Eve Mrozek is a corporate partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group. Eve’s experienced and multidisciplinary practice includes advising on the legal, regulatory and commercial challenges facing a diverse group of investment fund clients, ranging from multi-billion dollar fund managers, to middle and lower-middle-market firms and firms raising their first institutional fund. Eve specializes in advising real estate private equity sponsors in fund formation across a variety of real estate assets. In addition to traditional fund formation, Eve advises private equity sponsors and institutional investors on major strategic issues, including incentive arrangements, governance issues, succession planning, fund recapitalizations and restructurings, the formation of continuation funds and complex strategic minority investments in existing firms. Eve seeks to become a long-term partner to her clients by proactively providing market insights and advice not only during a fundraise, but during all phases of a fund’s life cycle.
Eve has been recognized as a leading lawyer by:
- Private Funds CFO as a Legal Rising Star, 2023
- Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation, 2023, 2024 and 2025
Eve’s representative clients include:
- Blue Owl Capital
- EQT Exeter
- American Landmark Apartments
- Electra Capital
- Constellation Wealth Capital
- Berkshire Residential Investments
- RidgeLake Partners
- TruAmerica Multifamily
- Brasa Capital Management
- Corten Real Estate Partners
Representative matters include advising:
- The Oak Street division of Blue Owl on its $4 billion Net Lease Property Fund VI.
- Berkshire Residential Investments on its $2.5 billion Bridge Loan Investors II program and its $1.5 billion Value Fund V and related co-investment vehicles.
- EQT Exeter on its $4.9 billion U.S. Value Add Industrial Fund, its $3 billion U.S. Core Industrial Fund as well as other industrial, multifamily and office funds and separate accounts.
- RidgeLake Partners in numerous GP-stakes investments.
- American Landmark Apartments on its $1 billion multi-family real estate Fund IV.
Additional relevant information about Eve includes:
- Eve received her Juris Doctor and Masters in Business Administration in 2013 from Villanova University, where she graduated magna cum laude and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Eve received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 2010 from Rutgers University.
- Eve is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Roger Singer is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and is Co-Chair of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group. He specializes in the formation of private equity funds, with a focus on funds investing in real assets. He advises sponsors of real estate, natural resources, infrastructure and debt funds, as well as funds of funds. His clients range from first-time fund sponsors to the asset management divisions of major financial services firms.
Roger has been recognized as a leading lawyer by:
- Chambers USA: Investment Funds – Private Equity: Fund Formation
- The Legal 500
- The Best Lawyers in America®
- Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides, Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Lawyers
Relevant experience includes advising:
- Berkshire Residential Investments on its $1.99 billion Bridge Loan Investors III, $1.4 billion Credit Fund IV and its $1.5 billion Value Fund V (including co-investment vehicles).
- EQT Real Estate on its $4.9 billion U.S. Value Add Industrial Fund, its $3 billion U.S. Core Industrial Fund as well as other industrial, multifamily and office funds and separate accounts.
- Appian Capital Advisory on its $2 billion Appian Natural Resources Fund III, a global metals and mining fund.
- Blue Owl on its $5.16 billion Fund VI focused on net lease properties.
- Corebridge Financial on its real estate investment funds and multiple GP-led secondaries and co-investments.
- Basis Investment Group on the formation of BIG Real Estate Fund II, its $825 million debt fund and the formation of its proposed $1.25 billion BIG Real Estate Fund III.
- Greystone on the conversion of its $1 billion Senior Debt Fund from a closed-end to an open-end fund.
- Cambridge Associates in a large volume of limited partner investments.
- Hawkins Way on its $500 million real estate joint venture with Varde Partners.
- Mercer Investment Management on fund investments, secondaries and co-investments.
- Multiple sponsors on real estate and real asset GP-led secondaries.
Roger earned an AB in 1993 from Princeton University and a JD in 1996 from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Head Articles Editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law.
Nimrita K. Singh is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.
Nimrita earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Virigina School of Law in 2025. During law school, she served on the Executive Board of the Virginia Journal of International Law as the Notes Development Editor, as well as on the editorial board of the Virigina Law Review. She also participated in the First Amendment Clinic and served as a Legal Writing Fellow.
Nimrita received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College in 2020, where she graduated with a major in English Literature and minors in Economics and the Classics. Prior to law school, Nimrita worked for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut as a legal assistant.
Nimrita is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
Publications
The Right Thing in the Wrong Place? Unstable Dicta and Aesthetics’ Gradual Incursion Into the Traditional Police Power Justifications, 111 Va. L. Rev. 905 (2025).
Kevin Bettsteller is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Investment Funds Practice Group. His practice focuses on the regulation of investment advisers, particularly the sponsors of private equity funds, real estate funds, funds of funds, infrastructure funds, venture capital funds, credit funds, hedge funds and other private funds. Throughout his 17-year career, he has represented a wide range of clients, from first-time fund sponsors to some of the largest global asset management firms and other financial services companies, including broker-dealers, REITs, registered investment companies, business development companies, SPACs and family offices.
Kevin regularly advises clients regarding complex issues arising under the Investment Advisers Act, Investment Company Act, Securities Act, Securities Exchange Act, state law and related rules and regulations, including in connection with:
- U.S. and non-U.S. investment adviser registration and exempt reporting adviser matters, including the preparation of Form ADV and compliance policies and procedures
- The structuring, formation, marketing and offering of private funds
- Preparing for and responding to SEC examinations
- Identifying and managing conflicts of interest, including in connection with affiliated service providers and portfolio company activities
- GP-led fund restructurings and recapitalizations, continuation fund formations, secondaries and similar transactions
- Purchases and sales of asset management businesses, including control acquisitions, “GP stakes” transactions and other minority investments
- Fund manager seed investments, joint venture arrangements and spin-outs
- Status issues under the Investment Company Act and related exemptions
- The establishment and operation of separately managed accounts and single investor vehicles
- Agreements with placement agents, administrators and other service providers
Kevin is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has authored and contributed to numerous publications on investment management topics. In addition, he has also been recognized by IFLR1000 as a Notable Practitioner – Investment Funds.
Kate Long is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group.
Kate’s practice focuses on tax planning for investment funds and real estate, including fund formations, REITs, real estate joint ventures, and fund M&A and restructuring transactions. She also advises clients on the tax aspects of financings and refinancings, capital markets transactions, bankruptcy and restructuring transactions, public and private M&A, joint ventures, continuation fund transactions, GP-stakes deals, and fund secondary transactions. Kate’s clients include private equity and real estate fund sponsors and other public and private companies.
She earned her Juris Doctor in 2013 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a Senior Editor of the East Asia Law Review. In 2009, Kate received her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated cum laude. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Kate was an associate in the Tax Group of another international law firm in New York.
She is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Selected recent representations include:
- Berkshire Residential on its closed- and open-end multifamily equity real estate funds, closed-end debt funds, bridge loan funds, separate accounts and joint ventures.
- Rockpoint on its real estate joint ventures and financings.
- Meridiam on its infrastructure transactions and fund formations.
- Faropoint Ventures on its infrastructure fund formations and joint ventures.
- Madison International on real estate secondary funds.
- Mercer Investment Management on its fund investments in secondary transactions, co-investments and primary investments.
Crystal Becker is a corporate of counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Investment Funds Practice Group.
Her practice focuses on the formation, structuring and management of private investment funds, including private equity, growth equity, venture capital, crypto and digital asset and real asset funds, as well as operational, legal and regulatory issues faced by their sponsors. Crystal has led fund formations ranging in size from under $25 million to over $5 billion. In addition to her work with established firms, Crystal frequently represents emerging managers in spin-out negotiations, management company start-ups and first-time fund formations. Crystal also advises clients on a variety of internal economic and governance matters, including employee departures, succession negotiations, long-range planning and strategic transactions, such as seed deals and minority stake sales.
She received her Juris Doctor from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from the University of Southern California, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of the Track and Field team.
Crystal is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
John Craig is of counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn where he is a member of the Tax Controversy and Litigation Practice Group.
His practice focuses on federal tax controversies. John has assisted clients during the pre-litigation stages of federal tax disputes from examinations to protests before the IRS Independent Office of Appeals, represented clients in docketed cases covering transfer-pricing disputes and a variety of international and employment tax issues, and maintains an active pro bono practice before the U.S. Tax Court. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he was an associate in the tax group of another law firm in Washington, D.C. and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Maurice B. Foley of the United States Tax Court.
Most recently, John was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America© as “Ones to Watch” for 2023, 2024, and 2025 (Tax Law).
He received his Juris Doctor and Master of Laws from Georgetown University Law Center. He received his Bachelor of Science from Tulane University.
Josiah Bethards is of counsel in the Dallas office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group. Josiah represents clients in a broad range of tax matters, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, financing transactions, joint ventures, cross-border transactions, and energy and infrastructure transactions. Josiah also has extensive experience advising sponsors and investors on clean energy tax credit qualification matters for a variety of technologies, including wind, solar, storage, clean fuels, nuclear, and carbon capture and sequestration, as well as other emerging technologies.
He graduated from Columbia Law School in 2016 and received his B.A. in Economics from Amherst College in 2009.
Josiah is admitted to practice law in the State of Texas.
Michael F. Werno is of counsel in the Litigation practice of Gibson Dunn and is based in the firm’s New York office. His practice focuses on complex litigation in the fields of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
Michael has experience litigating cases arising under both the Hatch-Waxman Act and the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA). His experience includes developing strategies on validity and infringement, taking and defending depositions, drafting appellate briefs, and leading work with expert witnesses at multiple trials. He has represented life sciences companies in litigations involving pharmaceutical formulations, therapeutic antibodies, biotechnology, and medical devices .
Michael’s experience includes*:
- Represented BioNTech SE in a patent infringement action concerning its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine Comirnaty®
- Represented Amgen and Horizon Therapeutics in multiple Hatch-Waxman patent litigations concerning their nephropathic cystinosis medication Procysbi®
- Represented Arbor Pharmaceuticals and Azurity Pharmaceuticals in multiple Hatch-Waxman patent litigations concerning challenges to patents protecting concerning their best-in-class antihypertensive medications Edarbi® and Edarbyclor®
- Represented Boehringer Ingelheim in a BPCIA litigation concerning its biosimilar version of Humira®
- Represented Mitsubishi Tanabe in the first virtual Hatch-Waxman patent trial in the District of New Jersey to challenges of patents covering the first-in-class diabetes medications, Invokana® and Invokamet®
- Represented Zimmer Biomet in patent litigation concerning its Vanguard® knee systems and PSI Shoulder for Trabecular Metal™ Reverse Glenoid shoulder systems
- Represented Orexigen Therapeutics in a Hatch-Waxman patent litigation concerning challenges to patents protecting its anti-obesity drug Contrave®
- Represented Helsinn Healthcare in a Hatch-Waxman patent litigation concerning challenges to patents protecting its Aloxi® antiemetic drug
- Represented Amgen regarding a contractual dispute concerning their blockbuster monoclonal antibody drugs Xgeva® and Prolia®
Michael received his law degree from Boston University School of Law in 2015, where he served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Science & Technology Law. He earned a Masters of Physiology degree from North Carolina State University in 2010, and a B.S. in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy from Duke University in 2008. Michael is admitted to the New York State Bar, the New Jersey State Bar, and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Michael is also admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
*Includes recent experience prior to joining Gibson Dunn.
Jonathan N. Soleimani is of counsel in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. He practices in the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, Class Actions, and Media, Entertainment, and Technology Practice Groups.
Jonathan has successfully represented clients in a wide variety of federal and state matters through trial and appeal. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on intellectual property, technology, entertainment, and constitutional matters.
He has been recognized three years in a row by Best Lawyers magazine as “One to Watch in America” for Commercial Litigation and Intellectual Property Law (2024 – 2026).
Representative matters include:
- Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, 140 S. Ct. 1601 (U.S. 2020). Represented individual recipients under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program through all district court, Ninth Circuit, and U.S. Supreme Court proceedings in a historic case successfully challenging the rescission of DACA.
- Soundgarden v. UMG Recordings, Inc. (C.D. Cal.). Obtained complete dismissal on the pleadings for Universal Music Group in a $100 million putative class action regarding allegedly destroyed master recordings. Benchmark Litigation selected this judgment as one of its “2021 Impact Cases,” and AmLaw Litigation Daily named the team its “Litigators of the Week” in April 2020.
- DoorDash, Inc. v. City of New York (S.D.N.Y.). Represent DoorDash in a constitutional challenge to a New York City ordinance compelling third-party delivery platforms to disclose their customers’ sensitive personal information to merchants. Claims being litigated against the City include violations of the First Amendment, the Contract Clause, and the Takings Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
- Starz Entertainment, LLC v. MGM Domestic Television Distribution, LLC (C.D. Cal.). Represent MGM against Starz in a suit alleging over 1,000 individual claims for copyright infringement and related breaches of contract.
- Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc. (N.D. Cal.). Member of the trial team that achieved victory for Apple on all antitrust claims following a three-week trial in a landmark case described by Law360 as the “Superbowl of Antitrust.”
- Gomez v. Trump (D.D.C., D.C. Cir.) and National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Homeland Security (N.D. Cal., 9th Cir.). Represented over 50 companies and business organizations—including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, and Uber—as amicus counsel in lower-court and appellate proceedings in challenges to the government’s 2020 suspension of non-immigrant visa programs, including the H-1B program.
- Oracle America, Inc. v. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (N.D. Cal.). Represented Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company against claims of copyright infringement, tortious interference, and unfair competition in a lawsuit relating to a subcontractor’s handling of Oracle operating-system software. Obtained summary judgment in part, based on statute-of-limitations arguments, which the Ninth Circuit affirmed on appeal.
- Jiminian v. Seabrook, 760 F. App’x 38 (2d Cir. 2019). Obtained complete dismissal on the pleadings—and unanimous affirmance by the Second Circuit—for a law firm named in a shareholder derivative lawsuit.
From 2015 to 2016, Jonathan served as a law clerk to Judge Christina A. Snyder of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
He earned his law degree from Yale Law School. At Yale, Jonathan was co-editor in chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review, a member of the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project, and a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. In addition, Jonathan served as a judicial extern to then-Justice Dalveer Bhandari of the Supreme Court of India, now a member of the U.N.’s International Court of Justice.
Jonathan graduated first in his class and received his Bachelor of Science from U.C. Berkeley’s Hass School of Business, for which he received the Departmental Citation. He also graduated summa cum laude from Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy. After college, Jonathan taught high school biology for two years in South Los Angeles as a Teach For America corps member.
Ben Nunez is a New York qualified of counsel in the London office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.
Ben has broad experience advising on a wide range of antitrust issues, including abuse of dominance, civil cartel enforcement, market investigations, and merger control. He has particular sectoral regulatory experience in the energy and pharmaceutical sectors.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ben spent more than seven years at the U.K. competition authority, most recently as Assistant Director within the legal services department. During his time at the authority, he advised on a portfolio of Phase 1 merger cases involving the telecommunications, software, digital payments, insurance, and logistics sectors. Ben also worked on the JD Sports/Footasylum Phase 2 merger, as well as the subsequent litigation before the Competition Appeals Tribunal and remittal case. He was also heavily involved in the most recent revision to the authority’s public guidance on the use of interim measures in merger cases. Ben was part of the core case team investigating competition concerns under Article 101 and 102 TFEU and Chapters I and II CA98 in relation to the supply of fludrocortisone in the U.K. In that role, he gained comprehensive experience of civil cartel investigation from ‘dawn raids,’ through the investigative stages to final decision, including commitments and settlement. He also worked on the Phase 2 energy market investigation, including both the administrative and remedies phases.
Marryum Kahloon is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the Firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group.
Marryum has extensive experience in international arbitration and public international law disputes. She has experience in a wide range of cross-border disputes including investor-State arbitration and international commercial arbitration. Marryum has experience advising clients on cases under arbitration rules including the ICSID, ICSID AF, UNCITRAL, HKIAC, SCC, ICC, AAA, and SIAC Rules. In addition, she has advised on cases before both the International Court Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.
Her pro bono practice focuses on advising clients on issues of public international law and international human rights law. Her experience includes drafting and submitting petitions to United Nations organs, working with international criminal tribunals, advising on treaty negotiations, and supporting non-governmental organizations with research and strategy.
Marryum has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America for her work in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Commerical Litigation.
Marryum graduated with an LLM from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, and recipient of the Edwin Parker Prize for excellence in the study of international law. She earned her Bachelor of Laws degree, summa cum laude, from Bond University, where she was a Vice Chancellor’s Scholar. Prior to joining the Firm, Marryum acquired experience in international arbitration with international law firms in Paris, Shanghai, and Sydney. She was also the judicial clerk to the Honorable Margaret McMurdo AC, President of the Court of Appeal of Queensland.
She is admitted to practice in the State of New York and in Queensland, Australia.
Veronica Goodson is of counsel in the Litigation Department of the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn, with a focus on environmental regulation and litigation. Her experience includes assisting companies in enforcement proceedings before state and federal regulators, counseling clients on self-reporting under the EPA Audit Policy, developing compliance plans, and managing internal investigations and litigation. Veronica has worked with companies to assess compliance and defend enforcement actions and litigation involving a variety of environmental programs, including the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA/Superfund). In addition to her experience with federal programs, Veronica has helped clients navigate compliance and enforcement interactions with state environmental regulators, particularly in California.
Representative experience includes:
- Represented Mercedes-Benz 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. (D.D.C. 2020) & California v. Daimler AG (D.D.C. 2020).
- 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 consent decree resolving the case contained one of the first Supplemental Environmental Projects approved by U.S. 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).
- Advising automobile manufacturers on a variety of regulatory compliance issues, including on-board diagnostics (OBD), substances of concern (e.g., TSCA), emission-related warranty and defects issues, and emerging issues related to electric vehicles—including range testing, ZEV credits, and warranty.
- Advising companies across industries—including in chemical manufacturing, applied research, and upstream oil and gas—regarding self-disclosures under the EPA Audit Policy.
In addition, Veronica maintains an active pro bono practice on LGBTQ issues. During contested FOIA litigation on behalf of an LGBTQ advocacy organization, she helped secure the release of documents regarding a government agency’s revocation of anti-discrimination policies that protected transgender individuals and pregnant people seeking healthcare. In addition to obtaining the documents, Veronica successfully advocated for an award of attorneys’ fees and costs under FOIA’s “prevailing party” provision. Veronica also works with LGBTQ asylum seekers through the firm’s pro bono program.
Veronica graduated with high honors from The George Washington University Law School and was elected to the Order of the Coif. She served as a Notes Editor of the George Washington Law Review and a Dean’s Fellow legal research and writing instructor. Veronica received her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Texas A&M University.
From 2009 to 2015, including while attending law school, she worked for a U.S. Intelligence Community component. From 2014 to 2015, Veronica was a special assistant to the component’s chief information officer, responsible for coordinating strategic information technology projects.
She is admitted to practice law in California and the District of Columbia.
John Curran is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Transactional Department and a member of the firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group. His practices focuses on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits, including tax, ERISA, accounting, corporate, and securities law aspects of equity and other incentive compensation plans, qualified and nonqualified retirement and deferred compensation plans and executive employment and severance arrangements, including in connection with complex domestic and international business transactions. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, John was a corporate associate in the Executive Compensation Group at an international law firm in New York, where he advised clients on equity-based incentive compensation, employment, severance plans and other executive compensation arrangements.
John graduated summa cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 2017. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Loyola University Maryland in 2007.
He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.
Selected representative experience:*
- Patterson-UTI Energy’s $5.4 billion merger with NexTier Oilfield Solutions, simultaneously with its $780 million acquisition of Ulterra Drilling Technologies
- SilverBow Resources on its $2.1 billion sale to Crescent Energy
- Merck on its $1.3 billion acquisition of publicly-traded Imago Biosciences
- Kimberly-Clark on its $640 million sale of its global Personal Protective Equipment business to Ansell Limited
- Coterra Energy in its $3.95 billion acquisition of Franklin Mountain Energy and Avant Natural Resources
- Diversified Energy in its $1.275 billion acquisition of Maverick Natural Resources, a portfolio company of EIG Global Energy Partners
- Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Atlas Corp. in its $10.9 billion take-private transaction
- Eaton Corporation in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Fibrebond Corporation
- Juniper Capital in the sale of its upstream Rocky Mountain portfolio companies to Amplify Energy
- PAR Technology Corporation in various acquisitions and sales, including its sale of PAR Government Systems Corporation to Booz Allen Hamilton
- Clarivate Plc in its:
- $6.8 billion combination with CPA Global
- Clarivate’s $5.3 billion acquisition of ProQuest
- $950 million acquisition of Decision Resources Group
- Payoneer’s $3.3 billion combination with FTAC Olympus Acquisition
- Sterling Equities and the New York Mets on the sale of the New York Mets Major League Baseball franchise
- Veritas Capital in various acquisitions and sales, including its:
- $10.5 billion acquisition of Cotivi with KKR
- $3.1 billion carve-out of the Wood Mackenzie business from Verisk
- Acquisition of Edifecs by Cotiviti
- Elliott Management in its:
- $7.1 billion take private acquisition of Syneos Health, Inc., a fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization, as part of a private investment consortium also consisting of Patient Square Capital and Veritas Capital
- €1.2 billion acquisition of Associazione Calcio Milan (“AC Milan”) by RedBird Capital Partners
- Aurora Capital Partners in its:
- acquisition of Universal Pure Holdings, LLC, a leading provider of high pressure processing and related food safety and technical services
- acquisition of GenServe, a market-leading independent provider of backup power solutions for commercial, industrial and critical infrastructure applications
- CenterOak Partners in various acquisitions and sales
- The Chernin Group in its majority investment in BiggerPockets, a leading educational platform providing access to real estate investing
Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.
Marija Bračković is of counsel in the London office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation, White Collar Defense and Investigations, Fintech and Digital Assets and Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Practice Groups. She is currently on secondment.
Marija has substantial experience in both domestic and international dispute resolution, including litigation and investigations, and regulatory compliance and counselling across sectors, with a focus on fintech and emerging digital regulations. Her practice has an emphasis on high-profile and politically sensitive matters, such as cases relating to bribery, money laundering and allegations of cross-border and international crimes. Marija regularly advises on complex regulatory and compliance issues, including the scope and implementation of the emerging digital regulatory regime across the UK and EU, including the Digital Services Act, Online Safety Act and EU AI Act.
Marija has acted in matters in the UK, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Cambodia, representing diverse clients including governments, political parties, non-governmental organizations and private individuals. She has particular experience in acting for major technology companies, banks, crypto firms and financial institutions.
Marija is recognised by The Legal 500 UK 2024 for Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime. She has also been recognised by the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom as “One to Watch” for International Arbitration and Litigation.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Marija was an associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution team of another international law firm. She previously practiced at a leading set of barristers’ chambers in London and completed secondments at the Serious Fraud Office and a major retail bank. Called to the bar in 2010, Marija is an experienced advocate and has appeared in all manner of proceedings, including jury trials, court martial and tribunal hearings, as both a sole and junior advocate.
Elizabeth A. Case is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. She practices with the Firm’s Real Estate Department and has been recognized as a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ in the area of Real Estate Law.
Liz represents clients in a broad range of complex commercial real estate transactions, with specific focus on borrower side financings, acquisitions and dispositions, development projects, joint ventures, and leasing, across all asset classes and deal sizes.
Liz earned her Juris Doctor in 2013 from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College in 2008, with a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies, where she earned Department Honors.
Liz is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Justin Accomando is of counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and has experience representing clients in white collar criminal defense, compliance, government investigations, and government contracting. He has represented clients in both internal investigations and before the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.
Justin was recently recommended by The Legal 500 for his work in Government Contracts (2025).
Prior to joining the firm, Justin was a submarine officer in the United States Navy. He was trained in the Navy’s nuclear propulsion program and is certified as a nuclear engineering officer. He served aboard a fast-attack submarine and made two operational overseas deployments, leading a watch team and serving as assistant engineer. Justin also spent two years as an instructor in History at the Naval Academy before attending law school. While in law school, he interned in the Office of the White House Counsel, principally working for the National Security Staff legal team.
He graduated from the Yale Law School, where he was a Senior Editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation and the Yale Journal of International Law. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in History, with honors and distinction, from the United States Naval Academy, where he was awarded a FitzGerald Scholarship to study at Oxford University and the Sons of the American Revolution Prize Sword. At Oxford, Justin earned a Master of Philosophy Degree in Economic and Social History.
Justin is admitted to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Corine Forward White is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts, at both the trial and appellate levels. She has represented clients across a variety of industries, including technology, labor and employment, and consumer products. She also has experience participating in class actions and arbitration proceedings.
Corine maintains an active pro bono practice that includes representing incarcerated individuals and advocating for survivors of domestic violence. In 2023, Corine successfully represented a client in an appeal of the denial of a resentencing application under New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA), resulting in the client’s immediate release from incarceration.
Corine served as a law clerk to the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Prior to clerking, she was an associate in Gibson Dunn’s New York office.
Corine received her Juris Doctor in 2022 from Columbia Law School, where she was named a James Kent Scholar and served as a Managing Editor of the Columbia Law Review. Corine graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University in 2019, where she received her Bachelors of Arts in English and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Corine is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Griffin Connolly is a litigation associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2025. While in law school, Griffin won the Haft Foundation First-Year Brief Prize, awarded to the first-year student with the best brief in the class-wide moot court competition. He served as a senior editor of the Columbia Law Review, earned academic Honors all three years, and won two Dean’s Cups as a member of Columbia Law School’s basketball team.
Prior to attending law school, Griffin was a journalist in Washington, D.C., where he covered Congress. His reporting focused primarily on congressional investigations.
Griffin is admitted to practice law in California.
Nicole Martínez is an associate attorney in the New York Office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s International Trade and Transnational Litigation Practice Groups.
Nicole’s practice focuses on navigating economic sanctions, export controls, and other foreign investment and supply chain regimes, as well as matters of public international law. Prior to joining the Firm, Nicole clerked at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, where she focused on the implications of corporate immunities granted to arms manufacturers on transnational harms and adherence to international legal norms. At her clerkship, Nicole performed all her duties in Spanish.
Nicole received her law degree from Georgetown in 2023, where she co-published research on anti-corruption systems in Latin America for the Georgetown Americas Institute under the supervision of Sean Hagan, and externed for the Military Commissions Defense Organization (“Guantanamo Bay Defense Team”). Nicole maintains an active pro bono practice advising clients on issues of public international law, international human rights, and international criminal law. Prior to law school, Nicole worked in the cryptocurrency space for four years, first as a venture capital analyst and then in business intelligence and strategic operations for Chainalysis, a leading cryptocurrency compliance and investigations software company that bridges the gaps between industry, regulators, and law enforcement, globally.
Nicole speaks Spanish fluently and has a working knowledge of Portuguese.