Matthew Goldstein is an associate in the Houston office of Gibson Dunn and practices in the firm’s Powers and Renewables and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups.

Matthew advises clients on a wide variety of renewable energy transactions involving wind, solar and storage assets, including acquisitions and sales, joint ventures, project financings, preferred equity investments, commodity price hedging and offtake contracts and other renewables project contracts. Matthew also has experience advising companies in complex M&A transactions across a broad range of industries.

Matthew received his J.D. from The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he graduated with honors, represented clients across five full-semester clinics, and served as a staff editor on the Environmental Law Journal. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, where he received his B.S. in Advertising.

Representative Transactions

  • Represented Algonquin Power & Utilities (TSE: AQN) in its $2.5 billion sale of its renewables business to LS Power, including a portfolio of wind, solar, energy storage and renewable natural gas operating assets and projects in development in the U.S. and Canada.
  • Represented Danish investment fund AIP Management in its upstream equity investments in:
    • The Victory Pass solar and battery storage project in California;
    • The Arica solar and battery storage project in California; and
    • The Pine Forest solar and battery storage project in Texas
  • Represented Berkshire Hathaway Energy as tax equity investor in multiple utility-scale renewable energy projects.
  • Represented Daikin Industries in numerous M&A transactions, including its joint venture with Copeland, a portfolio company of Blackstone.
  • Represented the management team of Ladish Valves in its sale to Oaktree Capital

Angelle Henderson is an associate in Gibson Dunn’s New York Office. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, and her practice focuses on intellectual property litigation in a wide range of subject matters.

Angelle has experience in multiple phases of litigation, including Rule 12 motions, motions to transfer, fact discovery, depositions, dispositive motions, and post-trial briefing. Angelle also maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing individuals seeking reasonable accommodation under the Fair Housing Amendments Act, representing individuals seeking asylum, civil rights, and state criminal appeals.

Angelle earned her Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, where she was the inaugural recipient of the Eric H. Holder Scholarship, a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a James Kent Scholar. Angelle also served as an Essays Editor of the Columbia Law Review and a teaching assistant in property law classes.  While at Columbia, Angelle worked as a student attorney for Columbia’s Criminal Defense Clinic and an extern at the Center for Appellate Litigation. Angelle also served as a student senator for Columbia Law School Student Senate, the Social Chair for the Black Law Students Association, and the 1L Representative for the Native American Law Students Association.

Angelle received a Bachelor of Arts in 2020 from the University of Notre Dame, where she double majored in Political Science and International Economics-Arabic.

Angelle is an advanced Arabic speaker. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the State of Pennsylvania, and the Southern District of New York.

Stephen A. Thierbach is a corporate partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

A senior securities lawyer with over 30 years’ experience in the London market, he advises issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders on complex, innovative and multi-jurisdictional offerings of equity, equity-related and debt securities. He has a broad capital markets transactions practice, with a focus on initial public offerings and secondary offerings, and has represented corporates, investment banks, private equity firms and governments in transactions in the UK and other jurisdictions in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Thierbach practiced with Herbert Smith Freehills from 2010 to 2015, most recently serving as the Global Head of its Capital Markets Practice. Before that, he was a partner with Linklaters in London from 1995 to 2010, where he co-led its capital markets practice and served as head of the U.S. practice. He was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and London from 1987 to 1994.

Mr. Thierbach is recognized as one of the top equity capital markets lawyers in London by Chambers and Partners and he is ranked in the Hall of Fame listing for London equity capital markets by Legal 500. He is also recommended by Best Lawyers UK 2025 in the field of Capital Markets Law and IFLR1000 as highly regarded for Capital Markets: Debt and Equity.

Selected experience includes*:

  • Trustpilot Group – £1 billion London listing and IPO (for the company)
  • THG – £5.4 billion London listing and IPO (for the banks), and on its subsequent placing, subscription and retail offer (for the underwriters)
  • Network International – £2.2 billion London listing and IPO (for its parent company, Emirates NBD Bank)
  • Piraeus Bank S.A. – €8.4 billion capital increase and listing on ATHEX (for the underwriters)
  • Permanent TSB – €400 million capital raising and London and Irish listings (for the underwriters)
  • Eurobank Ergasias S.A. – €2.8 billion capital raising and listing on ATHEX (for the underwriters)
  • AO World plc – £1.2 billion initial public offering and London listing (for the company)
  • JUST EAT plc – £1.47 initial public offering and London listing (for the company)
  • Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate Plc – £1 billion initial public offering and London listing (for the underwriters)
  • CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities – £500 million initial public offering and London listing (for the underwriters)
  • Aldermore Group PLC – £260 million initial public offering and London listing (for the underwriters)

*Includes matters prior to joining Gibson Dunn

Amanda M. Aycock is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, as well as the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Practice Group, the Crisis Management Practice Group, the Media, Entertainment, and Technology Practice Group, and the White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group.

Amanda has defended multinational companies and senior executives in technology, social media, financial and other sectors in commercial litigation, internal investigations, and regulatory matters, including state Attorneys General investigations and enforcement actions. Substantively, her practice is cross-disciplinary and includes experience in consumer protection, data privacy, contract, employment, constitutional, antitrust, and criminal law; she is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).

Most recently, The Legal 500 recognized Amanda for corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense, specifically for her work advising corporate clients. The Legal 500 has twice recognized Amanda as a “Rising Star” in corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense, and recommends her for matters involving privacy, cybersecurity, and consumer protection, and for white collar matters emanating from the technology, media, and entertainment industries. Amanda has also been recognized by Lawdragon as a Global Leader in Crisis Management and recognized five times by The Best Lawyers in America® as “One to Watch” in Criminal Defense: White-Collar (2021 – 2025).

Representative matters include:

  • Represents Meta in wide-ranging and intense matters related to the aftermath of the widely reported Cambridge Analytica issues, leading a complex and novel internal investigation related to data privacy risk from historical developer activity on the Facebook platform, and assisting with numerous domestic and international regulatory investigations, nationwide consumer class actions, and state Attorneys General enforcement actions.
  • Represented Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg in a high-profile breach of contract action brought by Paul Ceglia in Federal Court in Buffalo, New York alleging an ownership interest in Facebook. Obtained expedited discovery against Plaintiff, developing evidence of spoliation and fraud concerning Plaintiff’s lawsuit, including Plaintiff’s doctoring the contract sued upon and manipulation of digital evidence. Successfully moved for dismissal of the case, which the Court dismissed as a fraud on the Court, and prevailed on appeal in the Second Circuit.
  • Represented daily fantasy sports company when industry was in crisis, developing comprehensive strategy across several wide-ranging and high-profile civil, criminal, and regulatory actions. In particular, defended company in enforcement action brought by New York Attorney General seeking to enjoin ongoing operations, and brought civil action against Illinois Attorney General that sought emergency relief for constitutional violations.
  • Represented major telecommunications company in data breach affecting over 70 million accounts, managing notifications and leading fast-paced internal investigation.
  • Achieved court victory for Ad Hoc Group of Lenders in federal bankruptcy court on breach of contract and implied covenant claims, managing discovery, depositions, and all trial preparations, and examining witness at trial.
  • Represented industry-leading media and technology company in a federal antitrust trial.
  • Represented major telecommunications company in antitrust action brought by DOJ, which settled favorably following a motion to dismiss.
  • Represented Fortune 500 company in SEC investigation into possible revenue recognition issues, stemming from information provided by former employee whistleblower; the SEC declined to pursue enforcement action.
  • Represented European Head of Treasury of Multinational Europena Bank in DOJ LIBOR investigation.

Amanda maintains an active pro bono practice, particularly in connection with immigration matters. For example, she represented Migrant Justice—a Vermont non-profit dedicated to protecting the rights of the migrant farmworker community—in a lawsuit against the federal and local government that alleged unlawful surveillance and harassment in violation of the First Amendment.

From 2014 to 2015, Amanda served as a law clerk to the Honorable Katherine Polk Failla in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Amanda graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2010 with joint degree, consisting of a Juris Doctor, cum laude, and the French equivalent of an LL.M., cum laude, sponsored jointly by the Sorbonne and the Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po). While at Penn Law, she was a Levy Scholar and an Associate Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law. Amanda received her Bachelor of Arts in 2007 from the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

His recent experience includes advising:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Steven is a member of the New York Bar.

Representative Transactions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cecilia is admitted to practice in the State of California.

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

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

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

Chris’s representative matters include the following:

Antitrust Matters

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

Commercial Litigation Matters

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

Civil Rights Matters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Representative Matters*

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michal Baum is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the Real Estate Practice Group.

Michal represents clients in a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, construction and real estate finance, joint ventures, mezzanine loans, preferred equity investments, and loan workouts and restructuring. Her experience includes single and multi-property transactions with a wide variety of real estate assets, including office parks and buildings, hotels, shopping centers, condominiums, and multi-family apartment complexes.

Michal has been recognized as a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch™ in Real Estate Law.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Michal was an associate in the Real Estate Department of an international law firm. Prior to, and during, law school, she worked at a nationally recognized title agency where she closed single and multi-property commercial real estate transactions. Michal also worked for a real estate developer where she negotiated leases, license agreements and purchase and sale agreements.

She earned her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, in 2016 from Rutgers Law School, where she was elected to Order of the Coif, received the Philip Kravitz Memorial Prize (for graduating with the highest academic average as a part time student) and was a Saul Tischler Scholar and a Nathan N. Schildkraut Scholar. She was also an editor for the Rutgers Law Review and was on the Rutgers Moot Court Board and Rutgers Regional Appellate Advocacy Team where she competed in the New York Bar Association National Moot Court Competition.

Michal is admitted to practice in the State of New York and State of New Jersey.

Victoria “Tory” Lauterbach is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office and Co-Chair of the Energy Regulation and Litigation Practice Group. She has extensive experience providing transactional and regulatory advice to energy companies, large energy users, and their lenders and investors. Tory is a leader within the firm’s data centers and digital infrastructure practice, where she advises data center developers, investors, and lenders regarding all aspects of delivering electric power to data centers.  This work includes negotiating power supply and infrastructure agreements with utilities, power purchase and tolling agreements for both grid-connected and on-site generation, natural gas supply arrangements, and the power and energy portions of customer agreements, such as data center leases and service orders.  Tory brings deep knowledge of the electricity and natural gas businesses to bear to take complex data center projects to market, including many of the largest data center campuses announced in North America.  As a transactional attorney with regulatory training, Tory’s strong grounding in federal and state energy regulatory issues enhances her ability to advise data center clients who need to interface with public utilities and their regulators.

In addition to her data center work, Tory represents renewable and traditional energy companies, including investor-owned utilities, independent transmission companies, independent power producers, energy investors, natural gas companies, and pipeline shippers in a variety of regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters. She advises clients regarding the Federal Power Act (FPA), the Natural Gas Act (NGA), the Interstate Commerce Act and related federal and state statutes, as well as requirements under public utility tariffs and agreements.

Tory regularly represents clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and federal appellate courts, has represented clients before the Department of Energy (DOE) and state public utility commissions, and frequently interfaces with regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs) to further her client’s wholesale market interests.

Tory has significant hands-on experience in power supply and infrastructure development negotiations, administrative litigation, settlement proceedings, and providing legal advice in heavily regulated energy industry market environments, including wholesale electricity and carbon markets. She also provides pragmatic and timely counseling to her clients in today’s dynamic political and regulatory environment, including the developing landscape surrounding electrification and electricity load growth, renewable energy, energy storage, transmission development and interconnection, carbon emissions reductions, and the larger energy transition.

Tory has been recognized for her work in the Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation) category of Chambers USA (2021-2024) and Chambers Global (2022-2025). She is also recognized by Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leading U.S. Energy Lawyers in the practice areas of Energy Transactions, Regulatory & Litigation (2023-2025). Tory frequently draws high praise from those she advises, most recently in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA, in which a client stated that she “has extensive knowledge regarding FERC compliance, but her commercial savvy and excellent drafting and negotiating skills allow her to be effective on a broad range of matters including energy transactions and commercial disputes.”

More specifically, Tory’s areas of knowledge and experience include:

  • Negotiation of power supply arrangements, including grid-connected and behind-the-meter energy sources, for data centers and other large energy users.
  • Advising regarding power supply issues in data center leases and customer agreements.
  • Advising clients regarding state and federal energy regulatory regimes and tariffs.
  • Advising regarding power supply issues in data center transactions in more than 20 U.S. states.
  • Federal energy regulatory matters, including ratemaking, market-based rate and rulemaking proceedings, and the development of tariff rules for regional markets for electric energy, capacity, and ancillary services.
  • Regulatory approvals for energy company mergers and acquisitions.
  • Energy project development, including generator interconnection negotiations and disputes.
  • Administrative litigation before FERC, including defending and prosecuting complaint proceedings, conducting evidentiary hearings, negotiating client positions in settlement proceedings, facilitating participation in technical conferences, and seeking rehearing of contested FERC orders.
  • Appeals of FERC proceedings to federal appellate courts.
  • Counseling energy investors on affiliate requirements, standards of conduct, and market power rules.
  • Securing market-based rate authority, exempt wholesale generator certification, and qualifying facility certification for large and small independent power projects, and counseling clients regarding federal power project and power marketing regulatory compliance.
  • Regional transmission planning, including project selection, cost allocation and rate recovery.
  • Seeking incentive rate treatments for independent and incumbent transmission projects, including incentive adders to return on equity and pre-construction cost recovery.
  • Project finance for traditional, alternative, and renewable energy projects.
  • Energy-related contract drafting, negotiation, and analysis, including power purchase agreements, asset management agreements, natural gas transportation and leasing agreements, facilities agreements, and interconnection agreements.
  • Counseling clients regarding participation in and administration of organized wholesale energy markets, including the energy and capacity markets of regional transmission organizations and independent system operators.
  • Assisting clients in proceedings regarding open access to transmission infrastructure.
  • Representing clients in proceedings regarding treatment of battery and other energy storage technologies in organized markets, including issues related to storage as a transmission-only asset (SATOA) and storage participating as generation and load in wholesale energy markets.
  • Advising clients regarding carbon and clean energy markets, state clean energy mandates, and regional models for carbon pricing and emissions cost recovery.
  • Department of Energy import-export authorization and compliance.
  • Retail energy supplier state licensing.
  • Developing and presenting energy regulatory compliance training and programs.
  • FERC and CFTC enforcement and audit defense.
  • Internal and non-public investigations regarding energy market and FERC compliance.

Representative Experience*

  • Represented data center developer in negotiation of on-site power generation agreements for a data center campus that will use more than 1 GW of power.
  • Represented data center developer in negotiation of complex power sourcing arrangements in vertically integrated utility jurisdiction that included a more than 1 GW portfolio of grid-connected renewable energy generation and storage resources.
  • Advised large real estate lender on the energy-related aspects of a construction financing of a powered land acquisition.
  • Represented data center developer in the negotiation of a memorandum of understanding with a municipal electric utility in the PJM region of the U.S.
  • Represented infrastructure fund in regulatory compliance matters related to integrating large portfolio of wind farms into the fund’s larger energy portfolio.
  • Advised lender on financing the purchase of a portfolio of data centers in the United States.
  • Represented data center developer in negotiation of power infrastructure and power supply arrangements with interconnecting utility.
  • Represented data center developer in negotiation of power supply arrangements with hyperscale tenant.
  • Represented energy investor in acquisition of significant minority interest in large solar energy and storage developer-operator.
  • Represented biomass generator in securing regulatory approvals for the sale of its generating facility as part of a Chapter 11 reorganization.
  • Represented investor-owned utility in complaint against RTOs seeking return of overpayment of transmission congestion charges on the seam between two RTOs.
  • Represented utility and non-utility clients in challenging and defending outcomes of FERC proceedings at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
  • Advised U.S. offshore wind developer regarding rules and opportunities for interconnecting to the onshore transmission grid.
  • Represented utility-scale energy storage developer in securing waiver of large generator interconnection requirements in major grid operator tariff.
  • Represented utility-scale energy storage developer in securing declaratory order exempting it from requirements of Public Utility Holding Company Act.
  • Advised public utility board members regarding regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters.
  • Represented utility-affiliated wholesale generation company in securing regulatory approval for acquisition of additional generation interests.
  • Represented utility holding company and subsidiary public utility in securing FERC approval of appointment of new board member to holding company board under FERC’s 2022 TransAlta/Evergy affiliate standard.
  • Represented RTO in securing regulatory approval for revisions to its financial transmission rights Tariff rules.
  • Represented transmission owner clients in defense of their transmission rates and incentive rate treatments in a complaint proceeding under section 206 of the FPA.
  • Represented transmission owner clients in securing incentive return on equity adder for RTO participation.
  • Represented a Fortune 500 public utility and its affiliates before FERC in rate proceedings (including formula rate proceedings), regarding wholesale market issues, and in connection with service agreements, interconnection agreements, and compliance matters.
  • Represented independent transmission project in FERC proceeding to defend incentive-based transmission rate treatments and secure recovery of transmission revenue requirement under the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) tariff, ultimately achieving a settlement permitting recovery of more than 94% of the requested transmission revenue requirements.
  • Represented a leading gas company in the litigation of a major, multi-party gas pipeline rate case, as well as advising on compliance and commercial and regulatory issues.
  • Represented natural gas distribution company in NGA section 4 and 5 ratemaking proceedings, and in matters of compliance and standards of conduct.
  • Represented a Hinshaw (intrastate) pipeline in securing federal approval for new rate schedule for transmission service to renewable natural gas customers, including advising on rate and natural gas quality tariff provisions.
  • Represented RTO in proceedings to establish a day-ahead market.
  • Represented an investor-owned utility in dispute with RTO regarding tariff rates and the integration of a new investor-owned utility into the RTO.
  • Advised an international natural resources company in the integration of newly acquired natural gas assets into larger corporate structure.
  • Conducted and managed due diligence review and analysis related to the financing and sale of a public utility.
  • Advised a client in securing Department of Energy authority for the export of energy products.
  • Advised a client regarding the financing and licensing of solar and wind power generation.
  • Advised a start-up retail energy marketer on transactional and regulatory matters related to establishing nationwide retail energy marketing business.

* Matters handled prior to Gibson Dunn

Select Recent Speaking Engagements

  • Speaker, “FERC PJM Order: Lessons for Data Centers, Co-Location, and Tariffs,” Strafford Webinar (March 2026)
  • Speaker, “How Growing and Dynamic Gas and Electric Energy Markets Are Struggling with Constrained Infrastructure,” American Gas Association Legal Forum (July 2025)
  • Moderator, Conversation with FERC Commissioner David Rosner, Energy Bar Association Mid-Year Energy Forum (October 2024)
  • Podcast, “What FERC Did, and Didn’t, Do to Jumpstart Transmission,” Factor This! by Renewable Energy World (May 2024)
  • Moderator, “Accelerating Transmission Expansion in 2024 and Beyond: Addressing Planning and Permitting,” Energy Bar Association Annual Meeting and Conference (April 2024)
  • Podcast, “Is D.C. Ready for Climate Change?” Brief Encounters by the D.C. Affairs Community of the D.C. Bar (December 2023)
  • Speaker, “Pathways for New England Transmission Development & Interconnection Reforms,” RENEW Northeast Energy Policy Conference (November 2023)
  • Panelist, “FERC Order No. 2023 – What it Means for Generator Interconnection and Transmission Development,” Webinar
  • Panelist, “Interconnection Reform: What Should Renewable Developers Know About FERC’s New Final Rule,” Webinar (August 2023)
  • “The New FERC: How Recent Developments May Foretell a Shift in Policies and Enforcement,” American Gas Association Legal Committee Meeting (July 2022)
  • “Recent Developments in Energy Storage,” Young Professionals in Energy D.C. Chapter (May 2018)

Tory received her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas where she was Associate Editor of the Texas Law Review. She received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Cornell University in Government, Philosophy and History. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Tory was a partner in the D.C. office of an international law firm. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Energy Bar Association, is the immediate past co-chair of the Professional Education Council of the Energy Bar Association, is a member of the Women’s Energy Network D.C. Chapter, and volunteers at Food & Friends in Washington, D.C.

Alethea Barretto is an associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Finance Practice Group.

Alethea has experience acting on a broad range of finance and corporate matters, with specific experience advising major financial institutions, investment funds, private equity sponsors, and corporates on complex finance transactions. 

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

Alethea is admitted to practice in England and Wales.