Aidan McNamara is an associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group.

Aidan earned his Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Brooklyn Law School, where he served as a Notes Editor for the Brooklyn Law Review. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from Fordham University. 

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Aidan was an associate at an international law firm where he was a member of the Investment Funds practice group in New York.

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

Emma Khairallah is an associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group. She is dual-qualified in England & Wales and New York.

Emma’s practice is focused on advising sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, funds of funds, and other institutional investors on their global investments into private funds across a range of asset classes, including credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure. Her experience spans primary commitments, co-investments, and secondary market transactions. She also provides clients with ongoing advice in connection with their investments, including transfers of interests, most-favoured-nation processes, and custodian transitions.

Emma also advises asset managers and fund sponsors on a broad range of private fund matters, including the structuring, formation, fundraising, and operation of private investment funds.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Emma worked at another leading international law firm. Prior to that, she worked in-house at a specialist alternative asset manager in London, and in the private equities team of a large Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund.

Trevor Herden is a corporate associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn, where his practice focuses on Investment Funds matters.

He received his Juris Doctor cum laude in 2021 from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as Executive Editor for the Georgetown Environmental Law Review. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Franklin University Switzerland.

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

Eimi Harris is a corporate associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group.

Eimi advises on, and regularly assists with, the formation and operation of open- and closed-end U.S. private investment funds across a range of investment strategies, including real estate funds, private equity funds and debt funds. Eimi also has experience with non-U.S. funds, co-investments, separately managed accounts, regulatory matters, and internal sponsor arrangements. The clients she works on range from first-time fund sponsors to experienced multi-strategy fund managers.

Eimi received her Juris Doctor in 2020 from Cornell Law School, where she served as Managing Editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. She received her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, Economics and Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto in 2017.

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

Colin Edwards is a corporate associate in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group.

Colin’s practice focuses on counseling sponsors on the organization and operation of open- and closed-end private investment funds, across various strategies including private equity, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources. In addition, he advises on a variety of matters including co-investments, joint ventures, secondary transactions, and separately managed accounts. Colin received both his Juris Doctor and Masters of Laws from Duke University School of Law, where he was the Articles Editor on the Duke Law Journal of Comparative & International Law. He graduated with honors from Vassar College and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Colin practiced with a global law firm. Colin is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, the State of Colorado, and the State of Texas.

Alexa Bussmann is an associate in the Houston office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices across the firm’s Transactional Department, focusing on Finance and Investment Funds.

Alexa received her Juris Doctor from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where she represented clients across four full-semester clinics, served as Director of Alumni Relations for the Texas International Law Journal, and received the Pro Bono Beacon Award. As a Pro Bono Scholar, Alexa created a pro bono program to support University of Texas at Austin students with Name, Image and Likeness matters, in addition to developing trademark, choice of entity, and corporate governance offerings for small business owners. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Political Science with honors, and Spanish.

Alexa maintains an active pro bono practice supporting small businesses. She is admitted to practice in the state of Texas.

Molly Burke is an associate in the Dubai office of Gibson Dunn, where she practices in the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Molly worked in the corporate and investment funds practice of an international law firm and has experience advising private equity, venture capital, and sovereign wealth fund clients on the establishment and structuring of investments across a broad range of industries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Molly graduated from Technology University Dublin with a Bachelor of Science in Business and Law. She is admitted to practice in England and Wales, Ireland and is a registered legal consultant with the Dubai Legal Affairs Department.

Victor Tong is an English-qualified solicitor in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Dispute Resolution Group.

Victor has a broad practice spanning commercial litigation, regulatory investigations, and white collar crime defence. He has particular expertise in financial services disputes, having acted in large-scale banking litigation and multi-jurisdictional investigations concerning bribery and corruption, market conduct and financial crime. He also advises on contentious restructuring and insolvency matters, and on anti-bribery and corruption due diligence in M&A transactions.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Victor practised at Freshfields, where he undertook a secondment to the litigation and investigations department at Nomura in London.

Selected Experience*

Litigation, Contentious Regulatory and Contentious Restructuring and Insolvency

  • Acting for the defendants in Soriano v Forensic News LLC [2023] EWCA Civ 223, successfully defending an appeal against the High Court’s refusal to grant a US section 1782 discovery application. The case is the leading authority on the circumstances in which the English court will grant an anti-suit injunction to restrain foreign evidence-gathering proceedings.
  •  Acting for Fnac Darty in Darty Holdings SAS v Carton-Kelly [2023] EWCA Civ 1135, successfully appealing the High Court’s decision on a £115 million preference claim under section 239 of the Insolvency Act 1986 arising from the sale of Comet Group.
  • Acting for Cargill in Cargill v Uttam Galva Steels [2019] EWHC 476 (Comm), obtaining summary judgment in the Commercial Court for repayment of a US$62 million debt and default compensation. One of the first cases to apply the UK Supreme Court’s decision on penalty clauses in Cavendish Square v Makdessi [2015] UKSC 67.
  • Acting for Debenhams in successfully defending a challenge to its CVA brought by multiple landlords (Discovery (Northampton) Ltd and others v Debenhams Retail Ltd [2019] EWHC 2441 (Ch)).
  • Advising a professional golf tour in defending a threatened claim for breach of confidence and unlawful means conspiracy concerning the protection of commercial concepts and business models as confidential information.
  • Acting for a global car manufacturer in defending a class action relating to alleged emissions defeat devices.
  • Advising a global bank on multiple threatened and issued claims for alleged mis-sale of interest rate hedging products.

Investigations, White Collar Crime Defence and Compliance

  • Advising a global telecommunications company in an ongoing FCPA investigation before the DOJ.
  •  Advising a global bank on a cross-border investigation concerning alleged cum-ex trading.
  • Advising a global bank on its response to an FCA investigation of its anti-money laundering capabilities.
  • Advising a global bank on an internal investigation of a trader’s potential misconduct when trading UK government bonds.
  • Advising an international consumer products conglomerate on a whistleblowing investigation of multijurisdictional fraudulent behaviour in Middle East and Africa, including under the Bribery Act 2010 and Criminal Finances Act 2017.
  • Advising a financial institution on an FCA investigation of potential weaknesses in cybersecurity and operational effectiveness.
  •  Advising companies on the corporate offence of failure to prevent fraud under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, including conducting fraud risk assessments.
  •  Advising banks and private equity firms on anti-bribery and corruption due diligence on M&A transactions across EMEA.

* Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Heather Richardson is a litigation partner in Gibson Dunn’s Los Angeles office and is Co-Chair of the firm’s ERISA Litigation practice.  She specializes in health care, ERISA, insurance, employee misclassification, and class actions.  She has handled dozens of high-stakes matters from inception to a win.  She regularly litigates against both private parties and government entities in trial courts around the country and a variety of different arbitration tribunals.  In the healthcare space, Heather has represented health plans and plan sponsors on a wide range of issues including reimbursement policy, coverage determinations, quality of care, pharmacy benefits, and provider contracting. She has served as trial counsel in cases involving novel, complex issues ranging from provider compensation to gig economy worker classification. 

In recognition of Heather’s achievements, Heather has been honored by Chambers USA as a leading healthcare practitioner in the State of California from 2020 through 2026.  Clients call her “smart, knowledgeable, tactical, and strategically impressive,” and note that “she has a wealth of experience in the healthcare sector and is a decisive and strategic thinker.”  She was also featured by The Best Lawyers in America® for her expertise in Health Care Law.  The Legal 500 recognized her as a “Leading Partner” for Insurance and a “Next Generation Lawyer” in ERISA litigation.  Among other accolades, Heather was named one of the “Top 40 Attorneys Under 40” in California by the Daily Journal, a “Top Attorney Under 40” by Law360, and was included on Benchmark Litigation’s “Under 40 List,” which honors the achievements of the nation’s most accomplished legal partners of the age of 40 or younger.  She has also been recognized as a California “Future Litigation Star.”  Heather was named a “Rising Star” and one of Southern California’s top women attorneys for multiple consecutive years by Super Lawyers.

Representative matters include:

  • Obtaining an eleventh-hour favorable settlement following openings and cross examination of one witness in a trial about emergency room provider reimbursement.
  • Serving as trial counsel in a 5-week trial against the Massachusetts Attorney General in a trial over worker classification.
  • Obtaining a complete victory in a confidential arbitration involving a business dispute between a medical group and MSO.
  • Defeating certification of a putative class of health plan members alleging improper clinical denials.
  • Securing a $37.4 million jury verdict against a group of surgery centers found liable for fraud, interference with contract, and unjust enrichment.
  • Defeating certification of a putative class of members who were denied coverage for behavioral health care they received at residential treatment centers and who challenged the health plan’s medical necessity determinations.
  • Obtaining the complete dismissal with prejudice of a mass action brought by a group of surgery centers challenging facility reimbursement rates against a health plan and hundreds of its plan sponsors.
  • Representing a managed care organization in a class action challenging the termination of network contracts with physicians, in which plaintiffs alleged causes of action for violation of the Lanham Act and California’s Unfair Competition Law (Cal Bus. & Profs. Code § 17200 et seq).
  • Securing complete dismissal of plaintiffs’ claims against a managed care organization for wrongful death and denial of benefits, and ultimately the dismissal of the case in its entirety at summary judgment, in a highly-publicized lawsuit in which Plaintiffs alleged that a managed care organization caused the death of their daughter by denying coverage for a liver transplant.
  • Securing complete victory for client in a confidential legal malpractice international arbitration.
  • Representing a hospital system in multiple putative class actions in which plaintiffs assert claims for breach of privacy and a novel class theory for claims arising under California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act.
  • In an antitrust suit brought by a putative class of purchasers of pulse oximetry products, defeating class certification and winning summary judgment.

Heather graduated from UCLA School of Law in 2006. She also earned a degree of Master of Public Health from UCLA in 2006, with a specialization in Health Services. Heather graduated cum laude from Yale University in 2002, with a double-major in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and History.

Heather is a member of the California bar and is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Courts of Appeal across the country, and all federal courts in California.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society and the Board of Directors for Bet Tzedek Legal Services. Heather is also a Lecturer at UCLA School of Law, where she teaches Health Law & Policy.

Sophie White is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where she currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

She graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 2021 were she served as an Executive Editor for the Georgetown Environmental Law Review.

Sophie received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Missouri – Kansas City in 2013. After graduation, Sophie worked as a congressional aide to United States Senator Claire McCaskill.

While attending law school, Sophie worked as a Legislative Director and advocated on Capitol Hill on a variety of policy issues including transportation and aviation policy as well as federal employee issues.

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

Alex Jackins is a senior of counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. Alex represents real estate investors, owners, developers, and operators in negotiating joint venture agreements, partnership agreements, purchase and sale agreements, development, management and leasing agreements for commercial real estate assets, with a particular focus on digital infrastructure. Particularly, Alex represents owners and operators in the negotiation of data center leases, colocation agreements, and master services agreements.

Alex also advises real estate investors and owners in financing commercial real estate projects in compliance with Islamic law through the use of Shariah compliant ijarah and murabaha structures.

Alex is recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers USA in Band 3 for Real Estate in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

His representative matters include:*

  • Represented various data center operators in the negotiations of colocation and data center leases and service level agreements with a hyperscale and enterprise customers for data halls located within the United States and abroad.
  • Represent data center developers in the acquisition and development of land, raw and improved, for development as a data center facility.
  • Represent data center owners and operators in the acquisition and disposition of data center assets throughout the U.S.
  • Represented a data center developer in the negotiation of a joint venture to acquire approximately 22.6 acres of land in Loudoun County, Virginia for the construction of a data center development. The land was purchased in part through use of condemnation proceeds received from adjacent lands owned by the joint venture along with 1031 exchange proceeds. The matter also included negotiation of a joint venture agreement, various entity formation documents, a purchase and sale agreement, a tenant-in-common agreement, distribution of membership interest agreements, a development management agreement, and other ancillary documents.
  • Represent a real estate investment company in the acquisitions of office, multi-family, and retail properties throughout the U.S. The transactions often include the negotiation of a Shariah compliant financing facility through use of either an ijarah or murabaha structure.
  • Represented a government contractor in the negotiation of build-to-leases in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Oklahoma to support facility needs for a large government contract. The transactions involved the negotiation of cooperative endeavor agreements with state and local municipalities to fund construction of the projects.

Alex received his Juris Doctor in 2000 from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law, and his undergraduate degree in 1992 from University of Maryland. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia.

*Includes representations prior to Alex’s association with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Matthew Parrott is an Of Counsel in the Orange County Office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.

His practice focuses primarily on antitrust and competition litigation and counseling, especially for technology, consumer services, pharmaceutical, and health care clients. He represents clients in criminal and civil antitrust litigations and investigations, class actions, alternative dispute resolution proceedings, and appeals. Matthew also has represented clients in securities and shareholder derivative, patent and licensing, breach of contract, business tort, consumer fraud, unfair competition, and privacy litigation. He is experienced in all phases of litigation — from drafting and responding to pleadings to conducting trials and appeals.

Matthew’s representative antitrust and competition matters include the following:

  • Won denial of class certification on behalf of an international franchise system in a putative nationwide antitrust class action challenging alleged restraints in labor markets.
  • Representation of consumer electronics device manufacturers in action asserting antitrust, breach of contract, FRAND, and patent claims against wireless technology licensor, in which the manufacturers defeated a motion for preliminary injunction seeking to force them to pay royalties under patent license agreements being challenged as anticompetitive.
  • Defense of a pharmaceutical company in class action and government investigations alleging it monopolized a drug market through patent and regulatory actions.
  • Defense of a multi-national manufacturing company in a federal antitrust price-fixing grand jury investigation and in direct and indirect purchaser class actions and other consolidated proceedings in federal court and alternative dispute resolution proceedings.
  • Defense of a pharmaceutical company in federal antitrust litigation involving sham litigation and “product hopping” claims.
  • Defense of a chemical manufacturing company in a direct purchaser antitrust price-fixing class action lawsuit in federal court.*
  • Defense of a financial services company in federal litigation involving allegations by the Department of Justice, state attorneys general, class plaintiffs, and other parties that contractual provisions violated the antitrust laws.*
  • Defense of a financial services company in federal antitrust litigation accusing company of conspiring with other financial services companies to adopt arbitration clauses barring class actions in consumer agreements.*
  • Antitrust counseling to various U.S. and international companies.

His representative securities matters include the following:

  • Defense of current and former directors of a pharmaceutical company in federal shareholder derivative actions arising out of the company’s $600 million settlement of government investigations and qui tam complaints.
  • Representation of a major consulting and accounting firm in Securities and Exchange Commission proceedings.
  • Defense of a medical services company and individual defendants in a putative securities class action litigation and shareholder derivative actions in federal courts.*

Matthew’s representative other matters include the following:

  • Defense of a pharmaceutical company regarding a dispute over interpretation of a patent license agreement in which plaintiff claimed it was entitled to $600 million in additional royalties based on its interpretation of the agreement. Summary judgment was entered in favor of our client, pursuant to which the Court accepted our client’s interpretation of the agreement and dismissed plaintiff’s claim for the additional royalties.
  • Representation of a pharmaceutical company alleging that defendants misappropriated its trade secrets and committed other business torts in federal court.
  • Defense of affiliated hospitals in coordinated class actions filed in Orange County Superior Court, Civil Complex, asserting violations of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act and Consumer Records Act, as well as other state law claims, arising from alleged disclosure of patient information.
  • Defense of a pharmaceutical company regarding various patent license royalty disputes with patent licensors in federal court.
  • Representation of an information technologies company regarding breach of contract claims and other business tort disputes in various state court and arbitration proceedings.
  • Defense of a technology company regarding business tort allegations brought by a competitor in the Complex Commercial Litigation Division of Delaware Superior Court.
  • Pro bono representation of various clients in immigration matters, social security benefits proceedings, and other counseling.

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Matthew previously completed a secondment to the California Orange County District Attorney’s Office as part of its Trial Attorney Partnership program. As a Deputy District Attorney, he secured multi-count guilty verdicts in two criminal trials, conducted dozens of preliminary hearings, and argued suppression motions and other matters in the Orange County Superior Court.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Matthew was a litigation associate with an international law firm in New York City. He also was a member of the adjunct faculty at Fordham University School of Law.

He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Loretta A. Preska (Chief Judge, Southern District of New York) and the Honorable Kenneth F. Ripple (Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals).

Matthew received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and his B.A., magna cum laude, with honors from Lafayette College.

He is a member of the State Bars of California and New York. He is admitted to practice before several district and appellate courts.

Kenza Anouassi is a French qualified associate in the Paris office of Gibson Dunn, where she serves as a member of the firm’s Finance Practice Group.

Kenza focuses her practice on structured finance and complex cross-border debt restructuring transactions.

She is also involved in syndicated loans, government guaranteed loans and bond issues. Kenza represents both private and listed companies, senior and junior lenders and borrowers in their significant strategic transactions.

Admitted to the Paris Bar, Kenza holds a postgraduate degree in International Business Law and Management from ESSEC Business School and a Master’s degree in European and International Business Law from Paris Dauphine PSL University.

She speaks English, French, and Arabic fluently.

Ciara O’Gara is an associate in the Brussels office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.

Ciara’s practice covers all areas of EU competition law, including complex merger control matters and foreign investment & national security.

Ciara holds a BCL with French Law from University College Dublin and qualified as a solicitor in Ireland in 2023. 

She speaks fluent English and is proficient in French.

Alex Delipallas-O’Donnell is an associate in the Brussels office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition practice group.

Alex’s practice covers all areas of EU and UK competition law, including merger control matters and foreign investment & national security, as well as tech regulatory matters (e.g. Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act).

He holds an LLB from the University of York and an LLM in Competition Law from Queen Mary University of London.

Alex is a native English and Greek speaker.

Sean Tierney is a partner in the Firm’s Private Equity / Corporate Real Estate Department, based in London and Los Angeles. He has a trans-national practice, advising on transactions in the UK and Europe, while also assisting UK & EMEA-based investors with their real estate investments into the United States.

Sean prides himself on providing solutions-oriented counsel. And, he guides clients through every stage of the real estate investment lifecycle, advising on:

  • Joint ventures
  • Single-asset and portfolio M&A transactions
  • Secondaries
  • Financings, refinancings, and disposals

Sean represents clients across the capital and debt stack, working with private equity sponsors, institutional and non-institutional investors, developers, operators, lenders, and borrowers.

Sean also launched the Firm’s London-based hospitality practice. He has market-leading expertise in hotel transactions and the negotiation of long-term hotel management agreements, advising investors and operators on structuring and executing deals with major global brands.

Sean has been recognized as a leading lawyer by:

  • Legal 500 UK: L eading Partner for Real Estate: Commercial Property – Investment, 2026
  • Lawdragon 500: Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers, 2024 and 2025
  • Who’s Who Legal Hospitality 2024
  • Law360: Hospitality MVP, 2023
  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ in Real Estate, 2022 and 2023
  • Lawdragon: 500 X – The Next Generation, 2023

Representative matters include:

  • Acquisition, joint venture, and financing, and hotel management agreement for the Standard Hotel on behalf of three institutional investors.
  • Acquisition, financing, and negotiation of the hotel management agreement for the Park Hyatt Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland).
  • Representation of the EQ Group in connection with the acquisition of an 18-hotel portfolio in the United Kingdom.
  • $835 million acquisition of The Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida, the largest hospitality transaction since the Covid-19 pandemic (Florida).
  • Acquisition, financing and re-opening of the Hilton Times Square (New York).
  • $1.1 billion acquisition of the Dropbox headquarters in San Francisco (California).
  • Negotiation of the $2.2 billion construction financing for the Fontainebleau Las Vegas (Nevada).
  • Acquisition, re-branding, and recapitalization of the Waldorf Astoria, Monarch Beach (California).
  • Acquisition, financings, and repositioning of the Jane Hotel in New York (New York).

Sean graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. While at Michigan, he worked in the Community and Economic Development Clinic, advising small businesses and non-profit organizations dedicated to the economic revitalization of Detroit, Michigan. Sean graduated magna cum laude from Loyola Marymount University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Philosophy and a minor in Business Administration.

Sean is also a proud member of the Board of Directors of Verbum Dei High School, a college prep school for low-income students located in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Annie Zhang is a Registered Foreign Lawyer (Australia) and an associate in Hong Kong. She is a member of the firm’s global Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Transactions Practice Group.

Annie has significant experience advising legal teams, boards and C-suites on navigating sophisticated and rapidly evolving legal and regulatory issues across cybersecurity, data privacy, information technology and business process outsourcing, and artificial intelligence. She also advises on complex corporate transactions, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings.

Annie works closely with clients to build cyber resilience, leading incident response efforts, supporting post-incident reviews, and advising on data governance across the full data lifecycle – from collection and use through to retention and deletion. She has particular expertise in managing cyber incidents and data breaches, including responding to large-scale incidents, coordinating multi-disciplinary forensic and review teams, assessing legal and operational impacts, and providing strategic remediation to address compliance gaps and strengthen future resilience.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Annie was a senior associate at a global international law firm based in Australia. Annie brings a pragmatic, commercially-minded perspective to her work, shaped by in-house secondment roles.

Annie earned her Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce from Monash University, where she graduated with Honours. She also holds a Masters of Commercial Law (with High Distinction) from the University of Melbourne. She was awarded the Frank Pinkerton Scholarship for the highest mark in the subject: Information Technology Contracting Law. 

Annie is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, and the High Court of Australia. She is fluent in English, Mandarin, and Shanghainese.

Nigel Gleeson is a partner in the Singapore office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Private Equity Practice Groups. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and private capital investments for financial sponsors, including private equity houses, pension / infrastructure funds, and sovereign linked investors across sectors and the APAC region. Nigel has a depth of expertise and experience advising financial sponsors on their most complex infrastructure and real asset investments.

Nigel is consistently ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 for Corporate/M&A in – Singapore and across Southeast Asia / APAC. Clients describe him as “a very strategic partner – he knows when and how to support clients in need” and “very dedicated and commercially minded in his approach.“

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Nigel led the Southeast Asia M&A practice of an international firm working in Singapore, London, and New York. He has been based in Singapore since 2012.

Nigel received his Bachelor of Laws and Commerce from the University of Auckland in 2001. He is admitted to practice in New Zealand and England and Wales.

Nigel’s recent experience includes advising:*

  • Blackstone on a number of transactions across APAC, including the S$1.2 billion sale of a portfolio of industrial real estate assets to a Warburg Pincus and Lendlease joint venture platform.
  • A KKR led consortium (along with Singtel) on their US$2.2 billion investment into STT GDC, the global data center business.
  • KKR on its S$1.1 billion investment in Nxera, Singtel’s regional data center business valued at S$5.5 billion.
  • TPG (through The Rise Fund) and the Hong Leong Group on their US$300 million acquisition of International Medical University (IMU), the Malaysian medial education business (including a university and teaching hospital) from IHH Healthcare Berhad.
  • A consortium of financial sponsors (including BCI, RRJ Capital, and ADIA) on their US$1 billion investment into Yinson Production, the global FPSO business based in Malaysia.
  • CPP Investments on its APAC investments, including:
    • its US$332 million infrastructure investment in L&T IDPL;
    • its US$1.3 billion joint venture with IndoSpace;
    • its US$800 million investment in Flipkart Group.
  • OTPP on its investment in Princeton Digital Group, the APAC data center business.
  • General Atlantic on its investments in Garena Online / Sea Ltd (SEA ecommerce), Ruangguru (Indonesia edtech), and VNLife (Vietnam payments).
  • Simba Telecom on its acquisition of M1’s telco business in Singapore for an enterprise value of S$1.43 billion.
  • Colt Data Centre Services on its joint venture with ESR to develop a 130MW hyperscale data center site in Osaka, Japan.
  • Advent International on the disposal of its interest in Quest Global, the Indian engineering business, to Carlyle.
  • Quadria Capital on the sale of 100% of its interest in FV Hospital in Vietnam, to Thomson Medical.
  • GIC on its investment in Vinmec, the Vietnam-based private hospital operator.
  • Growtheum Capital Partners on its investment in International Dairy Products, the Vietnamese diary manufacturer.
  • Nexif Energy Management on its APAC renewable energy platforms with each of Denham Capital and RATCH Energy, and the sale of its portfolio of Australian and Southeast Asian energy assets to the Thai-listed RATCH Group PLC.

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Jon Bowden is a partner in the Singapore office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups. Jon advises private equity funds and other financial sponsors, together with a range of corporates, on a broad range of corporate transactions across sectors in the Asia-Pacific region.

Jon has over 20 years’ experience advising on cross-border acquisitions, private and public M&A, divestitures, co-investments, joint ventures, minority and growth capital investments, carve-outs, and corporate restructurings. Jon’s experience includes advising on in-bound and out-bound transactions in the US, UK and Europe.

Jon is ranked as a leading lawyer in Chambers Asia-Pacific, Chambers Global, and Legal 500 for Corporate/M&A. Client feedback in these directories notes that “Jon is extremely good to work with – very commercial and hands-on,” and “is very knowledgeable, very experienced.” Clients have commented that Jon “always goes the extra mile,” and that “he impresses with his in-depth knowledge of the key issues.”

Jon started his career in London in 2005 and has been based in Singapore since 2012. His experience includes a secondment to the principal finance/private equity division of a leading international bank. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Jon was a partner in the private equity practice group of another major international law firm.

Jon’s recent experience includes advising:*

  • TPG on a number of acquisitions, investments and joint ventures in APAC, including in the education and medical/biopharmaceutical sectors.
  • Blackstone on various transactions in Asia, including the S$1.2 billion sale of a portfolio of industrial real estate assets to a Warburg Pincus and Lendlease joint venture platform.
  • DigitalBridge, through its private equity fund DigitalBridge Partners II, on its acquisition of a majority ownership stake in AIMS Group from TIME dotCom Berhad.
  • Brookfield Renewable Partners on the disposal of its solar energy businesses in Thailand and Malaysia.
  • EQT (and Baring Private Equity Asia) on various transactions, including its investment in and exit from the Jakarta Eye Center in Indonesia.
  • Various other global and regional financial sponsors, together with their portfolio companies, on their M&A acquisitions, investments, and divestments in Asia. These include Advent International, CVC, ESR, INCJ, I Squared Capital, Macquarie Asset Management, and PAG.
  • On a broad range of transactions in the digital infrastructure and TMT sectors, including acting for AIIB, GlobalWafers Co. Ltd., Jio Platforms Limited, KDDI, PropertyGuru, Schneider Electric, Sinar Mas, and Sumitomo Corporation.
  • A number of financial institutions on their corporate finance/M&A transactions, particularly in the banking, consumer finance, insurance,and insurtech sectors. Clients include Bangkok Bank, boltech Holding, FWD Group, LOLC Holding, SMBC, and Zurich Insurance.

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Alice Boughton is a partner in the Singapore office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups. She advises on a broad range of corporate transactions, from both public and private M&A and joint ventures, to reorganizations and capital raisings across a variety of sectors and jurisdictions.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Alice worked in international firms in Singapore and London.

She received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (First Class Honours) from the University of Cambridge, Jesus College in 2013, and her Master of Philosophy with distinction from the University of Cambridge, Jesus College in 2014. She is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Alice’s recent experience includes advising:*

  • KKR and Singtel (acting as a Consortium) on their investment of up to S$3 billion (~US$2.2 billion) in STT GDC via redeemable preference shares and detachable warrants.
  • Blackstone on various transactions in Asia, including the S$1.2 billion sale of a portfolio of industrial real estate assets to a Warburg Pincus and Lendlease joint venture platform.
  • KKR on its commitment of up to S$1.1 billion (~US$800 million) for a 20% stake in Singtel’s regional data center business, valued at S$5.5 billion.
  • Warburg Pincus, through its maiden Asia real estate, on a significant investment into Evolution Data Centres, a founder-led platform for pan-South-East Asian hyperscale data center development.
  • Warburg Pincus-backed NWP Property, Indonesia’s largest and fastest-growing New Economy enabled consumer infrastructure platform, on the establishment of a new joint venture with CRE Asia (and advising funds managed by Warburg Pincus on their continuing investment in NWP Property).
  • Singapore-based private equity firm Growtheum Capital Partners on its c. US$100 million investment into Vietnam’s International Dairy Products JSC.
  • TPG (through The Rise Fund) and the Hong Leong Group on their US$300 million acquisition of International Medical University (IMU), the Malaysian medial education business (including a university and teaching hospital) from IHH Healthcare Berhad.
  • A consortium of financial sponsors (including BCI, RRJ Capital, and ADIA) on their US$1 billion investment into Yinson Production, the global FPSO business based in Malaysia.
  • Colt Data Centre Services on its joint venture with ESR to develop a 130MW hyperscale data center site in Osaka, Japan.
  • Synergy Marine Pte Ltd, the fourth largest global ship manager and provider of end-to-end maritime solutions, and its founder shareholder Captain Rajesh Unni, on an investment for a significant minority stake by Searchlight Capital Partners.
  • A global insurance provider on its acquisition of a majority stake in India’s Kotak Mahindra General Insurance Company Limited for approximately US$488 million.
  • General Atlantic on their investment in VNLife Corporation, Vietnam’s second unicorn and leading fintech digital payments company.
  • A financial sponsor on an investment in VNG Corporation, Vietnam’s first tech unicorn, including in connection with VNG’s pre-UPCom restructuring and admission to trading.

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.