Lindsay Edkins is Senior Counsel in the Finance Practice Group, working primarily with the leveraged finance team across Europe and Asia. 

Lindsay has extensive experience in the leveraged finance market, in both transactional and knowledge management roles. She has worked mainly for private equity sponsors on a range of financings, including broadly syndicated loans, private credit facilities and high yield bonds as well as restructurings of complex cross-border deals. Before joining Gibson Dunn, she was a partner in the London office of a leading U.S. law firm. 

Harry Phillips is a senior litigation associate in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He represents clients in a broad range of antitrust and competition matters, including competitor litigation, class actions, agency enforcement, and government investigations.

Harry has had success at all stages of litigation, securing dismissals on the pleadings, defeating class certification, obtaining summary judgment, prevailing at trial, and preserving those victories on appeal. Harry was a member of the trial team that defended Apple Inc. against antitrust claims in Epic Games v. Apple, described by the New York Times as “one of the biggest antitrust trials in Silicon Valley’s history.” Other recent representations include defending a technology platform against multiple lawsuits alleging monopolization, a medical device company against claims of unlawful exclusive dealing and bundling, an ocean shipping company accused of market exclusion by a rival, and a real estate company against nationwide commission-fixing allegations. Harry has also contributed to leading antitrust journals and treatises including Antitrust Law Developments, Competition Policy International, and Global Competition Review.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Harry clerked for Judge Albert Diaz on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 2018, receiving the Francis E. Lucey, S.J. award for placing first in his class. While in law school, Harry argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit as a court-appointed amicus in a case about foreign sovereign immunity.

Harry earned his undergraduate degree in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford and is proficient in French and German. Before his legal career, he worked as a journalist covering litigation and regulation.

Hui Fang is a Registered Foreign Lawyer (Washington, D.C.) and an associate in Hong Kong. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department. Her practice focuses on international trade, antitrust and general litigation.

Hui advises clients on complex tariff and other import control matters, and she represents clients in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations before the U.S. Department of Commerce. She also regularly assists clients with antitrust merger review before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice.

Hui earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2024, where she served on the executive board of the China Law Association. She also served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Christopher Belezos at the Massachusetts Superior Court. Hui received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and International Studies from China Foreign Affairs University, where she graduated with high distinction.

Hui is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. She is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Michael Kahn is a litigation partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn. Michael’s practice focuses on securities litigation, including securities class actions and derivative suits. Michael represents clients at all stages of a company’s lifecycle, from defending established public companies against Exchange Act claims, to defending newly public companies against suits under the Securities Act, to prosecuting and defending private company shareholder disputes. He also represents clients facing SEC investigations, and as both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of commercial litigation.

Michael has crafted winning arguments in many complex securities actions, including for Slack in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 9-0 opinion in Slack Technologies v. Pirani. Michael’s innovative work led Law360 to recognize him as a 2025 Rising Star in Securities—one of only three defense lawyers in the nation awarded with this distinction.  

Recent matters

  • Obtained unanimous Supreme Court win for Slack in the first securities suit relating to going public through a direct listing. See Slack Technologies, LLC v. Pirani, No. 22–200 (plaintiffs suing under Section 11 of the Securities Act must “trace” their shares to the registration statement they claim is misleading).
  • Defending Meta (Facebook) in securities class action and multiple derivative lawsuits arising out of news of Cambridge Analytica’s misappropriation of user data
  • Defending HP in securities class action regarding its printer supplies business, and successfully resolved a similar class action on appeal after winning a motion to dismiss
  • Defending founders of SmileDirectClub in securities class actions arising out of the company’s IPO
  • Defending Wish (ContextLogic) in securities and derivative litigation relating to its IPO, and successfully dismissed separate derivative suit alleging oversight failures by Board
  • Defending Caribou Biosciences in securities litigation
  • Defending loanDepot in securities and derivative litigation relating to its IPO
  • Defending venture capital firm against claim that it controlled Zymergen at the time of its IPO
  • Defending sports and entertainment clients in class actions claiming they promoted crypto products for FTX
  • Successfully dismissed fraud claims against a crypto company relating to the creation and marketing of its token

In his pro bono practice, Michael represented a death row inmate in the successful reversal of his conviction and death sentence after proving that juror misconduct corrupted client’s trial. He also successfully vacated another client’s felony conviction on constitutional grounds. Additionally, Michael played a lead role in working with a civil rights organization to draft a report on police reform.

Outside of his legal practice, Michael serves on the board of the JCC of the East Bay.

Michael received his Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law in 2012, where he was a Robert McKay scholar. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009, where he graduated with High Honors in History and High Distinction in General Scholarship, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Michael is admitted to practice in California and New York.

Paul E. Torchia is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Paul has litigated scores of intellectual property cases in a wide range of technical fields. He has served as lead counsel for prominent technology companies such as Dell, EMC, Roku, Cloudera, and Infor, among others. He has tried and won patent cases before jurisdictions specializing in intellectual property cases, including the District of Delaware, the Northern District of California, the Southern District of California, the Eastern District of Texas, and the International Trade Commission. Paul also has an active practice before the United States Patent Office, where he has successfully litigated numerous Inter Partes Review proceedings on behalf of both patent owners and challengers.

Paul also has an established record of success in handling the foremost intellectual property remedies disputes. Paul has won preliminary injunction motions for plaintiffs and defendants, in life science and high technology cases, before district courts and on appeal. Most recently, Paul argued Sun Pharma’s expedited appeal of Incyte’s preliminary injunction before the Federal Circuit, where he won a highly publicized ruling from the bench vacating the injunction.   

Paul received his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland in 1997. He obtained his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Cornell University Law School in 2000, where he was an editor of The Cornell Law Review.

Paul is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the Eastern District of New York, the Southern District of New York, the Western District of Texas, the Eastern District of Texas, the State of New York and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (No. 55,683).

Paul is featured as a top-rated Intellectual Property Litigation attorney in New York, New York by Super Lawyers. In addition, Benchmark Litigation has recognized Paul as a “Litigation Future Star” for New York in its 2022–2025 guides. Paul was named a “Rising Star” by Legal Media Group in its Expert Guide in June of 2016. Paul was also recognized by Patexia as one of the “Top IPR Attorneys.” According to Patexia, Paul placed “in the top 6% out of 5,626 attorneys,” who “earn[ed] their mention either for their high activity or for their top performance.”

Representative Experience:

  • Representing Dell as lead counsel in a complex patent infringement case brought by CloudByte in the Eastern District of Texas.  
  • Represented Sun Pharmaceutical in a high-profile patent litigation brought by Incyte seeking to bar Sun from launching Leqselvi, Sun’s new FDA-approved branded alopecia drug. Drove the irreparable harm side of the case before the district court and on appeal. Argued Sun’s expedited appeal of the preliminary injunction before the Federal Circuit. Obtained a rare ruling from the bench vacating the injunction and a written order issued the same day, permitting Sun to launch immediately and without waiting for the mandate to issue. Received both American Lawyer “Litigators of the Week Runners-Up” and Law360 “Legal Lions” honors for this victory.
  • Representing Dell EMC in its over ten-year patent dispute with ACQIS. Won a complete victory on summary judgment of non-infringement for Dell EMC on 8 patents. Defeated ACQIS’s merits appeal before the Federal Circuit, and then on remand won a $4 million award of attorney fees from the District Court. Currently serving as lead counsel for Dell EMC on ACQIS’s pending appeal of the fee award before the Federal Circuit. 
  • Represented Dell as lead counsel in two high-stakes patent litigations brought by Sisvel in the District of Delaware, involving over twenty patents directed to cellular communications technology. Pursued a successful IPR strategy that resulted in both Delaware litigations being stayed, and numerous patents being invalidated.
  • Represented Dell as lead counsel in a patent litigation brought by VideoLabs in the Western District of Texas. Secured a favorable settlement.  
  • Represented Cloudera as lead counsel in a patent litigation brought by Byteweavr in the Western District of Texas. Secured a favorable settlement.
  • Represented Roku as lead counsel in a patent litigation brought by VideoLabs in the District of Delaware. Secured a favorable settlement.  
  • Tried and won a high-profile patent case for Novartis in the District of Delaware. The case involved Novartis’s blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya. Developed, argued, and won the irreparable harm portion of Novartis’s successful motion for a preliminary injunction.
  • Represented Gilead in a patent litigation against Lupin in the District of Delaware. Secured a favorable settlement.
  • Represented Sophos in a complex patent case against Open Text and Webroot pending in the Western District of Texas. Secured a favorable settlement.
  • Represented Archer Aviation in a high-profile patent and trade secret litigation against Wisk Aero in the Northern District of California. Defeated a motion for a preliminary injunction and secured a favorable settlement for Archer.
  • Represented NetApp in a patent litigation against KOM Networks pending in the District of Delaware. Secured a favorable settlement.
  • Represented NetApp in a patent litigation against Intellectual Ventures in the District of Massachusetts. Argued and won a motion for summary judgment of non-infringement for NetApp in its case against Intellectual Ventures in the District of Massachusetts.
  • Represented Rubrik in a patent litigation against Actifio in the District of Delaware. Drove the irreparable side of Rubrik’s opposition to Actifio’s preliminary injunction. Forced Actifio to drop its motion for a preliminary injunction and dismiss its case against Rubrik without obtaining any payment.
  • Represented Rubrik in three high-stakes patent litigations against Commvault in the District of Delaware and the Western District of Texas. Obtained a highly favorable settlement for Rubrik.
  • Tried and won a patent case for EMC against Pure Storage in the District of Delaware. Drove the damages case and secured EMC a $14 million jury verdict.
  • Represented AppDynamics in two high-profile intellectual property cases against CA Technologies in the Eastern District of New York and the Northern District of California. Forced a highly favorable settlement for AppDynamics that cleared the way for its subsequent $3.7 billion acquisition by Cisco.
  • Represented Infor, including as lead counsel, in various patent litigations brought in the Northern District of Texas, Eastern District of Texas, District of Delaware, Eastern District of Virginia, Central District of California, and Middle District of Florida. Secured numerous favorable settlements.
  • Represented a major manufacturer of smartphones and tablets in its high-profile patent case against Samsung in the Northern District of California. Developed the patentee’s novel and successful consumer-survey-based irreparable harm and damages theories.

Sean McCroskey is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn. He currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

He earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School where he graduated cum laude. During his time in law school, he served on the Executive Board and was a member of the Henry M. Cambell Moot Court Competition. He was also a member of the Journal of Law Reform and a recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship.

Prior to law school, Sean earned his Bachelor of Arts in English and Japanese Studies from Duke University.

He is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Billy Malmed is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn. He currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

He earned his J.D. from U.C. Berkeley School of Law in 2024. During his time in law school, Billy was a member of the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic and the Moot Court team. As a law student he was awarded the American Jurisprudence award for Real Estate Law. 

Prior to law school, Billy earned his B.S. in health and human services from Vanderbilt university and M.A. in public policy from University of Chicago.

Billy is admitted to practice law in the state of California.

Monique is an associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of the firm’s Finance and Business Restructuring and Reorganisation practice groups.

Monique advises financial institutions, credit funds, private equity firms, and corporate clients.

Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Monique was an associate in the Restructuring and Finance practice groups at another major international law firm. Monique is admitted to practice in Western Australia.

Leonnie Gilpin is an English qualified associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice Groups. She is currently on secondment.

Leonnie has experience advising clients on a range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. This work has covered a variety of sectors, including energy, retail and technology.

She received a first class Law degree at the University of Liverpool in 2017 and completed her LLM and LPC at BPP University in London, Holborn, in 2020.
 

Riley Gesling is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson Dunn. He practices in the firm’s Transactional Department.

Riley graduated, magna cum laude, from the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 2024, where he was named a member of the Order of the Coif and served as an Associate Managing Editor of the SMU Law Review.

Riley is admitted to practice in the State of Texas.

Hugh Danilack is a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Danilack clerked for the Honorable Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for the Honorable James C. Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Mr. Danilack received his law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School. While in law school, he served as a Managing Editor on the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and was a member of the Harvard Federalist Society. He graduated summa cum laude with an B.A. in Government and minors in Public Policy and Moral Philosophy from Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth he was Phi Beta Kappa, captain of the Dartmouth varsity soccer team, and was awarded the Barrett All-Round Achievement Cup.

Mr. Danilack is a member of the bars of Maryland and the District of Columbia, and he is admitted to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and D.C. Circuits.

Robert Frey is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.  He practices with the Firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law and Litigation Practice Groups.

Before joining the Firm, Robert served as a law clerk to the Honorable Karen LeCraft Henderson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the Honorable Kyle Duncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Robert attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as an Articles Development Editor on the Virginia Law Review. He holds degrees in Economics and History, summa cum laude, from Mississippi State University.

Robert is a member of the State Bar of Texas and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Ian Mwiti Mathenge is a corporate associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group and Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group. He previously practiced in New York focusing on Capital Markets, Corporate Governance, Securities Regulations, and Mergers and Acquisitions. Ian has a keen interest in ESG and he is part of the team that advises clients on ESG related issues such as issuance of green bonds and supply chain compliance with human rights.

His recent and ongoing experience includes advising:

  • Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. on Remarketing and Sale of $1.15 Billion Senior Notes.
  • $300 Million Public Offering of Green Bonds by Wisconsin Power and Light Company.
  • GE HealthCare Technologies on Secondary Public Offering of 17.25 Million Shares of Common Stock.
  • Mondelēz International on $500 Million Notes Offering.
  • Welltower on $1.035 Billion Private Offering of Exchangeable Senior Notes.
  • Initial Purchasers on $750 Million Senior Notes Offering by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited.
  • Schlumberger on $1 Billion 144A Notes Offering and Concurrent $500 Million Registered Notes Offering.
  • Underwriters on United Parcel Service’s $2.6 Billion Debt Offering.
  • Welltower on $3.5 Billion At-the-Market Equity Program.

Ian holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he earned the Dean’s Scholar award for the best student in the module the Rise of ESG in Corporate Law & Governance. He received a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B) First Class Honors from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and a Master of Laws (LL.M) Degree in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa with Distinction from University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Ian is admitted to practice in the State of New York and Kenya.

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

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Jack clerked for the Honorable Rebecca Beach Smith of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

He earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2022, where he served as Executive Editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law. While in law school, he interned with the United States Attorney’s Offices for the District of Maryland, the Western District of Virginia, and the Eastern District of Virginia.

Prior to law school, Jack worked as a senior consultant for a Big Four public accounting firm. He received his Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from the Virginia Military Institute in 2016, with honors.

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

Quinton C. Farrar is a corporate partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn.

Quinton advises public and privately held companies, including private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in connection with a wide variety of complex corporate transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, minority and strategic investments and restructurings. He also has substantial experience advising clients on corporate governance and securities issues throughout the lifecycle of a company.

Quinton has represented numerous private equity clients including L Catterton, Macquarie Asset Management, Trilantic Capital Partners, TPG, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, Morgan Stanley, Evergreen Coast Capital and their portfolio companies. Quinton’s public company clients have included J.P. Morgan Chase, Publicis Groupe, Primoris Services Corporation, Marsh & McLennan, Marriott, and General Electric, among others.

Quinton was named “Rising Star” in Private Equity by Euromoney Legal Media Group and in M&A by New York Metro Super Lawyers. Quinton has also been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America (2025).

Quinton is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Washington Square Park Conservancy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization in New York City working with NYC Parks engaging volunteers and raising funds to help keep the park clean, safe and beautiful.

Quinton received his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, in 2012 from Fordham Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Fordham Law Review. Prior to law school, Quinton served as a legislative aide in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 2007, Quinton received his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from the Boston College Honors Program.

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

Representative Strategic M&A Transactions:

  • Altour: Represented Altour and its founder Alexandre Chemla in its sale to Travel Leaders Group.
  • Atwood Oceanics: Represented Atwood Oceanics, Inc. in its $2 billion acquisition by Ensco plc.
  • Contran Corporation: Represented Contran in the carve-out sale of Keystone Consolidated Industries, manufacturer of quality steel fabricated wire products to Liberty Steel.
  • ExactTarget: Represented ExactTarget in its acquisition by Salesforce.com.
  • General Electric: Represented GE Finance in a sale of a portfolio of investments in power and energy assets to Apollo.
  • JPMorgan Chase: Represented JPMorgan Chase in its acquisition of assets of LayerOne Financial to expand the product offerings of its subsidiary NeoVest.
  • Marriott International: Represented Marriott International in its contested $13.6 billion acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.
  • Marsh & McLennan Companies: Represented MMC in a number of M&A transactions including the acquisitions of Wortham Insurance, International Catastrophe Insurance Managers (ICAT), Torrent Technologies and Dovetail Insurance Corporation and the carve-out sale of Marsh ClearSight, a business unit of Marsh & McLennan, to Riskonnect.
  • NomNom: Represented NomNom, a fresh, direct to consumer pet food company, in its sale to Royal Canin, a petfood division of Mars.
  • Prime Communications: Represented Prime Communications in the carve-out acquisition of the Spring Mobile business from GameStop Corp., which owns and operates 1,289 AT&T wireless stores.
  • Primoris Services Corporation: Represented Primoris Services Corporation in its acquisition of Future Infrastructure Holdings, LLC from Tower Arch Capital LLC and other interest holders.
  • Publicis Groupe: Represented Publicis Groupe in numerous transactions including its acquisitions of the Profitero, Retargetly, Abundancy, Ardent IO, RUN, Inc., Expicient Inc. and Hawkeye, Inc.
  • Publicis Sapient: Represented Publicis Sapient, the digital business transformation company of Publicis Groupe, in its acquisition of Spinnaker SCA.
  • Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc: Represented Rocket Pharmaceuticals in its take-public reverse merger with Inotek Pharmaceuticals and Rocket’s subsequent first public offering of common stock.

Representative Private Equity Transactions:

  • L Catterton: Represented L Catterton and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including:
    • The acquisition of Kettle Cuisine from Kainos Capital and the concurrent acquisition of Freshly from and formation of a joint venture with Nestle.
    • The going-private of Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group and the concurrent carveout sale of the Del Frisco’s steak business to Landry’s,
    • the acquisition of Saje Natural Wellness and
    • the strategic minority investment in Function of Beauty.
  • Macquarie Asset Management: Represented Macquarie Asset Management in numerous transactions, including:
    • the acquisitions of the automated Long Beach Container Terminal in California, and acquisitions and divestitures port terminals in Long Beach, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Oakland, CA, Tacoma, WA and Newark, NJ.
    • Macquarie Infrastructure Partners V, a fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management, in connection with its acquisition of a 50% interest in a portfolio of eight Massachusetts hospitals from Medical Properties Trust, Inc., a publicly listed REIT, in a transaction that values the portfolio at $1.78 billion.
    • its joint venture with Porter Aviation Holdings, an air transportation services operator, to develop a new passenger terminal at Montréal Saint-Hubert Airport.
  • Morgan Stanley: Represented Morgan Stanley’s Tactical Value Fund in connection with its minority investment in NN Inc., a diversified industrial company.  Represented Morgan Stanley’s 1GT sustainability fund in numerous investments.
  • Oak Hill Capital Partners: Represented Oak Hill Capital Partners in connection with the sale of its portfolio company, Jacobson Companies, a third-party logistics firm, to Norbert Dentressangle, an air, sea and land transportation and logistics company.
  • Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners: Representation of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in connection with the sale of the Carlsbad desalination plant to Aberdeen Global Infrastructure.
  • TPG: Represented TPG and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including the acquisition of DreamBox Learning, DreamBox’s Learning’s acquisition of Reading Plus, the subsequent sale of DreamBox Learning to Evergreen Coast Capital Corp., the acquisition of Q-Centrix from Sterling Partners and senior preferred growth equity investment in Neogene Therapeutics.
  • Trilantic Capital Partners: Represented Trilantic and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including:
    • The acquisition of United Subcontractors and subsequent sale of United Subcontractors to TopBuild Corporation
    •  The creation of the Sunbelt Solomon Services (SBS) portfolio company platform and numerous acquisitions by SBS.
  • Verlinvest: Represented Verlinvest as the lead preferred equity investor in the sale of Sir Kensington to Unilever.

Christopher Loudon is a Scottish qualified of counsel in the London office of Gibson Dunn and practises in the firm’s Dispute Resolution Group. He has broad-based commercial litigation and dispute resolution experience, with a particular focus on the financial services sector.

Since joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Christopher has worked on disputes before the English, French, Swiss, German, Dutch, Italian, US, BVI and Cayman courts, and in particular on a large number of cases in Luxembourg, including commercial, administrative and criminal matters. He also has considerable fraud investigation experience, both in private practice and while seconded to the in-house Legal function at UBS in London.

Christopher is recognised by The Legal 500 UK 2024 for Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Christopher trained in the Scottish offices of a leading international law firm and spent time seconded to the in-house Dispute Resolution group at one of the world’s largest financial services groups.

Christopher has also worked at the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg. He speaks fluent French.

Elizabeth Fosburgh is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. She returned to the firm in 2025 after clerking for the Honorable William F. Kuntz, II of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Elizabeth received her B.A. from Yale University in 2017 and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2022. 

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

Robert D. Giannattasio is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and practices in the firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group, Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group, and Finance Practice Group.

Rob has a broad corporate and capital markets practice representing issuers and underwriters on a variety of public and private debt and equity offerings, including acquisition financings, investment-grade and high-yield debt offerings, IPOs and follow-on equity offerings, liability management, and cross-border transactions. He regularly advises on SEC, governance, and complex corporate matters.

Rob has been recognized for his work in capital markets by IFLR1000 and has been named to the Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide.

He received his law degree cum laude from Boston College Law School. He is a Certified Public Accountant in New York and is admitted to the bar in New York, California, Massachusetts, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Connell O’Neill is a Registered Foreign Lawyer (NSW) in Hong Kong and a partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He heads Gibson Dunn’s Asia TMT and technology practices, providing strategic counsel across Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Leveraging his computer science background, he leads expertise in technology and digital infrastructure M&A, commercial transactions, and regulatory matters, covering towers, data centers, subsea cables, fiber, and satellite, alongside AI, data governance, cybersecurity, fintech, outsourcing, and technology transactions. He acts for major global companies on data-related matters, including product counseling and critical cybersecurity incident management.

Connell advised Miescor Infrastructure Development Corporation (MIDC) on its 2025 merger with PhilTower, forming a leading Philippine digital infrastructure provider. He represented e& on its $2.2B divestment of a 40% stake in Khazna Data Center in 2025, guided PLDT on its 2024 network modernization with Amdocs’ cloud-based OSS platform, and acted for Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation on its multi-lane free flow tolling program contracts with Egis in 2024.

He has been recognized by Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, and IFLR1000, and has been named an ALB top 15 TMT Lawyer, an ALB Super 50 TMT Lawyer, an ALB Hong Kong Rising Star, a Euromoney Rising Star (Technology), a Lawdragon 100 Leading AI & Legal Tech Advisor, and a Distinguished Advisor for Cybersecurity & Data Privacy by Financier Magazine. His team has been recognized as The Tech Capital’s Digital Infrastructure Advisory Team of the Year. Clients note in Chambers Greater China that he is “an outstanding lawyer and we always know that we will get the best result when we brief him on our matters,” and praise his team as “a strong group of lawyers, both at partner and associate levels – a world-class team.” Legal 500 Asia Pacific highlights his team’s “unique deep understanding and knowledge on acquisition, implementation, maintenance and managed services for technology.”

Connell holds IT and law degrees from the Australian National University. He is admitted in Australia by the Law Societies of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

Joe Lumley is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group and the Liability Management and Special Situations Practice Group.

Joe’s practice focuses on representing direct lenders, institutional lenders, corporate borrowers, private equity sponsors, and portfolio companies in a variety of financing transactions, including leveraged-acquisition financings, cash flow and asset-based financings, cross-border deals, rescue financings, debtor-in-possession financings, out-of-court and in-court restructurings, special situation opportunities, and other secured and unsecured commercial financings.

Joe earned his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where was Executive Editor of the Georgetown Journal of International law. He received a Bachelor of Science, cum laude, from Northwestern University. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Joe was a counsel in the Corporate and Finance Department of a global law firm in New York.