Bansaree Shah is an English qualified associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Corporate Transactional and Real Estate Practice Groups.

She has a range of transactional experience, with a primary focus on mergers and acquisitions for corporate and private equity clients. Bansaree also has experience working on corporate and commercial real estate matters, including real estate SPV acquisitions and commercial leasing.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Bansaree trained and practised in the London office of a major international law firm. She read Economics at the London School of Economics.

Suji Han is an associate in the Century City office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices in the firm’s Transactional Department and is a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions and the Private Equity Practice Groups.

Suji has a broad-based practice encompassing public and private company mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, equity investments, restructuring transactions, and general corporate governance matters.* Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Suji was an associate in the Corporate and Securities Department of a multinational law firm in New York.

Suji earned her Juris Doctor in 2017 from Columbia Law School, where she was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and served as an Executive Production Editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and Sponsorship Chair of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. Suji graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology.

Suji is currently admitted to practice law in the State of California and New York.

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

George Hang is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn. He currently practices in the firm’s Transactional Department. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, including leveraged buyouts, divestitures, minority investments, spin-offs, cross-border transactions, and other complex corporate transactions. He also counsels companies on royalty financing transactions, corporate governance, fiduciary duties, and general corporate matters. In addition, George has significant experience in private investment funds and capital markets transactions. 

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

George earned his Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Swarthmore College.

He is admitted to practice law in the States of California and New York.

Brennan Halloran is a corporate associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice Groups.

Brennan represents both public and private companies and financial sponsors in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, minority investments, restructurings, and other complex corporate transactions. He also advises clients with respect to governance and general corporate matters.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Brennan was a corporate associate at an international law firm in New York. He earned his Juris Doctor in 2017 from Harvard Law School, where he served as an Article Editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and, as a student attorney for the Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project, provided pro bono legal research and analysis to entrepreneurs at Harvard and MIT. Brennan earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Rice University in 2014.

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

Yoo Jung Hah is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices with the firm’s Transactional Department.

Yoo Jung earned her Juris Doctor and a Master of Laws (LLM) in Law and Entrepreneurship from Duke University School of Law in 2023. While in law school, she served as an editor on the Duke Law Journal, a Hardt Cup coordinator on the Moot Court, a Co-President of Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and a member on the Dean’s Advisory Council.

She graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a Master of Arts in Social Sciences.

Yoo Jung is admitted to practice in the state of California.

Kelsey Anne Green is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson Dunn, where she practices in the firm’s Transactional Department. Kelsey’s practice is focused on business transactions and corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and corporate governance matters. She has received a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America recognition for Energy Law and Oil and Gas Law since 2021, and in 2024 for her work in Mergers and Acquisitions Law.

Kelsey’s experience involves the representation of financial and strategic buyers and sellers in public and private M&A, as well as complex corporate transactions, including investments and joint ventures, reorganizations, venture capital investments, and divestitures. Kelsey has advised domestic and foreign clients in a wide variety of industries, including energy, oil and gas, technology, healthcare, biotech, telecommunications, real estate, and gaming.

Kelsey graduated cum laude from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law with senior research honors in 2014 and received her Bachelor of Arts with high honors from the College of William & Mary in 2008.

Kelsey is a member of the Colorado bar.

Representative Transactions:

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Represented a real estate investment trust in the US$4.5 billion acquisition and reorganization of a multi-national entity with hundreds of subsidiaries, including CFIUS approval.
• Represented a Japanese multinational conglomerate in the US$160 million cross-border acquisition of a robotics company, including CFIUS approval and the establishment of a voting trust.
• Represented a start-up in a US$130 million auction and stock sale.
• Represented a Colorado-based telecommunications company in the US$100 million patent acquisition with complex cash and stock initial payment and ongoing milestone structure.
• Represented a healthcare company in over a half dozen mergers and acquisitions, ranging in value from US$25 million to US$275 million.
• Represented a Colorado-based entrepreneur in a US$42 million private equity exit.
• Represented a software company in the acquisition of intellectual property and talent from a university system.
• Represented a hardware company in an intellectual property asset sale.
• Represented a semiconductor company in a cross-border asset sale, including CFIUS approval.

Fund Formations

• Advised principals in the formation of funds in the food and beverage, technology, and media industries, including one multinational fund.

General Business Transactions

• Represented a renewable energy portfolio in over a dozen joint venture transactions and asset sales and managed the ongoing corporate governance for its 100+ subsidiaries.
• Advised a private healthcare group in a multi-national reorganization of its investment holdings.
• Advised a pharmaceutical start-up on the recapitalization of its common and preferred shares, including addressing improperly issued shares and shareholder communications, and the implementation of a stock grant program.
• Advised an investment fund on its recapitalization and the formation of a joint venture.
• Advised an investment fund on the dissolution and liquidation of multiple subsidiaries.
• Conducted an internal investigation of an international gaming corporation (Spanish documents).

Kira Dennis is associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn.

Kira graduated magna cum laude from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. During her time at Cardozo, she interned at the New York State Attorney General and the New York City Law Department. She was also a member of the Cardozo International and Comparative Law Review, in which her work is featured. Kira received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in History from Barnard College in 2019.

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

Kyle Clendenon is an associate in the Houston office of Gibson Dunn. He currently practices across the firm’s transactional practice groups.

In 2022, Kyle received his J.D. with honors from The University of Texas School of Law, where he was Managing Editor of the Journal of Law and Technology and Vice President of First Generation Law Students. He also represented Texas Law at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge, an international policy competition focused on global policy and cybersecurity issues.

Kyle received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration magna cum laude and his Masters of Business Administration from Tennessee Technological University. He later became a digital forensics investigator and a university educator before pursuing a career in law.

He is admitted to practice in the State of Texas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recent matters

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

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

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

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

Michael is admitted to practice in California and New York.

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

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

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

He is admitted to practice in the State of California.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Riley is admitted to practice in the State of Texas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

His recent and ongoing experience includes advising:

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

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

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