Marcus Curtis is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson Dunn, and a member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group.

He served as a law clerk to Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and to Judge Cynthia A. Bashant of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. He graduated from Yale Law School, where he served as an articles and essays editor for the Yale Law & Policy Review, and a managing editor for the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism.

Marcus earned his undergraduate degree from the United States Naval Academy, after which he served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. He also holds a graduate degree from Georgetown University and worked as a political-military analyst for the Pentagon, where he focused on China’s defense and foreign policy strategy.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he practiced with a premier global law firm as a member of the securities litigation and antitrust practices.

Marcus is a member of the California bar, and is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, and Southern Districts of California.

Benjamin D. Wilson is Of Counsel in the Dallas office of Gibson Dunn, where he is a member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group.

Ben has presented oral argument in the Texas Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth, Second, and Seventh Circuits, and the Texas Appellate Courts. He has also often represented clients before the United States Supreme Court and other state and federal courts of appeals. In addition, Ben often handles critical or dispositive motions in both state and federal trial courts.

Prior to rejoining Gibson Dunn, Ben worked as lead counsel for commercial appellate matters for the world’s largest retailer. Ben also has a distinguished record of public service in state and federal government. As Deputy Solicitor General in the Office of the Texas Solicitor General, he successfully briefed and argued many of the state’s most important appeals and advised on many of the state’s most important trial court matters. As Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy, Ben lead for the Department’s efforts to confirm federal judicial nominees, including Justice Amy Coney Barrett and over eighty lower court judges. Earlier in his career, Ben served as Counsel to Senator Ted Cruz on the Senate Judiciary Committee and as Special Counsel to Senator Cruz for the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Ben clerked for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and later for Judge James C. Ho of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Ben received his law degree with honors from the University of Chicago Law School and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Lee University magna cum laude with honors in history.

Ben is a member of the Texas Bar. He is admitted to practice before the Second, Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits and before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Western Districts of Texas.

Michelle Gery is a litigation associate in Gibson Dunn’s New York City office. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Michelle earned her Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 2024, where she was recognized as a James Kent Scholar. While at Columbia, she was a semifinalist in the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Competition, served on the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, and served as a teaching assistant for Corporations.

She graduated from Cornell University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations, with a minor in Philosophy and a minor in Law & Society. 

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

Andrea Calla is of counsel in the Abu Dhabi office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and a member of the Energy, Projects & Infrastructure and Mergers & Acquisitions practice groups.

Andrea’s practice focuses on advising corporations, financial institutions, governments and government-owned entities on a range of energy and infrastructure-related transactions, with a primary focus on upstream, midstream, downstream sectors, greenfield project development, renewables and transitional energy, as well broader corporate matters.

Andrea was recognized as a “Leading Associate” for UAE Oil, Gas and Natural Resources by The Legal 500 EMEA 2025.

Andrea received his undergraduate law degree (LLB) with First-Class Honors from the University of Newcastle, and a postgraduate diploma in legal practice (LPC) with Distinction from Kaplan Law School, London, in association with the Nottingham Trent University.

He is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Andrea was a corporate associate based in the London and Abu Dhabi offices of a major international law firm. Andrea also completed a secondment to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) where he focused on Upstream Oil and Gas.

Katherine Warren Martin is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department, focusing on high-stakes litigation and investigations, with particular emphasis on antitrust, white collar crime, and class actions.

Representative matters include:

• Defending clients involved in confidential investigations by U.S. antitrust enforcement authorities, conducting confidential internal investigations related to antitrust issues, and advising clients on the creation and enhancement of corporate antitrust compliance programs.
• Representing companies in complex antitrust litigation in federal court, including manufacturers of lithium ion batteries, auto parts, and food products in multi-district litigations (MDLs).
• Representing Facebook in a series of putative class actions and government enforcement actions relating to data privacy issues arising out of the Cambridge Analytica events.

From 2016-2017, and from 2020-2021, Katherine served as a law clerk to the Honorable William H. Orrick, III, of the Northern District of California. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan in 2015 where she graduated magna cum laude. While in law school, she acted as an Executive Editor for the Michigan Law Review and participated in the 2014-2015 Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition where she was awarded Best Petitioner’s Brief in the preliminary round. Katherine earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, in 2011. Prior to law school, she worked for the U.S. State Department’s Office of Foreign Missions in Los Angeles.

Katherine is currently admitted to practice law in the State of California and the United States District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California. She is a member of the Antitrust, UCL, and Privacy Section of the California Lawyers Association.

Trenton Van Oss is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn.

He has experience across a range of complex litigation areas, including class actions, state and federal government investigations, and appellate litigation. He has also assisted clients with internal investigations and reviews, as well as managed document review teams and overseen witness preparation.

Trenton clerked for Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Britt Grant on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and Judge Dabney Friedrich on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Prior to clerking, he was a litigation associate in Gibson Dunn’s Denver office. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was the Supreme Court Co-Chair of the Harvard Law Review and published two scholarly pieces with the Review. Trenton was a member of the winning team of the 2016 Ames Moot Court Competition, the President of the Harvard Federalist Society, and a student attorney and supervisor in the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project. While at Harvard, he also received the Dean’s Award for Community Leadership.

He graduated summa cum laude from Wheaton College (IL) with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Spanish. Prior to law school, he spent time working in Illinois politics, for the Investment Promotion Agency of Kosovo, and at a civil rights law firm outside Chicago.

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

Christine Budasoff is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, and Congressional Investigations Practice Groups.

Before joining the firm, Christine clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

She graduated first in her class from the University of North Carolina School of Law and was elected to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, she served as articles editor of the North Carolina Law Review and externed for the Honorable Albert Diaz and the Honorable James A. Wynn, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the Honorable W. Earl Britt of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Christine received her undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University. Between college and law school, she worked as a marketing and business development associate in the timberland investment management industry.

She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, the States of California, North Carolina, and Texas, and before the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and District of Columbia Circuits, and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Thomas Tyson is an associate in the San Francisco Office of Gibson Dunn, and a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.

His practice consists of a wide variety of high profile antitrust matters, including litigation in both federal and state court, investigations by government entities, merger clearance, and wide-ranging counseling on proposed business strategies and transactions.

He received his law degree from UC Hastings Law, where he graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif. Prior to law school, Thomas worked in hospitality management in Marin County, CA.

Representative matters include*:

• Defended a global fashion company against claims brought in federal court alleging a set of vertical boycotts and the unlawful monopolization of certain high-end markets.
• Defended a honey importer against an antitrust and RICO class action brought by a putative class of U.S. domestic beekeepers relating to a purported conspiracy to sell foreign fake honey.
• Represented a large industrial materials company in its acquisition of numerous assets throughout the western U.S.
• Advised a national healthcare system in the sale of certain of its key east coast assets.
• Obtained complete dismissal with prejudice on behalf of a career readiness company of a monopolization claim under Section 2 of the Sherman Act alleging product disparagement and misuse of trademarks and copyrights.
• Provided multiple healthcare joint ventures structured guidance on clinically integrating their practices so as to be in compliance with the antitrust laws.
• Represented 14 grand jury witnesses in a major nationwide Department of Justice investigation.
• Represented a major automotive software company in proceedings before the FTC relating to issues of data security.

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn

Thomas is admitted to practice in the state of California.

James Tsouvalas is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. He specializes in litigating complex commercial and constitutional matters at the trial and appellate level, and has represented clients in high-stakes litigation in federal and state courts across the country. He is a member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law, Administrative and Regulatory Practice, and Litigation Practice Groups. 

James has represented a wide variety of paid and pro bono clients, ranging from Fortune 100 companies to quasi-governmental entities and non-profit civil rights organizations. A sample of recent clients includes USAA, New Village Charter School, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), State Farm, AIG, Lockton Companies, and the Howard Hughes Corporation. His cases have been featured on various publications including Law.com and the Daily Journal.

Some recent representative matters for James include:

• Successfully representing a leading software support company against a competitor that sued it for over $1.4 billion in damages. The defense caused the competitor to drop all of its damages claims on the eve of trial.
• Defeating certification of a class seeking over $170 million from a Fortune 200 insurance company.
• Securing a pair of landmark copyright victories in the Ninth Circuit on the definition of derivative works and application of the essential step defense.
• Successfully representing a client on appeal after it lost a multimillion dollar judgment.  Persuaded the Ninth Circuit to vacate and remand the award, and then the district court to reduce it by $18 million.
• Obtaining interlocutory review from the Hawaii Supreme Court on novel eminent domain issues, and persuading it to reverse critical summary judgment orders.

James also maintains an active pro bono practice focused on education, civil rights, and criminal justice reform. He recently won a lawsuit against the California Department of Education for unlawfully denying hundreds of thousands of dollars appropriated by the California Legislature to a school in Los Angeles that serves high-needs young women facing challenges like homelessness, poverty, teen pregnancy, abuse, and trauma.

James joined Gibson Dunn after serving as a law clerk to two federal appellate judges, the Honorable Patricia A. Millett of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

James earned his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2018. He graduated with distinction for having performed over 1,000 hours of pro bono work for clients while in law school, and also interned for then Chief Judge Patti B. Saris of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. James received his undergraduate degree in political science summa cum laude from American University.

James is admitted to practice law in the State of California as well as before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and District of Columbia Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Central and Southern Districts of California.

John Tienken is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn, where he practices in the firm’s Litigation Department. 

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, John served as a law clerk to Justice Neil M. Gorsuch of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Andrew S. Oldham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and Judge Amul R. Thapar of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He also practiced for three years at a litigation boutique, focusing on constitutional and regulatory disputes in federal and state courts.

John graduated with high honors and with a certificate in business leadership from the University of Chicago Law School in 2018, where he served as Managing Online Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. Before law school, he worked as a producer at Fox News. He graduated from the University of Illinois Springfield, summa cum laude, in 2013.

John is a member of the bars in the State of Illinois and the District of Columbia. He is also admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits, and the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Kate Swisher is Of Counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition and Litigation Practice Groups.

Kate’s practice focuses on complex antitrust litigation, and she regularly defends leading global pharmaceutical companies against federal and state antitrust and federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) claims. Kate has experience in complex, “bet the company” class action matters on the cutting edge of antitrust and intellectual property. She has significant experience at all stages of litigation, including motions to dismiss, motions to certify a class, motions for summary judgment, expert witness preparation, class action settlements, trial prep, and appeals.

She has an extensive pro bono practice, and has represented clients in intellectual property disputes and criminal appeals. Kate has significant experience in family law, representing low-income clients in state family and matrimonial law cases. She has presented winning oral argument before the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division – Second Department.

Kate has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America©: “Ones to Watch” for Litigation – Antitrust and Intellectual Property (2024-2026). Before joining Gibson Dunn, Kate was a senior associate in the Antitrust group of another major international law firm.

Recent representations include:*

• Representing a major biotech company in an antitrust action filed by a competitor alleging monopolization of the market for certain cholesterol reducing medications through the use of bundled discounts (ongoing).
• In re Xyrem Antitrust Litigation – Represented Hikma Pharmaceuticals against so-called “reverse payment” allegations relating to Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ landmark narcolepsy treatment, Xyrem.
• In re Humira Antitrust Litigation – Represented biosimilar manufacturer Samsung Bioepis in Seventh Circuit appeal of antitrust case relating to the blockbuster drug Humira, which unanimously affirmed dismissal of the complaint.
• KPH v. Mylan – Won dismissal on the pleadings in the District of Kansas of all claims against Pfizer in antitrust class action relating to life-saving device EpiPen.
• In re Exhaustless – Represented a group of 12 airlines and led a joint defense group of 23 defendants against pro se plaintiff who alleged violations of federal and state antitrust law, as well as the federal RICO statute and the U.S. Constitution. Won dismissal of all claims on a motion to strike.
• In re IV Saline Antitrust Litigation – Defended Hospira in federal class action antitrust litigation, where the company was accused of fixing the price and creating an artificial shortage of IV saline solution. Secured defense victory on two motions to dismiss.
• Represented Pfizer, Inc. in multiple class action antitrust litigations challenging alleged “reverse payment” patent settlements and/or conduct in procuring patents in connection with the blockbuster products Lipitor, Effexor XR, and Celebrex.

*includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Kate is an active member of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association, and was recently a featured guest on the section’s podcast, Our Curious Amalgam, in an episode entitled “What’s Wrong With Having Lots of Patents?  Patent Thickets and Antitrust Law.”   

She received her Juris Doctor in 2015 from Northwestern University School of Law, where she served as an articles editor for the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Elizabeth Strassner is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices with the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law and Litigation Practice Groups.

Before joining the firm, Elizabeth served as a law clerk to the Honorable Daniel P. Collins of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

She earned her law degree in 2021 from Harvard Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude. Elizabeth participated in the Harvard Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and served as president and editor-in-chief of the nonpartisan Harvard Journal on Legislation. Prior to law school, she worked as a journalist and earned a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, where she graduated first in her class. Elizabeth earned her bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 2015, where she graduated summa cum laude and was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Elizabeth is a member of the State Bar of California.

Jeremy Chiang is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. He focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions, including joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, and financings of real estate assets across the United States.

Jeremy represents private equity funds, commercial banks, real estate investment trusts, and other institutional capital sources in connection with sophisticated real estate transactions. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he served as an in-house attorney at the business-purpose lending arm of a NYSE-listed specialty finance company, advising senior executives and stakeholders.

Jeremy earned his Juris Doctor and Certificate in Business Law from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where he was a Merit Scholar and a staff member of the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. He received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in psychology from the University of California, Irvine.

He is a member of the State Bar of California and admitted to practice in California.

Zac Copeland is a senior litigation associate in Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office. He practices in the firm’s Antitrust and Competition, Appellate and Constitutional Law, and Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Groups.

Before joining the firm, Zac served as a law clerk to the Honorable Debra Ann Livingston of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He also served as Special Assistant to General Counsel Caroline Krass at the U.S. Department of Defense, for which service he was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Civilian Service.

Zac earned his J.D. magna cum laude in 2018 from Harvard Law School, where he was an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Before law school, he worked as an accountant for a Fortune 15 company in the San Francisco Bay Area. He received his undergraduate degree cum laude in 2012 from the University of Washington, where he majored in Business Administration with concentrations in Accounting and Finance.

Zac is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Oregon (inactive) and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Jennifer Fitzgerald is of counsel in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group.

Her experience includes tax planning for investment fund formations, real estate transactions, REITs, public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, and investor-level tax planning. She has provided advice on structuring investments in real estate, debt, and other investments for investment funds, foreign governments, other non-U.S. investors, corporations and individuals. She has also obtained private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Jennifer was an associate at another international law firm where she gained experience with the tax aspects of securitizations including REMICs and CLOs.

Jennifer received her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was senior production editor of the Virginia Law & Business Review. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, magna cum laude, from the College of William and Mary.

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

Selected Recent Representations Include

• IPI Partners on its flagship REIT funds;
• BTG Pactual on the formation of its strategic capital fund;
• Madison Realty Capital on its real estate debt and equity funds;
• Ziff Davis, Inc., in its spin-off of Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc.;
• Brasa Capital Management on its equity funds;
• Merck & Co. on the tax aspects of its $2.75 billion acquisition of VelosBio Inc.;
• Insurity, a portfolio company of GI Partners, in its acquisition of AuSuM Systems, a cloud-native software for on-site audits and inspections; and
• MidOcean Partners in its acquisition of Louisiana Fish Fry Products, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based manufacturer and supplier of branded, Louisiana-inspired food products.

Kevin Wang is a litigation associate in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson Dunn.

Kevin earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2025 with highest pro bono distinction. During law school, he served as the Online Managing Editor for the Stanford Law Review and was a Bradley Fellow in the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He received the Gerald Gunther Prize for Outstanding Performance in Federal Indian Law and the Judge Thelton E. Henderson Prize for his contributions in the Advanced Environmental Law Clinic. In 2022, Kevin graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy.

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

Laura Jenkins Plack is a partner in the Denver office of Gibson Dunn, where she is a member of the White Collar Defense & Investigations and Litigation practice groups. She is a former Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. Laura previously practiced in the Firm’s Orange County and Washington, DC offices.

Laura defends companies and executives facing internal investigations, criminal and regulatory investigations, congressional investigations, criminal prosecutions, and government enforcement actions. In addition, Laura helps clients navigate high-stakes civil and commercial disputes, particularly in litigation following government actions. Laura has experience across a range of industries, including financial services, technology, fintech and digital assets, higher education, defense, agriculture, and manufacturing.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn’s Denver office, Laura was appointed a Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General and then an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. Laura advised the Deputy Attorney General on significant legal and policy matters. She provided strategic oversight on behalf of DOJ leadership relating to some of the Department’s most complex and high-profile actions. In this capacity, Laura worked closely with various DOJ components, including the Civil Division, the Criminal Division, the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, the Civil Rights Division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of Legal Policy, the Office of Legislative Affairs, and the U.S. Trustees Program. Before joining DOJ, Laura was an associate in Gibson Dunn’s Orange County and Washington, DC, offices.

Prior to law school, Laura worked in the West Wing of the White House for President George W. Bush, serving in the Chief of Staff’s Office and the Office of Strategic Initiatives and External Affairs. She was also an appointee in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Laura received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as a Senior Editor of the Virginia Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Laura also served as a judicial extern during law school for the Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She earned her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from the University of Oregon Honors College, where she studied political science and business and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Laura is admitted to practice law in Colorado, California, and Washington, DC.

Representative Criminal and Regulatory Investigations:

• Represented cryptocurrency exchange in a U.S. multi-agency investigation, including resolutions with DOJ, the CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC.
• Defended publicly traded company facing a DOJ investigation and advised on the design and implementation of its corporate compliance program.
• Represented global financial institution in connection with investigations conducted by U.S. and global authorities into the foreign exchange market.
• Defended life sciences technology executive in parallel criminal and civil actions for alleged trade secret theft.
• Conducted internal investigation with subsequent DOJ disclosure of potential price-fixing conduct for a large manufacturing company.
• Represented technology company related to an investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Representative Congressional Investigations:

• Represented non-profit organization under investigation by House Judiciary Committee related to content moderation.
• Represented high-profile national governing body during House Energy and Commerce Committee and Senate Commerce Committee hearings relating to athlete abuse.
• Represented executive from a global financial institution related to investigation by U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senate Judiciary Committee, and Special Counsel’s Office regarding Russian interference.
• Represented global financial institution related to investigation by House Financial Services Committee regarding BSA/AML compliance.
• Represented motor sports organization related to investigation by House Judiciary Committee.
• Represented former employers of federal officials related to various committee investigations.

Representative Litigation:

• Defended cryptocurrency exchange in litigation with the SEC.
• Represented large university system in civil litigation relating to the criminal conviction of a university physician.
• Represented defense contractor in litigation with the Defense Contract Management Agency.
• Defended manufacturing company in civil litigation following criminal resolution with DOJ.
• Defended technology company in putative class action litigation related to alleged price-fixing.

Tom is a partner in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Transportation and Space Group. 

Tom has experience acting for financiers, equity investors, leasing companies and airlines on a variety of asset leasing and financing transactions involving aircraft, ships, oil rigs and other moveable equipment.

Tom has previously spent nine months seconded to the legal department of a major aircraft leasing company and six months seconded to the legal department of an international investment bank.

Tom is ranked as ‘Up and Coming’ by Chambers UK 2026, and as a ‘Rising Star’ by Legal 500 UK 2024. Tom was also named as a ‘Rising Star’ in Airfinance Journal’s “Guide to Aviation Lawyers 2022”, which recognizes the most promising legal associates working in aviation finance.

Recent transactions on which Tom has acted include: *

• Deutsche Bank in connection with a limited recourse facility for a leading aircraft lessor, secured by a portfolio of aircraft and engines.

• volofin in connection with four limited recourse loan facilities with ACS, secured by portfolios of aircraft and engines.

• Castlelake in connection two aircraft portfolio acquisitions.

• MUFG and Hamburg Commercial Bank in connection with the financing for Asterion Industrial Partners of two widebody aircraft.

• The aviation investments team of a global investment firm in connection with the refinancing of their multiple existing secured aircraft facilities and its replacement with a single multi-faceted, first-in-kind secured warehouse facility.

• SNB Capital (formerly NCB Capital) and Dara Aviation Finance Limited in relation to the acquisition and financing of a portfolio of 19 commercial aircraft from AerCap.

• Lenders to Falko (DB / Morgan Stanley / Citi) in connection with several warehouse facilities.

• Abelo in connection with the refinancing of their warehouse facility.

• volofin in connection with a credit facility to finance the conversion of passenger aircraft into freighter configuration.

• Various leasing companies in connection with the sanctions and insurance related-issues stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

• AFIC Insurers in connection with multiple AFIC-insured secured financings.

• OneWeb in connection with a $94 million secured term loan facility from the Export-Import Bank of India, to partially finance expenditures associated with two launch services of 36 satellites.

• Citibank in connection with its participation in an EXIM backed loan to be advanced to KLM for the acquisition of a Boeing Model 787-10 Aircraft.

• Ad hoc committee of bondholders in connection with the restructuring of NAC.

• Ad hoc committee of TLB lenders to Seadrill Partners as maritime counsel in connection with its Chapter XI proceedings.

• Various aircraft financiers and leasing companies in connection with the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Multiple secured parties in connection with financed aircraft leased to Thai Airways.

• SMBC Aviation Capital on its purchase of Goshawk.

• Citibank and other financing banks with respect to a portfolio financing program of up to $2 billion made available to a subsidiary of Seaspan Corporation.

• Geoquip Marine in connection with the financing of their fleet of vessels and rigs. 

 

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

Elmira Adili is a litigation associate in Gibson Dunn’s San Francisco office.

Elmira earned her law degree in 2025 from the University of California, Davis School of Law, where she was elected as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Order of Barristers.

While at UC Davis School of Law, Elmira was Co-Chair of the King Hall Intellectual Property Law Association and received the Intellectual Property Certificate. She was an External Competitions Chair for the Moot Court Honors Board and competed in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Elmira received Reynoso Academic Excellence Awards and Reynoso Academic Achievement Awards.

Elmira graduated in 2021 from William & Mary with a Bachelor of Science magna cum laude, completing a double major in Neuroscience and Philosophy.

Elmira is a member of the State Bar of California.

Katherine Nobbs is a partner in the Brussels office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.

Katherine’s practice covers all areas of competition law and trade defense law. She also advises on the scope and implementation of the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act. She has extensive experience across a wide range of commercial industries, including the technology, transport, entertainment, and agrochemical sectors.

Katherine holds a Master of Laws with Distinction from the University of Law in London, and a Master of Philosophy with Distinction in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. She is admitted to the Brussels Bar.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Katherine worked as a competition and trade associate at an international law firm in Brussels.

Katherine is a native English speaker. She is fluent in French and proficient in Spanish.