Mitchell Zia is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation and Artificial Intelligence practice groups.

Mitchell regularly advises public and private companies and financial sponsors on privacy, cybersecurity, IT and AI issues in connection with corporate transactions, including venture and private equity representations and mergers and acquisitions.

Representative Transactions

• CenterOak Partners, LLC: Advised on AI, privacy and cybersecurity matters in connection with its majority recapitalization of NOW CFO, a leading provider of outsourced finance and accounting services.
• Discovery Energy LLC: Advised on privacy and cybersecurity matters in connection with the sale of its Curtis Instruments business to Parker Hannifin Corporation.
• Infinite Reality, Inc.: Advised on AI, privacy and cybersecurity matters in connection with its acquisition of (1) iconic online music brand Napster and (2) Touchcast, a pioneering agentic AI company.
• OneMagnify: Advised on AI, privacy and cybersecurity matters in connection with its acquisition, backed by private equity firm Crestview Partners, of Guidance, a premier eCommerce agency specializing in enterprise-level digital commerce.
• PAR Technology Corporation: Advised on AI, privacy and cybersecurity matters in connection with its acquisition of Delaget, LLC, a restaurant analytics software company.
• Platinum Equity: Advised on privacy and cybersecurity matters in connection with Platinum Equity’s and Butterfly Equity Partners’ acquisition of Rise Baking Company, a manufacturer and supplier of semi-finished and retail-ready baked goods.
• PLTFRM Companies, LLC: Advised on general corporate matters in connection with its acquisition of Presence Holding, LLC, and its subsidiaries, the leading natural & organic focused CPG commerce partner in the United States.
• Sammons Financial Group, Inc.: Advised on privacy and cybersecurity matters in connection with its acquisition of Wealthcare LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor firm and platform services provider, from NewSpring Holdings.
• Veritas Funds: Advised Cotiviti, a portfolio company of Veritas Capital and KKR and a leader in data-driven healthcare solutions, on AI, privacy and cybersecurity matters in connection with its acquisition of Edifecs, a portfolio company of Francisco Partners and TA Associates and a pioneer in healthcare data interoperability.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mitchell earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 2023, where he was a member of the university’s Innovation Clinic. He graduated cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a minor in Film, Television, and Media Studies.

Mitchell is admitted to practice in the State of California, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional – United States (CIPP/US).

Kieran Kieckhefer is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s San Francisco office and a member of the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Her practice focuses on patent, technical trade secret, and copyright litigation. She is an experienced first-chair trial litigator whose cases have focused on a variety of technologies, including semiconductors, hardware, software, consumer electronics, networking, and cybersecurity.

Kieran has extensive experience litigating patent, trade secret, breach of employment contract, and Lanham Act cases in federal district courts across multiple jurisdictions. She has a breadth of experience before federal appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit, Federal Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.

Representative Experience*

• Lead counsel for the leading company in artificial intelligence computing in three-patent defensive case currently pending in the Western District of Texas.
• Lead counsel for global professional services company in offensive trade secret competitor case currently pending in the Northern District of Texas.
• Lead counsel for global semiconductor manufacturing company in offensive technical trade secrets competitor case currently pending in California Superior Court; and in defensive technical trade secrets competitor case currently pending in the Northern District of California.
• Lead counsel for a computer drive manufacturer and data storage company in: (i) a three-patent offensive competitor case currently pending in the Northern District of California; (ii) a two-patent defensive competitor case involving error correction technology currently pending in the Western District of Texas; (iii) a two-patent case currently pending in the Western District of Texas involving USB technology; and (iv) a seven-patent case in the Western District of Texas involving semiconductor fabrication technology; successfully settled for the client.
• Lead counsel for an aerial geographic mapping data analytics company in: (i) an eight-patent offensive case involving roofing technology currently pending in the District of Utah; (ii) a nine-patent offensive case involving roofing technology currently pending in the District of Utah; and (iii) a three-patent offensive case involving roofing technology currently pending in the District of Delaware.
• Lead counsel for a computational software company in breach of contract and copyright infringement action currently pending before the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC); successfully resolved similar case.
• Lead counsel for a cloud contact center software company in (i) a case involving a breach of contract and related claims against a competitor; and (ii) a five-patent infringement action involving call center technology in the Northern District of California; successfully resolved for the client.
• Lead counsel for a workplace wellness company in a successfully settled case in the Central District of California involving trade secret, breach of contract, and violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claims against a former employee who left the company to join a competitor.
• Trial counsel for a cybersecurity services provider in a patent infringement action on computer networking technologies in the Northern District of California. Secured a jury verdict of $6.4 million in damages and a finding that the opposing party’s infringement was willful, and obtained a permanent injunction against the opposing party.
• Trial counsel for a memory channel storage company in a three-week jury trial in the Northern District of California concerning storage and memory modules. Obtained a verdict in favor of the client on breach of contract, technical trade secrets, and inventorship claims.
• Represented a technology company in a patent infringement action in the Northern District of California involving computer networking technologies. The case resulted in a successful settlement.
• Successfully represented a data and storage company in a patent, copyright, and trade secret infringement action in the Northern District of California. After a three-week trial, the jury awarded the client $112 million in damages.
• Successfully represented a manufacturing company in a four-month jury trial in the Central District of California. Obtained an $88 million verdict based on a finding of willful and malicious misappropriation of trade secrets. The case involved numerous claims, including copyright, trade secret, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), trademark and trade dress, and unfair competition.
• Represented a semiconductor company in a two-month jury trial in the Northern District of California regarding Sherman Act Section 2 violations alleged against the opposing party.
• Represented a technology company in a patent infringement case in the Northern District of California regarding a competitor’s assertion of memory technology patents against features incorporated in Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council (JEDEC)-standard dynamic random access memory (DRAM).

Chambers USA recognizes Kieran as a leading attorney for Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets, and The Legal 500 USA has named her a “Recommended Lawyer for Trade Secrets. Kieran, along with her colleagues, won Litigator of the Week in 2020 by the AmLaw Litigation Daily for her pro bono work for non-profit GNOME. Also in 2020, Kieran was recognized by Benchmark Litigation’s “40 & Under Hot List,” which honors “the top young talent in their respective litigation communities in the US.” IAM Patent 1000 has ranked Kieran as a leading patent individual in California, noting her litigation capabilities, leadership, and important contribution to the advancement of women in the legal profession. She continues to play an active role in the support, mentorship, and retention of women in law. In 2012, she had the privilege of serving the City and County of San Francisco as an assistant district attorney.

Kieran graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2007. She received a B.S. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002.

Kieran began her legal career at a major firm in California’s Silicon Valley. Most recently, she was a partner at a multinational law firm in San Francisco.

*Includes work performed at a previous firm.

Trevor Gopnik is a senior litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Trevor’s practice focuses on complex and high-stakes criminal and civil disputes, with a particular focus on white collar defense and investigations, commercial litigation across all industries, and bankruptcy-related litigation. Trevor also has particular experience working with clients in the digital asset industry. Practice highlights include obtaining a rare pretrial dismissal of a federal indictment in the Southern District of New York alleging that the founder of a pharmaceutical company tipped friends and family in advance of a $3.5 billion tender offer, and the successful representation of a former head of state in litigation seeking over $250 million in damages in federal and state court in the U.S., and in countries around the world.

Trevor maintains an active pro bono practice working primarily on criminal justice matters including capital defense, wrongful convictions, criminal appeals, and more. Through this work Trevor has partnered with organizations such as the Innocence Project, the Southern Center for Human Rights, the Equal Justice Initiative, and the Brooklyn Defender Services, among others. In addition to his work on criminal justice matters, Trevor was a key member of the Gibson Dunn team that was awarded the Richard D. Ogers Pro Bono Partner Award by the Giffords Law Center in recognition for, among other things, its work drafting numerous Supreme Court amicus briefs in consequential Second Amendment cases, including a powerful brief signed by over 100 members of the US House of Representatives in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York, as well as a brief on behalf of members of the business community in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. 

Trevor currently serves on the Pro Bono Advisory Boards for both Legal Services NYC, the largest provider of civil legal services in the country, and the New York Legal Assistance Group, a leading civil legal services organization combatting economic, racial, and social injustice. Trevor is also a Member of the Board of Directors of Unique People Services, a non-profit focused on providing transitional and supportive housing to people with mental illness and developmental disabilities.

From 2019 to 2020, Trevor served as a law clerk to the Honorable Helen Gillmor in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.

Trevor received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, where he was recognized as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and was a recipient of the Parker School Certificate of Achievement in International Law. He also holds a Master of Laws Degree in International Criminal Law, cum laude, from the University of Amsterdam School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Virginia.

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

Michael D. Saliba is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group. He has extensive experience advising issuers, sponsors, underwriters and investors on a range of complex domestic and cross-border capital markets and hybrid capital transactions.

Drawing on his broad transactional experience and sector-specific knowledge, Michael helps clients successfully navigate a broad range of financing transactions, including

• Acquisition and high-yield financings
• Debt exchange offers, tender offers, and consent solicitations
• Preferred equity, direct lending and other private capital transactions
• Initial public offerings and de-SPAC transactions
• Project financings
• Registered and private equity offerings
• Restructuring and special situations transactions
• Spin-off transactions

Michael also regularly counsels clients on a variety of corporate and securities law matters, as well as complex covenant and structuring analyses.

Representative Transactions*

Debt Transactions

• Aircastle in multiple offerings of senior notes and in its inaugural preferred stock offering
• AmeriGas, a subsidiary of UGI, in its US$500 million high yield offering of senior notes
• BofA Securities in the US$450 million high yield offering of senior notes of ARKO
• BofA Securities in the US$800 million and US$600 million high yield offerings of senior notes of Asbury Automotive
• Innovate in its US$330 million high yield offering of senior secured notes
• Jefferies in the US$400 million high yield offering of senior secured notes by StoneMor
• Jefferies in the bridge loan financing and US$550 million senior secured term loan B facility for Xerox
• Jefferies in the US$450 million senior secured term loan B facility and US$50 million revolving credit facility for Kelso Industries
• JP Morgan in the US$800 million senior notes offering by UWM Holdings Corporation
• JP Morgan in the US$625 million high yield offering of senior notes to help finance Clearlake’s acquisition of Springs Window Fashions
• NCR in multiple high yield offerings of senior notes
• R.R. Donnelley & Sons in several high yield offerings of senior secured notes and multiple term loan B financings
• Stryker in its €2.4 billion offering of senior notes

Private Capital Transactions

• Apollo, Carlyle Credit, HPS, Oak Hill Advisors and several other leading private capital investors in the US$2.5 billion preferred equity offering to help finance the take-private of Citrix
• Blackstone, GIC and several other leading private capital investors in the US$500 million preferred equity offering to help finance the acquisition of Zendesk
• Blackstone, Golub, KKR and a sovereign wealth fund in the US$152 million preferred equity financing and US$1.0 billion unitranche facility for AmeriVet
• Carlyle in the US$165 million preferred equity offering by a portfolio company of Genstar
• Carlyle in the US$400 million structured equity investment in UMG
• GIC, Blackrock, Blackstone, Carlyle, HPS, KKR and other private credit investors in the US$1.85 billion preferred equity offering of Alliant, a Stone Point portfolio company
• GIC in the US$500 million second lien term loan and the preferred equity financing for CVC joining CD&R as an investment partner in Epicor
• GIC in the US$40 million incremental PIK holdco loan financing for Litera
• Marquee Brands, an affiliate of Neuberger Berman, in the US$70 million term loan seller financing in connection with the acquisition of America’s Test Kitchen
• Neuberger Berman in the US$200 million preferred equity offering by a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Co.
• Special Situations fund in the US$105 million offering of senior PIK toggle notes by Mavenir
• Special Situations fund and other private credit investors in the US$400 million preferred equity offering by PetVet
• Stone Point and other private credit investors in the US$282 million preferred equity offering by a portfolio company of TA Associates and Onex
• Stone Point and other private credit investors in the US$100 million preferred equity offering and US$250 million second lien term loan financing of a portfolio company of Harvest Partners

Liability Management Transactions

• AmeriGas, a subsidiary of UGI, in multiple tender offers for its outstanding debt securities
• Baxter International in its debt-for-equity exchanges and equity-for-equity exchange offer in connection with its spin-off of Baxalta
• Citigroup in the debt-for-equity exchange in connection with the spin-off by International Paper of Sylvamo
• McClatchy and RR Donnelley in multiple consent solicitations and debt-for-debt exchange transactions

Restructurings and Special Situations

• ADVANZ Pharma in its restructuring and recapitalization transactions
• Highbridge Capital Management in the restructuring and refinancing transactions by Pernix Therapeutics
• iPayment Holdings and iPayment in their units and US$400 million senior notes offerings and later restructuring
• Orion Infrastructure Capital in the recapitalization transactions by Carbon Revolution

Project Financings

• Fortress Investment Group in the private activity bond financings of Brightline
• NextDecade in the largest energy and non-recourse debt financing in the U.S.

Initial Public Offerings and de SPAC Transactions

• BofA Securities, Jefferies and the other underwriters in the initial public offering of Arhaus
• Fortress Investment Group in the initial public offering of Brightline Holdings
• NextGen Acquisition Corporation in its merger with Xos

*Includes work performed at a prior firm.

Amina Mousa is an associate in Gibson Dunn’s London office. She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department. Her practice focuses on labor and employment litigation and compliance counseling.

Amina has litigated a wide range of labor and employment matters, including defending employers in harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, and wage-and-hour claims in federal and state courts, as well as in administrative proceedings and arbitration. She also advises employers on compliance with state and federal laws in these areas.

She received her Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude in 2017 from the University of San Diego School of Law, where she served as the Articles Research Editor on the San Diego Law Review Board and was elected to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Amina was a Research Assistant to Professor Miranda Fleischer. She also served as an Academic Success Fellow for contracts and criminal law classes, providing teaching assistance and facilitating study groups for first-year students. Amina was a Certified Legal Intern for the University of San Diego’s civil clinic, where she earned high honors. She also interned with the Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General.

In 2011, Amina graduated from California State University at Long Beach with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology.

A member of the Orange County Bar Association and the American Bar Association, she is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Central District, Eastern District, Northern District, and Southern District of California, and all California state courts. She is a member of the United Way Women’s Council. Amina is also an active pro bono attorney and serves as a member of the Public Law Center Advocates, a group of attorneys that encourages community outreach and pro bono efforts.

Davy C. Huang is an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office and a member of the Real Estate Practice Group. His experience includes work on real estate and corporate matters such as acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financings (including workouts), asset and property management, securitizations, tender offers, defense against activist investors, and private equity fundraising.

He has advised on transactions for real estate funds, lenders, institutional and non-institutional investors, and others, including entities affiliated with AECOM, American International Group, Angelo Gordon, Argosy Real Estate Partners, The Carlyle Group, Cerberus Capital Management, Hackman Capital Partners, JRK Property Holdings, KKR & Co., Mesa West Capital, PIMCO, The Rockpoint Group, The Scion Group, Toll Brothers, Inc., and Woodridge Capital Partners. In addition, he has served as lead internal legal counsel for the West Coast region of a large U.S. real estate firm involved in acquisition, development, construction, operation, and disposition of real property.

Davy holds a Juris Doctor and a Master of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. While at Penn Law, he was managing editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, served as a director of the Penn Housing Rights Project, and externed for the then-Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He received a Bachelor of Science in International Business from Pepperdine University.

He is a member of the State Bars of California and New York.

Malakeh Hijazi is an associate in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she currently practices with the firm’s Capital Markets and Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance practice groups. She represents public and private businesses in a broad range of corporate and securities matters. Malakeh represents issuers and investment banking firms in both equity and debt offerings, including Rule 144A offerings.

Her practice also includes general corporate counseling to public and private companies and securities regulation and SEC reporting counseling, including Exchange Act reporting, stock exchange compliance and beneficial ownership reporting matters.

Selected Experience*

High-Yield and Private Debt Offerings

• Aris Water Solutions, Inc. in its $500 million offering of senior notes
• Noble Corporation plc in its $800 million add-on offering of senior notes to finance its acquisition of Diamond Offshore Drilling
• Schlumberger Holdings Corporation, a subsidiary of Schlumberger N.V., in its $1 billion offering of senior notes
• Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc, in its $1 billion offering of senior notes and the related SEC-registered exchange offer for such notes
• Star Leasing Company, LLC, a portfolio company of I Squared Capital Advisors (US) LLC, in its $700 million debut offering of secured notes
• Gran Tierra Energy Inc. in its $100 million re-opening of senior secured amortizing notes
• Neptune BidCo US, an affiliate of Nielsen Holdings Limited, in its offering of $1.96 billion and subsequent add-on of $650 million of senior secured notes
• ProFac Holdings Corp. in its private placement of $120 million of senior secured notes
• Initial purchasers to Great Western Petroleum, LLC in its $235 million offering of convertible senior notes
• CVR Energy, Inc. in its $1 billion offering of senior notes
• Sunnova Energy International Inc. in its $500 million offering of convertible senior notes
• Summit Midstream Partners, LP in its $700 million offering of second lien senior secured notes and exchange offer of fixed-to-floating rate preferred units for common units
• Initial purchasers to Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited in its offering of $750 million of senior notes
• Initial purchasers to Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC in its debut offering of $400 million of senior notes
• Initial purchasers to Shelf Drilling Holdings, Ltd. in its offering of $310 million senior secured first lien notes with original issue discount

Registered Debt Offerings

• Accenture plc in its inaugural notes offering of $5 billion of senior notes
• Underwriters to Waste Management, Inc. in over $10 billion in offerings of senior notes, including in its obligor exchange and debt tender offers of multiple series of notes
• Underwriters to Vale S.A. and its subsidiary Vale Overseas Limited in its offerings of over $3.25 billion of guaranteed notes and in its related debt tender offers of multiple series of notes
• Ovintiv Inc. in its $2.3 billion offering of senior notes
• Underwriters to Western Midstream Partners, LP in its offerings of over $1.5 billion of senior notes
• Underwriters to Enbridge Inc. in its offerings of $2 billion of fixed-rate senior notes; $750 million of floating rate senior notes; $1 billion of fixed-to-fixed rate subordinated notes; and $1.5 billion of inaugural sustainability-linked senior notes
• Underwriters to Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC in its $575 million public offering of debt securities and $925 million public offering of debt securities

IPO and Equity Offerings

• Underwriters to LandBridge Company LLC in its initial public offering of limited liability company interests and concurrent private placement and to the placement agents in a subsequent private placement of limited liability company interests
• Diversified Energy Company PLC in its debut US offering of ordinary shares
• SilverBow Resources, Inc. in its primary and secondary offerings of common stock
• Ovintiv Inc. in its secondary offering of common stock
• Underwriters to NuStar Energy L.P. in its add-on offering of common units
• Sunnova Energy International Inc. in its secondary offering of $100.3 million of Sunnova’s common stock and secondary offering of $250 million of common stock and combined primary follow-on and secondary offering of $259 million of common stock
• Underwriters to Liberty Oilfield Services Inc. in its $99.6 million bought deal of secondary common stock and $191.9 million bought deal of secondary common stock

Select Publications and Community Involvement

• Webcast Presenter: “Unlocking Value: The What, Why and How of Spin-Offs” (May 2024)
• Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Monitor post: “Reminder For Resource Extraction Issuers: Form SD Due September 2024” (April 2024)
• Member of Institute for Energy Law’s 7th Leadership Class and Young Energy Professionals Programs Committee, Member of Society for Corporate Governance and Member of Women’s Energy Network (Houston Chapter)

Malakeh graduated magna cum laude from Tulane University Law School and received her MBA from A.B. Freeman School of Business with a focus in finance, where she was elected to the Beta Gamma Sigma. Prior to law school, she received a Master’s degree from London Metropolitan University and graduated with high honors.

* Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Mylan L. Denerstein is a litigation partner at Gibson Dunn and Co-Partner-In-Charge of the New York office. She is a member of the White-Collar Defense and Investigations and Labor and Employment Practice Groups. She co-chairs the firm’s Public Policy group and is a leader of the firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force. Mylan also serves on the Executive Committee.

Mylan conducts investigations, leads complex litigation, and is a trial attorney. She represents companies, foundations, and non-profits in critical situations and is known for her effective legal advocacy and her problem-solving skills.  

Mylan brings extensive experience from her former senior government roles. Before joining Gibson Dunn, she held key positions such as Counsel to the New York State Governor, New York State Executive Deputy Attorney General, Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs for the New York City Fire Department, and Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, United States Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York. She also served as a federal prosecutor for many years.

Since January 2022, Mylan has served as the court-appointed NYPD monitor responsible for overseeing the implementation of court-ordered reforms for stop, frisk, and search practices.

Mylan is a nationally recognized litigator. She is ranked as a leading lawyer in White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations – New York by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2025 and 2023. She has also been included in Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Lawyers in America” list since 2023, as well as its “500 Global Leaders in Crisis Management” guide. Benchmark Litigation named Mylan repeatedly to its “Top 250 Women in Litigation” list, and recognized her as a “Litigation Star” nationally in Appellate, Securities and White-Collar Crime, as well as in New York. In 2022, The AmLaw Litigation Daily named Mylan a “Litigator of the Week” for securing a sentence of no jail time for a prominent New York real estate developer. She has also been recognized as a “Global Leader” since 2022 by Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) in their Business Crime Defence Global guide. 

Alexa Romanelli is a Senior Associate in Gibson Dunn’s London office and a member of the firm’s International Arbitration and Arbitral Award Enforcement, ESG and Geopolitical Strategy and International Law practice groups.

Alexa represents clients in investment treaty and commercial arbitrations under all major institutional rules, and in global campaigns relating to enforcement of arbitral awards, in particular against sovereign states. Alexa represents corporate clients in human rights-related disputes, including before the European Court of Human Rights and UN Treaty Bodies. She also advises clients on matters of PIL, and on business and human rights matters such as emerging ESG legislation and regulatory requirements, and climate change litigation risk. Alexa is recognised by The Legal 500 for International Arbitration and Public International Law.

Recent representations include:*

• Representing investors in a telecommunications enterprise with over US$1.5 billion in arbitration awards against a sovereign state in the enforcement of those awards across multiple jurisdictions (including in proceedings before the English Commercial Court), as well as in a high-value UNCITRAL arbitration relating to the respondent state’s payment of debts under those awards.
• Representation of several corporate clients in claims to the European Court of Human Rights, including in relation to claims under Articles 6, 7, 13 and Article 1 Protocol 1 of the Convention.
• Regular advice to corporate clients on issues of international human rights law, including advice on potential claims before the UN Human Rights Committee and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, in addition to advice in relation to climate change developments and energy transition.
• Representing respondents in an LMAA Arbitration involving issues of force majeure and frustration in the context of two high-value charterparties.
• Represented claimants in a shareholder dispute between members of an oil and gas joint venture in multiple high-value LCIA arbitrations seated in London, with claims in excess of US$2 billion.
• Represented claimants in an ICSID arbitration under the DR-CAFTA arising from their investments in the mining industry. (Daniel W. Kappes and Kappes, Cassiday & Associates v. Guatemala).
• Acted as secretary to the sole arbitrator in a contractual dispute filed at the London Court of International Arbitration.

In addition to her client work, Alexa is a member of the London office’s pro bono committee. Her pro bono practice centres on human rights law-related issues, and her pro bono clients include Human Dignity Trust, APPEAL, JUSTICE, the Domestic Abuse Response Alliance, The Malala Fund and Public International Law and Policy Group.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Alexa trained and practiced as a solicitor in the dispute resolution team at White & Case’s London offices. She was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in September 2017.

Alexa earned her BA Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford in 2014. She also holds a BA (Joint Honours) in International Development and Middle East Studies from McGill University.

She is professionally fluent in English and French. She also speaks Italian and Arabic.

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

Thomas J. Kim is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson Dunn, where he is a Co-Chair of the firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group. Tom focuses his practice on a broad range of SEC disclosure and regulatory matters, including capital raising, tender offer transactions, shareholder activist situations, and corporate governance and compliance issues. He also advises clients on securities issues raised by cryptocurrency offerings, SEC enforcement investigations and internal investigations involving disclosure, registration, corporate governance, and auditor independence issues.

Tom has extensive experience handling regulatory matters for companies with the SEC, including obtaining no-action and exemptive relief, interpretive guidance and waivers, and responding to disclosure and financial statement reviews by the Division of Corporation Finance.

Awards and Accolades:

• Chambers USA, “Band 1: Securities: Regulation: Advisory” (2014 – 2025)
• Legal 500 US, Financial Services Litigation (2025)
• Lawdragon, “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” (2024 – 2025)
• Expert Guides, “Best of the Best United States Guide” (2022)
• Expert Guides, “Banking, Finance and Transactional Expert Guide” (2021 – 2022)

Memberships and Professional Involvement:

• Co-Chair, Practising Law Institute, Master Class: Corporate Governance
• Former Chair, Northwestern Pritzker Law School’s Annual Securities Regulation Institute
• Former Chair, American Bar Association Securities Law Opinion Subcommittee of the Federal Regulation of Securities Committee

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Tom served at the SEC for six years as the Chief Counsel and Associate Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, and for one year as Counsel to the Chairman. As Chief Counsel, Tom was responsible for the Division’s no-action, interpretive and exemptive positions. He also led several rulemaking initiatives including eliminating the prohibition on general solicitation in Rule 506 and Rule 144A offerings, the concept release on the U.S. proxy system, and the interpretive release on the use of company websites.

Sara K. Weed is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn and Co-Chair of the Fintech and Digital Assets Practice Group. Sara’s fintech’s practice spans both regulatory and transactional advice for a range of clients, including traditional financial institutions, non-bank financial services companies and technology companies.

Sara’s outstanding achievements in private practice have been recognized by various organizations. Most recently, Sara was recognized as a leading lawyer in the 2025 edition of Chambers and Partners Fintech in the category USA: Nationwide – Fintech Legal: Payments and Lending, with clients describing her as “a very commercially-minded attorney with deep expertise and experience in navigating regulatory issues and relationships in the fintech space.” The Legal 500 US 2025 guide recognizes Sara for her expertise in the area of banking. In 2024 and 2025, Lawdragon recognized Sara as one of their Leading Global Cyber Lawyers. In 2021, she was named a Rising Star in Fintech by Law360, and in 2018, she was shortlisted for the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Award North America in the “Access to New Markets and Capital” category.

Prior to working in private practice, Sara held various roles in the financial services industry, including serving as in-house counsel to IBM’s financial services group and as a policy counsel with a national financial services research organization. She also served as director and counsel with the North Carolina Office of the Commissioner of Banks, where she oversaw supervision of money services businesses, non-bank mortgage lenders, brokers, and servicers, and consumer finance companies.

Experience*

Sara’s fintech practice provides support to clients throughout their life cycle, including: product development, regulatory strategy, including chartering, licensure and partnerships, supporting supervisory examinations and regulatory inquires, regulatory diligence related to acquisitions, investments, and exit events, and the defense of regulatory enforcement actions.

Representative Payments and Lending Product Development Matters

• Advising a multinational consumer technology company in connection with the development of enhanced functionality to support digital wallet, payments, and lending use cases.
• Advising a business and financial software company in the development new payments products, including an accelerated tax refund disbursement product and cross-border invoicing product.
• Counseling a multinational payment card services corporation regarding development of crypto and stablecoin-enabled payments products and related offerings in the U.S., Latin America, and APAC.
• Representing a foreign neobank in the development of a peer-to-peer payments solution to be enabled in coordination with a blockchain technology company and U.S. regulated financial institution.  
• Advising a blockchain technology company on commercial and regulatory matters in furtherance of the launch of a new digital asset-based cross-border payments product.
• Counseling a digital real estate closing platform in connection with the development of an embedded payments solution.
• Representing a blockchain technology company in connection with regulatory and commercial matters in support of a blockchain-enabled payments product.
• Advising multinational financial services firm in connection with the bank-sponsored program architected to support delivery of embedded digital payments.  
• Advising social media platforms with respect to payments and consumer financial matters associated with creator monetization programs, marketplace offerings, reward programs, and platform tokens.
• Advising global rewards company in connection with expansion into the U.S. market, including compliance with the Federal Bank Secrecy Act, state money transmission licensing laws, state escheatment laws, state gift card laws, and other consumer protection laws.
• Advising multinational card network in connection with the harmonization of global payment offerings following acquisition of payments business that previously competed with existing product offerings.
• Advising accounts payable automation software company in development of commercial loan product to succeed their flagship invoice factoring product.
• Advising global payments company in overhaul of cross-border customer funds management strategy.
• Advised human capital management company during the launch of a product that allows employees and contractors to access their earned wages in real-time.

Representative Government Investigation and Enforcement Matters

• Representing fintech companies in connection with examinations by the Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, including remediation of allegations subject to consumer financial laws and regulations.
• Representing global cryptocurrency exchange in connection with enforcement actions brought by state banking departments following resolution of investigations brought by DOJ, the CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC.
• Representing global payments company in resolution of claims brought by state banking departments following resolution of OFAC action.
• Representing global human capital management platform in resolution of claims brought by various state banking departments subject to state money transmitter and consumer lending licensing laws.
• Represented peer-to-peer lending platform in connection with multi-agency enforcement action subject to state consumer lending laws. 

Representative Chartering Matters

• Advising Zero Hash, a cyrpto and stablecoin infrastructure platform, in the formation of Zero Hash Trust Company, a de novo North Carolina chartered trust company.
• Advising Surus, an institutional-grade asset management, custody, and compliance platform, in the formation of Surus Trust Company, a de novo North Carolina chartered trust company.
• Advised human capital management company in the formation of a de novo uninsured national trust bank that received approval from the OCC to open in 2023.

Representative Transactional Matters

• Advising Nubank in connection with its launch of a stablecoin product, in partnership with Circle, enabling Nubank customers in Brazil 24/7 access to USDC.
• Advising multinational card network in the potential acquisition of a global payments company and leading regulatory diligence spanning payments, AML, sanctions, export controls, and derivatives compliance in more than 40 jurisdictions of operation.
• Advised joint venture supporting fiat-backed stablecoins and development of a governed network.

Representative Crisis Management and Incident Response Matters

• Advising human capital management technology company with respect to remediation of payroll payments incident and related error resolution.
• Advising business and financial software company in remediation of escalated complaints and related engagement with National Automated Clearing House Association (Nacha).

Representative Policy Matters

• Advising global payments company in response to congressional inquiry in the aftermath of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank.
• Advising food delivery platform in connection with congressional inquiry regarding financial services products in the gig economy.
• Assisted a cryptocurrency exchange platform in the legislative process to amend the North Carolina Money Transmitters Act and enable crypto platforms to continue operating in the state.

*Includes work performed at a previous firm.

Robert F. Serio is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and served as a co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s national Securities Litigation Practice Group from 2005 to 2021. He advises public companies, private-equity portfolio companies, and mutual funds concerning regulatory crises, litigation strategy and risk management. His practice involves complex commercial and business litigation, with an emphasis on securities class actions, shareholder derivative litigation, SEC enforcement matters and corporate investigations.

Mr. Serio is consistently ranked as one of the top securities litigators in New York and has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America®, Benchmark Litigation and New York Super Lawyers. The Legal 500 US 2025 guide recognized him for his expertise in Securities Litigation: Defense. Mr. Serio has been co-editor of the Practising Law Institute’s leading treatise on securities litigation entitled Securities Litigation: A Practitioner’s Guide. Routinely, he has been a guest lecturer on securities-related developments where he has presented on such topics as “Trends in Securities Litigation.” From 2004 to 2015, he served as co-partner in charge of the firm’s New York office.

Representative Matters

• Served as lead counsel for Nasdaq in the High-Frequency Trading Litigation (won on summary judgment).
• Successfully represented numerous underwriters in securities class action lawsuits involving more than $70 billion in mortgage pass-through certificates, including:
  • Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs: Won affirmance in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit of a ruling declining to extend the American Pipe tolling doctrine to the statute of repose of the Securities Act of 1933.
  • RBS Securities Inc.: Won dismissal with prejudice of a lawsuit brought by one of the world’s three largest pension funds alleging fraud in the sales of more than a billion dollars of residential mortgage-backed certificates.
• Lynn Tilton: Served as a lead lawyer representing Ms. Tilton in various civil litigations.
• Och-Ziff Capital: Successfully represented the company and its directors and officers in securities and derivative litigation.
• Flagstar Bancorp: Successfully represented the current and former directors and officers in shareholder derivative litigation.
• Forum: Won dismissal in the New York Court of Appeals on grounds of forum non conveniens of a multi-billion dollar fraud claim involving an overseas partnership.
• First American: Defended The First American Corporation and its subsidiary eAppraisIT LLC in a putative securities class action lawsuit. Defeated class certification and obtained dismissal with prejudice.
• Bear Stearns: Represented Bear Stearns in resolving 100 securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigations involving IPO allocation and research analyst issues. Won dismissal of shareholder derivative action against Bear Stearns and its directors over alleged research analyst conflicts. Represented Bear Stearns officers and directors in shareholder derivative actions over subprime issues.
• Merrill Lynch: Won dismissal of all claims against Merrill Lynch in In re Merrill Lynch Limited Partnership Litigation and In re Duke Energy Securities Litigation.

Mr. Serio has represented financial institutions and directors in litigation matters arising from the collapses of Enron and Adelphia.

In addition, he has represented numerous other companies in securities class action lawsuits, including Cincinnati Bell, Inc.; Veeco Instruments, Inc.; The FINOVA Group, Inc.; and Citiscape Corporation.

Mr. Serio received a law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1985 and a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Harvard University in 1980. Mr. Serio is a member of the New York and California State Bars.

Mary Beth Maloney is a partner in the New York office, and a member of the Litigation, Life Sciences, Securities Litigation, and Business Restructuring Practice Groups. She serves as the Co-Chair of Hiring for the New York office. Mary Beth is ranked by Chambers USA in its New York Securities Litigation category, listed as a “Recommended Lawyer” in Securities Litigation: Defense by the Legal 500 US, and recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation. Her securities and commercial disputes practice includes first-chair representation of investment funds and advisors in commercial litigation and government investigations, life sciences clients in multi-million-dollar licensing and other contract disputes, as well as companies, boards, and executives in contract and shareholder disputes. She has also defended numerous clients in securities-related civil class actions as well as advised on responding to investigations and enforcement actions by various government agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Complex Commercial Litigation: Mary Beth’s complex commercial litigation practice includes representations in federal and state courts, arbitration, and in multi-billion federal bench and jury trials, including representing Chevron Corporation in what The American Lawyer called “The Case of the Century,” Chevron’s successful RICO and fraud suit to bar the enforcement of a $9 billion fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment. Her recent lead counsel experience includes:

• Achieved a favorable settlement for Coupang, the “Amazon of South Korea,” successfully resolving a contract dispute in the Delaware Court of Chancery;
• Achieved a favorable settlement for an international hedge fund, successfully resolving a dispute in the District Court of the District of Columbia with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in connection with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank;
• Obtained a complete dismissal on behalf of a group of investment funds in a contract dispute in both the Southern District of New York and Delaware Bankruptcy Court;
• Defending PepsiCo in a contract dispute pending in New York Supreme Court with several of its independent bottlers; and
• Representing Patriarch Partners Management Services, a private equity management services company, in a contract dispute for payment of management fees pending in New York Supreme Court.

Life Sciences Representations: Mary Beth is uniquely skilled in navigating life sciences companies through litigation and arbitration. Her recent experience includes:

• Achieved a favorable settlement for Esperion Therapeutics, successfully resolving a pharmaceutical licensing dispute in the Southern District of New York;
• Obtained partial judgment (with attorneys’ fees) in favor of Alcon against Aurion Biotech in a voting rights dispute in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware;
• Achieved a favorable settlement for Immunomedics (owned by Gilead Science) and its former executives in a securities fraud class action in the District Court of New Jersey;
• Achieved a favorable settlement for individual investors and former Board members of Altor Bioscience in an appraisal action in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware; and
• Currently represents numerous pharmaceutical royalty license holders and collaboration agreement parties in contract disputes at the pre-litigation stages and in arbitrations.

Securities Litigation: Mary Beth handles securities-related civil class actions as well as SEC investigations and litigation, including representing Ms. Lynn Tilton against fraud charges brought by the SEC, defeating debarment and disgorgement of $200 million. Her recent lead counsel experience includes:

• Obtained complete dismissal for Centerview Partners and one of its managing directors of civil securities and common law fraud claims;
• Achieved a favorable settlement for Sequential Brands Inc. after a multi-year investigation in which the SEC pursued charges for fraud and financial reporting violations;
• Achieved a favorable settlement for Sequential’s former Directors in a civil securities fraud class action the Southern District of New York;
• Representing Vale, Brazil’s largest mining company, in a civil securities fraud class action pending in the Eastern District of New York;
• Defending Medallion Financial and its executives in a securities fraud action brought by the SEC in the Southern District of New York; and
• Representing Hut 8, a FinTech company, in a civil securities fraud class action pending in the Southern District of New York.

Boards and Other Professional Affiliations

Mary Beth is a member of the Permanent Commission on Access to Justice, supporting equal access to New York courts. She is on the Board of Directors for both the Center for Justice Innovation and the New York City Urban Debate League. She is also an Advisory Board Member for Women in Funds, an organization of fund-related attorneys and compliance professionals.

Prior Professional Experience

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Mary Beth served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alicemarie H. Stotler, then Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Prior to attending law school, Mary Beth worked for six years in the California State Capitol.

Education

Mary Beth earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. There, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College, where she was an Erica Jong Writing Fellow, elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated in three years, magna cum laude.

Jeffrey L. Steiner is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn. He is Chair of the firm’s Derivatives Practice Group and Co-Chair of the firm’s Financial Regulatory Practice Group. Mr. Steiner is also the Co-Chair to the firm’s Fintech and Digital Assets Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Financial Institutions, Energy and Public Policy Practice Groups. Mr. Steiner advises a range of clients, including commercial end-users, financial institutions, dealers, hedge funds, private equity funds, clearinghouses, industry groups and trade associations on regulatory, legislative, enforcement and transactional matters related to OTC and listed derivatives, commodities and securities. He frequently assists clients with compliance and implementation issues relating to the Dodd-Frank Act, the rules of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the National Futures Association and the prudential banking regulators. He also helps clients to navigate through cross-border issues resulting from global derivatives requirements, including those resulting from the Dodd-Frank Act, the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and the rules of other jurisdictions.

Mr. Steiner also advises a range of clients on issues related to digital assets, cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technology, including analyzing and advising on regulatory and enforcement matters relating to their application and use. He regularly works with clients on structuring products involving the use of digital assets and the application of blockchain technology, including digital token issuances and cryptocurrency trading. He also analyzes the cross-border impacts relating to clients’ use of digital currencies and blockchain technology.

Mr. Steiner has been named a Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Fintech Trailblazer by The National Law Journal. In 2025, he was recognized by Legal 500 US as a “Recommended Lawyer” in banking and highlighted for his expertise in financial services litigation. Additionally, Chambers Global ranked Mr. Steiner as an international leading lawyer for his work in derivatives. He has also been recognized as a leading derivatives lawyer in Chambers USA from 2014-2025 and has been ranked in Band 1 for Derivatives: Mainly Regulatory, with clients saying that he is “a phenomenal attorney and business adviser,” “very aware of all aspects of derivatives regulation in the US, UK, and EU,” and that “he’s someone that can speak knowledgeably.”

Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Mr. Steiner was special counsel in the Division of Market Oversight at the CFTC where he handled issues relating to trading and execution of futures and swaps, designated contract markets (DCMs), market maker and incentive programs, exempt markets, reporting, swap data repositories (SDRs) and off-exchange derivatives transactions (block trades, EFRPs). He served as team lead for the Real-Time Public Reporting of Swap Transaction Data rulemaking team for both the proposed and final rules, both of which he presented before the CFTC for public vote. While at the CFTC, he also worked on resolving and advising on issues relating to Title VII of the Dodd Frank Act, including reporting, trading and execution in all asset classes (i.e., interest rates, credit, FX, equity and other commodity), SDRs, swap execution facilities (SEFs), block trades and extraterritoriality. Prior to being a special counsel at the CFTC, he served as an attorney-advisor in the CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight from 2009 – 2010. Mr. Steiner began his career in private law practice where he focused on representing clients on OTC derivatives, futures and commodities related matters, capital markets transactions and hedge fund formation.

Mr. Steiner is a frequent speaker and author on issues relating to derivatives, the CFTC, digital assets and blockchain technology. He graduated from Tulane Law School in 2004. While at Tulane Law School, he served as a Business Editor of the Tulane Environmental Law Journal. Mr. Steiner received his B.B.A. in 2001 from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

Dennis J. Ting is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn.

Dennis represents clients in general commercial litigation and media, entertainment, and technology matters.  He also maintains a pro bono practice working with incarcerated individuals.

He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2024, where he served as the Online Development Editor for the Virginia Law Review. While at law school, he was also a case team leader for the Innocence Project pro bono program and a research assistant for the Education Rights Institute. Dennis graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland in 2014 with a B.A. in broadcast journalism. He worked as a television news reporter prior to attending law school.

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

Jason Cabral is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Financial Institutions, Financial Regulatory, FinTech and Digital Assets, and Anti-Money Laundering Practice Groups. He represents U.S. and non-U.S. banks and financial services companies, FinTechs, payments companies, lending companies and companies in the digital assets space regarding the application or potential application of federal and state banking, consumer protection and money transmission laws and regulations to their investments, activities, products and services.

Jason’s extensive knowledge of federal and state banking and financial services laws, including the Bank Holding Company Act, National Bank Act, Federal Deposit Insurance Act, International Banking Act and Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and their implementing regulations, allows him to strategically advise clients on a broad range of policy, legislative, regulatory, transactional, corporate governance, enforcement and other matters. He regularly represents clients before the federal financial services regulatory agencies and state banking departments on a variety of matters, including regulatory applications, notices and other submissions in connection with mergers, acquisitions, minority investments and other transactions, chartering or licensing initiatives, control and non-control determinations, and enforcement matters. He also regularly advises clients in the establishment of commercial relationships to offer products and services and associated rewards programs, as well as the creation and development of new deposit, credit, investment and payments products and services, and related regulatory and consumer compliance matters.

Jason advises traditional banks and financial institutions, as well as FinTechs and other companies, on issues related to their digital assets strategies. He advises clients in the development of their own digital assets products and services and related commercial relationships, as well other strategic initiatives in this space. Jason’s extensive regulatory background is invaluable, particularly as the digital assets space receives increasing federal and state legislative and regulatory oversight.

He has been named to Lawdragon’s 2024 and 2025 500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers guide which recognizes “world leaders in privacy, data, security, incident response, and the deals and lawsuits that revolve around all things Cyber.” The Legal 500 US 2025 guide recognizes Jason’s expertise in the area of banking.

Jason began his career at a multinational firm in New York and was a partner at a Boston-based national firm. Most recently, he was of counsel at a major law firm in New York.

He graduated summa cum laude from Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2007, where he was a member of the Quinnipiac Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude from Ohio University with a B.S. in Journalism in 2004.

Jason is admitted to practice in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

James Farrell is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He is co-chair of the firm’s Accounting Firm Advisory and Defense Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Litigation Department. Jim has broad experience in a wide variety of complex civil litigation, with particular emphasis on securities and professional liability matters.

During the last 20 years, Jim has worked on many large securities class action lawsuits and accountants’ liability cases throughout the US and internationally. He specializes in defending cases involving a range of complex accounting issues, such as revenue recognition, securitizations, off-balance sheet entities, reserves, and various structured finance transactions. For example, Jim defended Arthur Andersen in the multi-billion dollar claims asserted in the consolidated class actions regarding Enron. He has also handled all phases of securities litigation, including matters related to hostile takeovers, management buyouts, directors’ and officers’ liability, and class action securities disputes. He has defended regulatory matters involving the DOJ, SEC, PCAOB, and other government agencies. He has served as lead trial counsel in civil and regulatory matters.

Jim has a significant international practice. He has defended clients and conducted internal investigations around the globe, including in the UK, Switzerland, Ireland, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, the Middle East, and Hong Kong. He successfully defended an ICC arbitration involving claims over US$1 billion, and he is certified in the International Standards on Auditing (ISA).

Jim is recognized in Band 1 nationwide by Chambers for Accounting and Auditor Liability. The Legal 500 US 2025 guide has recognized Jim as a “Recommended Lawyer” in Securities Litigation: Defense. In 2022, The American Lawyer named him to its list of “Northeast Trailblazers,” which recognizes 60 top professionals in the region “who have moved the needle in the legal industry . ” . He has served as volunteer trial counsel for the Los Angeles City Attorneys’ Office and as a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Jim served as a partner at Latham & Watkins LLP.

Jim received his law degree in 1993 from the UCLA School of Law, where he was recognized as a Distinguished Advocate in the Moot Court Honors Program. He earned his B.A. magna cum laude from Cornell University in 1990.

Representative Matters

The following is a partial list of representative matters:*

• Accounting Firm: Trial counsel in SEC administrative hearing concerning major accounting firm.
• Washington Mutual: Represented Deloitte & Touche LLP in a multi-district litigation, asserting securities claims against Washington Mutual (WaMu) and its officers and directors, alleging that they omitted and misrepresented material information in WaMu’s public disclosures relating to risk management practices, the quality of its underwriting procedures, the accuracy of appraisals used in underwriting residential mortgage loans, and the adequacy of its allowance for future loan losses. In re Washington Mutual Securities Litigation, Case No. 08-MDL-1919 MJP (W.D. Wash.).
• IndyMac: Represented Ernst & Young LLP in a class action securities lawsuit in US District Court for the Central District of California related to the failure of IndyMac Bancorp, Inc. Robert Daniel v. Michael Perry, et al., Case No. CV 08-03812 (VBKx).
• BDO Ltd.: Lead counsel, defending BDO Ltd. in a class action securities lawsuit, claiming damages in excess of US$100 million. Munoz v. China Expert Technology, Inc. et al., Case No.: 1:07-cv-10531-AKH (SDNY).
• First Regional Bancorp: Won motion to dismiss on behalf of Deloitte in a securities class action lawsuit concerning the failure of First Regional Bank. Buttonwood Tree Value Partners, LP v. Sweeney, et al., Case No.: SACV10-00537-CJC (CD Cal.).
• Enron: Represented Arthur Andersen in a multi-billion dollar consolidated case, In re Enron Corp. Securities, Derivative “ERISA” Litig., MDL 1446, as well as defending Andersen in numerous other venues relating to Enron’s collapse.
• LDK: Lead defense counsel in a securities class action lawsuit, seeking over US$300 million in damages, based on Section 10(b) and 20(a) claims against a solar wafer manufacturer, its senior executives and members of its board of directors. In re LDK Solar Co. Ltd, Sec. Litig., Case No. 07-CV-05182 (ND Cal).
• Agria: Defended the company and its directors and officers in a securities class action lawsuit, seeking over US$140 million in damages based on Section 11 claims against an agricultural products company its senior officers and members of its board of directors. In re Agria Corp. Sec. Litig., Case No. 08-CV-03536 (SDNY).

Representative Speaking Engagements and Articles

• Speaker, “International Issues,” ALI Accountants’ Liability Conference, May 4, 2023
• Speaker, “Accountants’ Liability,” ALI CLE, June 9-10, 2022
• Speaker, “Global Challenges,” Accountants’ Liability 2018: The Profession in an Uncertain World, October 19, 2018
• Speaker, “The Elements of Securities Litigation: Understanding the Basics,” The Knowledge Group, March 15, 2017
• Speaker, “Key Issues Facing Boards of Directors: New SEC Enforcement Initiatives and Corporate Governance Risks,” Directors Roundtable, MCLE, July 1, 2014
• Speaker, “Equipping the Board of the Future,” NACD August 14, 2013
• Speaker, “Top 10 Fraud Issues Every Accountant Should Know” CalCPA, July 2013
• Speaker, Chinese Financial Executives Institute, CFO Forum, May 30, 2013
• “Current Issues Concerning Credit Rating Agencies,” co-authored with Chris Harris and Zachary Rowen, Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions, 2014

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

Amy Feagles is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the Firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of its Antitrust and Competition and White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Groups.

Amy’s practice encompasses a wide range of experience in internal investigations, regulatory and criminal investigations, and complex commercial litigation across a range of industries, including financial services, government contracting, healthcare, and international shipping. She has substantial experience in the defense of multinational companies and individuals in connection with U.S. grand jury investigations, financial regulatory inquiries, and international cartel investigations by U.S. and international antitrust agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice and European Commission. Amy also represents clients in complex antitrust litigation matters, including class actions involving allegations of price fixing and related claims in federal courts.

Amy has been recognized by Legal 500 as a “Recommended Lawyer” in Financial Services Litigation in its 2025 guide. She was also named by Best Lawyers as a 2023 “One to Watch” in both Antitrust Law and Criminal Defense: White Collar.

Selected recent matter includes:

• Representing Binance in U.S. agency matters, including investigations by and resolutions with DOJ, the CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC, and litigation against the SEC.
• Representing a global financial institution in connection with the foreign exchange and LIBOR investigations conducted by the Criminal and Antitrust Divisions of DOJ, the CFTC, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, the European Commission, and numerous other international competition, criminal, and regulatory authorities. 
• Representing a global financial institution in connection with investigations by various U.S. and international agencies relating to European Government Bonds markets.
• Representing a global financial institution in connection with investigations by various U.S. and international agencies relating to U.S. Treasuries markets. 
• Representing an international shipping company in a U.S. grand jury investigation of alleged market allocation in the global container shipping industry; resolved without charges.
• Representing a healthcare company in an antitrust investigation into hiring practices by DOJ.
• Conducting internal investigations for multi-national companies and financial institutions involving wide range of potential issues.
• Representing UBS in the defense of class actions and direct litigation alleging manipulation of foreign exchange markets.
• Representing UBS in the defense of a class action alleging manipulation of European government bonds markets.
• Representing a healthcare company in the defense of Sherman Act claims relating to hiring practices.

Amy graduated cum laude from Duke University School of Law, where she served as an Executive Editor of the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems. Amy also received a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude and with Distinction from Duke University.

Prior to law school, Amy worked at the U.S. Department of State, where she oversaw the implementation of foreign assistance programs in Iraq. In that capacity, she also developed and coordinated policies with respect to human rights and governance in Iraq.

Amy is admitted to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Stephanie L. Brooker, a partner in Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, is Co-Chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations, Anti-Money Laundering, and Financial Institutions Practice Groups. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Brooker served as a prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice. As a DOJ prosecutor, Ms. Brooker served as the Chief of the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, investigated a broad range of white collar and other federal criminal matters, tried 32 criminal trials, and briefed and argued criminal appeals. Ms. Brooker also served as the Director of the Enforcement Division and Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the lead U.S. anti-money regulator and enforcement agency.

During her approximately 25 years in legal practice, Ms. Brooker has been consistently recognized as a leading practitioner in the areas of anti-money laundering compliance and enforcement defense and white collar criminal defense. She was most recently recommended by The Legal 500 for her work in white collar defense and financial services-related matters. Chambers USA has ranked her and described her as an “excellent attorney,” who clients rely on for “important and complex” matters, and noted that she provides “excellent service and terrific lawyering.” Ms. Brooker has also been named a National Law Journal White Collar Trailblazer, a Global Investigations Review Top 100 Women in Investigations, and an NLJ Awards Finalist for Professional Excellence—Crisis Management & Government Oversight.

Ms. Brooker’s practice focuses on internal investigations, regulatory enforcement defense, white-collar criminal defense, and compliance counseling. She handles a wide range of white collar matters, including representing financial institutions, boards of directors, multi-national companies, and individuals in connection with criminal and regulatory enforcement actions involving anti-money laundering (AML)/Bank Secrecy Act (BSA); sanctions; anti-corruption; digital assets and fintech; securities, tax, and wire fraud, foreign influence; work place misconduct; and other legal issues. She routinely handles complex cross-border investigations. Ms. Brooker’s practice also includes BSA/AML and FCPA compliance counseling and deal due diligence and significant criminal and civil asset forfeiture matters.

Ms. Brooker’s investigations matters involve multiple government agencies, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Reserve Board (FRB), Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), state banking agencies and gaming regulators, and foreign regulators.

Ms. Brooker clerked for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for Judge James Robertson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She also worked in private practice as an appellate litigation associate at an international law firm.

She graduated magna cum laude in 2001 from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as Managing Editor of Georgetown Law Journal and was elected to the Order of the Coif. She graduated with highest distinction from Northwestern University with a B.S. in Journalism in 1996. She was also selected as a Harry S. Truman Scholar.

Ms. Brooker serves as Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Robert A. Shuker Scholarship Fund.  Ms. Brooker is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

Recent Representations

• Representing Binance, the largest global crypto exchange, in historic resolutions with the Department of Justice, FinCEN, OFAC, CFTC, and ongoing litigation with the SEC 
• Representing Zoom in DOJ investigations and SEC investigation
• Representing Wells Fargo in sanctions resolutions with OFAC and the Federal Reserve Board 
• Representing global bank in multiple anti-money laundering and corruptions investigations with DOJ, SEC, FinCEN, CFTC, and FINRA 
• Representing global money transmitter in anti-money laundering investigations with DOJ and FinCEN
• Representing individual bank executive in DOJ anti-money laundering investigation
• Representing cryptocurrency companies in DOJ and FinCEN anti-money laundering investigations
• Representing Brazilian manufacturing company and CEO in DOJ sanctions investigation
• Representing public company in investigation by DOJ Public Integrity section, U.S. Attorney’s Office, and state regulator involving public corruption and money laundering allegations
• Representing global bank in investigation involving allegations of money laundering, corruption, insider trading, and tax fraud by DOJ, SEC, and federal banking regulators
• Representing global bank in multiple fraud and anti-money laudering investigations by DOJ
• Representing global bank in money laundering and corruption investigation by foreign regulator
• Representing European bank Board of Directors in connection with DOJ and regulatory actions involving anti-money laundering, corruption, sanctions, and bank regulatory issues
• Conducting multiple sensitive internal investigations involving allegations of money laundering, sanctions, compliance lapses, and employee misconduct for CEO and Board of Directors of global financial institution
• Serving as strategic enforcement counsel for multi-agency DOJ and federal banking regulatory enforcement actions against national bank
• Serving as strategic enforcement counsel for major insurance company involving allegations of money laundering, fraud, and human trafficking
• Conducting independent investigation for Board of Directors involving workplace misconduct allegations against Chief Executive Officer
• Providing anti-money laundering compliance, DOJ compliance guidance, FCPA, and public company compliance advice, risk assessments, and corporate deal due diligence to approximately 50 client banks, broker dealers, digital assets and fintech companies, private equity and hedge funds, money service businesses, casinos, insurance companies, technology companies, hotels, and other multi-national companies
• Serving as outside anti-money laundering compliance and enforcement advisory counsel to two major trade associations in casino and crypto industries
• Serving as testifying expert for Canadian Government’s Cullen Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia
• Editor, ICLG International Publication, Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Regulations (2018-2024)
• Editor, Lexology, International Investigations (2024)

Recent Speaking Engagements

• ABA/ABA Financial Crimes Enforcement Conference, Advisory Board Member and Panel Moderator and Speaker (2017-2024)
• Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Regulatory and Examination Priorities, Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Conference (SIFMA) (2018, 2019, 2022)
• Institute of International Bankers Association, Supervisory Developments Regarding BSA/AML and OFAC Compliance (2016-2020)
• Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists Annual Conference, How Compliance Officers Can Protect Themselves from Personal Liability from Anti-Money Laundering Issues (2023)
• Federal Bar Association, Key Trends in Sanctions Enforcement (2024)
• Association of Corporate Counsel, Key Trends in Crypto Enforcement (2024)
• Seton Hall Law School Gaming Bootcamp Anti-Money Laundering Panel (2022 and 2024)
• American Conference Institute, Digital Assets Enforcement Panel (2023)
• Verafin, Annual Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Conference (2017 and 2021)
• Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA), “Lessons learned from the U.S. Treasury’s recent enforcement actions against financial institutions in the region” (2017)
• Investment Adviser Association, Compliance Conference, AML Panel (2017)
• American Bar Association, Annual Institute on White Collar Crime (2018), Global Reach of Money Laundering Enforcement
• Gibson Dunn Annual Webcast: Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Enforcement and Compliance Update (2018-2024)
• Gibson Dunn Webcast: DPAs, NPAs, and Monitorships (2019-2021)
• Gibson Dunn Webcast: Challenges in Compliance and Corporate Governance (2017 and 2018)

Lindsay M. Paulin is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Government Contracts practice. Lindsay’s clients include contractors and their subcontractors, vendors, and suppliers across a range of industries including aerospace and defense, information technology, professional services, private equity, and healthcare.

Lindsay was most recently recommended by The Legal 500 2025 for her work in Government Contracts. She was also recognized in the 2025 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as “Up and Coming” in the area of Government Contracts – Nationwide. Lindsay has been named to Law360’s “Rising Stars” of 2024 in the area of Government Contracts, “amongst attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.” She has also been named among the National Law Journal’s 2023 D.C. Rising Stars, featuring attorneys “who have wielded influence in their practice areas in the D.C. area and beyond.” Lindsay was recognized by Best Lawyers as “One to Watch” for Administrative and Regulatory Law (2022 – 2023) and Criminal Defense: White Collar (2023), as well as being featured in Super Lawyers Washington D.C. as a “Rising Star” since 2019.

Lindsay’s practice focuses on a wide range of government contracts issues, including internal investigations, claims preparation and litigation, bid protests, government investigations under the False Claims Act, cost allowability, suspension and debarment proceedings, mergers and acquisitions involving government contractors, and compliance counseling. She has represented clients in disputes before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States Court of Federal Claims, the Boards of Contract Appeals, the United States Government Accountability Office, administrative agencies, and other federal and state courts.

A sample of recent and ongoing representations include:

• Ongoing representation of multiple major aerospace and defense contractors before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, Court of Federal Claims, and Federal Circuit in disputes regarding compliance with the Cost Accounting Standards and Federal Acquisition Regulation cost principles.
• Represented Amazon Web Services in Court of Federal Claims bid protest of U.S. Department of Defense award of Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, resulting in DoD cancellation of contract award to competitors.
• Defended government contractor providing logistics and network management services to the military in DOJ investigation of alleged fraudulent bills for goods and services not provided, resulting in DOJ declination and dismissal of the underlying qui tam.
• Represents clients, including private equity firms and government contractors, on M&A transactions.

Lindsay received her law degree with high honors from the George Washington University Law School in 2012, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as an Editor of the George Washington Law Review. While in law school, Lindsay worked for a McLean, Virginia-based government contractor, providing support to the Department of Defense Office of the General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel for International Affairs. In 2009, she received her Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs summa cum laude from the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Lindsay is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia.