J. Keith Biancamano is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Transactional Department.

Mr. Biancamano has broad experience in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity and corporate securities matters. His practice includes both domestic and international transactions, including cross border transactions.
Mr. Biancamano has particular experience in dealing with State-owned and State-controlled enterprises. Clients and targets include corporations, LLCs, partnerships and other entities. He represents both public and private companies (including venture backed companies) across multiple industries including internet, energy, marketing, advertising, and direct sales. His clients have included Yukos International, Adknowledge, Intermix Media (MySpace), Odyssey Partners, Wencor, Houlihan Lokey and Petroval S.A. among others.

Mr. Biancamano has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© from 2014 – 2023 in the field of Corporate Law. He is a frequent lecturer on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate law topics.

Mr. Biancamano received his law degree in 1991 from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. He earned his B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1988. During law school,
Mr. Biancamano received American Jurisprudence Awards in both Criminal Procedure and Evidence. He was also selected as a Teaching Assistant for Legal Research and Writing.

Representative transactions include:

Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Representation of publicly traded major integrated oil company in approx. $70 billion merger (not closed)
  • Acquisition of multiple internet advertising and marketing companies in the United States, Canada and throughout Western Europe from 2005 to present
  • Representation of publicly traded major integrated oil company in approx. $1.5 billion Sale of equity interest in Eastern European refinery, pipelines and port, including negotiations with involved governments
  • Representation of publicly traded major integrated oil company in approx. $250 million sale of equity interest in Eastern European pipeline, including negotiations with involved governments
  • Sale of Dutch bunkering company to AIM listed English company
  • Representation of publicly traded HMO in approx. $4 billion merger of equals
  • Representation of diversified real estate services company in multi-year acquisition program, involving over ten acquisitions

Public Securities

  • Representation of diversified real estate services company in approx. $86 million Initial Public Offering, listing on NYSE
  • Acquisition of London Stock Exchange listed consumer products company
  • Representation of diversified real estate services company in $175 million senior subordinated debt offering

Private Securities

  • Representation of online advertising company in approx. $48 million venture capital financing
  • Representation of internet company in financing transactions totaling over $160 million
  • Representation of online consumer product company in financings totaling approximately $50 million

Corporate Governance

  • Advising Nasdaq listed company in connection with SEC and Nasdaq investigations, restatement of financials
  • Representation of major investment bank in connection with NASD investigation

General Corporate

  • Oversee coordination of global legal strategy for major international integrated oil company, including provision of services by over 130 timekeepers

Michael Flynn is a partner in the Orange County office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets Practice Groups. Michael previously served as partner in charge of the Orange County office from 2016-2021. Michael’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, and general corporate representation. He has extensive experience counseling publicly held companies on corporate governance matters, activism matters, defensive measures, disclosure issues, and other complex securities law issues.

Michael’s clients include publicly traded and privately held high growth, technology, aerospace & defense, life science, manufacturing, real estate, home building, restaurant, and consumer products companies. He also provides counsel to equity funds and investment banking firms.

Michael received his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School in 1985 and his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame in 1982. He is a member of the State Bar of California. He was named one of the Top 100 Attorneys in California by the Daily Journal in 2006. Michael has been named a “Super Lawyer” by Los Angeles Magazine between 2012 and 2017. Between 2017 and 2021 Michael has been named to the OC 500 by the Orange County Business Journal. He is a past president of The Pacific Club, and serves on the Board of Directors of Big Canyon Country Club.

Representative Transactions:

Selected Mergers & Acquisitions Experience:

  • Represented Landsea Homes Incorporated in connection with its proposed merger with LF Capital Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: LFAC) in a transaction valued at $510 million
  • Represented American Technologies, Inc., in its acquisition by TSG Consumer Partners
  • Represented EnCore Group (including Encore Interiors, Inc., EnCore International and LIFT by EnCore) in connection with its acquisition by the Boeing Company
  • Represented EnCore Composite Structures, Inc. in its sale to AC&A Enterprises Holdings LLC, a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners LLC
  • Represented the financial advisor to Ruby Tuesday, Inc. in its acquisition by NRD Capital for $335 million
  • Represented the financial advisor to Bob Evans Restaurants in its acquisition by Golden Gate Capital for $565 million
  • Represented Newport Corporation in connection with its $980 million acquisition by MKS Instruments, Inc.
  • Represented PneuDraulics, Inc. in connection with its $325 million sale to TransDigm Group Incorporated
  • Represented Eureka Restaurant Holdings, LLC in connection with its rollup of store partnerships and subsequent recapitalization with KarpReilly, LLC
  • Represented TRI Pointe Homes, Inc. in connection with its $2.8 billion acquisition of Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company, a subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser Company
  • Represented Lazy Dog Restaurants, LLC in connection with its rollup of store partnerships and subsequent recapitalization with Brentwood Associates
  • Represented Bruxie, LLC in connection with its recapitalization with Catterton Partners
  • Represented Celtic Leasing Corp. in its acquisition by MB Financial Bank, N.A.
  • Represented International Bay Clubs, Incorporated (including its wholly owned subsidiaries Balboa Bay Club, Inc. and The Newport Beach Country Club, Incorporated) in its acquisition by an investor group led by Eagle Four Partners and Pacific Hospitality Group
  • Represented Yard House Restaurants in its $200 million acquisition by TSG Consumer Partners
  • Represented CKE Restaurants, Inc. in its $1 billion acquisition by Apollo Management L.P.
  • Represented TGV Capital Partners in its acquisition of portfolio company Thompson/Center Arms, Inc.
  • Represented TGV Capital Partners in its $102 million sale of Thompson/Center Arms, Inc. to Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation
  • Represented Mimi’s Café Restaurants in its $182 million acquisition by Bob Evans Farms
  • Represented Innovate Partners Inc. in its sale of portfolio company Ultimate Ears, LLC to Logitech International
  • Represented Hawker Pacific Aerospace in its acquisition by Lufthansa Technical
  • Represented Legacy Pharmaceuticals International in its acquisition of certain businesses from Valeant Pharmaceuticals International
  • Represented Z Tejas Restaurants, Inc. in its acquisition by Karp Reilly, LLC

Selected Debt and Equity Security Offerings Experience:

  • Represented TRI Pointe Group, Inc. in connection with its offering of $350 million aggregate principal amount of Notes due 2028
  • Represented TRI Pointe Group, Inc. in connection with its offer to purchase for cash any and all of its Senior Notes outstanding due 2021
  • Represented TRI Pointe Group, Inc. in connection with the offering and sale of $143 million of the Company’s common stock by a fund affiliated with Starwood Capital Group
  • Represented TRI Pointe Group, Inc. in a public offering of $300 million senior notes
  • Represented the distribution agent in a $200 million “At the Market” offering program for Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
  • Represented the underwriters in the $46 million follow-on offering of Del Taco Restaurants, Inc.
  • Represented the underwriters in the $103.5 million initial public offering of The Habit Restaurants, Inc.
  • Represented TRI Pointe Homes, Inc. in a private placement under Rule 144A of $900 million senior notes
  • Represented CKE Restaurants, Inc. in a $150 million private placement of convertible subordinate notes
  • Represented Fidelity National Financial, Inc. in a public offering of $250 million principal amount of notes
  • Represented CKE Restaurants in a private placement under Rule 144A of $200 million senior subordinated notes
  • Represented Fidelity National Financial, Inc. in a $270 million secondary public offering of common stock
  • Represented Newport Corporation in a $360 million secondary public offering of common stock

Joseph M. Barbeau is an international commercial lawyer with extensive experience in both Greater China and Silicon Valley. He practiced in Hong Kong for 12 years (1985-1997) and returned as the Partner in Charge of the firm’s Hong Kong and Beijing offices established in 2010 and 2013 respectively. Joseph also practiced in the Bay Area for 15 years, and continues to be actively involved with domestic and cross-border transactions in both regions.

Joseph’s M&A experience includes representing St. Jude Medical, Inc. on its $30.7 billion acquisition by Abbott Laboratories; representation of a Chinese consortium (led by Hua Capital and Citic Capital) on its $1.9 billion acquisition of Omnivision Technologies, Ltd.; and representation of St. Jude Medical, Inc. on its $3.4 billion acquisition of Thoratec Corp.

His practice has been wide-ranging, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, start-up financings, and major licensing transactions, and spans an exceptional breadth of businesses, including internet, software, semiconductor and other technology companies, medical device and health care service companies, apparel, automotive and electronics companies, cleantech and other energy-related transactions, and project infrastructure companies. Joseph also has substantial experience representing pooled investment funds (private equity and venture capital), both in formation and portfolio investment transactions.

Joseph is ranked as a leading attorney in the Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions categories of the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America, and as a 2013 Top Rated Lawyer in Healthcare, in the 2013 joint rankings by The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel. In addition, Chambers and Partners Global 2013 and 2014 editions list Joseph as an “expert based abroad” in the category China – Corporate/M&A (International Firms), noting that he “comes recommended for his experience of both Californian and Chinese jurisdictions” and “earns special praise for his cross-border focus and as someone who is very easy to work with and knows the ins and outs of getting a deal done.”

Joseph was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, receiving his B.A. degree, summa cum laude , in 1977, and his J.D. degree, magna cum laude , in 1981, where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He was a law clerk to the Hon. Gerald W. Heaney of United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

David Korvin is of counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn where he practices in the firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group.

David advises public companies and their boards with respect to corporate governance, federal securities, financial reporting and accounting, insider trading, shareholder engagement and activism matters, and executive compensation matters. He is a Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) FSA Credential Holder and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Charterholder. David is recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America for his work in Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. He has co-authored two chapters in “A Practical Guide to Section 16: Reporting and Compliance.”

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, David was an attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Corporation Finance, where he handled the legal review of Securities Act and Exchange Act filings and served as a member of the Shareholder Proposal Taskforce.

David received his Juris Doctor in 2013 from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He graduated with distinction from Cornell University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Government.

Laura 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.

Laura has extensive expertise in debt financing transactions, advising global corporations, financial institutions, and private equity firms on complex financing solutions.

Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Laura was an associate in the Finance and Restructuring practice groups at another major international law firm. Laura is admitted to practice in New York and Israel.

Linda L. Curtis is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s Finance Practice Group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of corporate finance, including leveraged financings — with a specific focus in recent years on acquisition financings, real estate financings and investment fund financings (including subscription lines of credit). She also represents clients in debt capital markets transactions and has experience in debt restructurings. Linda’s clients include public and private companies in a variety of industries, private equity funds and commercial lenders.

Selected matters include the representation of:

  • a public apparel company with respect to the issuance in a 144A transaction of $550 million in high yield notes and a $1.1 billion senior secured term loan and revolving credit facility;
  • a real estate investment fund with respect to the issuance of $450 million in fixed rate private placement notes;
  • numerous investment funds with respect to subscription and net asset value lines of credit;
  • a real estate investment fund with respect to a workout of senior mezzanine debt on a trophy office building
  • a public company in connection with the $1.1 billion financing of upgrades to facilities at Los Angeles International Airport;
  • a public transportation and logistics company with respect to the acquisition financing for a $610 million purchase of a highly leveraged company pursuant to a complex carveout transaction;
  • ad hoc lender groups in connection with DIP and exit financings to companies in the manufacturing and technology industries.

Linda is ranked by Chambers USA as a Band 1 Banking and Finance lawyer in California, The Best Lawyers in America® in Banking and Finance Law, and included in Law and Politics and Los Angeles magazines as one of Southern California’s “Super Lawyers.” Since its inception in 2018, Linda has been named to every annual IFLR1000 “Women Leaders” list which recognizes 750 female lawyers in the world considered to be among the best transactional specialists in their markets and practice areas. Chambers describes her as having “incredible knowledge on the state of the debt financing market” and notes that market sources commend her “exceptional” representation of borrowers in sophisticated transactions.

Linda was the 2014 – 2015 President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), which is one of the nation’s largest local bar associations. She served previously as chair of LACBA’s Business and Corporations Law Section Executive Committee and LACBA’s Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section Executive Committee. Publications include Financing Provisions in Acquisition Agreements, California Business Law Practitioner, Summer 2011 (with Melissa Barshop).

Linda received her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School and her Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford Business School in 1987. At Stanford Law School, she was an Articles Editor of the Law Review. Prior to her graduate work at Stanford, Linda received a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar, and an A.B. in public affairs/economics from Princeton University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. After graduating from Stanford, Linda clerked for one year for the Honorable Robert F. Peckham, who was then Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Leesa Haspel is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Leesa has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Criminal Defense: White-Collar since 2024.

She received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 2015 from Northwestern University School of Law, where she served as managing editor for the Journal of Law and Social Policy.

Leesa received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Theater Studies from Emory University in 2010. Following graduation, she joined Teach for America and taught high school math. Leesa earned a Master of Education degree in 2011 from Lipscomb University.

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

Darius J. Mehraban is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Finance Practice Group, focusing on loan and other debt financing transactions, as well as swaps and other derivative transactions.

Darius’ debt finance experience includes syndicated credit facilities for leveraged and investment-grade corporate borrowers, project financings, credit facilities for private investment funds, investment-grade, high-yield and convertible note issuances, and structured finance transactions. He has represented borrowers, issuers, arrangers and lenders in many types of secured and unsecured financing structures in a wide range of industries, with particular concentrations in the energy, natural resources and technology sectors.

Darius’ derivative transactional representations for a range of end-user and dealer clients cover many types of equity derivative structures, as well as commodity, currency, interest and credit hedging and total return and synthetic debt products.

Darius is recognized as a leading lawyer in the area of Banking and Finance Law by The Best Lawyers in America® 2026.

Darius earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in December of 1996, where he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Philosophy with high honors from the University of Michigan in 1994.

Cromwell Montgomery is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Los Angeles office. He practices in the firm’s Corporate Department and is a member of the Finance Practice Group. Cromwell’s practice includes secured and unsecured credit transactions, debt capital markets offerings, pre-bankruptcy workouts, debtor-in-possession facilities and other debt financing transactions.  

Cromwell is recognized by Chambers USA as a Band 1 Leading Lawyer in California for Banking and Finance, and has been recognized therein since 2008. He has also been featured in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for his work in Banking and Finance Law, and has been recognized therein since 2013. 

Representative Experience:

  • Various private equity sponsors in a variety of leveraged finance, dividend recapitalization and other financing transactions.
  • A variety of public and private companies in their revolving and term loan credit facilities and high yield and investment grade debt issuances, including:
    • A radio broadcaster in its credit facilities.
    • An auto-parts concern in their credit facilities.
    • An agricultural concern in their credit and structured financing facilities.
    • A restaurant company in its bond issuances and credit facilities.
    • An insurer in their credit and structured financing facilities.
    • An airplane parts supplier in its credit facilities.
  • A financial institution and miscellaneous studios and other lenders in senior, second lien and subordinated film and other content development related financing matters.
  • Various private lenders in a variety of special situation term loan and revolving credit (including asset-based lending) facilities.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Cromwell was an associate with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, and a judicial law clerk for Judge Samuel L. Bufford in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Los Angeles. He received his law degree from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Cromwell graduated, cum laude, from the University of California Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics.

Emily Naughton is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the Real Estate Practice Group where she advises clients on a broad array of commercial real estate transactions, with an emphasis on digital infrastructure. She represents data center owners, developers, operators, and investors globally in connection with acquisition and development projects, disposition and transition of data center facilities, and data center leases and colocation agreements. Emily has deep experience in the data center industry, and an in-depth understanding of the technology powering the cloud and the market for data center services, and applies this knowledge to assist clients with finding practical solutions to meet their business needs.

Emily has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America 2025 and 2026. She was also recognized by GlobeSt. as a 2025 Women of Influence.

Her recent experience includes the following representations:*

  • Negotiation of data center leases and colocation agreements with hyperscale and enterprise customers globally on behalf of both privately held and publicly traded data center operators.
  • Acquisition of greenfield sites across the U.S. on behalf of data center operators and infrastructure investors for development as data centers.
  • Disposition and lease back of data center assets on behalf of enterprise owner/operators, including a Fortune 500 fintech company and a regional health care system.
  • Development of data center lease and colocation agreement forms for data center owners and operators.

Emily received her B.A. with distinction from McGill University, and her J.D. from American University Washington College of Law where she was a member of the American University International Law Review. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland, New York, and Virginia.  

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

Sydney Scott is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Houston office. Ms. Scott has experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in every stage of litigation, from pre-suit demands to final appeals, in a wide array of complex commercial disputes. She has also represented defendants in white-collar criminal matters. Ms. Scott focuses on developing pragmatic, winning strategies to resolve even the most complex disputes.

Benchmark Litigation named Ms. Scott to its 2022 and 2024 “40 & Under List – South,” which identifies the best and brightest litigators across the US and Canada. She is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for Criminal Defense: White-Collar.

Ms. Scott received her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as an Articles Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. At Dartmouth, Ms. Scott won three Ivy League Championships with the women’s basketball team. After college, she played two seasons with B.K. Amager in Copenhagen, Demark and won the Danish Women’s League Championship during her first season.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Scott practiced at Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P., where she was elected to the partnership, and at Vinson & Elkins, LLP. Ms. Scott also clerked for the Honorable Chief Judge Carl E. Stewart on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the Honorable James J. Brady on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.

Ms. Scott is admitted to practice in Texas, and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Sixth Circuits and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Representative matters include*:

  • Obtained a total victory for life settlement broker in payment dispute, including an almost $2 million arbitration award, fees and costs, and a take-nothing judgment on defendant’s counterclaims.
  • Obtained a $3.3 million jury verdict in Texas state court for an oil and gas operator in a contract dispute involving unpaid invoices. Arguing an issue of first impression, successfully defended jury verdict in appeals to the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals and the Texas Supreme Court.
  • Successfully briefed and argued appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on behalf of a billion-dollar settlement facility in a multi-million-dollar payment dispute brought by a foreign class of claimants.
  • Litigated and tried royalty dispute in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas for a group of mineral interest owners against a large oil and gas operator and its non-operating working interest owners. Secured ruling awarding over $8.4 million in damages and making favorable lease interpretations.
  • Represented a group of mineral interest owners in Texas state court against large oil and gas operator in a multi-million-dollar royalty dispute involving novel issues of co-tenancy law. Negotiated a favorable pre-trial settlement.
  • Represented an individual defendant in a federal prosecution and post-conviction proceedings in matter involving charges of wire fraud and money laundering stemming from a multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud investors.

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

Marshall R. King is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Litigation, Securities Litigation, and Class Action Practice Groups.

Marshall is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation in the 2024-2026 editions.

Marshall handles a wide range of complex commercial disputes, including securities litigation, mergers and acquisitions disputes, and bankruptcy litigation. His recent and notable experience includes:

  • Representing UBS in litigation arising out of the Madoff Ponzi scheme. Marshall successfully obtained dismissal of all common law claims in a $2 billion suit brought by the court-appointed trustee for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, and continues to defend suits seeking clawback of monies allegedly traceable to BLMIS.
  • Marshall frequently represents buyers or sellers in disputes arising out of acquisitions. He has both prosecuted and defended claims for fraud and misrepresentation, and often handles earnout and purchase price disputes, both in court and in alternative dispute proceedings.
  • Marshall represents Mesquite Energy, Inc., as reorganized debtor, in several hotly contested proceedings arising out of the bankruptcy of Sanchez Energy Corporation.
  • Marshall is defending Bank of America against claims by the FDIC alleging that Bank of America underpaid more than $1 billion in deposit insurance assessments.
  • Marshall is defending a number of lawsuits on behalf of clients alleged to be unregistered dealers in suits brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • Marshall represented Artémis, a French company, in two federal jury trials arising out of the rehabilitation of Executive Life Insurance Company, which resulted in favorable verdicts, and was selected as one of the Daily Journal‘s Top Defense Verdicts of the year.

Marshall received his Juris Doctor cum laude in 1991 from Harvard Law School. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with high honors in Economics from Princeton University in 1988. He is a member of the Bars of New York and New Jersey.

Marshall currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Legal Services NYC, the largest provider of free civil legal services in the country. He also served for more than 10 years on the Board of Beginning with Children Foundation.

Laura M. Sturges is Of Counsel in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department, and has substantial experience in a number of areas, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) investigations and compliance initiatives, antitrust litigation, commercial litigation, False Claims Act cases, appellate litigation, and SEC enforcement proceedings.

Laura currently is leading a team conducting an FCPA investigation in Brazil, including interfacing with U.S. authorities. She previously served as a core member of an international team of Gibson Dunn lawyers assisting the compliance monitor in connection with the then-largest FCPA settlement ever. She has helped clients trouble-shoot FCPA compliance programs and identify potential violations in a variety of contexts, and regularly conducts M&A and third-party due diligence. Her FCPA compliance monitoring work includes activities in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.

In addition to her FCPA experience, Laura has significant and wide-ranging experience in other areas of litigation. She recently represented clients facing antitrust claims in the healthcare industry, and resolved complex trade secret and employment litigation on behalf of a financial services client. She has extensive experience representing clients in complex contract dispute litigation in both state and federal court in a variety of industries, including real estate, construction, and hedge fund investing. Laura also assisted in the successful representation of clients accused of violating the False Claims Act in the Medicare context at both the federal district and appellate levels.

Laura also maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing asylum candidates, assisting refugees, and successfully representing a local charitable organization from trial court through the Colorado Supreme Court. Her commitment to pro bono has led to her twice receiving the firm’s Frank Wheat award, given annually to lawyers in the firm who obtain significant results for their pro bono clients and demonstrate leadership and initiative that serve as inspiration to others.

She is admitted to practice law in the State of Colorado. Laura is a member of the Colorado, Denver, and Colorado Women’s Bar Associations, recently chaired the Law Alumni Board of Directors of the University of Colorado School of Law, and is a member of the Georgetown University Alumni Admissions Committee in Colorado. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for Work Options for Women. Laura was named a “Colorado Rising Star” by Colorado Super Lawyers magazine in both 2010 and 2012. Laura has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Corporate Law since 2022.

Before joining the firm, she served as a law clerk to The Honorable Phillip S. Figa in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Laura earned her law degree magna cum laude in 2005 from the University of Colorado School of Law, where she graduated first in her class. She graduated cum laude from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, where she was a two-time NCAA All-American in Cross Country and Track. Before attending law school, Laura taught high school social studies.

Ryan Dosh is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Department.

He represents institutional investors, REITs, private equity funds, real estate funds, opportunity funds, fund sponsors and other real estate investors, developers and operators in a broad range of commercial real estate matters, including joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, financings, recapitalizations and development matters. His experience includes a variety of asset classes, including office and life science buildings, multi-family and student housing projects, industrial parks, retail and mixed-use centers, hotels and short-term rentals, single-family rentals and vacant land.

Ryan is also experienced in representing public pension funds and sovereign wealth funds making investments in domestic and international private funds investing in real estate, debt, infrastructure and other alternative assets.

Ryan was recognized as a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ in Real Estate Law since 2022 and as a Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2023 and 2024.

Ryan received his law degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he was an Editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, a member of the Dean’s Honor List and graduated with Honors in completion of the Corporate Law Concentration. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from California Lutheran University.

He was also a member of NAIOP SoCal Young Professionals Group, Class of 2019-2020.

Ryan is licensed to practice in the State of California.

Nathan C. Strauss is Of Counsel in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. 

Nathan’s practice focuses on representing corporate clients in high-stakes, bet-the-company litigation, with a focus on securities litigation and corporate governance disputes. He specializes in matters involving valuations of complex financial instruments or corporate transactions, as well as matters involving machine learning. He has represented clients in a range of industries, including the financial sector, media, technology, and manufacturing.

Nathan has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Commercial Litigation since 2024. Nathan’s recent and ongoing representations include*:

Securities Litigation and Regulation:

  • Represented SolarEdge Technologies, Inc., a major global supplier in the residential and commercial solar energy markets, in a purported securities fraud class action challenging disclosures relating to sales practices, channel-stuffing, and international demand, as well as in follow-on derivative actions, all filed in the Southern District of New York.
  • Represented a major international investment bank in a number of securities fraud matters brought in New York State by investors in complex mortgage-backed derivatives sold by the bank prior to the housing market collapse. 
  • Represented Medallion Financial Corp. and its CEO in a civil securities fraud matter relating to accounting standards and subsidiary valuation brought by the SEC in S.D.N.Y.
  • Represented a hedge fund partner in an investigation by the Securities Exchange Commission regarding potential violations of SEC regulations and market manipulation, leading the SEC to close the investigation with no penalty.
  • Represented a major international bank in an investigation by the CFTC and other federal and state regulatory bodies regarding potential rate manipulation.

Delaware Corporate Law/Fiduciary Duty:

  • Secured dismissal of all claims against US WorldMeds Partners and its subsidiary after plaintiffs asserted several vicarious liability theories under Delaware law. Also secured dismissal of all claims against four current and former officers of US WorldMeds based on an application of Delaware’s officer consent statute. 
  • Represented four members of the board of directors of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings in an expedited trial before the Delaware Court of Chancery arising from a proxy contest initiated by the company’s executive chairman. Gibson Dunn’s clients prevailed in the proxy contest after the court issued its post-trial opinion.
  • Represented Goldman Sachs in litigation relating to interpretation of bylaws governing corporate officer indemnification under Delaware Law, including in a successful appeal to the Third Circuit.

Media and Technology:

  • Represented a group of the founders, early executives, and employees of the online dating application Tinder in a multibillion-dollar litigation, including a month-long jury trial in New York State court, culminating in a highly favorable settlement.
  • Defended Meta in purported class actions alleging discrimination resulting from the machine learning algorithms underlying targeting and delivery of advertisements to users. 

Additional Complex Litigation:

  • Successfully defended the New York Islanders in Article 78 proceedings seeking to halt the construction of the new UBS Arena, including defeating motions for temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction. 
  • Represented a global chemical and products manufacturer in connection with litigation seeking upwards of $1 billion in damages arising from a proposed deal relating to refinery cleaning technology, culminating in dismissal of all claims at summary judgment.
  • Secured dismissal of claims brought against Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., and its founder in four different jurisdictions, including New York State court and S.D.N.Y., and secured sanctions against plaintiff’s counsel. 

Nathan has an active pro bono practice and has received the Pro Bono Publico Award in recognition of his work on post-conviction relief with The Legal Aid Society. Nathan also serves on the Board of The Legal Aid Society’s New Leadership Program, as well as on the Nominating Committee of the NLP Board. 

He graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law. He earned his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard University.

Nathan is admitted to practice in the State of New York, and before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

* Includes matters handled by Nathan prior to his joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Megan Hulce is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

She is recognized in the 2026 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Commercial Litigation.

Megan graduated with pro bono distinction from Stanford Law School, where she served as an Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review. Megan graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis with a double major in Philosophy and Organization and Human Resources.

Megan is admitted to practice in the State of Texas.

Andrew J. Dady is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of the Real Estate Practice Group. Mr. Dady focuses his commercial real estate practice on debt and equity finance, sales, acquisitions and development. He represents a wide range of clients, including developers, lenders, institutional investors, landlords and significant tenants.

Mr. Dady is ranked as one of the leading real estate lawyers in New York by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business , The Best Lawyers in America®, and Who’s Who Legal Real Estate. Chambers USA notes that Mr. Dady is “at the top of his game in terms of expertise in the marketplace” and “an amazing negotiator who doesn’t lose sight of the end goal. He ensures protection of the client while getting the deal done – a great business mind.”

Mr. Dady received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 1989, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and his Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in 1986.

Mr. Dady is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Danielle Zapata is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s New York office. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation department, and her practice focuses on intellectual property litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, Danielle served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. During her clerkship, she gained valuable behind-the-scenes experience assisting on numerous judicial proceedings, including sixteen civil jury trials and one bench trial.

Prior to clerking, Danielle was an associate at Greenberg Traurig LLP in New York, where her practice focused on intellectual property litigation.

Danielle graduated summa cum laude from UNT Dallas College of Law in 2021, where she was the Valedictorian. While in law school, she was a judicial extern for Judge Karen Gren Scholer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and served as the Editor-in-Chief for UNT Dallas Law Review – On the Cusp. Danielle received her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Arkansas in 2018.

Danielle is a member of the State Bar of New York and is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Christopher Kopp is an associate in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s White Collar and Antitrust and Competition Practice Groups. Chris’s practice is focused on advising multinational corporations on Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, and antitrust matters, with a particular focus on assisting clients navigating Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission investigations, as well as private party litigation involving complex antitrust and consumer protection issues. 

Chris earned recognition in the 2026 edition of Best Lawyers in America©: “Ones to Watch” for his work in Administrative – Regulatory Law practice.

Chris’s antitrust experience includes representing:

  • VMware in securing global antitrust clearance of its $61 billion acquisition by Broadcom;
  • AT&T in its successful defense of DOJ’s challenge to AT&T’s $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner;
  • Deutsche Telekom in its successful defense of a challenge by 16 states to the Sprint–T-Mobile merger;
  • Smithfield Foods in connection to a multi-district class action alleging a decade-long price fixing conspiracy;
  • Welbilt in its proposed acquisition by Middleby and then in the successful topping bid acquisition by Ali Group;

Chris’s investigations and white collar experience includes representing:

  • A money transmitter in connection to a DOJ investigation of alleged Bank Secrecy Act violations;
  • A global telecommunications company in connection to a DOJ investigation of foreign bribery and money laundering;
  • A large Israeli bank in connection to a government investigation of alleged tax evasion.

Chris also spent a year seconded at a large technology company, where he was responsible for responding to regulatory investigations and inquiries, including outreach from state and federal regulators regarding workplace safety, controlled substances sold on the company’s marketplace, artificial intelligence controls, and discrimination. Chris’s responsibilities included coordinating with multiple in-house business teams, preparing advocacy, briefing senior business and legal leaders, managing outside counsel, as well as designing and implementing ethics and compliance programs.

Chris received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 2014, where he graduated magna cum laude. He earned his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Maryland in 2009.

Prior to joining the firm, Chris served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen J. Murphy on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and to the Honorable Deborah L. Cook on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Prior to attending law school, he served as a non-commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps.

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

Jessica Valenzuela is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Securities Litigation Practice Group. Jessica’s practice focuses on securities, corporate governance and other complex business litigation, including the defense of securities class actions, derivative suits and M&A-related class actions. In addition to representing clients in state and federal courts, she also represents companies, boards and special committees in government and internal investigations and counsels public and private companies and their directors and officers about a wide range of issues relating to corporate governance, insider trading, disclosure obligations, director and executive compensation matters and litigation risk and strategy.

Jessica has also litigated commercial disputes in international and domestic arbitrations. Her clients have included companies and individuals in the hardware, software, semiconductor, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, finance, internet and digital-media industries.

Jessica is ranked among the leading Securities Litigation practitioners in California by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. She is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for her expertise in Commercial Litigation and Litigation Securities (2023-2026). The Legal 500 US 2025 guide distinguishes her as a “Recommended Lawyer” in Securities Litigation: Defense. Jessica has also been named to The Daily Journal’s list of “Top Women Lawyers” and The Recorder’s “Women Leaders in Tech Law.” LMG Life Sciences 2022 acknowledged Jessica as a “Life Sciences Star.” She was also recognized as a Benchmark Litigation “Future Star,” to the Lawyers of Color “Hot List” and Silicon Valley Latino’s “40 Under 40 Latinos2Watch.” In 2014, she was a Fellow on the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Jessica was a partner at Cooley LLP.

Jessica graduated from Stanford Law School with distinction in 2002. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 1999, where she graduated with departmental honors.

Recent matters include:*

  • Filed a successful motion to dismiss a complaint on behalf of Fastly Inc. that alleged violations of federal securities laws against the company and two executive officers, and obtained voluntary dismissal of derivative lawsuits based on the same allegations.
  • Obtained dismissal of two complaints filed against Overstock.com and certain officers alleging that they violated federal securities laws.
  • Filed a successful motion to dismiss a complaint alleging violations of federal securities laws on behalf of Stitch Fix, Inc.
  • Defended Twitter Inc. and two former officers in a class action lawsuit alleging violations of federal securities laws.
  • Secured rare dismissal of claims brought under the Securities Act of 1933 in California state court filed against Pure Storage alleging that the company made false and misleading statements in the prospectus filed in connection with its IPO.
  • Obtained dismissal with prejudice of a derivative lawsuit filed against publicly-traded pharmaceutical company alleging that the company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act.
  • Obtained orders granting motions to dismiss multiple shareholder derivative lawsuits filed against Orexigen Therapeutics challenging executive stock option awards.
  • Represented special committee of publicly-traded utilities company in internal investigation into alleged improper executive stock option awards.
  • Represented publicly-traded software company in internal investigation in response to whistleblower allegations of improper recognition of revenue.
  • Secured the dismissal of a series of derivative lawsuits against eBay based on allegations that the company’s directors breached their fiduciary duties related to strategic transactions and hiring practices.
  • Represented Blurb, Inc. against copyright infringement claims filed on behalf of the monkey who purportedly snapped the infamous “Monkey Selfie.”
  • Obtained a complete dismissal of a class action complaint filed against XOMA Corporation and certain of its officers alleging violations of federal securities laws, and obtained voluntary dismissal of derivative lawsuits based on the same allegations.
  • Negotiated favorable settlements of federal securities class actions and federal and state derivative actions on behalf of a former director and audit-committee chair of a Chinese company accused of accounting fraud that entered the US capital markets through a reverse-merger.

*Includes representations prior to Jessica’s association with Gibson Dunn.