Alana Horwitz is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Alana received her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia in 2025, where she served as Articles Editor of the Virginia Law and Business Review. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2020, where she graduated summa cum laude, was named the “Outstanding Graduate” of the College of Arts and Sciences, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. 

Alana is admitted to practice in the State of Colorado.

Jonvieve Anderson is an associate in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Jonvieve received her Juris Doctor from the American University Washington College of Law in 2025. While in law school, she served as a Judicial Extern to the Honorable Lynn Leibovitz of the District of Columbia Superior Court, a Dean’s Fellow for the AUWCL Advocacy Program, a student attorney in the Disability Rights Law Clinic, and a member of the Mock Trial Honor Society. As a member of the Mock Trial Honor Society, she and her team won first place at the 2024 Estrella Trial Advocacy Competition, where she also received the William Estrella Award for Best Advocate. Jonvieve was further awarded the Newman Prize for Trial Advocacy and received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Prior to law school, Jonvieve served for five years as a juvenile probation officer in Washington, D.C. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Maryland in 2013.

Jonvieve is admitted to practice in the State of Texas.

Andrew Kilberg is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office, where he practices in the firm’s litigation department. A member of the firm’s Labor and Employment, Administrative and Regulatory, and Appellate and Constitutional Law practice groups, Andrew has significant experience challenging onerous federal regulations, advising on regulatory proposals, and defending agency enforcement actions and investigations. He has represented clients in federal district and appellate courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as before various agencies.

Andrew’s private practice and government experience has touched a broad array of federal and state agencies.  He has engaged with all major federal agencies in the labor and employment field, including the Wage and Hour Division, Employee Benefits Security Administration, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, National Labor Relations Board, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and Mine Safety and Health Administration.  His matters at the Firm and government experience have also involved the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the United States Trade Representative, and Department of Housing and Urban Development, among others.

Andrew’s litigation matters have covered wage and hour, ERISA, restrictive covenants, occupational safety and health, anti-discrimination, whistleblower, and labor relations issues, among other subjects.  In addition to his work in court, Andrew regularly authors comment letters submitted to federal agencies, including the Department of Labor, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Federal Communications Commission. He also has written position statements submitted to the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and represented clients in highly sensitive agency investigations and audits.

Andrew also has provided extensive advice and counseling on a wide range of subjects, including federal and state non-compete and vaccine-related rules and litigation, the False Claims Act, government contracting (including suspension and debarment issues), anti-discrimination and anti-retaliation matters, labor relations, and ERISA issues.

Between 2019 and 2021, Andrew served as Counselor to Secretary Eugene Scalia at the United States Department of Labor. In that role, he advised the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on a wide range of matters and led teams on important regulatory and other projects for the Office of the Secretary, including matters concerning environmental, social, and governance investing, proxy voting, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, independent contractor status, apprenticeships, religious accommodation, anti-discrimination, and the coronavirus pandemic. He also was responsible for coordination with several other executive branch agencies.

Lawdragon recognizes Andrew in its “500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers” guide (2024-2026), and Law360 previously recognized him as a “Rising Star” in Telecom (2019).

Representative litigation matters include:

  • Zimmer Radio of Mid-Missouri Inc. v. FCC, — F.4th —, 2025 WL 2056854 (8th Cir. July 23, 2025): Vacated a Federal Communications Commission rule first adopted in 1999 that prohibited broadcasters from owning more than one top-four-rated television station in any geographical market, arguing the case and obtaining a unanimous decision.
  • Ryan, LLC v. FTC, 2024 WL 3879954 (N.D. Tex. Aug. 20, 2024):  Set aside the Federal Trade Commission’s rule banning nearly all non-compete agreements in the United States.
  • Coalition for Workforce Innovation v. Micone, No. 21-cv-130 (E.D. Tex.):  Representing the Financial Services Institute in challenge to the Department of Labor’s 2024 independent contractor rule.
  • Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, No. 22-660 (U.S.), and No. 20-4202 (2d Cir. 2022): Twice vacated judgment against UBS in a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower action in the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and represented UBS in defending the first decision before the U.S. Supreme Court. 
  • Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. v. Dep’t of Labor, 885 F.3d 360 (5th Cir. 2018), and No. 24-10890 (5th Cir.): Vacated the Department of Labor’s “fiduciary” rule, among the most controversial regulations ever adopted in the financial services industry, and representing the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and Financial Services Institute in challenging the agency’s attempt to reimpose the “fiduciary” rule.
  • Century Aluminum Co. v. OSHA, No. 17-1546 et al. (8th Cir.): Negotiated rulemakings to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s beryllium standard for general industry, resulting in voluntary dismissal of challenge to the standard.
  • Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC, No. 17-1107 et al. (3d Cir.): Represented the National Association of Broadcasters in defending the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal or modification of certain restrictive and outdated local media ownership rules.
  • Mozilla Corp. v. FCC, No. 18-1051 et al. (D.C. Cir.): Represented CTIA–The Wireless Association in defending the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of its “net neutrality” regime.
  • Cedar Band of Paiutes v. U.S. Dep’t of Hous. & Urban Dev., No. 4:19-cv-30-DN (D. Utah): Obtained a preliminary injunction against enforcement of HUD mortgagee letter on behalf of an American Indian tribe and its instrumentalities.
  • Won arbitration for the NFL Players Association against the NFL Management Committee that resulted in reinstatement of full disability benefits for a retired player.

Representative pro bono matters include:

  • McDaniel v. Syed, 115 F.4th 805 (7th Cir. 2024): Obtained reversal of summary judgment in important prisoner rights case, arguing the appeal.
  • Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia v. Belya, No. 22-824 (U.S.) and Belya v. Kapral, No. 21-1498 (2d Cir.): Wrote amici curiae briefs on behalf of religious liberty scholars in support of interlocutory review of important religious autonomy issues.
  • Counsel of record in appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from Board of Immigration Appeals’ denial of asylum to a family of Central American immigrants.
  • Biel v. St. James School, No. 17-55180 (9th Cir.): Counsel of record for amici curiae Church of God in Christ, Inc. and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America in support of a Catholic school in significant ministerial exception case.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Andrew clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review. He received an M. Phil. in Historical Studies from the University of Cambridge and was graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in History from Princeton University.

Andrew is a member of the District of Columbia and Virginia bars, and he is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Supreme Court of Virginia, and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. 

Alon H. Sugarman is a litigation associate in Gibson Dunn’s New York office. His practice is focused on representing clients in their most important disputes in federal and state court, throughout the country. Alon has also participated in several highly expedited trials in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Alon thrives on the creative aspects of litigation, working with clients to develop unique theories of issues and the law to promote the ultimate goal of achieving results for his clients.  He has deployed this approach in cases ranging from breach of contract to securities class actions, land use, and public policy disputes.

Alon is involved in several high-profile matters, including representing the historic Forest Hills Stadium in Queens in a series of lawsuits involving challenges to the concerts put on at the stadium and the stadium owner’s breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and tort claims against objectors. Rulings in one of the lawsuits—denying a preliminary injunction to a group of plaintiffs and granting the stadium owner’s motion to dismiss, respectively—were named Decision of the Day by the New York Law Journal.  Alon is also the lead associate bringing a federal disability discrimination lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on behalf of a New York City tenant seeking a reasonable accommodation from his landlord under the Fair Housing Act. Alon’s involvement in bringing the case was profiled on the front page of the New York Law Journal. Alon’s pro bono practice also includes working alongside Legal Services NYC and Sanctuary for Families in New York City Housing and Family Court.

Prior to becoming a litigator Alon was an associate in the Corporate Department at Gibson Dunn. In that role, he regularly advised public companies in connection with securities compliance matters and participated in numerous capital markets transactions

He received his Doctor of Jurisprudence, in 2021, from Vanderbilt University Law School. During law school, he was on the Dean’s List and member of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (JETLaw). While he was the Senior Symposium Editor of JetLaw, he published his note entitled Grown from the Shadows: How Technology and Taxes Can Bring Private Companies into the Public Light. During law school, he was an SEC honors program intern with the Enforcement Division of the Atlanta Regional Office. Alon was also a research assistant to corporate law Professor Amanda Rose, a Gibson Dunn alumna.

Alon graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016, where he received his Bachelors of Arts degree in history (with an emphasis in economic history) with high distinction and high honors, and a minor in public policy. While at Berkeley, he studied abroad at the University of Cambridge, Pembroke College.

When Alon is not working, he enjoys cooking for his friends and family, fishing and exploring the great outdoors, and hand restoring antique furniture.

Elizabeth A. Dooley is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn. Her practice primarily focuses on appellate and employment matters.  She is a member of the firm’s Hiring Committee. Elizabeth was recognized in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Litigation – Labor and Employment.

Elizabeth’s appellate experience includes arguing before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and authoring briefs filed in the United States Supreme Court as well as state and federal appellate courts. Having spent law school and the entirety of her legal career in California, Elizabeth has particularly robust experience before the Ninth Circuit and the California Courts of Appeal. From 2013 – 2014, she clerked for the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and from 2015 – 2016, Elizabeth clerked for Ninth Circuit Judge, Hon. Michele T. Friedland.

Elizabeth’s labor & employment experience includes extensive motions practice at the trial court level and appellate work in both state and federal courts—including taking matters directly from a successful dispositive motion through defense on appeal. Her experience also includes litigating large, complex putative class actions and collective actions in federal courts, including in cases involving alleged discrimination and alleged independent contractor misclassification. She has also participated in sensitive internal investigations involving high-level employees, handled pre-litigation EEOC matters, and shepherded clients through numerous successful mediations. Although her focus is on employment and appellate matters, Elizabeth handles all types of matters impacting her corporate clients, including securities class actions, derivative lawsuits, and commercial contract disputes.

Elizabeth has also represented pro bono clients in a variety of matters, including in three Ninth Circuit appeals and in several amicus briefs and briefs in opposition to certiorari submitted to the United States Supreme Court. In 2018, she argued before the Ninth Circuit and secured reversal of an agency determination that had denied her client protection under the Convention Against Torture. On remand, she obtained the release of her client—six years after he had first been detained—along with a grant of protection under the Convention Against Torture, permitting him to remain in the United States.

Elizabeth earned her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 2013, where she was a member of the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and the Stanford Community Law Clinic. While in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Elizabeth was part of the four-student team that worked on United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744 (2013), Edith Windsor’s successful challenge to the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, for which the Clinic served as co-counsel to Ms. Windsor. Elizabeth also served as co-president of the law school’s LGBT organization at Stanford.

Elizabeth received her Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 2007, where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to attending law school, Elizabeth taught high school English in South Los Angeles through Teach for America while earning her Master of Arts in secondary education from Loyola Marymount University.

Elizabeth currently serves on the Leadership Council for Tipping Point Community and on the Board of Governors for the Northern California chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.  She previously served on the boards of the Aids Legal Referral Panel and Stanford Pride, Stanford University’s LGBT alumni organization.

Richard Walton is an of counsel in the London office of Gibson Dunn, and is a member of the firm’s Transportation and Space, and Finance Practice Groups.

Richard acts for transportation and asset financing banks, lessors, operators and public sector bodies on a wide variety of national and cross-border asset leasing, financing and procurement transactions. He has a particular focus on, and has developed significant expertise in, the aviation industry including asset portfolio sales, purchases and financings, finance and operating leasing and capital market transactions including ABSs and EETCs.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Richard worked in the London office of another major law firm and has previously spent nine months seconded to the legal department of a major aircraft leasing company.

Richard’s experience includes advising*:

  • Advised Citibank, Societe Generale, Royal Bank of Canada and NordLB as Lenders and arrangers in connection with a secured credit facility for up to $640,000,000 for TrueNoord for the financing of the acquisition of an initial portfolio of 10 identified aircraft, (including 4 ATR42-600 and 6 E2-195 aircraft), and further aircraft to be identified in the future;
  • Advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC as placement agents for British Airways Plc in relation to a private placement EETC offering of approximately $299,569,000 sustainability-linked Notes for the financing of two Airbus A320neo aircraft and two Airbus A350-1000 aircraft;
  • Advised SMBC AC in connection with the negotiation of leases for, and the deliveries of, two A321 LR aircraft to Air Transat;
  • Advised Doric in connection with the US$587,500,000 Doric Nimrod Air Finance Alpha Limited 2012-1 Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificate offering, the first non-US EETC, with Goldman Sachs as underwriters and Emirates as lessee of four A380 aircraft;
  • Advised Citibank as lead structuring agent and underwriters in connection with the US$926,982,000 British Airways 2013-1 Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificate offering, intended to finance BA’s purchase of 14 new aircraft;
  • Advised Citibank and Goldman Sachs as structuring agents in connection with the US$328,274,000 2015-1 1 Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificate offering for Turkish Airlines, intended to finance Turkish Airlines’ purchase of three new aircraft;
  • Advised a syndicate of lenders, led by BNP Paribas and Citi, on a US$740,000,000 secured credit agreement for the financing of a portfolio of up to 37 aircraft for a new joint venture leasing company;
  • Advised a syndicate of lenders, led by Deutsche Bank, on a US$250,000,000 secured warehouse facility for an aircraft operating lessor;
  • Advised a syndicate of lenders, led by Citi, on a US$395,000,000 secured term loan facility for an aircraft operating lessor;
  • Advised the primary equity partner in its joint venture establish a new leasing company, and subsequently advising the leasing company on its US$475,000,000 secured credit agreement for the financing of a portfolio of up to 21 aircraft;
  • Advised Magnetar on its investment in a leading aircraft leasing company;
  • Advised a newly-formed aircraft leasing company on its acquisition of a portfolio of aircraft, financed under its warehouse and loan facilities;
  • Advised on the structuring and creation of a joint venture company created to purchase a portfolio of aircraft engines from one of the joint venture parties, and on the subsequent sale and purchase;
  • Advised a UK-based airline lessee on the sale and leaseback of four new 737 aircraft with Japanese lessors; and
  • Advised the Department for Transport in connection with several procurement transactions, including the “Intercity Express Program”, for the procurement of a new fleet of high speed trains for the UK rail network, and its re-franchising of the Greater Western, Thameslink and South Western passenger rail franchises.

 

*Includes representations made by Richard prior to his association with Gibson Dunn.

Marceau Debaille is an associate in the Paris office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Energy & Infrastructure Practice Group, dedicated to public law and regulation matters.

Marceau mainly works on complex public contracts (concessions, partnership agreements) for infrastructure and public facilities projects in the transport, energy and telecommunications sectors. He regularly assists public entities, developers and lenders in connection with major projects.

He recently worked on the renewal of the Stade de France concession, as well as on several cases related to the opening up of rail transport to competition and the financing of rolling stock.

Admitted to the Paris bar since 2023, Marceau was an associate in a prominent international law firm in Paris before joining Gibson Dunn. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Public Business Law with honors from the University of Montpellier in 2019.

He speaks French and English fluently.

Adam Whitehouse is a partner in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he advises clients on complex transactions across the energy sector. A member of the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure, Oil and Gas, Data Centers and Digital Infrastructure, Cleantech, Power and Renewables, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Private Equity Practice Groups, Adam represents companies, investors, and project sponsors in strategic transactions that drive the evolving energy landscape.

Adam’s practice spans the full spectrum of corporate and commercial matters, with a particular focus on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures. He regularly counsels clients across the upstream, midstream, and energy transition value chains, combining technical understanding with practical business insight.

He has extensive experience with:

  • Upstream oil and gas matters, ranging from purchase and sale agreements, drilling partnerships, joint development arrangements, farmout and participation agreements and other joint venture arrangements.
  • Midstream commercial arrangements, including transportation, processing, interconnection, purchase, and NAESB agreements, as well as midstream joint ventures, acquisitions, and divestitures.
  • Data center and digital infrastructure projects, such as gas procurement and transportation, development and construction agreements, and power purchase arrangements supporting high-efficiency, large-scale facilities.
  • Tax credit transactions, including the acquisition and divestiture of renewable energy and clean technology credits.

Recognized for his leadership and excellence in the legal field, Adam has been listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ (2023 and 2024 editions) for Corporate Law. He was selected for the 2025 Houston Energy Leadership Cohort and the 2022–2023 Leadership Class of the Institute for Energy Law, where he serves on the Advisory Board and as Vice Chair of the Young Energy Professionals organization. He is also active in the Association for International Energy Negotiators and the Houston Producers Forum.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Adam practiced with a leading international law firm and served as counsel at Exxon Mobil Corporation, gaining invaluable in-house experience that enhances his commercial and strategic perspective.

Law Firm Experience

  • SM Energy (NYSE: SM) —  $12.8 billion merger with Civitas Resources (NYSE: CIVI)
  • Aris Water Solutions (NYSE: ARIS) — $2 billion sale to Western Midstream Partners (NYSE: WES)
  • Public Midstream Company — advised on data center project relating to pipeline construction and operation and gas transportation
  • Private Data Center Company — advised on data center project, including relating to the supply and purchase of natural gas
  • SilverBow Resources (NYSE: SBOW) — $2.1 billion sale to Crescent Energy (NYSE: CRGY)
  • Private Company — advised on sales of tax credits, including Section 48 and Section 45Z credits
  • Western Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: WES) — $885 million acquisition of Meritage Midstream Services II, LLC
  • Private Data Center Company — advised on data center matters, including Power Reservation Agreement and procurement of generators and high voltage breakers
  • HighPost Capital —  “GP stakes” transaction involving the sale of a controlling interest to Azimut Group, via its U.S. subsidiary Azimut Alternative Capital Partners LLC
  • North Hudson Resource Partners —  acquisition of producing assets from White Rock Energy, LLC in the Elm Coulee field in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota, in partnership with TXO Partners, L.P.
  • ProFrac Holdings Corp (NYSE: ACDC) —  acquisition of all the equity of an oilfield service company from an undisclosed private seller, which included acquisition financing and a sale leaseback of a portion of the acquired assets
  • USD Partners (NYSE: USDP) and US Development Group —  sales of certain rail terminals
  • Oaktree Capital Management L.P. —  (i) $2 billion strategic partnership with an affiliate of Diversified Energy Company to jointly identify and acquire producing oil and gas assets in the continental United States, (ii) multiple joint acquisitions with Diversified Energy Company, including its substantial acquisition from Tapstone Energy Holdings and a related party and (iii) its joint ABS transaction with Diversified Energy Company
  • LandBridge Company — advised the underwriters on initial public offering
  • Hilcorp Alaska — $5.6 billion acquisition of BP’s (NYSE: BP) upstream and midstream business in Alaska
  • Callon Petroleum Company — $3.2 billion acquisition of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. in an all-stock transaction
  • Private Equity Consortium — represented lead investors of a private equity consortium in connection with acquisition of Verdad Resources
  • Andros Capital Partners — (i) $150 million Permian Basin drilling joint venture with MPDC and (ii) its $122 million acquisition of mineral and royalty interests from an undisclosed seller
  • Samson Resources II, LLC — $215 million sale of its Powder River Basin Assets to Continental Resources
  • BKV Oil & Gas LLC, an affiliate of Banpu Pcl — $830 million acquisition of Devon Energy Corp.’s Barnett Shale assets
  • HG Energy II Appalachia, LLC/Quantum — $400 million divestiture of producing, unconventional wellbores to Diversified Gas & Oil Corporation
  • KKR/Haymaker Resources, LP — $404 million sale of oil and gas mineral and royalty interests to Kimbell Royalty Partners LP
  • Mach Resources LLC, an oil and gas producer led by Tom Ward — formation of BCE-Mach LLC, a partnership with Bayou City Energy Management LLC dedicated to acquiring, exploring and developing oil and gas assets across Oklahoma and Kansas
  • KKR/Venado Oil & Gas, LLC — $765 million acquisition of Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation’s (NYSE: COG) developed and undeveloped oil and gas assets in the Eagle Ford Shale
  • Private equity backed oil and gas company — negotiated and executed crude gathering agreement, crude purchase agreement and water gathering agreement
  • Desert Royalty Company, LLC — combination with Kimmeridge Energy Management Company, LLC to form Desert Peak Minerals, the largest pure-play mineral and royalty company in the Delaware Basin
  • Alta Marcellus Development, LLC — $115 million acquisition of Ultra Petroleum Corp.’s (NASDAQ: UPL) non-operated asset in the Marcellus Shale
  • Warburg Pincus/RimRock Oil & Gas Williston, LLC — $500 million acquisition of non-operated upstream assets in the Bakken Shale from Whiting Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: WLL)
  • Split Rock Resources, LLC — $97.5 million acquisition of core non-operated oil and gas assets in New Mexico and Texas
  • Springbok Energy — $175 million sale of mineral and royalty interests to Kimbell Royalty Partners
  • Vanguard Natural Resources, Inc. — following divestitures of oil and gas assets: (i) sale of its interest in properties located in Mississippi to private equity backed oil and gas company and private oil and gas company; (ii) sale of its interest in properties located in the Permian Basin to private oil and gas company; (iii) sale of its interest in properties located in the Green River Basin to private equity backed oil and gas company; (iv) swap of its interest in properties in Wyoming with private oil and gas company; (v) sale of its interest in natural gas properties and associated midstream assets located in Potato Hills field in the Arkoma Basin to private oil and gas company; (vi) sale of its interest in properties in Texas to private oil and gas company; and (vii) sale of its interest in natural gas properties in the Arkoma basin to private oil and gas company
  • Salt Creek Midstream, LLC/Ares Management — 50/50 joint venture with Noble Midstream Partners LP to provide crude oil gathering and transportation services in the Delaware Basin
  • Cobalt International Energy, Inc. — representation of Cobalt International Energy, Inc., and its subsidiaries in their Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Cobalt is an independent offshore exploration and production company with significant assets in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico and offshore West Africa with approximately $2.8 billion of funded indebtedness; sale of oil and gas assets as part of its ongoing Chapter 11 proceeding: (i) sale of assets located in the Gulf of Mexico to Total E&P USA, Inc. and Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC for $339 million; (ii) sale of assets located in the Gulf of Mexico to Total E&P USA, Inc. for $181 million; (iii) sale of assets located in the Gulf of Mexico to W&T Offshore, Inc. for $31 million; and (iv) sale of assets located in the Gulf of Mexico to Total E&P USA, Inc. for $25 million
  • Private equity company – preparation of form DrillCo agreement to be utilized by investor in future DrillCo arrangements
  • Private equity backed oil and gas company — formation of $195 million drilling partnership to develop domestic unconventional resources in the Utica Shale with a private oil and gas company

In-House Experience

  • Counsel for construction of $10 billion Gulf Coast plant with third party
  • Established new venture office in South Africa, including negotiating and drafting of product sharing contracts and farm-down agreements; successfully lobbied South African Parliament / Authorities to amend legislation for acquisition of oil and gas rights; involved transfer of South African affiliate to Dutch affiliate to secure Bilateral Investment Treaty protection
  • Legal advisor for $1.1 billion construction project at ExxonMobil Beaumont facility
  • Advised on Downstream divestment of $175M of pipeline assets in Louisiana
  • Creation of new venture office in Liberia, involving a product sharing contract and farm-down agreement, as well as interactions with the Minister of Finance
  • Redemption of 50% interest in Univation Joint Venture, worth approximately $600 million
  • Joint evaluation with Qatar Petroleum of unconventional natural gas resources in North America and global opportunities in the area of LNG
  • Venture office creation and production sharing contract drafting / negotiating for oil and gas rights in Côte d’Ivoire
  • Creation of Artic Research Center joint venture in Moscow with third party
  • Divestment of historic ExxonMobil King Ranch property
  • Legal work relating to establishing regional venture office for exploration activities in West Africa, including scoping of locations in Monrovia, Liberia and Accra, Ghana
  • Construction of $550 million plant expansion in Baton Rouge and $850 plant expansion in Baytown
  • Divestment of $17.4 million terminal in Brazil
  • Renegotiation of production sharing contract in Congo
  • Reorganization of two internal business units with over $750 million in sales, involving the Downstream and Chemical companies
  • Divestment of 24 tank terminal in Tuxpan, Mexico

Select Publications and Lectures

* Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn

Johanna E. Smith is an associate in Gibson Dunn’s Houston office.

Johanna practices in the firm’s Litigation Department, where she represents and counsels clients through the entire lifecycle of complex litigation.

Johanna has represented clients in state and federal court across the country in a wide range of subject matters—from technology and real estate to energy, entertainment, and financial services.

Recent Representative Matters:

  • Gray Development and Gray Services v. ZOM Holdings Inc. Trial counsel in a twelve-day jury trial in Phoenix, winning a $296 million verdict for Arizona developers Gray Development and Gray Services. The case involved ZOM’s misuse of Gray’s proprietary development plans and breach of non-circumvention and non-disclosure agreements. The American Lawyer recognized the team as “Litigators of the Week.”
  • Energy Transfer LP & Dakota Access LLC v. Greenpeace – Trial counsel in a landmark defamation and trespass case resulting in a $667 million jury verdict, the largest in North Dakota history. The American Lawyer recognized the team with its “Litigator of the Week” honors.
  • Won judgment on the pleadings and dismissal for a social media company based on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
  • Defended commodities trading house in electricity market-related FERC civil enforcement action.
  • Represented enterprise software company in breach-of-contract dispute.
  • Defended social media company in case of first impression interpreting Texas’s biometrics law.
  • Represented energy company in breach-of-contract dispute relating to petrochemical terminal ownership.

Before joining the firm, Johanna served as a law clerk to the Honorable Roger L. Wollman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Johanna earned her law degree magna cum laude from Washington University School of Law, where she served as Executive Notes Editor for the Journal of Law & Policy and worked as a research assistant to Professor John D. Inazu. She graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif. Johanna received her Bachelor of Arts in Government from Patrick Henry College, graduating summa cum laude with highest honors.

Johanna is a member of the Texas bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh and Ninth Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas.

Jonathan Abrams-Soni is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn, where he is a member of the firm’s Transactional Department. His practice focuses on advising private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, and public companies on a wide range of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and corporate governance matters.

Jonathan graduated with honors from the George Washington University Law School, where he served as an online editor of the George Washington Law Review. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis, where he completed a double major in Economics and Strategy and Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management, with a minor in Political Science.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he was an associate in the New York office of another major international law firm.

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

Wyatt Hayden is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson Dunn, where he currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Wyatt earned his J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School in 2025. There, he served as a Managing Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and a resident advisor to Harvard College undergraduates. Prior to law school, Wyatt spent several years working at a management consultancy in D.C. Wyatt graduated from Harvard College with a degree in History & Literature in 2019.

Wyatt is a member of the Texas bar.

Tehute Habte is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices in the firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group.

Tehute earned her Juris Doctor in 2025 from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she served as an Associate Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law. While in law school, she also served as a member of the Black Law Students Association Executive Board, student attorney for the Transnational Legal Clinic, and extern for Esperanza Immigration Legal Services. Tehute earned the Certificate in Management from the Wharton School.

Tehute graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Tehute is admitted to practice law in the State of Texas.

Steven A. H. Green is an English-qualified associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Transportation and Space and Finance Practice Groups.

Steven has a broad range of asset finance experience, predominantly in the aviation sector, advising major financial institutions, equity investors, leasing companies and operators on the sale and purchase, leasing and financing of moveable assets, including commercial aircraft, business and corporate jets and helicopters.

He was recognised in The Legal 500 UK 2025 guide for Transport: Finance and Leasing.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Steven worked in the London office of another international law firm, specialising in global transportation finance.

Findlay Thompson is an associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the firm’s Projects Practice Group.

Findlay has a broad practice, acting for major sponsors and lenders on a range of transactions and projects, including downstream project development and project finance. He also has experience advising on projects-focused M&A transactions.

Findlay read History at the University of Oxford before studying at BPP University, where he obtained a Graduate Diploma in Law and also completed the Legal Practice Course.

Zoe B. Hutchinson is an associate in the Washington, DC office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she currently practices in the firms’ Antitrust Practice Group. Ms. Hutchinson’s practice focuses on counseling clients on antitrust risk in proposed mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other business transactions. Her work includes managing responses to inquiries and investigations by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, and state attorneys general related to antitrust concerns including Merger Second Request, FTC 6(b) industry study, Robinson-Patman Act, and Clayton Act Section 8 interlocking directorate investigations. She has counseled clients across multiple industries including healthcare and life sciences, oil & energy, waste, technology and social media, and consumer goods. She is currently on secondment.

Ms. Hutchinson received her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated cum laude and served as Notes Editor on the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and Logistics Director for Georgetown’s Appellate Advocacy program. Prior to receiving her Juris Doctor, Ms. Hutchinson worked with FTI Consulting as a Senior Consultant in Electronic Discovery, developing solutions for a broad range of complex discovery matters across litigation and investigation fields.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Hutchinson practiced with another major law firm as a member of the Global Antitrust and Competition Practice from 2016 to 2023. Ms. Hutchinson is admitted to practice in the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Brian W. Anderson is a litigation associate in the Orange County office of Gibson Dunn where he is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group, and the Class Action Practice Group. His practice focuses on antitrust litigation as well as civil litigation in various substantive areas of law.

Representative antitrust experience:

  • Represented through trial a top electronics company facing antitrust complaints attacking the core of its business mode
  • Represented a software platform operator in two parallel antitrust class actions brought on behalf of third party software developers and consumers in which one class was denied class certification and the other class entered a settlement favorable to the client
  • Helped navigate a large technology company through a successful summary judgment motion resulting in the complete dismissal of all antitrust claims
  • Represented a pharmaceutical manufacturing company in antitrust class action litigation arising out of ANDA patent litigation
  • Represented a prominent health insurance company in antitrust class action litigation brought against it by independent pharmacies

Representative litigation experience:

  • Asserted nearly two dozen patents on behalf of a preeminent biopharmaceutical company in two different parallel suits, successfully opposing a critical preliminary injunction and helped navigate both cases to favorable settlement
  • Represented one of California’s largest farms in a labor dispute against an absent union
  • Represented a technology company in seeking reconsideration of a decision from the United States Supreme Court on constitutional grounds
  • Provided legal advice to a Southern California municipality regarding a dispute with a mobile electric scooter rental service
  • Provided key damages analysis for one of the nation’s largest telecommunications companies in a patent dispute which resulted in a favorable settlement
  • Represented the manufacturer of highway safety devices in a string of half-a-dozen products liability suits, simultaneously
  • Conducted an investigation into an incident regarding a possible oil spill on behalf of large energy company
  • Helped navigate a large university to settle complaints from dozens of individual plaintiffs regarding alleged unlawful actions by one of its employees

* Includes experience from prior to joining Gibson Dunn

He earned his law degree in 2017 from the UCLA School of Law where he was the Deputy Chief Managing Editor of the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs. During law school, Brian also served as International Chair of Student Chapters, overseeing all student chapters of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, worldwide. He graduated in 2014 from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was a dual major in International Relations and Russian. Having lived in Ukraine for two years, Brian maintains conversational Russian language skills. Prior to joining the firm, he was an associate with Irell & Manella LLP.

Brian is a member of the California Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit as well as the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Stella Simpson is a New Zealand qualified associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Stella worked in the London office of another major global law firm.

Jared S. Greenberg is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, white collar defense, investigations, and aerospace. Jared is recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Criminal Defense: White-Collar, Health Care Law, Government Relations and Commercial Litigation, and has been listed in the publication since 2021. He also received the 2017 Attorney of the Year award from the Public Law Center for his involvement in a successful federal jury trial.

Jared has experience with litigation matters related to technology, aerospace, entertainment, gaming, pharmaceuticals, meat packing, securities law, torts, contracts and civil rights. He also has experience representing technology, healthcare, education, oil and gas, and financial clients during investigations by the U.S. government, including the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Jared has a strong pro bono practice and is committed to community involvement. He secured restraining orders on behalf of victims of domestic violence, and helped an individual obtain a half-million-dollar jury verdict for First and Eighth Amendment violations. Jared also co-founded a nonprofit organization to combat human trafficking, which helped hundreds of trafficking survivors and raised over $10 million. He has been featured on the Tyra Banks Show, Marie Claire magazine, and other notable publications for his pro bono activities.

Jared earned his law degree from Stanford Law, where he was named a Pro Bono Distinction Graduate. He was elected as a Student Law Association representative, served at the Stanford Community Law Clinic, received a Stanford Law fellowship, and received the Giles Rich Award from the Federal Circuit Bar Association.

Jared received his bachelor’s degree in Management from the United States Air Force Academy. The U.S. Air Force Academy awarded him with the Distinguished Management Major Award, and the Civil Air Patrol Award recognizing his academic achievements.

Prior to law school, Jared was an officer in the U.S. Air Force and a management consultant.

Jared currently lives in Monument, Colorado, with his wife and two young children. During his free time, he can be found at the Colorado Springs Zoo, feeding giraffes, with his family.

Jared is a member of the State Bar of Colorado and The State Bar of California.

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Ming Lee Newcomb is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson Dunn, where she practices in the firm’s Litigation Department. Prior to joining the firm, she clerked for the Honorable William W. Hood, III, of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Ming Lee earned her law degree from the University of Colorado Law School in 2022, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. During law school, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Colorado Law Review. She also received the Chief Justice Luis D. Rovira Scholarship, which is awarded by the constitutional law faculty to the year’s most outstanding constitutional law scholar. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English, with honors, from Colorado College.

Prior to law school, Ming Lee worked as a professional writer and editor and has co-authored multiple research-based books on best practices for K-12 teachers.

Ming Lee is admitted to the state bar of Colorado and to the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

Rosemary “Ro” Spaziani is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Ro is recognized a leading practitioner in the financial institution space with experience advising U.S. and non-U.S. financial institutions on the full spectrum of transactional, governance, regulatory and supervisory matters, including complex mergers and acquisitions and enforcement actions.

Prior to joining the firm, Ro was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she served as the global head of the bank regulatory, deposits and transaction banking legal practice groups. In such capacity, she was responsible for a number of strategic acquisitions and builds, including the acquisition of the retail deposit platform and the development and launch of the global transaction banking business.

She routinely represents clients before the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and state regulators. She  regularly advises clients in the establishment of commercial relationships to between banks and financial companies, as well as the creation and development of new deposit, digital asset and payments platforms.

Recent notable experience includes:*

  • Representation of Wise plc in its application to establish a de novo national trust bank;
  • Representation of Capital One Financial Corporation in its acquisition of Discover Financial Services;
  • Representation of Bank of Montreal in its acquisition of Bank of the West;
  • Representation of a group of private investors in the investment of EverBank, N.A. (formerly TIAA Bank);
  • Representation of a fiat-backed stablecoin issuer on regulatory matters; and
  • Representation of global payments companies in developing their U.S. strategy.

Most recently, Ro was at a major U.S. law firm, where she focused on bank mergers and acquisitions. Ro serves on the board of The Acting Company and is admitted to practice in New York.

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