment on behalf of KidKraft and MidOcean Partners, and a unanimous affirmance by the Eleventh Circuit, on monopolization and unfair competition claims brought by a disgruntled former distributor.
Maderazo v. Baptist Health Systems et al. (W.D. Tex. 2019). Defended Tenet Healthcare in class action alleging that three hospital systems in San Antonio conspired to suppress nurses’ wages. The court excluded the opinions of the plaintiffs’ class certification expert relating to antitrust impact and denied the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification.
In re: Aetna UCR Litigation (D.N.J. 2018). Defended Aetna in a multidistrict class action asserting claims under antitrust, RICO, ERISA, and state consumer protection laws based on allegations that Aetna systematically underpaid benefits for visits to out-of-network providers by using a supposedly rigged database of provider charges. In 2018, the court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification. Shortly afterward, the plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their claims with prejudice.
AT&T / Time Warner (D.D.C. 2018). Member of the trial team that defeated the DOJ’s challenge to AT&T’s $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner.
Leegin Creative Leather Prods., Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., 551 U.S. 877 (2007). Authored the briefs to the Supreme Court on behalf of Leegin in this landmark case in which the Supreme Court overturned the century-old per se rule against resale price maintenance.

Josh received his law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan School of Law in 1998, where he graduated first in his class and was a member of the Michigan Law Review. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Amherst College in 1994. Josh is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

Scott D. Hammond, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Enforcement of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, brings exceptional experience to companies and executives subject to investigations by the U.S. DOJ’s Antitrust Division and the world’s other major competition enforcement authorities.

Scott is internationally recognized by senior competition officials and private practitioners as one of the leading figures behind the globalization of cartel enforcement. His knowledge of and experience with the policies, practices and investigation strategies of U.S. and foreign competition authorities positions him to represent companies and their executives in the potentially high-stakes arena of U.S. DOJ and international cartel investigations and litigation.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Scott served as a U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor for 25 years. Most recently, he served for eight years as the Antitrust Division’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Enforcement – the highest ranking career lawyer in the Antitrust Division. In that capacity, he was responsible for supervising all of the Department of Justice’s domestic and international criminal antitrust investigations as well as overseeing all of the criminal antitrust litigation nationwide. Scott oversaw the work of more than 100 federal prosecutors and led criminal prosecutions in a wide range of industries, including auto parts, LIBOR, municipal bonds, LCD panels, air transportation, real estate foreclosure auctions, construction, chemicals and coastal freight. He personally tried criminal antitrust cases and has directed the litigation of dozens of jury trials. In addition, he assisted in overseeing all of the Antitrust Division’s criminal appellate work between 2005 and 2013. More than 20 of his policy papers covering all aspects of antitrust investigations and prosecutions are currently listed on the Department of Justice’s website.

Scott assists clients in antitrust and white-collar crime compliance, crisis management and government investigations across all industry sectors. He provides clients with know-how on the Department of Justice’s latest strategies for monitoring and uncovering antitrust and related federal violations which can also be employed by companies to design effective compliance programs as well as to ensure early detection of violations. Timely detection can result in a complete pass from prosecution for companies and their executives under the Antitrust Division’s Corporate Leniency Program that Scott helped implement and that he oversaw while at the Division. In addition, Scott was instrumental in the design and implementation of similar leniency programs in dozens of jurisdictions around the world.

Scott ‘s practice focuses on the representation of clients in cross border investigations running in parallel with U.S. Department of Justice investigations. During his tenure at the Antitrust Division, he was the principal point of contact for cartel matters with senior competition officials abroad and oversaw the Department’s coordination of joint investigations with numerous jurisdictions, including the European Union, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. As a result, Scott is well versed in the anti-cartel enforcement investigative powers as well as the policies and practices of every major competition enforcement authority. His experience allows clients to create a comprehensive and integrated global strategy to assess and mitigate their potential exposure to criminal, civil and administrative sanctions by enforcement agencies working in tandem across the globe.

Companies and high-level executives that are subject to U.S. Department of Justice criminal antitrust investigations will routinely face private damage lawsuits in the United States and, with growing frequency, elsewhere. Scott assists clients in navigating the intersection of government and private damage proceedings and litigation. In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice often brings criminal antitrust charges in combination with other federal crimes. While with the Department, Scott supervised more than a hundred prosecutions involving wire fraud, mail fraud, FCPA, money laundering, commercial bribery, obstruction of justice and other federal crimes.

Scott is nationally recognized by Chambers USA as a leading attorney in the areas of Antitrust: Litigation, and Antitrust: Cartel from 2015-2025, where clients note that “[h]e should be your first call if you have any antitrust issue, especially cartel or price fixing-related,” and that he “has great contacts given his former DOJ antitrust role and he’s not scared to think outside the box.” He has also been ranked by Chambers Global as a leading attorney in Antitrust: Cartel from 2017 to 2025. The Legal 500 – United States named him “Hall of Fame” honoree for Antitrust – Cartel in 2022, 2024 and 2025. Additionally, Scott has earned recognition as a District of Columbia “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation every year since 2016 and was named a 2023 “Litigation Star” in Competition/Antitrust. He has also been included in The Best Lawyers in America© in Antitrust Law every year since 2016. He is featured as one of Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Litigators in America” 2023-2026 and “500 Leading Antitrust & Competition Lawyers” for 2025 and 2026. Scott is recognized as a Competition Thought Leader in multiple guides published by Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal), consistently ranked in the “Thought Leaders Global Elite” list and included in the “Thought Leaders USA” guide. In addition, he is listed in Global Competition Review’s International Who’s Who: Competition Lawyers. In 2015, The National Law Journal named Scott to its Regulatory & Compliance Trailblazers list for his role in developing and implementing the DOJ’s Corporate Leniency Program during his time as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Enforcement. While with the Department of Justice, Scott received the Presidential Rank Award (the highest honor conferred on federal government executives), the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award, the Antitrust Division’s Award of Distinction (twice) as well as numerous other citations.

Scott and his wife Anne, have three sons, Niklas, Lukas and Jakob.

Svetlana Gans is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn focusing on Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice Antitrust Division competition and consumer protection investigations, rulemaking, and related policy matters. Svetlana previously served in multiple roles at the FTC for almost a decade. Most recently, Svetlana served as the FTC Chief of Staff in the first Trump Administration and senior advisor to Acting FTC Chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen on FTC enforcement matters, interagency coordination, and strategic initiatives including concerning regulatory reform, process reform, and healthcare policy. Svetlana’s practice runs the full scope of the FTC including inquiries pertaining to unfair billing, deceptive advertising practices, right to repair, franchising, and Made in the USA claims; alleged anticompetitive conduct; Magnuson-Moss and APA rulemakings; agency market studies and workshops; proactive engagement and competitor complaints; and related external engagement. Svetlana was recently featured to Lawdragon’s prestigious lists of “500 Leading Litigators in America” and “500 Leading Antitrust and Competition Lawyers.” She was also recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for her exceptional work in Antitrust Litigation for 2025-2026.

Svetlana has served in ABA Antitrust Section leadership for almost two decades and currently serves as the Committee Officer, overseeing 31 substantive committees and their leadership. Svetlana also serves as the Co-Chairman of the Federalist Society’s Corporations, Securities, and Antitrust Executive Committee and was recently awarded the inaugural Volunteer of the Year Award for the organization. She has also initiated and led several novel programs to mentor and assist law students and young lawyers interested in consumer protection and antitrust law. Svetlana is also a sought-after speaker.

Svetlana served as a Judicial Intern to the Honorable John L. Kane, Jr., while in law school, and as an Honors Program Paralegal for the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Merger Taskforce, prior to law school. She received her law degree with high honors from the University of Denver College of Law and earned her undergraduate degrees cum laude from Boston University.

Recent speaking engagements include:

Interviewer, Consumer Brands Association Legal Forum, Interview with FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak (February 2025)
Moderator, Federalist Society, Antitrust and FTC Reform in the New Congress (February 18, 2025)
Organizer, Federalist Society, The Congressional Review Act: Process and Procedure (February 3, 2025)
Moderator, Federalist Society, Is FTC Administrative Litigation Constitutional (December 16, 2024)
Moderator, Cost-Benefit Analysis in FTC Rulemaking, Regulatory Transparency Project (February 8, 2023)
Moderator, FTC Rulemaking, Guidelines, and More, Mercatus Second Annual Antitrust Forum (January 26, 2023)
Speaker, FTC Rulemaking, ABA Antitrust Law Section Fall Forum (November 14, 2022)
Moderator, FTC Privacy Update, Privacy + Security Academy (November 4, 2022)
Speaker, FTC’s Rulemaking Authority: Update Following Recent Developments, Concurrences (October 24, 2022)
Speaker, The FTC’s Independence After Selia Law v. CFPB, The C. Boyden Gray Center (October 14, 2022)
Speaker, Understanding FTC Rulemaking, Future of Antitrust Law, BYU (September 27, 2022)
Speaker, Regulating Privacy: A Discussion About FTC Privacy Rulemaking, Law & Economics Center, George Mason University School of Law (September 7, 2022)
Speaker, Is Antitrust Becoming HR’s Biggest Headache, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Antitrust Webcast (July 26, 2022)
Speaker, Consumer Protection Year in Review, ABA Antitrust Law Section Spring Meeting (April 6, 2022)
Moderator, Antitrust Forum: One Year of Biden Antitrust, Mercatus Antitrust Conference (Jan. 26, 2022)
Moderator, Understanding FTC’s Penalty Offense Authority and Other Agency Developments, ABA Antitrust Law Section (Jan. 12, 2022)
Speaker, FTC’s Revolution Through Rulemaking, Federalist Society Regulatory Transparency Project (November 2, 2021)
Moderator, The FTC in the Current Administration: Buckle Your Seatbelts, Federalist Society (October 27, 2021)
Speaker, Consumer Protection and Privacy Cases That Matter, ABA Antitrust Law Section Consumer Protection Conference (July 12, 2021)
Session Leader and Moderator, The Future of FTC Rulemaking, Federalist Society Chatham Program (June 9, 2021)
Moderator, Unleashing Your Superpowers: Women’s Professional Development Series, ABA Antitrust Law Section (May 14, 2021)
Moderator, Consumer Protection Priorities in the Biden Administration, Regulatory and Enforcement Priorities in 2021, Federal Communications Bar Association (April 26, 2021)
Moderator, Fireside Chat with Bilal Sayyed, former FTC Director, Office of Policy Planning, Federalist Society (February 22, 2021)
Moderator, Cultivating Women’s Leadership on Corporate Boards, Federal Communications Bar Association (January 29, 2021)
Interviewer, Fireside Chat with FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips: The House Judiciary Antitrust Staff Report, Federalist Society (November 18, 2020)
Moderator, The Evolving Privacy Landscape: The Next Steps on the Federal Front, Industry Perspectives, Federal Communications Bar Association (November 15, 2020)
Speaker, Data Privacy in the New Decade: Consumer Rights, Platform Regulation, and Enforcement Mechanisms, FCBA (October 26, 2020)
Moderator, Implications of Data Portability: A Consumer Protection Tool or Burden? Regulatory Transparency Project (October 5, 2020)
Moderator, FTC Rulemaking: Underutilized Tool or National Nanny Renewed?, Federalist Society (July 8, 2020)
Moderator, Deep Dive: FTC Remedial Authority, Federalist Society (June 29, 2020)
Moderator, Nascent Competition Analysis, Federalist Society Chatham House (June 10, 2020)
Speaker, FTC “Unfair Methods of Competition” Rulemaking: Pros, Cons, and Process, Federalist Society (June 8, 2020)
Interviewer, Fireside Chat, Hot Topics with FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson, Federalist Society (May 18, 2020)
Speaker, FTC Fundamentals and Hot Topics for Comms. Lawyers, FCBA (March 4, 2020)
Moderator, Be Fearless: Women Leading Washington, WICT DC/Baltimore Chapter (February 27, 2020)
Speaker, Trade Association Careers, Antitrust Section (February 2020)
Moderator, Women Leading Together (Panel and Table Discussion), FCBA Inaugural Women’s Summit (Jan. 29, 2020)
Speaker, Regulatory Oversight of Technology Companies, PLI 37^thAnnual Institute on Telecommunications Policy & Regulation (December 10, 2019)
Speaker, Protecting Children Online, FOSI 2019 Annual Conference (November 21, 2019)
Speaker and Moderator, 2019 Antitrust Fall Forum Tech Summit: A Competitive Future (November 18, 2019)
Moderator, Deep Dive Episode 76 – FTC’s 21^stCentury Hearings, Federalist Society, Regulatory Transparency Project’s Fourth Branch Podcast (October 28, 2019)
Moderator, FTC 13(b) Authority – Powers, Process & Suggestions for Reform (October 18, 2019)
Moderator, FTC’s 21^stCentury Hearings: Paving the Way for Principles and Guidance, Federalist Society (October 4, 2019)
Speaker, Antitrust in the Digital Age, Federalist Society (October 2019)
Speaker, FTC & DOJ Transition Team: TPI Aspen Breakout Session, TPI Aspen (August 19, 2019)
Moderator, Morning Fireside Chat with FTC’s Andrew Stivers, Seventh Annual Public Policy Symposium on the Law & Economics of Privacy and Data Security (May 10, 2019)
Moderator, Toward a New Baseline Privacy Law: Harmonizing the GDPR, California, and the FTC, Privacy + Security Forum (April 5, 2019)
Speaker, Social Media and Influencer Marketing: How FTC Guidance and Settlements Are Influencing Social Media Engagement, Venable LLP Advertising Law Boot Camp and Symposium (April 3-4 2019)
Interviewer, Fireside Chat with FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson, Federal Trade Commission, Federalist Society (March 6, 2019)
Speaker, Know Yourself: Networking in the Digital Age, WICT DC/Baltimore Chapter (February 21, 2019)

Recent articles include:

SCOTUS Preview: Axon v. FTC, Federalist Society (October 8, 2022)
FTC Launches Commercial Surveillance Rulemaking, Truth on the Market (August 17, 2022)
The FTC Heads for Legal Trouble, Wall Street Journal (August 8, 2022)

Sébastien Evrard is the Partner in Charge of the Hong Kong office of Gibson Dunn . He is a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. Based in Asia since 2010, Sébastien handles complex antitrust matters in Asia and the European Union—including merger control, non-merger investigations, and litigation—for clients within a wide range of industries such as aviation/shipping, banking, energy/mining, media/entertainment, software/hardware, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, automotive, and fast moving consumer goods. His practice also focuses on the antitrust aspects of intellectual property rights, and the interplay between data privacy and antitrust. He has represented clients before multiple regulators in Asia and Europe, and has litigated cases in multiple jurisdictions.

Sébastien is regularly recognized as an expert and notable practitioner in his field by publications such as Chambers Greater China Region, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Who’s Who Legal and IFLR1000. He was recently included in Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Antitrust and Competition Lawyers” for Asia and EU. The Legal 500 Asia Pacific states that “The ‘extraordinarily good’ Evrard is noted for his extensive knowledge of Chinese anti-monopoly law.” A client was quoted within the guide saying “Sébastien Evrard is an excellent antitrust lawyer, among the very best in this field. He picks up on issues quickly, is extremely responsive and a pleasure to work with.” Interviewed clients noted in the Chambers Greater China Region guide that “Sébastien is great at handling complex antitrust litigation. He is very experienced in guiding the direction of big-picture issues, and he understands how economics works for litigation,” and that “he has the ideal combination of a formidable legal mind together with commercial and strategic acumen.”

His recent experience includes advising:

Marriott’s acquisition of Starwood
Kimberly Clark’s acquisition of Softex
Uber’s sale of its South East Asia business to Grab
A leading technology company in abuse of dominance investigations and litigation in China
Various car manufacturers in relation to cartel investigations in multiple Asian jurisdictions
A manufacturer of fast moving consumer goods in a cartel investigation in Taiwan
Hong Kong Telecommunications in a declaratory action before the Hong Kong Court of Appeal

Sébastien gained his LL.M. from Columbia University (James Kent Scholar (highest honor) and Walther Gelhorn Prize (valedictorian) in 2003, and his Licentiaat in de Rechten from the Catholic University Leuven in 1995. He is admitted to practice in Brussels and Hong Kong.

Sébastien is a co-author of Anti-Monopoly Law and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2011), the leading English treatise on competition law in China, and Competition Law in China: Laws, Regulations, and Cases (Oxford University Press, 2014). He also has published multiple articles related to competition, intellectual property, and information technology law. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences. He speaks English, French and Dutch.

Rachel S. Brass is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn and Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department where her practice focuses on litigation and investigations in the antitrust, class actions, and employment areas. Rachel has extensive experience representing international and domestic clients in high-stakes appellate litigation in the Supreme Court, as well as federal and state appellate courts throughout the United States.

Rachel’s antitrust and competition experience includes litigation and trial of indirect and direct purchaser class actions, trial of price fixing, collusion and monopolization claims, international and domestic cartel investigations, mergers and acquisitions, and other antitrust investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, United States Department of Justice, the States Attorney Generals, European Commission, Canadian Competition Bureau, Korean Fair Trade Commission, Japan Fair Trade Commission, Administrative Council for Economic Defense – CADE, and Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Rachel has represented clients in a number of industries, including semiconductors, health care, insurance, hardware, software, telecommunications, and other high technology, auto parts, package delivery, transportation, logistics, agriculture, and retail, among others. She has significant experience in international matters and for seven years taught an upper-level course in International Antitrust Law at Berkeley Law School.

In addition to her international competition practice, Rachel has successfully represented companies in single plaintiff and class action Title VII, ADA, FEHA, and Unruh Act discrimination claims, as well as wage and hour class actions. Representative matters include persuading the United States Supreme Court to reverse the certification of the largest class action brought under Title VII; litigating the scope of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower protections; persuading the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to vacate the certification of the largest class action brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act on interlocutory review; obtaining clarification of the standards for the business necessity defense and vacatur of a district court’s adverse post-trial rulings under the Americans with Disabilities Act from the en banc Ninth Circuit; and obtaining and sustaining a favorable district court ruling rejecting plaintiffs’ counsel’s claim for attorney’s fees in a California Fair Employment & Housing Act case.

Rachel is consistently recognized for her outstanding antitrust work by leading professional publications. In 2022, Law360 named her a Competition MVP, highlighting her successful defense at the class certification stage in major “no poach” litigation involving fast-food franchises, as well as her victory for Apple in the Epic Games litigation. Legal 500 U.S. recognized Rachel as a “Leading Lawyer” for Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Action Defense. Additionally, she was named to Who’s Who Legal Competition in 2023 and 2024. Expert Guides included her in its 2022 Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law. Global Competition Review listed Rachel among its “Top 100 Women in Antitrust” in 2021, while the Daily Journal has recognized her on its “Top Antitrust Lawyers” list every year from 2020 to 2023. She was also featured in Lawdragon‘s “500 Leading Litigators in America” (2023-2026) and “500 Leading Antitrust and Competition Lawyers” for 2025 and 2026. In 2019, Women Competition Professionals in the Americas honored Rachel as one of their “40 in Their 40s.” In its annual Top Verdicts of California 2018 feature, the Daily Journal recognized Rachel for her complete defense jury verdict, a first of its kind class action trial of direct and indirect purchaser antitrust claims. In 2018, she was selected by The American Lawyer as a “Litigator of the Week” in connection with that same win. Rachel has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America® in Litigation-Antitrust since 2013, identified in the Antitrust category by Super Lawyers, and ranked in Band 1 in the California Antitrust category by Chambers USA. Concurrences Review recognized Rachel at its 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards for her article “Practical Advice for Avoiding Hub-and-Spoke Liability,” which was selected as the winner in the Business category, Concerted Practices section. The article originally appeared in the October 2016 issue of The Antitrust Source.

Rachel speaks regularly on antitrust and complex class action issues, including programs for the United States Department of Justice, The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California, the State Bar of Arizona, the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. She is the past-President of the Northern California Chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers and serves on the Board of Directors of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), an organization that protects unaccompanied children who enter the U.S. immigration system alone to ensure that no child appears in court without an attorney. She is on the Advisory Board of the University of Minnesota Law School. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Antitrust Report from 2008 to 2016.

Rachel received her law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota in 2001. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, a member of the Order of the Coif, and recipient of the Ralph M. McCareins Antitrust Prize. Prior to joining the firm, Rachel served as a law clerk for the Honorable James M. Rosenbaum, United States District Court, District of Minnesota. Rachel graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Rachel is admitted to practice in the State of California. She is a member of the firm’s Hiring, Professional Development, and Bay Area Diversity Committees, and maintains an active pro bono practice representing clients in cases involving civil rights, immigration, and other matters.

Attila Borsos is a partner at Gibson Dunn based in the Brussels office. He is a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition, International Trade, Litigation, and Government Contracts Practice Groups and has 15 years of experience advising on antitrust and competition as well as international trade matters.

Attila was recognized as one of the leading competition lawyers of his generation in the 2020 edition of Global Competition Review‘s prestigious “40 Under 40.” He has been consistently named a Future Leader in Competition by Lexology (formerly Who’s Who Legal) since 2017. He is also recommended in the Competition sections of The Legal 500 EMEA 2022 for Belgium and The Legal 500 UK 2024 for EU and Competition Law. Most recently, he was included in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Antitrust and Competition Lawyers for 2025 and 2026.

Attila advises on a wide range of antitrust issues, including merger control, vertical arrangements, and cartel investigations, both before the European Commission and national competition authorities. He regularly advises international companies on their global merger control strategy and co-ordinates merger control and other regulatory filing approvals in order to get the deal through and meet clients’ strategic objectives. He has particular experience in advising companies in the IT, consumer goods, construction materials, and chemical industries sectors.

Attila has significant experience in State aid proceedings before the European Commission and subsequent litigation before the European Courts. He has successfully advised investors on the State aid aspects of the privatization a flag carrier airline of one of the EU member states and subsequently represented that airline with State aid complaints regarding Alitalia, Croatian Airlines, and Air Serbia. He has particular expertise in the application of the market economy investor principle, rescue and restructuring aid, the rules regarding direct business taxation, the guidelines on regional aid, and the sale of public property.

In the field of international trade, Attila represents both complainants and importers in anti-dumping and anti-subsidy proceedings before the European Commission. He regularly advises importers, exporters and downstream users on the implications of trade defence measures, the impact of Brexit on customs tariffs and trade defence instruments, tackling technical barriers to trade in third countries and on the EU sanctions regime.

Attila received his law degree, summa cum laude, from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He earned his master’s degree in WTO Law and International Trade Law at the University of Rennes 1, which he attended with the scholarship of the French Government. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Attila trained and practiced as an associate in the competition group of a Magic Circle firm in Brussels. He completed internships at the European Commission (DG Trade), the General Court of the European Union and the Hungarian Competition Authority.

Attila taught EU competition law and EU State aid law at the Pázmány Péter University in Budapest and EU competition law and international trade law at the University Paris Dauphine in Paris. Since 2019, he has been a guest lecturer on EU State aid law for LLM students at the University of Toulouse.

Attila is qualified in Belgium and is also a member of the “EK” list of the Budapest Bar in Hungary. A native Hungarian speaker, he is fluent in English and French and proficient in German.

Tammie Beassie Banko is an associate whose practice focuses on complex commercial and securities litigation, including work on federal court litigation and trial teams, with additional experience in white collar defense and government investigations. She represents clients in high-stakes disputes across all phases of litigation, including pre-trial proceedings, dispositive motion practice, and trial.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Tammie served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Kurt D. Engelhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She previously clerked for the Honorable Sidney A. Fitzwater of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Before her appellate clerkship, Tammie was an associate at an international law firm, where she maintained a broad litigation practice encompassing complex commercial disputes, securities litigation, and white collar matters. She has litigated trade secret and other complex business disputes with responsibility for drafting through all stages of litigation. Her experience also includes representing clients in parallel DOJ and SEC investigations and other regulatory bodies, advising on litigation risk and strategy. She has secured SEC no-action letters, DOJ declinations, and represented a defendant through trial. She also has experience representing clients in State AG investigations and enforcement actions.

Tammie earned her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from SMU Dedman School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as a Casenote and Comment Editor and Articles Editor of the SMU Law Review. She received her Bachelor of Arts, with high honors, from The University of Texas at Austin, where she studied Plan II Honors and English and minored in Spanish. Tammie began her career as a Teach for America corps member, teaching fifth- and eighth-grade reading and writing in Memphis, Tennessee.

Tammie is admitted to practice in Texas and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas.

Kevin Runfola is a corporate associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn.

Kevin graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 2024. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Management and Policy from Georgetown University, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

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

Lane Corrigan is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She returned to the firm in 2024 after clerking for the Honorable William F. Kuntz, II of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She is currently on secondment.

Lanie earned her J.D. with pro bono distinction from Stanford Law School in 2022. During law school, she served as a Notes Editor of the Stanford Law Review, Managing Editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, and board member of Stanford’s International Refugee Assistance Project. She was also awarded the Gerald Gunther Prize for Outstanding Performance in Legal Research and Writing.

Lanie received her B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Claremont McKenna College, where she graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Lanie is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York and Eastern District of New York.

Alec F. Mouser is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn. He specializes in briefing dispositive and other high-stakes motions—both in trial court and on appeal—across an array of litigation areas, including data privacy, mass torts, and administrative law.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Alec served as a law clerk to the Honorable Julius N. Richardson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Honorable Howard C. Nielson, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah.

Alec earned his law degree with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as a Comments Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. Before law school, he graduated summa cum laude from William & Mary, where he majored in History and Government.

Alec is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, and D.C. Circuits.

Blake Estes is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the Investment Funds Practice Group.

Blake guides alternative asset managers and broker-dealers through all aspects of the structuring, development, and distribution of private wealth-focused investment products, including interval funds, tender offer funds, Business Development Companies (BDCs), and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), among other evergreen retail alts structures.

Blake works extensively with alternative asset managers investing across a range of asset classes, including real estate, infrastructure, private equity and private credit. He steers clients through complex, intersecting regulatory frameworks to build retail distribution infrastructure, structure investment products that meet the unique needs of retail and mass affluent investors and develop innovative go-to-market strategies for those products, including through M&A transactions and joint ventures.

Blake provides essential legal and commercial guidance on a wide range of financial services and products, including those situated at the intersection of finance and technology. Blake is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for his work in FinTech.

Blake’s representative clients include Blue Owl Capital, StepStone Group, Morgan Stanley, UBS Financial Services, and Fortress Investment Group.

Blake received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and received his B.A. in Economics (with honors) from the University of Texas at Austin. He is admitted to practice in the state of New York and is a member of the Futures and Derivatives Regulatory Committee of the NYC Bar Association.

Will McDonald is a partner in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups. He is the Co-Head of Gibson Dunn’s Cross-Border M&A Practice.

Will advises strategic and private equity clients on public and private M&A and corporate finance transactions, with a particular focus on complex, cross-border M&A. He advises across multiple industries, including mining and minerals, aerospace and defence, real estate, industrials, and consumer. He has worked for many years with US private equity firms on their US and cross-border investments into EMEA. Will has particular experience in UK public M&A, having been seconded for two years to the UK Takeover Panel as a case officer. During his time at the Panel, he regulated more than 250 transactions governed by the Takeover Code, including Anheuser-Busch InBev’s £71 billion offer for SABMiller, the UK’s largest takeover.

Will received a M.A. Hons. in History (first class) from the Universities of Edinburgh and Washington in 2004 (Kirkpatrick Scholar) and a Graduate Diploma in Law with commendation from BPP Law School in 2005. He completed the Legal Practice Course at BPP Law School in 2006. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Will was a partner in the mergers and acquisitions practice of another major international law firm.

Will’s experience includes advising: *

News Corporation, a global media company, on its $3.4 billion sale of Foxtel Group, an Australian digital sports and entertainment company, to DAZN Group, a provider of sports streaming
J.F. Lehman & Company in the sale of the Global Marine Group, subsea telecom maintenance and installation services, supporting mission-critical global communications infrastructure, to Keppel Infrastructure Fund.
J.F. Lehman & Company in the acquisition of a majority shareholding of W.S.S. Holding A/S and its subsidiaries, global leaders in marine supply, logistics and budget management services for the maritime industry.
SHI, Ltd. in connection with its follow-on investment into Highview Power, a global leader in long-duration liquid air energy storage plants. The £300 million debt and equity funding round was led by the UK Infrastructure Bank and Centrica alongside an equity syndicate of existing and new investors.
J.F. Lehman & Company in the acquisition and financing of all of the outstanding membership interests of Mission Microwave Technologies, LLC, a designer of radio frequency and microwave electronics supporting ground-based, airborne and space-based applications.
Verint in the acquisition of Qudini Limited, a provider of appointment scheduling solutions.
J.F. Lehman & Company and its portfolio company, Global Marine, on the sale of the Global Symphony offshore support vessel to Jan de Nul Group, and sale of other related assets to another strategic investor.
Macquarie, in the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Euston Solar Farm Limited, a UK-based renewable energy developer focused primarily on the development of utility-scale solar plants.
Web Financial Group, S.A. in the sale of all its technology business to Allfunds, one of the world’s leading B2B WealthTech platforms for the fund industry.
Macquarie Asset Management, via Macquarie Green Investment Group Renewable Energy Fund 2, in its acquisition of 50% of the shares in Island Green Power Limited, a UK-based renewable energy developer focused primarily on the development of utility-scale solar plants.
Sun Communities, Inc. on its acquisition of Park Holidays UK for approximately $1.3 billion.
J.F. Lehman & Company, in connection with the acquisition by portfolio company Integrated Global Services, Inc., a leading provider of thermal spray and other surface protection solutions, of international cleaning and inspections solutions provider, Tube Tech.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company on its debt and equity investment in Low Carbon Energy Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Low Carbon Limited, an established pan-European renewable energy developer and fund manager.
Bally’s Corporation in connection with the $2.7 billion acquisition and financing of Gamesys Ltd., an LSE-listed online gaming company.
DMI in its strategic investment from an affiliate of OceanSound Partners, LP.
J.F. Lehman & Company on the sale of BEI Precision Systems & Space Company, Inc., a company that designs, engineers, and manufactures highly accurate, resilient, and reliable position feedback sensors and frequency reference technologies for mission-critical space, land, air, and sea applications, to Quantic Corporate Holdings, Inc., a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management.
TransDigm Group Incorporated on the sale of Technical Airborne Components, a leading designer and manufacturer of rods and struts for the aerospace industry, to Searchlight Capital Partners.
J.F. Lehman & Company, on its acquisition of a substantial investment in Trillium Engineering, LLC, a leading designer and manufacturer of highly engineered camera gimbals for unmanned aerial systems (“UAS”) performing mission-critical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, from its founders.
The British Land Company PLC on the sale of a 75% interest in a portfolio of three buildings in London’s West End to Allianz Real Estate for £401 million. The portfolio included three buildings, 10 Portman Square, Marble Arch House, and York House, all of which are in Marylebone.
TransDigm Group Incorporated as regulatory counsel in the $965 million acquisition of Cobham Aero Connectivity, a leading provider of highly engineered antennas and radios for the aerospace end market.
J.F. Lehman & Company, on the acquisition of CTS Engines, LLC and CTS Testing, LLC.
HNA, on the cross-border restructuring of the air freight and logistics business, Swissport.
Koch Equity Development LLC, the acquisition and investment subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc., on its investment into AIM listed Victoria plc, a UK-based global designer, manufacturer, and distributor of flooring products.
L Brands, Inc. in its partnership with Next PLC for its Victoria’s Secret business in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Freudenberg SE, the global technology group, in connection with the £107 million takeover offer by group member, FV Beteiligungs-GmbH, of Low & Bonar PLC.
OMNOVA Solutions Inc. in its $824 million acquisition by Synthomer plc, a United Kingdom-based specialty chemical company.
J.F. Lehman & Company, in connection with the acquisition and related financing of Global Marine Group.
Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., a technology leader in industrial machinery and environmental and power technologies, in its $46 million investment into Highview Power, a global leader in long-duration energy storage solutions.
Hansteen Holdings PLC in the £500 million recommended cash acquisition of Hansteen by Potter UK Bidco Limited, a newly-formed company indirectly owned by investment funds advised by affiliates of The Blackstone Group Inc..
Hansteen Holdings PLC in the sale of its Belgian real estate portfolio to a Belgian real estate investor.
Earls Court Investment Holdings Ltd, a subsidiary of a joint venture between a fund advised by Delancey and APG on behalf of its pension fund clients, in connection with its £425 million acquisition of EC Group Holdings Limited from a subsidiary of Capital & Counties Properties Plc.
Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. in the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Invertek Drives Ltd. which makes variable frequency drives which are used to control motors in a variety of industrial, commercial, and energy saving applications.
GCA Altium as financial advisor to Project Sword Bidco Limited, a vehicle established by private equity firm NorthEdge Capital LLP, in connection with its £90 million acquisition of Catalis Plc, a provider of development, testing, and publishing services for the global video games market.
AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA on the €330 million auction sale of the Solidus Solutions group to funds advised by Centerbridge Partners, L.P.
The British Land Company PLC on the disposal of 12 superstores held by a joint venture between BL and J Sainsbury PLC to Realty Income Corporation, an entity listed on the NYSE, for aggregate consideration of £429 million (representing a net initial yield of 5.0%).
Roper Technologies, Inc. in its acquisition of Foundry, a leading provider of software technologies used to deliver award-winning visual effects and 3D content for the digital design, visualization, and entertainment industries, in an all-cash transaction valued at £410 million.
Huadong Medicine Co. Ltd. and its subsidiary, Huadong Medicine Aesthetics Investment (HongKong) Limited, on Huadong’s takeover offer for and acquisition of Sinclair Pharma Plc with a total value of approximately £169.
J.F. Lehman & Company, in connection with the acquisition by portfolio company BEI Precision Systems & Space Company, Inc. of Thistle Design (MMC) Limited, a supplier of encoders, resolvers, and other positioning and measurement sensors for the defense and industrial markets.
Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC in a recapitalization of its and PSP’s Chapter portfolio of student accommodation properties, one of the largest in Central London, by consolidating the portfolio under a new joint venture in which Allianz acquired an interest.
Houlihan Lokey EMEA, LLP in its capacity as financial adviser to GVC Holdings PLC in connection with its up to £3.9 billion cash and share combination with Ladbrokes Coral Group plc.
J.F. Lehman & Company, in connection with the acquisition by portfolio company National Response Corporation of Clean Line Waste Water Solutions Limited, a provider of environmental, industrial and emergency response services in the United Kingdom.
Verint Systems Inc. in its £26.3 million offer for eg solutions plc.
CB Richard Ellis Real Estate Group Services Inc. in its acquisition of an interest in the H2O Rivas Shopping Centre in Madrid, Spain.
J.F. Lehman & Company, in connection with the acquisition and related financing by investment affiliate AGI Holdings LLC of Aish Technologies Limited, a provider of ruggedized display systems, cathodic protection systems and other subsystems for the UK and U.S. navies, as well as other global defense and commercial customers.
Reynolds American Inc. regarding the acquisition by British American Tobacco, p.l.c. of 57.8 percent of the outstanding shares of RAI not owned by BAT and its affiliates in a transaction valued at $49 billion. The sale was effected through a merger of a wholly owned subsidiary of BAT with and into RAI.
Hansteen Holdings PLC in connection with a voluntary recommended cash for Industrial Multi Property Trust PLC, an Isle of Man close-ended property investment company admitted to trading on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.
Hansteen Holdings PLC in the disposal of its German and Dutch property portfolios and real estate management business for €1.28 billion to entities owned by funds advised by affiliates of The Blackstone Group L.P. and M7 Real Estate.
PW Real Estate Fund III, LP, which was advised by Aermont Capital LLP, in relation to the £323.3 million cash offer for the entire issued share capital of Pinewood Group plc, the AIM listed company which owned the Pinewood Studios business.
Nick Weber in the formation of Henderson Park Capital Management, a London based private equity real estate asset management platform.
J.F. Lehman & Company, in connection with the acquisition by its portfolio company National Response Corporation of United Kingdom based Sureclean Limited, a provider of specialty solutions to the oil and gas, petrochemical, renewables, utilities, civil engineering, and construction sectors, and the related acquisition financing.
J.F. Lehman & Company, in connection with the sale of portfolio companies Drew Marine and ACR Electronics, Inc. to affiliates of The Jordan Company.
Beaumont Partners SA in connection with the $60 million acquisition financing of the 711-room, 33-story Delta Centre-Ville Hotel in downtown Montréal, Canada. Co-investors included Campus Crest and other investors.
The British Land Company Plc in the acquisition of its joint venture company’s entire issued share capital of wholly owned subsidiary Surrey Quays Limited, including the remaining shares of the 300,000-square-foot Surrey Quays Shopping Centre.
LondonMetric Property Plc in connection with a £60.5 million acquisition and related financing of Primark Distribution Unit, a warehouse distribution center in Thrapston, Northamptonshire, through a corporate purchase.
IBRC Assurance Company and two other investors in the £21 million sale of all assets of the Met Quarter Property Unit Trust, including a high-end shopping center in Liverpool, by three co-investors to Columbus UK Real Estate Fund.
The British Land Company PLC in connection with their joint venture with Norges Bank Investment Management following Norges acquisition of London & Stamford’s 50% shareholding in Meadowhall Shopping Center for £1.5 billion
J.F. Lehman & Company, in connection with the acquisition and related financing by portfolio company Drew Marine of the maritime interests of Chemring Group PLC, a designer, manufacturer, and seller of counter-improvised explosive device (IED) equipment, countermeasures, pyrotechnics, and munitions.
J.F. Lehman & Company, in connection with the acquisition and related financing of ACR Electronics, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of life-saving devices, from Chelton Avionics, Inc., a Cobham plc group company.
Trace One SA in the acquisition of the PLM business of Agentrics.
SAV Credit Limited in connection with the £472 million sale by Palamon Capital Partners, Electra Private Equity, and Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, of SAV to Värde Partners.
Praesepe plc, a UK-based gaming company listed on AIM, in its £45 million acquisition of Beacon Entertainments Limited, one of the largest adult gaming centers and bingo club operators in the UK, and related placing to existing and new shareholders.
UK REIT Hansteen Holdings plc in relation to the approximately €330 million acquisition and related financing of the German portfolio of the Halverton Babcock Industrial Fund.
London Town Group in its restructuring negotiations with Anglo-Irish Bank in relation to senior facilities of £80 million.
The British Land Company PLC in the purchase of 50% of the issued share capital of Shopping Centres Limited, a 50/50 joint venture with Tesco Plc, which indirectly owns the Surrey Quays and Clifton Moor Shopping Centres.
J.F. Lehman & Company in its $375 million sale of AIS Global Holdings LLC, a leading provider of mission-critical guidance, stabilization and navigation products and systems, d/b/a Atlantic Inertial Systems, to Goodrich Corporation, a leading provider of mission critical guidance, stabilization and navigation products and systems for the global defense market.
J.F. Lehman & Company in its $120 million acquisition of the Drew Marine Business, a global leader in providing technical solutions, high-value products and services to the marine industry, of Ashland Inc., a Fortune 500 diversified chemical company.
Connaught PLC in its £12 million acquisition of UK Fire (International) Limited.
Hansteen Holdings PLC, a property company investing in industrial property, in connection with its £200 million institutional placing and open offer, underwritten by KBC Peel Hunt Ltd, for the purpose of purchasing industrial properties, valuing the company at £335 million.
British Land on the formation of a 50:50 joint venture partnership for the freehold interest in its Meadowhall Shopping Centre near Sheffield. London and Stamford Property Limited and its joint venture partner will acquire a 50% stake in Meadowhall for £587.7 million.
Praesepe plc, f/k/a Aldgate Capital plc, in its $50 million acquisition of the Shipley Amusements group of companies and related debt financing provided by Barclays Bank plc. In connection with the acquisition, Praesepe plc placed up to $75.9 million New Ordinary Shares in an institutional placing, placement agent Numis Securities Limited.
Excalibur Group Holdings Limited, an international investment house specializing in medical sciences and an offshoot of Merlin Biosciences, in connection with its stock-for-stock acquisition of Merchant Ventures Investment Limited.
Inflexion Private Equity Limited in connection with the management buyout of Pims Group Limited, a company that specializes in submersible pumps and conventional and package systems in the United Kingdom.
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation plc (ENRC) on its primary listing on the Main Market of the UK Listing Authority and admission to trading on the London Stock Exchange and related $3 billion global offer by Deutsche Bank, as sole global coordinator, sponsor, and joint bookrunner, and Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, and ABN AMRO Rothschild, as joint bookrunners.
Inspicio Plc in its acquisition of Scientifics Limited.

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