Ata Dinlenc is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Power and Renewables Practice Group. He is an experienced counselor to clients across a variety of transactional and commercial matters, with a focus on capital-intensive projects.

Ata advises clients on acquisitions & divestitures, joint-ventures, tiered equity investments, energy tax credit monetization, commodity price hedging and offtake contracts, and other commercial contracts involving energy infrastructure projects and other closely-held companies. He also advises borrowers and lenders, including both commercial banks and non-bank financial institutions such as private equity firms and other specialty lenders, in a range of financings, including project financings and mezzanine loans. Ata has been recommended by Legal 500 (2013) for his experience in the project finance area.

He applies his decades of experience and industry knowledge to a range of M&A, financing and commercial issues facing clients to facilitate innovative structuring on complex transactions.

His recent experience includes representing AIP, a Danish investment fund, in its investment in the Little Bear 160 MWac solar project in California and in the Prospero 300 MWac solar project in Texas and representing a subsidiary of The Carlyle Group in the sale of an interest in a 600 MW gas-fired power project.

Ata has been a panel moderator at numerous energy-sector conferences and is the author of “Financing Renewable Energy Projects: An Inflection Point?,” Infrastructure Journal, January 6, 2009.

He received his Juris Doctor in 1997 from Fordham University School of Law, where he was a Notes & Articles Editor on the Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. Ata earned his Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (with a concentration in Economics) from Johns Hopkins University in 1993.

Representative recent transactions:

• Represented Talen Energy in its negotiation and documentation of power purchase agreements for up to 650 MW of capacity from its Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania with adjacent behind-the-meter data centers.
• Representing Clearway Energy in the acquisition of a 136 MW operating wind power project and related new offtake agreement.
• Advising Berkshire Hathaway Energy in the development of the Ravenswood solar project in West Virginia and related power offtake arrangements with an adjacent titanium production facility.
• Advising Berkshire Hathaway Energy as tax equity investor in the 184 MW Lockett and 122 MW Elbow Creek wind power projects in Texas in connection with new power purchase agreements with behind-the-meter data centers at each project.
• Representing the sponsors of a planned 683 MWdc solar power project in Texas in connection with the negotiation and documentation of various power purchase agreements.
• Representing Danish investment fund AIP Management in its upstream equity investments and related mezzanine debt financing in:
  • the Victory Pass and Arica solar and battery storage projects in California;
  • the 379MWdc Prospero 1 solar power project in Texas;
  • the 215MWdc Little Bear solar power project in California;
  • the Garland and Tranquility solar and battery storage projects in California; bids for large solar power portfolios in the U.S. offered by EDP Renewables, EDF and D.E. Shaw & Co. and related negotiations
• Advising Berkshire Hathaway Energy as investor in billions of dollars of investment in over two dozen well-publicized utility-scale renewable energy projects in California, Texas and other U.S. states in recent years, including those sponsored by Lincoln Clean Energy, Innergex (f/k/a Alterra Power Corp.), Blackrock, Invenergy, Ares Capital, Longroad Energy, and Clearway; as well as the acquisitions of the Santa Rita wind project and Agua Caliente solar project.
• Advised Global Infrastructure Partners on the $1.4 billion acquisition of MAP RE/ES, the renewable energy business of MAP Energy, which develops and owns portfolios of royalty-producing interests in renewable power projects.  The acquired assets include more than 1.6 gigawatts of operating wind and solar projects in the U.S.
• Represented Terna Energy, a Europe-based independent power project developer, in its acquisition, development and financing (tax equity and tiered debt) of several large utility-scale wind energy project in Texas and in its related power price hedging arrangements.
• Represented Vistra Energy in its acquisitions of development-stage power project companies.
• Represented an affiliate of Softbank Energy, a member of the Softbank group of companies, in its acquisition of a portfolio of U.S. utility-scale solar power projects with a combined capacity of more than 1.7 gigawatts and in related project financings.
• Represented The Carlyle Group in the sale of interests in the Sandersville 640 MW gas-fired power project in Georgia.
• Represented PacifCorp, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, in its acquisitions of several development-stage wind power projects in Montana and Wyoming from Invenergy.
• Representing Orion Renewables, a U.S. power project development company, in the sale of various development-stage renewable energy projects.
• Represented Korean banks as lenders in their $325 million secured term loan refinancing of a U.S. coal mining company.
• Represented a Europe-based utility company in its potential acquisition of an electricity transmission system in the U.S.
• Represented Sempra Energy as strategic investor in its potential acquisition of a multi-billion dollar gas pipeline project in Peru.
• Represented a major international commercial bank in its planned construction debt financing of two 60 MW gas-fired power projects in Argentina.
• Represented a Japanese conglomerate in its equity sponsorship of a solar power project in Chile.
• Represented a municipal electric company in Texas in its $200+ million equipment and construction services procurement contracts for a planned gas-fired power project.

Trinh Chubbock is a partner in the London office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the Projects and Infrastructure Practice Group.

Trinh is an energy specialist focusing on project developments, M&A transactions, and commercial contracts. She has a broad practice covering the full energy value chain from upstream oil and gas to downstream sectors. She also focuses on renewable energy and energy transition.

Trinh largely covers projects and transaction in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Trinh spent 2.5 years working in Abu Dhabi before relocating back to London. 

Trinh is described by The Legal 500 UK 2025 as “a commercially aware lawyer, who combines deep legal understanding and commercial aspects in her advice.” She has been recognized by The Legal 500 UK 2025 for Oil and Gas, Power and Renewables.

Trinh received her Bachelor of Arts from Boston College in Massachusetts USA, and she is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales.

Selected experience*:

Energy Transition, Power and Infrastructure

• An industrial gases company in relation to the development of an air separation unit and the supply of industrial gases in connection with a low carbon hydrogen production project, including advising on energy transition regulation and subsidy arrangements.
• Mezzanine lenders on the power supply and grid connection arrangements in connection with a data center development in the UK.
• KKR on its landmark investment in Gulf Data Hub, one of the Middle East’s largest independent data center platforms.
• BOC, a Linde company, on operations and maintenance arrangements in connection with the proposed H2H Saltend low carbon hydrogen production project involving a 600-megawatt low carbon hydrogen production plant with carbon capture.
• The Nature Conservancy in respect of general training on renewable power project developments and related project documentation.
• An infrastructure fund on a proposed acquisition of a UK-based pre-combustion carbon-capture technology business.
• Hydro REIN on its successful acquisition of an 80% stake in a 2.4 GW portfolio of 25 early phase wind power projects in Sweden and Norway from IOWN Energy, together with the shareholders and the project development arrangements
• Hydro REIN in connection with behind-the-meter energy solutions to industrial customers, including solar power generation, battery energy storage systems (BESS) and other energy efficiency solutions in Norway, Sweden, Canada and Germany.
• Itochu Corporation on the proposed acquisition of a 50% interest in Marchwood, an 840 MW CCGT power station in Southampton, United Kingdom.
• Itochu Corporation on the acquisition of a 33.33% interest in T-Power, a CCGT power station in Belgium, together with the transfer of operatorship.

Downstream oil and gas

• A US oil and gas company in relation to joint venture or other commercial arrangements relating to manufacturing and marketing of certain refined products.
• The Dow Chemical Company on the $10.5 billion financial and commercial restructuring of its joint venture with Saudi Aramco in relation to the $20 billion world-scale integrated Sadara chemicals complex in Saudi Arabia. Awarded MENA Petrochemicals Deal of the Year at the IJGlobal Awards, 2021.
• The Dow Chemical Company in respect of its joint venture interest in the Saudi Acrylic Monomer Company in relation to certain petrochemical manufacturing plants.
• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company on its successful sale of a minority interest in ADNOC’s refinery business to OMV and ENI where the business was valued at c. $19bn, involving new joint venture arrangements, development of contractual arrangements for a new trading platform and the carve-out of a fully integrated refinery business which included, among other things, new and re-negotiated arms-length contractual arrangements in respect of feedstock and raw material supply agreements, site supply and services agreements and offtake and marketing arrangements.
• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company on a joint venture with OCI N.V. to create the largest export-focused nitrogen fertilizer platform globally and the largest producer in the MENA region, involving new joint venture arrangements and the carve-out of a fully integrated ammonia business which included, among other things, new and re-negotiated arms-length contractual arrangements in respect of feedstock and raw material supply agreements, site supply and services agreements and offtake and marketing arrangements.
• Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company on its successful disposal of two industrial waste treatment plants in Al Ruwais Industrial City, UAE to a consortium of Veolia, ADQ and Vision Invest, involving new joint venture arrangements and the carve-out of a fully integrated industrial waste business which included, among other things, new and re-negotiated arms-length contractual arrangements in respect of site supply and services agreements and waste management and disposal agreements.
• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company on the proposed joint venture with CEPSA for the development of a new, world-scale linear alkylbenzene (LAB) facility in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi.
• Petrochemical Industries Company KSC on the proposed 50:50 joint venture with Pembina Pipeline Corporation for the development of an integrated polypropylene facility in Alberta, Canada.

Upstream oil and gas

• Gulf Keystone Petroleum in respect of its upstream operating interest in the Shaikan Field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
• A US private equity in respect of proposed farm-ins and virtual ownership structures in connection with upstream oil and gas interests in Oman.
• A supermajor in respect of its significant upstream interest in Kazakhstan, including its joint venture arrangements with its IOC and SOE joint venturers.
• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company on multiple long-term government to government gas sales agreements and related pipeline transportation arrangements.
• Tullow Oil plc on the proposed Banda gas to power project development in Mauritania, advising all aspects of the project including upstream arrangements, long-term gas sales arrangement and the proposed World Bank partial risk guarantee.
• Tullow Oil plc on the proposed Kudu gas to power project development in Namibia, advising on the World Bank partial risk guarantee.
• Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) on the Takoradi LNG to power project in the Republic of Ghana, advising GNPC as offtaker on the project development of a floating storage and regasification unit.
• Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) on the Tema LNG to power project in the Republic of Ghana, advising GNPC as offtaker on the project development of a floating storage and regasification unit, including advising on multilateral project credit support.
• South Atlantic Petroleum Limited on its successful acquisition of certain oil and gas interests in the Mozambique Channel from Roc Oil Company Limited.
• Mitsui Middle East E&P on the acquisition of the Western Desert upstream interests in Egypt.
• EnQuest plc on the merger of assets of Lundin Petroleum AB and Petrofac Limited in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf and the subsequent IPO of the shares of EnQuest plc on the London Stock Exchange.

*Includes matters prior to joining Gibson Dunn

Brady A. Blouin is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group.

He earned his Juris Doctor in 2024, with Highest Honors, from the George Washington University Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.

Brady is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

Alison Beal is a partner in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Technology Transactions Practice Group and its Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Transactions Practice Group.

Admitted to practice in multiple jurisdictions, Alison has extensive international experience and capability in complex commercial transactions for clients based in Europe, U.S., and APAC, focusing on new technologies, R&D collaborations and externalisations, ITO, BPO, telecommunications, strategic alliances and the re-negotiation and exit of those transactions.

Alison focuses on structuring, negotiating, and documenting large-scale and global information technology and business process outsourcing transactions and other commercial and technology related transactions. She also regularly advises clients on intellectual property and information technology issues in connection with corporate transactions, including private equity representations, mergers and acquisitions and distressed acquisitions.

She is recognised by The Legal 500 UK 2024 for IT and Telecoms.

Selected experience:*

• A telecommunications company on the implementation of a new global IT sourcing strategy and a series of resulting global transactions;
• A pharmaceutical company on several global R&D outsourcing collaborations;
• A supplier in relation to IT and BPO outsourcings in the insurance industry;
• A global advertising company on various cloud services agreements, ITOs, BPOs, reseller and consulting services;
• Various UK and European banks on critical IT and BPO transactions;
• A potential purchaser on the IT and IP aspects of assets and shares of a group in administration; and
• A private equity firm on the IT and IP aspects of various acquisitions.

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

Harley Belmont is an associate attorney in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. 

She graduated magna cum laude from New York Law School in 2024, where she served as a Junior Staff Editor on the NYLS Law Review, and as the Vice President of the Student Bar Association. In her final semester of law school, Harley devoted her study to performing pro bono service as a Pro Bono Scholar. Harley received a Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in Public Relations from Syracuse University, Newhouse School of Public Communications, in 2015.

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

Joshua Benson is an associate in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Transactions, Technology Transactions, and Corporate Transactions Practice Groups.

His practice focuses on the negotiation of a wide range of intellectual property, technology and sourcing transactions, including agreements for information technology outsourcing (ITO) services, cloud services, software development and licensing, business process outsourcing (BPO) services, software-as-a-service, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and other technology-related matters.

Joshua has assisted clients in a broad range of industries, including the sports apparel, automotive, telecom, financial services, entertainment, healthcare, insurance, hospitality, blockchain, energy management, and home automation industries.

Joshua has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America in Corporate Law and Technology Law (2024-2025).

He received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Joshua is admitted to practice law in Washington D.C. and Texas.

Lucy S. Musson is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Gibson Dunn. She practices in the firm’s Corporate Department. She is currently on secondment.

Lucy supports clients in matters related to data privacy, intellectual property, technology transactions and artificial intelligence. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).

She earned her Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. Lucy graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University. Prior to law school, she worked as a part of the LinkedIn legal team.

Lucy is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

F. Joseph Warin is chair of the 250-person Litigation Department of Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office, and he is co-chair of the firm’s global White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group. Mr. Warin’s practice includes representation of corporations in complex civil litigation, white collar crime, and regulatory and securities enforcement – including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations, False Claims Act cases, special committee representations, compliance counseling and class action civil litigation.

Mr. Warin is continually recognized annually in the top-tier by Chambers USA, Chambers Global, and Chambers Latin America for his FCPA, fraud and corporate investigations expertise. Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) named Mr. Warin a “Global Elite Thought Leader” in its Investigations guides list for Business Crime Defense – Corporate and Investigations each year since 2018, and also recognized him in its Commercial Litigation 2023 guide. In 2021 Global Investigations Review named Mr. Warin to its list of Top FCPA Practitioners, which “highlights 30 outstanding lawyers and forensic advisers in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act space.” In 2022, Mr. Warin was selected by Chambers USA as a “Star” in FCPA, a “Leading Lawyer” in the nation in Securities Regulation: Enforcement, and a “Leading Lawyer” in the District of Columbia in Securities Litigation and White Collar Crime and Government Investigations. In 2017, Chambers USA honored Mr. Warin with the Outstanding Contribution to the Legal Profession Award, calling him a “true titan of the FCPA and securities enforcement arenas.” He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® every year from 2006–2026 for White Collar Criminal Defense. The U.S. Legal 500 ranks Mr. Warin in the 2025 Hall of Fame for Dispute Resolution – Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense, and he was most recently recommended for Securities Litigation: Defense. Legal 500 has also repeatedly named him as a “Leading Lawyer” for Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense Litigation. He has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation as a U.S. White Collar Crime Litigator “Star” each year since 2011 and was named to Securities Docket’s “Enforcement 40” for 2017. Mr. Warin is also recognized in Legal Media Group’s 2021 Expert Guide to the World’s Leading White Collar Lawyers. Mr. Warin is also regularly named a Leading Individual by Legal 500 Latin America in, International Firms: Compliance and Investigations. In 2019, Latinvex named Mr. Warin one of Latin America’s Top 100 Lawyers in the category of FCPA & Fraud. The Washingtonian Magazine named Mr. Warin one of Washington’s “Top Lawyers” in White Collar Criminal Defense for 2024, and he was previously named from 2018–2022. BTI Consulting named Mr. Warin to its 2020 “BTI Client Service All-Stars” List.

Global Investigations Review ranked Mr. Warin’s group No. 1 in its GIR 30, its “annual guide to the world’s leading firms to turn to during the lifecycle of an investigation and its aftermath,” for the fourth consecutive year. The publication noted that Gibson Dunn “is the premier firm in the investigations space and has an unrivaled FCPA practice.” In 2016 Who’s Who Legal and Global Investigations Review named Mr. Warin to their list of World’s Ten-Most Highly Regarded Investigations Lawyers based on a survey of clients and peers, noting that he was one of the “most highly nominated practitioners,” and a “’favourite’ of audit and special committees of public companies.” Best Lawyers® named Mr. Warin the Lawyer of the Year in 2026 for Bet-the-Company Litigation in Washington, D.C., in 2020 and 2016 for White Collar Criminal Defense in Washington, D.C., and he is named among Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Litigators in America” guide for 2023, 2025, and 2026.

Mr. Warin has handled cases and investigations in more than 40 states and dozens of countries. His clients include corporations, officers, directors and professionals in regulatory, investigative and trials involving federal regulatory inquiries, criminal investigations and cross-border inquiries by dozens of international enforcers, including UK’s SFO and FCA, and government regulators in Germany, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and the Middle East. His credibility at DOJ and the SEC is unsurpassed among private practitioners – a reputation based in large part on his experience as the only person ever to serve as a compliance monitor or counsel to the compliance monitor in three separate FCPA monitorships, pursuant to settlements with the SEC and DOJ: Statoil ASA (2007-2009); Siemens AG (2009-2012); and Alliance One International (2011-2013). He has been hired by audit committees or special committees of public companies to conduct investigations into allegations of wrongdoing in a wide variety of industries including energy, oil services, financial services, healthcare and telecommunications.

Mr. Warin’s civil practice includes representation of clients in complex litigation in federal courts and international arbitrations. He has tried 10b-5 securities and RICO claim lawsuits, hostile takeovers and commercial disputes. He has handled more than 40 class action cases across the United States for investment banking firms, global corporations, Big 4 accounting firms, broker-dealers and hedge funds.

Early in his career, Mr. Warin served as Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, D.C. As a prosecutor, he tried more than 50 jury trials and was awarded a Special Achievement award by the Attorney General. Mr. Warin was awarded the Best FCPA Client Service Award by Main Justice in 2013 and he joined the publication’s FCPA Masters list. He was named a Special Prosecutor by the District of Columbia Superior Court in 1988.

Mr. Warin graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was Editor of Law and Policy in International Business. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Creighton University, where he was student body president. He served as a law clerk for United States District Court Judge J. Calvitt Clarke, in the Eastern District of Virginia. He has been a member of the American Bar Association’s White Collar Criminal Law Committee since 1988 and served as president of the Assistant United States Attorneys Association. Mr. Warin has been selected to serve on insurance company panels for securities class actions. He is currently a member of the Board of the International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors.

Significant Representations include:

• Negotiated Department of Justice and SEC resolutions for one of the largest banks in the FX and Libor investigations.
• Represented Petrobras, Brazil’s state-owned energy company, in its unique resolution with the Department of Justice and the SEC.
• Conducted the independent resolution of an investigation of Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital.
• Defended audit of Israel’s largest bank in negotiating a deferred prosecution agreement for tax related charges.
• Negotiated a criminal resolution for an international global oil company arising out of the Deep Water Horizon Gulf of Mexico spill.
• Defended executives of a top technology company and obtained dismissal of a derivative lawsuit alleging options backdating.
• Defended the nation’s third-largest telecommunications company in a criminal investigation conducted by Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney’s Office and achieved a declination of prosecution.
• Served as FCPA counsel for first non-US compliance monitor for Siemens in connection with one of the largest ever FCPA resolutions.
• Represented the Audit Committee of a $2 billion hospital chain against allegations of financial misrepresentations. Convinced the SEC and U.S. Attorney’s Office not to take any enforcement actions against client.
• Represented the Audit Committee of Fortune 50 energy company relating to allegations of earnings management.
• Represented client in the longest-running securities class action in the history of Washington, D.C. and achieved a modest resolution.
• Defended the president of a hardware supply company in a criminal price fixing case. The jury acquitted our client after a three week trial in St. Louis, Missouri.
• Served as FCPA compliance monitor pursuant to a deferred prosecution agreement with SEC and Department of Justice.
• Obtained numerous dismissals of lawsuits brought against the NASDAQ Stock Market and FINRA/NASD organization for more than 20 years.

Selected Speaking Engagements:

• Presenter at Gibson Dunn webcast, “Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Enforcement and Compliance Update” (February 2023)
• Presenter at Gibson Dunn webcast, “Negotiating Closure of Government Investigations: NPAs, DPAs, and Beyond” (2019 – 2021)
• Presenter at Gibson Dunn webcast, “The False Claims Act- 2021 Updates: Financial Services Sector” (2018 – 2021)
• Presenter, “Ethics, Compliance & Inclusion,” Notre Dame University School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (March 2021)
• Panelist, “C5’s 15th Annual Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery Conference,” (March 2021)
• Presenter at annual Gibson Dunn webcast, “Challenges in Compliance and Corporate Governance” (2004 – 2021)
• Presenter at Gibson Dunn webcast, “White Collar Enforcement Outlook 2021 – Sanctions/Export Controls, AML and Healthcare Fraud” (February 2021)
• Presenter at Gibson Dunn webcast, “FCPA 2020 Year-End Update” (January 2021)
• Presenter at Gibson Dunn webcast, “Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Enforcement and Compliance in 2020 and Beyond” (December 2020)
• Presenter at annual Securities Docket webcast, “Navigating Dodd-Frank’s Whistleblower Provisions and the FCPA” (2017 – 2021)
• Presenter at annual Gibson Dunn webcast, “FCPA Trends in the Emerging Markets of China, Russia, India, Africa and Latin America” (2011 – 2021)
• Presenter at Gibson Dunn webcast, “GDPR’s First Five Months: Emerging Trends and Implementation Challenges (October 2018)
• Presenter at Gibson Dunn webcast, “Ten Years After Siemens: The Evolving Landscape of Global Anti-Corruption Enforcement” (September 2018)
• Co-Chair, Global Investigations Review 5th Annual Live New York International Conference (September 2018)
• Panelist, “Trends in Telecommunications Enforcement,” at ACI’s 9th Global Forum on Anti-Corruption (July 2018)
• Panelist, “Regulators Roundtable,” at PLI’s Internal Investigations 2018 program (June 2018)
• Presenter at Gibson Dunn webcast, “The False Claims Act- 2018 Mid-Year Update: Financial Services Sector” (August 2018)
• Panelist, “Corporate Compliance Roundtable,” at University of Virginia, Darden School of Business (May 2018)
• Presenter at Gibson Dunn webcast, “Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Enforcement and Compliance in 2018 and Beyond” (May 2018)
• Panelist, “Ask the Experts: Q&A with ACI’s Global Anti-Corruption Advisory Board,” at ACI’s 20th Anniversary New York Conference on FCPA (May 2018)
• Presenter, “Lessons Learned from High Profile Investigations and Prosecutions,” at ABA Criminal Justice Section’s 2018 Spring Meeting (April 2018)
• Panelist, “No Turning Back: 40 Years of the FCPA and 20 Years of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention,” New York University School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (November 2017)
• Presenter, “The Increasingly Global Scale of Investigations/Parallel Investigations,” Association of Corporate Counsel-National Capital Area Investigations Boot Camp (November 2017)
• Presenter, University of Virginia School of Law Corporate Compliance Roundtable (November 2017)
• Moderator, “FCPA Investigations and Enforcement: Developments and Updates,” at Practising Law Institute’s White Collar Crime 2017: Prosecutors and Regulators Speak Conference (October 2017)
• Presenter at Global Investigation Review’s 4th Annual Live New York International Conference (September 2017)
• Panelist, “Predictions, Prognostications and Plans: The New Legal and Regulatory Environment – Assessing Effective Compliance”, University of Virginia School of Law Corporate Compliance Roundtable (May 2017)
• Speaker at PwC Annual Client & Analyst Risk Summit, Boston, MA (April 2017)
• Co-Presenter at Statoil DPI Summit, “Compliance: Where is it Heading?”, in London, UK (March 2017)

Selected Professional Articles:

• “Dropping the Pilot – DOJ’s Toned-Down Corporate Enforcement Policy Reduces the Burden on Business and Could Improve Information Sharing”, (with M. Kendall Day and Daniel Chung), Global Investigations Review Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations Half-Year Update (July 2019)
• “Navigating Cross-Border Investigations Involving Switzerland”, (with Jason Smith and Susanna Schuemann), Global Investigations Review (July 2019)
• “Trends In DOJ Nonprosecution, Deferred Prosecution Deals”, (with M. Kendall Day and Melissa Farrar), Law360 (January 2019)
• “Co-operating with the Authorities: The US Perspective”, (with Winston Chan, Pedro Soto and Kevin Yeh) Global Investigations Review’s Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations Volume I: Global Investigations in the United Kingdom and the United States (January 2019, March 2018)
• “Corporate NPA and DPA: All in the Nuance”, (with Michael Diamant and Melissa Farrar) International Financial Law Review (March 2018)
• “Privilege – Introduction” and “Privilege – United States”, (with Daniel Chung and Audi Syarief) Global Investigations Review’s Know How (November 2016)
• “Six Trends in 2015 FCPA Enforcement”, (with John Chesley and Stephanie Connor), Wall Street Lawyer (February 2016, Volume 20, Issue 2)
• “Refusing to Settle: Why Public Companies Go To Trial In Federal Cases”, (with Julie Rapoport Schenker), Georgetown American Criminal Law Review (Volume 52, No. 3, Summer 2015)
• “2015 Mid-Year FCPA Update”, (with John W.F. Chesley and Stephanie Connor), Westlaw Journal Government Contract (August 2015)
• “A Practical Guide to the Use of the Commissioned Public Report as an Effective Crisis-Management Tool”, (with Oleh Vretsona and Lora E. MacDonald), Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy (June, 2015)
• “Senator Warren, Let the ‘Cops’ Do Their Jobs”, The Hill (April 2015)
• “2014 Year-End Update on Corporate Non-Prosecution Agreements and Deferred Prosecution Agreements”, (with Michael Diamant and Melissa Farrar). Westlaw Journal Government Contract (March 2015), and Bloomberg BNA (February 2015)
• “The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Enforcement and Compliance”, (with Michael Diamant and Elizabeth Goergen Silver) Bloomberg BNA Securities Practice Series Portfolio (No. 285, 2014)
• “Reexamining the Notion that Public Companies Cannot Fight Criminal Charges,” (with John W.F. Chesley and Sean Sandoloski), Financier Worldwide (October 2014)
• “Renewing the Call for Compliance Defense to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” (with Daniel Chung), Corporate Disputes Magazine (July 1, 2014)
• “How to use company data efficiently to detect fraud and corruption,” (with Michael Diamant and Oleh Vretsona), Financier Worldwide (August 2013)
• “Five Themes for General Counsel to Monitor with Respect to Dodd-Frank Whistleblowers and the FCPA,” (with John W.F. Chesley), The FCPA Report (October 3, 2012)
• “Understand The Risks,” (with Michael Farhang and Elizabeth Goergen), IFLR (February 2012)
• “How to Deal with Business Corruption Risks in Mexico,” (with Michael Farhang and Elizabeth Goergen), International Financial Law Review (January 30, 2012)
• “FCPA: Who is A Foreign Official?,” (with John W.F. Chesley and Jeremy Joseph), Compliance Reporter (August 8, 2011)
• “Somebody’s Watching Me: FCPA Monitorships and How They Can Work Better,” (with Michael Diamant and Veronica Root), University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law (2011)

Robert L. Weigel is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the founder and co-chair of the firm’s Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Practice Group. Bob is an experienced commercial litigator with extensive trial experience. He focuses on litigation concerning complex financial transactions, particularly for international clients in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. A list of the clients Bob has represented includes ArcelorMittal, Yukos Capital, Tethyan Copper Company (a joint venture between Barrick Gold and Antofagasta), Artémis and its founder, François Pinault; Crystallex; Verizon; Gucci; Tiffany & Co.; Nike; Oaktree Capital; Normandy Real Estate Partners; The Related Companies; Deutsche Bank; Crédit Agricole; Bank Brussels Lambert; UBS, Deloitte & Touche; and Dallah Al Baraka Investment Co. Ltd. (an investment bank based in Saudi Arabia).

Bob has been named among Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Litigators in America in 2026, and in their 500 Leading Global Litigators guide for 2023. He was also ranked by Chambers Litigation Support 2023-2025 and for Global-wide Asset Tracing & Recovery in 2021, with clients noting that he is “one of the very best for asset tracing and recovery” and “part of a very select group around the world who are capable of handling this sort of high-value enforcement work.” In May 2021, The American Lawyer named Bob to its list of “Northeast Trailblazers,” which recognizes 60 top professionals in the region “who have moved the needle in the legal industry.” In August 2018, The Am Law Litigation Daily named Bob as “Litigator of the Week” for obtaining a significant victory for Crystallex International Corporation in its battle to collect its $1.4 billion judgment against Venezuela. Bob was also named a Law360 “MVP” in Retail and E-Commerce for 2015 – one of three “elite attorneys” recognized – for his “successes in high-stakes litigation and complex global matters.” The National Law Journal recognized Bob as a “Top Litigator” in its annual “Winning: Top Litigators Tell Their Stories” feature, highlighting five attorneys “who prevailed during 2012 before a bench or jury trial.” In addition, the Daily Journal recognized the complete defense verdict for Artémis S.A. as one of the “Top Ten Defense Verdicts of 2012.”

Bob has applied his extensive knowledge of financial transactions to develop worldwide judgment enforcement strategies to collect on judgments and arbitral awards totaling several billion dollars, including the enforcement of awards in excess of $1 billion for Tethyan Copper Company, Yukos Capital, Crystallex, ArcelorMittal and Pearl Petroleum.

Representative Trials

• François Pinault and Artémis: Successfully defended François Pinault and Artémis, the company he founded, in the long-running Executive Life litigation against the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California.
  • In 2005, in a four-month jury trial obtained complete exoneration for Mr. Pinault and successfully convinced the jury to award zero damages against Artémis.
  • In 2012, upon retrial of the sole count that the prior jury had deadlocked on, obtained a complete defense verdict from the jury on the Insurance Commissioner’s remaining $4 billion claim. Recognized as one of the Top Ten Defense Verdicts of the year by the California Daily Journal.
• Bank Brussels Lambert, UBS, Credit Agricole and Skopbank: Successfully represented Bank Brussels Lambert, UBS, Credit Agricole and Skopbank as plaintiffs against two major European banks in a dispute over collateral resulting in settlements, both before and after a two-and-a-half-month jury trial, in excess of US $70 million.
• Verizon: Successfully represented Verizon in a bench trial against a competitive local exchange carrier, obtaining a US $60 million judgment (having previously obtained a prejudgment attachment).
• Deloitte & Touche: Successfully defended Deloitte & Touche in a three-month jury trial concerning the failure of the largest road contractor in New Mexico.
• Kaiser Engineering: Successfully represented Kaiser Engineering in a trial in bankruptcy court concerning its obligations under its health plan.
• Cessna Finance: Obtained a $50 million arbitral award for Cessna Finance on a contested guaranty.

Representative Enforcement Matters

• Crystallex: Obtained a writ of execution over the shares of the Delaware parent of Citgo Petroleum Corp. to enforce a $1.4 billion judgment against Venezuela.
• Commenced proceedings in the British Virgin Islands, Washington, D.C. and New York to enforce Tethyan Copper Company Limited’s (TCC) $6 billion arbitral award against Pakistan, resulting in a multi-billion dollar settlement.
• Won motions in actions in New York, London and the Cayman Islands resulting in a successful settlement of ArcelorMittal’s $1.3 billion arbitral award against Essar Steel.
• Pearl Petroleum, Crescent Petroleum and Dana Gas: Initiated enforcement proceedings in the UK, United States, and Dubai Int’l Financial Centre (DIFC), resulting in a multi-billion settlement with Iraqi Kurdistan.
• PDL BioPharma, Inc.: Obtained summary judgment on multiple guaranties of a $100 million loan. PDL Biopharma, Inc. v. Samuel J. Wohlstadter, et. al.
• Nike: Obtained a judgment in excess of $1 billion and froze counterfeiters’ assets in over 150 foreign bank accounts.
• UBS: Commenced a lawsuit against Croatia over its share of a Yugoslavian bond issue, resulting in an 8 figure settlement.
• Yukos Capital: Obtained a $420 million prejudgment attachment against Rosneft Oil for Yukos Capital resulting in the collection in full of Yukos’ judgment.
• Yukos Capital: Obtained a $180 million judgment against Samaraneftegaz for Yukos Capital resulting in a successful settlement.
• Obtained a $260 million judgment and foreclosed on the Mondrian hotel in Soho for Deutsche Bank.
• Gucci America, Inc.: Obtained an order granting plaintiff’s motion to compel the Bank of China to produce counterfeiters’ bank records, despite claims that the documents were protected under Chinese law, and denied the Bank’s cross-motion to relieve it of the obligation to freeze the counterfeiters’ accounts. Gucci Am., Inc. v. Li, No. 10 Civ. 4974 (RJS), (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 23, 2011), and obtained affirmance of the District Court’s order freezing the counterfeiters’ assets, 768 F3d 122. On remand, obtained an order holding the Bank of China in contempt and fining them $50,000 per day until they produced the counterfeiters’ bank records.
• Gucci America, Inc.: Represented plaintiff in Gucci America, Inc. v. Frontline Processing Corp., 721 F. Supp. 228 (S.D.N.Y. 2010) (HB), in which the Court held that credit card processing companies may be held liable for contributory trademark infringement. Recognized as One of the Top 10 trademark decisions of the year according to the Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property.

Bob is admitted to practice before the New York courts, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits.

Marcellus Antonio McRae is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He serves as co-chair of the firm’s Trials Practice Group. Marcellus has been recognized by Chambers USA as a leading commercial litigation lawyer in California, and California Lawyer featured him as one of its honorees in its 2015 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Awards. He is a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations, Government Contracts, Media, Entertainment and Technology, and International Trade and Regulation Compliance Practice Groups. Marcellus’s litigation and white-collar criminal defense practices focus on a wide variety of business disputes, internal investigations, and criminal prosecutions including defense of individuals and corporations in cases involving allegations of: financial fraud, False Claims Act violations, public corruption, violations of federal and state environmental laws, health care fraud, wrongful death, criminal antitrust violations, and other matters. He also represents and advises employers in wrongful termination, retaliation, and whistleblower claims.

Marcellus has first chaired numerous jury trials, bench trials, and arbitrations in both federal and state courts. He also writes and speaks on trial and litigation skills, white-collar criminal defense, labor and employment law, and other topics. From 1995 until joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in February 1998, Marcellus served as an Assistant United States Attorney with the Criminal Division, Major Frauds Section, of the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. While he was an Assistant United States Attorney, Marcellus investigated and prosecuted complex white-collar crimes (tax, securities, bankruptcy, and other business frauds) and traditional crimes that involved both jury and non-jury trial experience with a 100 percent conviction rate at trial. He has also drafted and argued numerous appeals before federal and state courts of appeal. Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office, Marcellus was an associate with Debevoise & Plimpton.

Some of Marcellus’s achievements include:

Trials and Litigation

• Successfully defended major telecommunications carrier in arbitration regarding breach of contract claims.
• Successfully defended major insurance company in a class action asserting breach of contract claims by obtaining summary judgement.
• Defended large manufacturer in antitrust jury trial.
• Successful defense of major health care company in federal jury trial against claims of age discrimination.
• Defended investment management company in federal court trial involving breach of contract and employment claims.
• Defended media executive in federal criminal securities trial.
• Successfully defended company against suit seeking damages for losses attributed to alleged cryptocurrency thefts.
• Defended a telecommunications company against alleged contract discrimination claims.
• Secured reversal from the California Court of Appeal of a judgment against the City of Santa Monica under the California Voting Rights Act and the California Constitution.
• Successfully defended an international construction company and other entities against both state and federal False Claims Act allegations by obtaining summary judgment.
• Represented as co-lead trial counsel California schoolchildren in Vergara v. State of California in asserting a state constitutional challenge to laws that prevent school administrators from hiring and retaining the most effective teachers (studentsmatter.org).
• Defended a telecommunications company in a putative class action alleging false advertising.
• Successful defense at trial of Vestin Realty Mortgage I and II in a nationwide class action alleging that the merger of funds into the trusts constituted a “roll up.”
• Successful defense of Nutro Products, Inc. in an eight-week jury trial in a mass action in which homeowners claimed that the company’s production facility emitted a nuisance odor.
• Defended major energy company in a seven week jury trial regarding in an environmental dispute.
• Defended medical school in claims alleging employment discrimination and harassment.
• Successfully defended major university by obtaining grant of summary judgment in an arbitration involving defamation and related claims.
• Defending major corporations in qui tam litigations and parallel proceedings involving False Claims Act violation allegations.
• Representation of an I.R.A. administrator in a class action against claims that it aided and abetted a fraud against investors.
• Representation of Pacific Maritime Association and members in an action involving claims of gender and race discrimination, harassment and retaliation.
• Successful defense of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. in a jury trial against allegations that it defrauded California Union Insurance Company into issuing performance and property coverage on several wind turbine farms.
• Successful defense at trial of a film and television celebrity in a palimony action.
• Representation of Deloitte & Touche LLP in a state court action involving allegations of age and race discrimination.
• Successful defense of ITT Educational Services in a False Claims Act retaliatory discharge action both at the trial level by obtaining summary judgment and at the appellate level by securing affirmance of the summary judgment ruling.
• Representation of PricewaterhouseCoopers in a state court action involving allegations of gender discrimination and failure to promote.
• Representation of United Parcel Service in a state court action involving allegations of sexual harassment.
• Successful defense of one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in a three-week arbitration involving claims for profit participation in a syndicated series.
• Represented clients in an appeal of an Unruh Act judgment in which the appellate court reversed the award of punitive damages and the attorneys’ fees award.
• Defending major telecommunications company on appeal against breach of contract and privacy violation allegations.
• Successful defense of ConAgra Foods, Inc. in a four-week jury trial involving breach of contract and fraud claims arising from the termination of a beef distribution relationship.
• Represented one of the leading watch manufacturers and one of the world’s largest retailers in a federal trademark infringement litigation.

White Collar Defense and Investigations

• Represented a multinational energy company in an environmental litigation and investigations.
• Counseled multinational corporations in various aspects of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
• Represented domestic and international clients in export control enforcement matters and investigations.
• Represented major corporations in federal grand jury investigations involving contract and payment disputes with various regulatory agencies.
• Defended a municipality in a federal criminal investigation alleging Clean Water Act violations. No charges were filed.
• Defended retailers in civil class action and criminal proceedings involving pricing accuracy claims.
• Defended an elected official in a public corruption investigation. No charges were filed.
• Defended food and beverage manufacturers in federal criminal investigations alleging Clean Water Act violations.
• Defended a maritime company in a federal criminal investigation alleging violations of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships. No charges were filed.
• Defended food manufacturer in federal criminal investigation alleging violation of USDA regulations.
• Conducted a wide range of internal investigations concerning financial controls and procedures, executive misconduct, government contracting improprieties, and alleged violations of federal election campaign laws, federal communications commission rules and regulations, kickbacks, fraud, and other federal and state laws.

Professional and Community Associations and Activities

Marcellus is currently a member of the Public Counsel Board of Directors, the Board of Advocates of Human Rights First and the board of directors of Mental Health Advocacy Services. He is also a member of the steering committee of Just The Beginning (JTB), an organization dedicated to developing and nurturing interest in the legal profession among young students and increasing diversity in the legal profession and the judiciary. Marcellus also serves on the Advisory Board of the NYU School of Law Policing Project and is a member of the Pro Bono Civil Rights Panel of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He is also a former Co-Chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group and a former member of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters in Los Angeles. He has served as an adjunct professor of Advanced Trial Advocacy at Loyola Law School, teaches trial advocacy at Harvard Law School, and was an instructor at the national level for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. Marcellus has conducted mock jury trial demonstrations at numerous national American Law Institute-American Bar Association conferences and has been a featured panelist at many professional seminars regarding a wide range of topics including trial advocacy, individual and corporate criminal defense, education reform, federal sentencing guidelines, police reform, and employment litigation. He also frequently appears on television and radio and in print media as a legal commentator. He has also been a Co-Chair from 2003-04 of the Lawyer Delegates to the Ninth Circuit – Central District of California; chair of the Environmental Crimes Committee for the West Coast Chapter of the American Bar Association; a member of the Judicial Appointments Committee for the Los Angeles County Bar Association; the Los Angeles County Bar Complex Court Committee; the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Executive Committee of the Criminal Justice Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association; the Attorney Discipline Committee for the Central District of California; the Attorney Admissions Fund Board for the Central District of California; the Advisory Board of the Practical Law Company, and the Steering Committee of the California Minority Counsel Program. Marcellus was also a Deputy General Counsel to the Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence for the County of Los Angeles, a member of the LAPD Police Commission Rampart Review Panel, and was on the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

Speaking Engagements and Media Interviews

• “Witness Interviews,” course on internal corporate investigations at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law, February 24, 2023
• “Contextualizing the Law of Police,” American Bar Association, January 24, 2022
• “A New Era in Jury Selection in California: Preparing for and Complying with AB3070,” Association of Business Trial Lawyers, January 26, 2021
• “Opening Statement Demonstration: Civil Litigation Walk-Through Program,” Los Angeles Superior Court, March 18, 2017
• “CJA/TRG 2017 Civil Litigation Challenges: Excelling in the “Big League” Program,” California Judges Association and The Rutter Group, February 25, 2017
• “Teaching Trial Advocacy,” Harvard Law School, January 17-20, 2017
• “Police Reform: Insights, Approaches and Next Steps,” Gibson Dunn, Public Counsel, and Bet Tzedek, November 15, 2016
• “2016 Complex Court Symposium,” Los Angeles County Bar Association, November 9, 2016
• “3 Skills No Partner Can Do Without,” Law360, May 18, 2016
• “Annual Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition,” Judge, Hispanic National Bar Association, March 17-18, 2016
• “Trial Pros: Gibson Dunn’s Marcellus McRae,” Law360, March 4, 2016
• “Civil Litigation Walk Through Program,” Los Angeles Superior Court, March 5, 2016
• “Celebrating Business and Community Partnerships,” Keynote Speaker, Southern CA Edison’s (SCE) 2016 Black History Month Celebration, February 5, 2016
• “Black and Blue: Policing the Color Line,” panel, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, August 19, 2015
• “Former Employees and Executives as Non-Party Witnesses in Employment Litigation,” Strafford Webinars, August 13, 2015
• “Can Vergara Fix Our Schools?” California Lawyer, August 2015
• “California’s Teacher Tenure Battle Continues in the Court of Appeals,” Interview with Legal Broadcast Network, July 3, 2015
• Presentation to California School Boards Association, discussing the Vergara Case, San Francisco, CA, December 15, 2014
• Presentation to California Association of Suburban School Districts, discussing the Vergara Case, San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2014
• Presentation to the National Association of Black Educators, discussing the Vergara Case, Kansas City, MO, November 20, 2014
• “Plaintiff attorney in the landmark Vergara case in Twin Cities to talk about teacher tenure,” Star Tribune, November 14, 2014
• Phi Delta Kappa – USC Chapter Dinner, discussing the Vergara Case, Los Angeles, October 10, 2014
• “Affirming the Fundamental, Constitutional Right of Every Student to Learn from Effective Teachers and Have an Equal Opportunity to Succeed in School,” Glendale Bar Association Dinner Meeting, October 1, 2014
• “Getting the Best Education for All Our Kids: The Lawsuits That Could Transform American Public Schools,” panel, The Aspen Institute, Justice & Society Program, Washington, D.C., September 30, 2014
• “Central African Republic and the Responsibility to Protect” panel, Pacific Council on International Policy, September 23, 2014
• “Learning About Vergara, Part 1: The Plaintiff’s Perspective,” The Education & Law Society, University of California Los Angeles, September 22, 2014
• The New Teacher Project Conference Panel, Atlanta, GA, September 18, 2014
• “Tenure on Trial,” Pomona Student Union, Pomona College, September 8, 2014
• Marcellus McRae, Interview with LaDona Harvey, KOGO Radio, discussing the Vergara case, September 4, 2014
• “Deposition Strategies in Employment Litigation: Taking and Defending Depositions of Plaintiffs and Fact Witnesses,” Strafford Webinars, August 13, 2014
• “Cross-Examination of Experts,” Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners, Emperor’s Palace, Centurion, South Africa, July 22, 2014
• “Taking on Teachers by Targeting Tenure,” Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC, June 15, 2014
• NBC News Conference, KNBC, discussing Students Matter case, June 15, 2014
• “Best Practices in the Use of Witness Statements” panel, ABA International Bar Association-Africa Committee, Washington, D.C., June 3, 2014
• Marcellus McRae, Interview with LaDona Harvey, KOGO Radio, discussing Students Matter case, April 30, 2014
• “Success Stories and Progress in Africa’s Anti-Corruption Efforts: Taking Stock and Moving Forward,” American Bar Association Section of International Law 2014 Spring Meeting, New York, NY, April 4, 2014
• Students Matter Ruling with Marcellus McRae, The Roger Hedgecock Show, U-T-TV, December 18, 2013
• “Differing Perspectives on Education Reform,” Youth and Education Advocates at Stanford, Shaking the Foundations 2013, November 1, 2013
• “Deposition Strategies in Employment Litigation,” Strafford Webinars, October 29, 2013
• UCLA Education Litigation Panel, September 18, 2013
• “U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement and the Guidelines Recently Issued Jointly by the SEC and DOJ,” Thirty-First International Symposium on Economic Crime, September 4, 2013
• “Case Assessment and Evaluation – Developing Informed Estimates,” Defense Research Institute, Let’s Talk Series, August 15, 2013
• Teaching Lawyers Without Borders – Anti-Corruption and Trial Advocacy Training in Kenya, August 5-9, 2013
• “Setting the benchmark: LIBOR and the Upswing in International Financial Services and Securities Fraud Investigations and Prosecutions,” 16^th Annual Transnational Crime Conference, International Bar Association, May 16, 2013
• “Developing Informed Litigation Budgets,” Practical Law Company Webinar, May 8, 2013
• “FCPA Concepts and Considerations,” Los Angeles County Bar Association Corporate Roundtable Dinner, March 13, 2013
• “Deposition Strategies in Employment Litigation,” Strafford Publications Webinar, November 13, 2012
• “In-house Counsel’s Guide to Trial Prep,” Practical Law Company Webinar, November 6, 2012
• “Dialogues on Detention: Applying Lessons from Criminal Justice Reform to the Immigration Detention System,” Human Rights First, Public Dialogues Series, September 24, 2012
• “Former Employees and Executives as Non-Party Witnesses,” Strafford Publications Webinar, September 5, 2012
• “2012 Mid-Year OFAC Update,” Gibson Dunn Webcast, July 10, 2012
• “One Nation Under Arrest? The Growth of Federal Criminal Law,” The Federalist Society, Los Angeles Chapter, April 24, 2012
• “Ethics Surrounding Attorneys’ Fees: How to Agree to Them, Collect Them, Keep Them, and Persuasively Seek Them as Sanctions,” ABA Section of Litigation Annual Conference, April 20, 2012
• “Learn What Matters in Federal Court: Hear from the Decisionmakers,” Public Counsel/Los Angeles County Bar Association Barristers’ CLE program, panel entitled “How to Win Summary Judgment,” February 24, 2012
• “To Arbitrate or Not?” Bridgeport Continuing Education Seminar, January 13, 2012
• “2011 Year-End OFAC Update,” Gibson Dunn Webcast, January 12, 2012
• “Deposition Strategies in Employment Litigation,” Strafford Publications Webinar, November 22, 2011
• “Former Employees and Executives as Non-Party Witnesses: Navigating the Complexities of Privilege, Compensation, Cooperation with Counsel and Protection of Business Information,” Strafford Publications Webinar, October 11, 2011
• “Elements of An Effective Compliance Program,” Annual Conference of the African Legal Network, November 22, 2005

Publications and Acknowledgments

Marcellus has been recognized in such publications as The Best Lawyers in America®. He was named a California “Litigation Star” in the 2018, 2019, and 2025 editions of Benchmark Litigation. BTI Consulting named Marcellus to its 2019 BTI Client Service All-Stars List, which recognizes attorneys “who deliver incomparable levels of client service excellence.” California Lawyer featured him as one of its honorees in its 2015 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Awards. The Los Angeles Business Journal named Marcellus among its 2022-2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Attorneys, a list “of the very best litigators and trial attorneys in the region.” In addition, this publication named him to its 2016, 2019, 2024, and 2025 “Most Influential Minority Attorneys in Los Angeles” list. Who’s Who Legal: Investigations 2016, along with its sister publication, Global Investigations Review, recognized Marcellus as a leading individual for his expertise in internal and regulatory investigations. He was named to the Daily Journal‘s list of “Top 100 Lawyers in California” for 2014, 2015 and in 2020. In 2015, the Daily Journal recognized Vergara v. State of California as one of its Top Plaintiff’s Verdicts By Impact in 2014. In Vergara v. State of California, Marcellus helped secure a landmark civil rights decision that struck down California’s teacher tenure and dismissal statutes as unconstitutional. Marcellus’s victory for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority et al. v. Parsons-Dillingham Metro Rail Construction Manager Joint Venture et al. was also recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the Top Defense Results in 2015. Marcellus served as the lead defense attorney and helped Parsons-Dillingham obtain the defense win in that matter. Marcellus’s latest victory for the City of Santa Monica, in Pico Neighborhood Association V. City of Santa Monica, landed him another Daily Journal Top Verdict for 2020 honor when a state appellate panel reversed a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge. The victory helped set standards for future claims involving lawsuits targeting California cities for alleged violations of the California Voting Rights Act. He was also named as one of the Daily Journal‘s “Top 20 California Attorneys Under 40” in 2003. In January 2004, Marcellus was selected by Law & Politics magazine as one of California’s “Superlawyers” in the area of Business Litigation, based on a survey of more than 65,000 California lawyers. Lawdragon magazine, which spotlights “attorneys who excel representing principally corporations and other organizations in litigating claims,” named him in its 500 Leading Litigators in America guide for 2023-2026. This publication also named Marcellus in 2006 among the “New Stars, New Worlds,” which features up-and-coming talent and lawyers with fascinating new practices. In 2015, Marcellus, along with partner Theodore Boutrous, was recognized by The Recorder magazine in their annual “Litigation Department of the Year” competition in the “Ground Breakers” category. In 2016, the Recorder magazine also recognized Marcellus in their annual “Litigation Department of the Year” competition in the “Game Changers” category.

Marcellus has also authored and co-authored several articles including “Evidence,” California Litigation Review (2016); “Challenging Inequality,” Los Angeles Lawyer (July/August 2015); “Evidence,” California Litigation Review (2015); “Africa – 2013 Legal Developments,” Africa Law Today, Issue 1 (2014), a publication of the ABA Section of International Law; “State and Commerce Departments publish significant rule changes to export controls regulations,” Lexology (2013); “Scope of Employment,” Los Angeles Lawyer (2013); “Initial Stages of Federal Litigation: Overview,” Practical Law Company (June 2016); “Case Assessment and Evaluation,” Practical Law Company (April 1, 2013); “Proof Matrix” (a tool to help assess whether a case is ready for trial), Practical Law Company (December 2012); “Your Witness: The Issue of Paying Fact Witnesses Most Commonly Concerns Former or Current Employees of a Party in Litigation,” Los Angeles Lawyer (2012); “Handling Federal Litigation,” Practical Law Company (2011); “Is Government Knowledge a Defense to False Claims Liability: A Discussion of the Role of Government Knowledge Under the California and Federal False Claims Acts,” BNA, Inc., Federal Contracts Report, Volume 84, No. 11, (September 27, 2005); “Gauging Organizational Exposure to Environmental Criminal Liability: A Comparison of the Proposed Environmental Sentencing Guidelines to the Organizational Guidelines and the Department of Justice’s Revised Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations,” American Bar Association for the National Institute on White Collar Crime (March 2004); “Proof and Pretext: Reeves Provides Some Clarification of the Burden-Shifting Formula in Employment Discrimination Lawsuits,” Los AngelesLawyer (March 2004); “Seeking and Defeating Summary Judgment in Light of Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products And Its Progeny” ALI-ABA Course of Study-Employment Discrimination and Civil Rights Actions in Federal and State Courts, Volume 1 (May 2003); and “Grace Under Pressure: Fifteen Steps You Should Take to Manage a Search of Your Client’s Office Pursuant to a Federal Warrant“ Corporate Counsel’s Quarterly and The Lawyer’s Brief, Volume 18, No. 3 (July 2002). He is also the co-author of “Closing Arguments,” Chapter 37, Business and Commercial Litigation Treatise, West Publishing, (1998).

Education

Marcellus received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. He earned a B.A. degree summa cum laude in 1985 from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Reed Brodsky is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s New York office. Mr. Brodsky is co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Litigation Practice Group and a member of the Crisis Management, Securities Enforcement and White Collar Defense and Investigations Groups. He is a nationally recognized trial lawyer and litigator best known for his success as lead trial counsel in two of the most high-profile white collar criminal cases in recent memory, United States v. Raj Rajaratnam in 2011, and United States v. Rajat Gupta in 2012. Since joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Brodsky has been a lead trial attorney in four high-profile trials, representing Chevron Corporation in Chevron v. Donziger et al. in 2013, AlixPartners in AlixPartners v. Thompson et al. in 2014, AIG’s Lavastone Capital unit in Lavastone Capital LLC v. Coventry First LLC et al. in 2015, and Patriarch Partners/Lynn Tilton in SEC v. Patriarch in 2016. Before joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Brodsky spent eight years serving as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he won all seven of his white collar criminal trials and many non-white collar trials.

Mr. Brodsky’s areas of practice include trial work, white collar crime, securities enforcement proceedings, corporate internal investigations, compliance counseling and complex civil litigation. Mr. Brodsky has extensive experience representing institutions, hedge funds, issuers of securities, board committees and individuals in connection with investigations, litigation and SEC enforcement proceedings under the federal securities laws. Mr. Brodsky has counseled numerous hedge funds on securities trading and compliance matters.

Mr. Brodsky is a seasoned trial lawyer with an outstanding track record. He has been called a “tenacious” and “tireless” advocate by commentators, colleagues and adversaries alike. The New York Times described Mr. Brodsky as an “animated” “work horse” who “endear[s] himself to juries with impassioned, eloquent presentation.” The Wall Street Journal noted Mr. Brodsky has a “legendary work ethic” and “string of victories.” Reuters described Mr. Brodsky as “a commanding presence in the courtroom” who impresses with his “blistering cross-examination.” The New York Post said Mr. Brodsky is “known for winning … and ferocity.” And The New Yorker described him as an “ebullient and aggressive” “trial animal.”

Mr. Brodsky has received national recognition and many awards for his achievements and litigation skills. His litigation practice includes commercial disputes, civil litigation, and white-collar and securities enforcement matters. The Legal 500 recognizes Mr. Brodsky as a “Recommended Lawyer” in Securities Litigation: Defense and as a leading lawyer in corporate investigations and white collar-criminal defense. He was a leading lawyer on two separate litigation teams that won Benchmark Awards for high-profile commercial litigation matters and was a Benchmark finalist as one of the top securities lawyers in the country. Mr. Brodsky is ranked among the top white collar litigators in New York by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, describing him as “a superstar” who “puts the fear of God into anyone he is opposite” and “you want in your corner when you’re stepping into the ring” with his “pragmatic and efficient approach.” Benchmark Litigation has recognized him as a “Litigation Star” in White-Collar Crime and a “Local Litigation Star” in New York and he has also been recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America® for his work in Securities (2023-2026). Mr. Brodsky has been named as one of the “Top Rated White Collar Crimes Attorneys in New York,” by Super Lawyers, a leading investigations lawyer by Who’s Who Legal: Investigations, and a “Life Sciences Star” in Litigation and Enforcement by LMG Life Sciences. Lawdragon Magazine has also cited Mr. Brodsky among their “500 Leading Litigators in America” for 2023 and 2026. Ethisphere Magazine named him one of 14 “Government Stars” in 2011. In 2012, Mr. Brodsky received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service; and in 2013, Mr. Brodsky received the Executive Office of U.S. Attorney’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance by a Litigative Team.

Recent Significant Engagements Include:

• In 2016, Mr. Brodsky was one of the lead trial lawyers representing Patriarch Partners and Lynn Tilton in a three-week trial against the Securities Exchange Commission over fraud charges relating to the management of distressed debt CLO funds.
• In 2015, Mr. Brodsky was one of the lead trial lawyers representing an AIG affiliate (Lavastone) in a 25-day trial in the SDNY, bringing a $1 billion RICO, breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and unjust enrichment case against defendants for purchasing life insurance policies, laundering them through a shell company, and then selling them to Lavastone at inflated prices.
• In 2014, Mr. Brodsky was one of the lead trial lawyers representing AlixPartners in a high-profile theft of trade secrets and breach of contract case against two departing executives related to their wrongful taking of AlixPartners trade secrets and confidential documents. Mr. Brodsky tried the case in the Delaware Chancery Court.
• In 2013, Mr. Brodsky was one of the lead trial lawyers representing Chevron in a successful two-month RICO and civil fraud trial. Mr. Brodsky tried the case in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. After the trial, the District Court issued a nearly 500-page opinion and order granting Chevron’s application to bar the defendants from enforcing a fraudulently obtained $9 billion judgment in Ecuador.
• Represents certain corporations, executives, and other individuals in multiple unrelated ongoing criminal investigations and/or prosecutions by the United States Department of Justice.
• Represents certain corporations, asset managers, executives, and other individuals in multiple unrelated ongoing investigations by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, from 2004 to 2013, Mr. Brodsky served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. During 6 of his eight years, Mr. Brodsky was a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force and investigated and prosecuted a wide range of fraud including insider trading, accounting fraud, investment adviser fraud, commodities fraud, options backdating, market manipulation, broker bribery, hedge fund frauds, and Ponzi schemes; mail/wire fraud; money laundering; and obstruction. Mr. Brodsky also coordinated parallel civil proceedings with the SEC, bankruptcy trustees, and court-appointed receivers, and he litigated criminal forfeiture proceedings. He is a leading national expert on insider trading investigations after successfully prosecuting more than 50 individuals for insider trading crimes; using wiretaps in an insider trading trial for the first time in U.S. history; prosecuting the first matchmaking insider trading case in U.S. history; and authoring the first federal wiretaps on a conference line in U.S. history.

From 1998 to 2004, Mr. Brodsky practiced as a litigator in the Washington, D.C. office of two major international law firms where he specialized in corporate investigations, white collar defense and SEC enforcement matters. During that period, Mr. Brodsky represented the Special Investigative Committee of the Board of Directors of Enron in an internal investigation relating to transactions between Enron and its former CFO’s partnerships. In addition, Mr. Brodsky represented the Special Investigative Committee of the Board of Directors of WorldCom in an internal investigation of the fraudulent capitalization of line costs and improper revenue adjustments by former executives.

Mr. Brodsky graduated in 1995 from Vanderbilt University School of Law where he was a member of the Honor Council and an editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of International Law. He received his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Duke University in 1991. After graduation, he served as a law clerk for United States District Court Judge Hector M. Laffitte, in the District Court of Puerto Rico.

Mr. Brodsky is admitted to practice in the Southern District of New York and Eastern District of New York.

Significant Matters as a Federal Prosecutor

The following are Mr. Brodsky’s representative matters as a federal prosecutor:

• United States v. Rajat Gupta: Co-lead counsel in the successful investigation and one-month trial of a former member of the board of directors of several public companies for insider trading.
• The Galleon Prosecution: Co-lead counsel in the successful two-month trial of Raj Rajaratnam, the head of the Galleon Group hedge fund, and the successful investigation and prosecution of his accomplices, including Anil Kumar, Rajiv Goel, Robert Moffat and Mark Kurland.
• United States v. Joseph F. Skowron et al.: Co-lead counsel in the successful prosecution of the former portfolio manager at FrontPoint Partners and the French medical doctor who tipped him in the first matchmaking insider trading case in history.
• United States v. Walter Shimoon et al.: Co-lead counsel in the successful investigation and prosecution of the first matchmaking firm employee charged with insider trading.
• United States v. Zvi Goffer et al.: Co-lead counsel in the successful investigation and prosecution of proprietary traders who obtained inside information from an international law firm.
• United States v. Joseph Contorinis et al.: Co-lead counsel in the successful investigation and three-week trial in the first hedge fund insider trading case to go to trial.
• United States v. Hafiz Naseem: Co-lead counsel in the successful investigation and four-week trial of a former investment banker for insider trading.
• United States v. Arthur Nadel: Co-lead counsel in the successful investigation and prosecution of the former Florida hedge fund manager for operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of victims out of more than $150 million.
• United States v. Raffaello Follieri: Lead prosecutor in the successful investigation and prosecution of a former manager of a real estate private equity fund for misappropriation and misrepresentations as a Vatican representative.
• United States v. Jennifer Wang et al.: Lead prosecutor in the successful investigation and prosecution of a former banker and hedge fund employee in an insider trading scheme.
• United States v. Matthew Devlin et al.: Co-lead prosecutor in the successful investigation and prosecution of a former Lehman Brothers broker and his accomplices for insider trading.
• United States v. Michael Nouri et al.: Co-lead prosecutor in the successful investigation and four-week trial of the former CEO of a publicly traded company for market manipulation and broker bribery.

Speaking Engagements

Mr. Brodsky speaks regularly on topics relating to white collar crime, insider trading, SEC enforcement, hedge funds and lessons from recent corporate scandals. His most recent speaking engagements include:

• Speaker, “Advising Clients on Insider Trading Compliance Practices,” at Practising Law Institute (July 2017)
• Speaker, “Crisis Strategies Summit for In-House and Outside Counsel: Solutions for Addressing the Dynamic between Legal and Reputational Risk in the Digital Age,” American Lawyer Media, in NY, NY (November 2014)
• Speaker, “The Ethics & Disclosure Process in an International Environment,” at International Operations Conference in NY, NY (November 2014)
• Speaker, “Securities – An Industry Under the Microscope,” at NYS Society of CPA’s Anti-Money Laundering Conference in NY, NY (October 2014)
• Keynote Speaker, Insider Trading and Market Manipulation, at Biennial Insider Trading and Market Manipulation Seminar, before 115 regulators from 10 different countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, France, Austria, Poland, Luxembourg, and Switzerland in Montreal, Quebec (September 2014)
• Co-Chair, “From the Trenches: High Profile Trials 2014,” at Practising Law Institute, in NY, NY (September 2014)
• Speaker, “Insider Trading, Information Flows, and Research Practices,” at NSCP Regional Meeting, in San Francisco, CA (March 2014)
• Speaker, “The Financial Crisis – Five Years Later,” at ABA’s 28^thAnnual National Institute of White Collar Crime, in Miami, Florida (March 2014).
• Speaker, “Anatomy of a White Collar Investigation and Prosecution,” at RCA in NY, NY (January 2014).
• Co-Chair, “From the Trenches: High Profile Trials 2013,” at Practising Law Institute, in NY, NY (December 2013)
• Speaker, “Defending Corporations and Individuals in Government Investigations,” at Thomson Reuters Conference, in NY, NY (December 2013)
• Keynote Speaker, Compliance Conference, in San Francisco, CA (October 2013)
• Speaker, “Prosecutors & Regulators Speak,” at Practising Law Institute, in NY, NY (October 2013)
• Speaker, “The Inside Stuff: The Perils of an Information Advantage,” at SALT 2013 (Skybridge Alternatives Conference), in Las Vegas, NV (May 2013).
• Panelist, “Investigation, Enforcement & Prosecution of Hedge & PE Managers,” at Regulatory Compliance Association’s Conference on Regulation, Operation & Compliance 2013, in New York, NY (April 2013).
• Panelist, “Recent Trials: Gupta; Edwards; and Blagojevich,” at ABA’s 27^th Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime, in Las Vegas, Nevada (March 2013).
• Keynote Speaker, “DOJ Criminal Priorities in Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Prosecutions,” American Conference Institute’s Inaugural Summit on White Collar Litigation, in NY, NY (January 2013).
• Panelist, “Best Practices to Prevent Insider Trading and Emerging Law Enforcement Issues for Hedge Funds,” at Managed Funds Association: Compliance 2012, in New York, NY (November 2012).
• Panelist, “Present, and Future of Insider Trading: A 50^th Anniversary Re-Examination of Cady, Roberts and the Revolution it Began,” at Columbia Law School, in New York, NY (November 2012).
• Panelist, “Insider Trading: What Are The Limits?,” at 7^th Annual National Institute on Securities Fraud, in New Orleans, LA (November 2012).
• Keynote Speaker, “High-Profile White Collar Trial Tactics,” Vanderbilt University School of Law, in Nashville, TN (November 2012).
• Panelist, “Trial Tactics,” at PLI’s White Collar Crime 2012: Prosecutors and Regulators Speak, in New York, NY (October 2012).
• Panelist, “Insider Trading/Expert Networks—Galleon Trial Team,” at 2012 New England Securities Conference for Regulators, Investigators and Prosecutors, in Boston, MA (October 2012).
• Speaker, “Title III Wiretaps in White Collar Cases,” at U.S. Department of Justice’s National Advocacy Center, in Columbia, SC (July 2012).
• Panelist, “New Paradigm of White-Collar Prosecution & Enforcement—Regulator Round Table,” Spring RCA’s Regulation & Risk Thought Leadership Symposium, in New York, NY (April 2012).
• Panelist, “Creative Investigative Techniques In White Collar Cases,” at ABA’s 26^th Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime, in Miami, FL (March 2012).
• Speaker, “Title III Wiretaps in White Collar Cases,” at U.S. Department of Justice’s National Advocacy Center, in Columbia, SC (December 2011).
• Panelist, “Insider Trading: When Does Corporate ‘Edge’ Become Corporate Espionage?” at 6^th Annual National Institute on Securities Fraud, in New Orleans, LA (November 2011).

Priyah Kaul is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department, focusing on securities litigation, class actions, and other complex civil litigation.  Priyah has a wide range of experience representing individuals and companies, including leading technology companies, in high-stakes cases in state and federal court.

After law school, Priyah served as a law clerk to the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Prior to re-joining Gibson Dunn, she was senior counsel at a boutique civil litigation firm and a deputy voter protection director for a national political campaign.

Priyah received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 2015, where she was an Articles Editor for the Michigan Journal of Law Reform. She earned her B.A. in Business-Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. Before attending law school, Priyah was an analyst at a multinational financial services company.

Priyah is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

Julie Doria is an associate in the Paris office of Gibson Dunn and member of the firm’s Litigation, International Arbitration, and Business Restructuring Practice Groups. Her practice focuses on dispute resolution, restructuring, and white collar criminal law.

Julie specializes in complex international litigation and arbitration proceedings arising out of investments and general commercial transactions.

She acts on debt restructuring, where she advises companies of all sizes and sectors, insolvency practitioners, debtors and creditors in connection with pre-insolvency and insolvency proceedings.

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2024, she graduated from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, where she received a Master’s degree in Business law (Magistère Juriste d’Affaires – DJCE).

She speaks French, English and Italian fluently and has an excellent working knowledge of Spanish.

Pierre-Emmanuel Fender is a partner in the Paris office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), Litigation, and Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice Groups.

Pierre-Emmanuel specializes in complex cross-border restructurings and French pre-insolvency and insolvency matters. He regularly advises investors on the management or acquisition of defaulting entities, distressed companies undergoing insolvency proceedings, and creditors — including banks and CLOs — for the recovery of their receivables and the protection of their securities.

Pierre-Emmanuel’s practice also focuses on resolving complex disputes through litigation proceedings, primarily in an international context. He is involved in a broad range of general commercial disputes (contract and liability) and corporate litigation (such as shareholder disputes, enforcement of warranties, and takeovers of distressed companies) in various business sectors including aeronautics, insurance, finance, and healthcare, among others.

He co-leads the ESG practice in Paris, providing holistic advice to clients in relation to their corporate responsibility and ESG risks and opportunities, while also preparing them for potential litigation in France.

Pierre-Emmanuel is recommended by Chambers Europe in its Restructuring/Insolvency category. Clients report that he “is a very good support and a real expert” ; “an excellent technician” ; “he is very precise, easy to work with, technical and a hard worker.” Previous editions emphasized that he has a “very practical approach,” adding that he is “very good in anticipating issues and has a good grasp of the situation in negotiations.” Pierre-Emmanuel is noted for his expertise in cross-border restructurings and French insolvency matters with his client portfolio including lenders, investors, and distressed companies. Best Lawyers in France also consistently recommends him for Insolvency since he entered the ranking in 2020.

The Legal 500 EMEA ranks the Paris Commercial Litigation practice in Tier 2, highlighting “a very close-knit and a very complementary team of lawyers, very attentive to their clients and their business constraints. A team with whom it is very pleasant to work.” Previous editions already distinguished Pierre-Emmanuel in this category, reporting that he “has excellent technique, is rigorous and provides a strategic outlook over cases,” and describing him as an “excellent litigator.”

Benchmark Litigation Europe has named him a Litigation Star year after year since he entered the ranking in 2022, while Best Lawyers in France has consistently recommended him for Litigation since 2020. He is also ranked as one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Global Litigators, and Leaders League France has distinguished him for M&A disputes, Commercial litigation, and Arbitration.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn in 2017, Pierre-Emmanuel practiced with a leading British law firm for fifteen years.

Admitted to the Paris Bar, Pierre-Emmanuel graduated in 2000 from the University of Strasbourg III Robert Schumann, with a DESS (postgraduate degree) in business law, a DJCE Magistère (postgraduate degree) in Franco-German business law, and a Maîtrise (LLM) in business law. He is a member of the French Institute of Insolvency Practitioners (IFPPC). In May 2016, he published an article titled, “Prévention des difficultés des entreprises: le banquier et le pouvoir de dire non … sans limite?” in Le Monde du Droit. He is also an occasional speaker at Strasbourg University where he delivers a training and workshop session on French restructuring to DJCE students.

He speaks French and English fluently.

Billur Cinar is an associate in the Paris office of Gibson Dunn, where she is a member of the firm’s Technology Transactions and Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation Practice Groups.

She assists national and international clients across a wide range of industries, including technology, digital services, luxury, and automative.

Billur’s practice focuses on regulatory and contractual matters involving data privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and consumer protection. She supports clients in navigating cross-border digital projects and implementing compliance programs aligned with the EU’s digital regulatory framework (e.g., GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, AI Act). Her experience also includes privacy-related and contractual litigation, data breach response, and advising on data privacy aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2025, Billur holds a Master’s degree in Information Technology Law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

She speaks English and French fluently.

Janae Staicer is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with experience spanning trade secrets, antitrust, class actions, white collar, and appeals. Janae maintains an active pro bono practice, with a focus on immigration and civil rights issues.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Janae served as a law clerk for the Hon. Alison J. Nathan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for former Judge Gregg J. Costa of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She also practiced as a litigation associate at Williams & Connolly LLP.

Janae earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, graduating magna cum laude and with pro bono distinction. At Georgetown, she served as Senior Articles Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal and competed on the moot court team. Through the Appellate Litigation Clinic, she successfully represented an incarcerated client in an appeal before the Fourth Circuit arising from an excessive force case. Janae graduated magna cum laude from Duquesne University, where she competed nationally as a collegiate debater. 

Janae is a member of the California and D.C. bars and is admitted to practice in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fourth, and Sixth Circuits, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of California and the Western District of North Carolina.

Imane Choukir is an associate at the Paris office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Transnational Litigation, White Collar, Competition, and Restructuring Practice Groups.

Imane specializes in complex national and international litigation, regularly representing companies, executives, and shareholders in sensitive civil and commercial disputes. With her deep knowledge of competition and consumer law, Imane is well-versed in a range of sectors, including regulated industries such as telecommunications, energy, and infrastructure, which allows her to navigate and resolve complex legal challenges with efficiency and ingenuity. She also has strong expertise in arbitration, both in investment and commercial transactions, and has been involved in several enforcement campaigns for arbitral awards against individuals and states.

She acts on debts restructuring, where she advises companies of all sizes and sectors, insolvency practitioners, debtors or creditors in connection with pre-insolvency and insolvency proceedings, either in domestic or cross-border contexts. This experience has honed her negotiation skills with various stakeholders while providing her with a robust understanding of corporate dynamics and the economic and operational challenges faced by companies.

Admitted to the Paris Bar in June 2021, Imane holds an LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Competition Law with distinction from King’s College London (2019), as well as a Master’s degree and an MBA in Management with distinction from Université Paris II – Panthéon Assas (2018). Imane aslo holds a certificate in Insolvency and Business Restructuring Law with distinction from Université Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne (2021).

She is fluent in French and English, with working knowledge of Arabic, Spanish, and Italian.

Notable Experience:

• Representing Solocal, Casino, Duralex or Lapeyre in the restructuring of their debt
• Representing a global French leader in the concessions and construction sectors in a dispute related to an infrastructure project
• Representing a global leader in remote sales in disputes with its suppliers and subcontractors
• Representing a major automotive dealer in relation to product defects affecting some of its products
• Representing one of the world’s leading suppliers of packaging solutions for food liquids in a dispute with one of its clients
• Representing a French leader in the agri-food sector during inspections and seizures conducted by the French Competition Authority related to anticompetitive practices

Olwethuthando Ndlovu is an associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Finance Practice Group.

Olwethuthando’s practice focuses on advising international and domestic clients in a range of corporate, finance and infrastructure transactions.

Olwethuthando obtained his Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at the University of the Witwatersrand, before completing a Master of Laws (LLM) at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He served as an LLM Representative at the Penn Business Law Association and an International Associate Editor at the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.

Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Olwethuthando was trained, qualified, and practiced in the Johannesburg office of Africa’s largest law firm and has experience in one of the largest international professional services firms. He served as a research assistant for Mauro F. Guillén, Vice Dean, MBA Program for Executives at The Wharton School.

Olwethuthando is an admitted Attorney in the State of New York, as well as an Attorney and Notary of the High Court of South Africa.

Carla Baum is an associate in the Munich office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation and White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Groups.

Carla focuses her practice on German and international commercial arbitration and complex litigation matters.

Handelsblatt / The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025/2026 have recognized Carla in their list “Ones to Watch” for Litigation.

She studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where she passed her first state examination in 2016. Carla passed her second state examination at the Higher Regional Court Munich and has been admitted as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwältin) since 2020.

In addition to her native German, she speaks English, Italian and Spanish.

Matthew Hall is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Group. He focuses his practice on real estate finance transactions, representing institutional lenders, including debt funds and investment banks, on the origination and disposition of mortgage, mezzanine and construction loans across all real estate asset classes, including office buildings, multifamily complexes, hotels, retail properties, mixed-use properties and industrial properties. He is currently on secondment.

Matthew received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Villanova University in 2018. While at Villanova, Matthew served as a managing editor for the Villanova Law Review. He received his Master of Arts in Psychology from Stony Brook University in 2012 and his Bachelor of Arts in Economics, magna cum laude, from Gettysburg College in 2008.

Matthew is admitted to practice in the state of New York and Pennsylvania.