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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Representative Strategic M&A Transactions:

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

Representative Private Equity Transactions:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dana E. Sherman is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  Her practice focuses on high-stakes securities and commercial disputes involving complex financial concepts.  Dana represents public and private companies and their officers and directors in stockholder class actions and stockholder derivative actions, as well as related litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country.

Recent representative matters include:

  • 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 the Nasdaq Stock Market in securing complete dismissal on summary judgment of putative securities class action concerning high-frequency trading.
  • Defending Energy Transfer, a Fortune 100 owner-operator of diversified energy assets, in multiple securities class actions arising from pipeline projects in Pennsylvania and Ohio.  Secured summary judgment ruling substantially narrowing the claims that could be litigated in one action and reducing potential damages exposure by over 90%, resulting in a highly favorable settlement.
  • Represented Coupang, Inc. in securing favorable pre-trial settlement for global e-commerce company in share ownership dispute filed by former employee in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
  • Represented Rio Tinto Group in securities enforcement action concerning multi-billion-dollar investment in Mozambique.
  • Represented Empire Merchants, LLC in connection with civil RICO lawsuit against Maryland liquor distributor and related advancement litigation in state and federal courts.
  • Trial counsel to plaintiff in federal civil rights action concerning excessive force allegations.

She also maintains an active pro bono practice.  In partnership with Legal Services NYC and Immigration Equality, she represents LGBT persons seeking asylum and other forms of immigration relief from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and Immigration Courts.  She has also represented civil rights claims to a federal jury.

She earned her Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 2016, where she was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as a Managing Editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.  While in law school, Dana served as a judicial extern to then-Chief Judge Robert Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and an extern in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

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

Daniel P. Chung is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a nationally-recognized trial lawyer and litigator, and his practice focuses on commercial litigation and defense against civil and criminal regulatory enforcement. He also regularly advises corporate executives, boards, and audit committees, and conducts sensitive internal investigations. His experience spans a broad spectrum of sectors, with particular depth in technology companies, media companies, the healthcare sector, and financial institutions. He is the Co-Hiring Partner of Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Daniel served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted a wide range of complex federal criminal cases, involving securities fraud, health care fraud, insurance fraud, immigration fraud, money laundering, complex racketeering, murder, terrorism, and international drug cartels. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Daniel tried eight federal criminal jury trials to verdict, and briefed and argued numerous federal appeals before the Second Circuit. Daniel has been recognized and honored for his advocacy and thought leadership, including being recommended by The Legal 500 for his work in Government Contracts; as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal; a “Future Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation; and as a “Rising Star” by the National Law Journal.

Recent significant engagements include:

  • 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 to competitor.
  • Obtained a complete voluntary dismissal of a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by U.S. Department of Justice relating to labor costs incurred at nuclear waste management site by defense contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions and Fluor Corp.
  • Obtained a complete voluntary dismissal of a federal class action lawsuit alleging false imprisonment, fraud, and various tort claims by former employees against a major contractor for services to U.S. Army.
  • Defended a technology/social media company in connection with an investigation by the DOJ and SEC into company’s IPO-related disclosures, resulting in declination of enforcement action.
  • Defended a global financial institution in connection with an investigation by the SEC of asset impairment accounting practices, resulting in a declination of enforcement action.
  • Defended global pharmaceutical company in connection with a FCPA investigation by the DOJ and SEC, resulting in a declination of criminal prosecution by the DOJ and a favorable settlement with the SEC.
  • Defended an officer of offshore drilling company Noble Corp. in an SEC enforcement action alleging improper payments in Nigeria. Settled the case on the eve of trial with no admission of liability and no monetary penalties, in what legal commentators called a “defeat” for the SEC and “significant victories for the individuals.”
  • Defended a national commissary services provider in connection with RICO litigation brought by Mississippi State Attorney General relating to alleged corruption scheme with Mississippi Department of Corrections, resulting in a favorable settlement.
  • Defended Universal Health Services, Inc. in connection with a nationwide False Claims Act investigation by the DOJ, HHS-OIG, and various state Attorneys General relating to alleged fraud and quality of care issues, resulting in a favorable settlement.
  • Defended a former executive of a U.S. software company in connection with a procurement fraud investigation by U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and DHS-OIG, resulting in a declination of criminal prosecution.

Daniel is a regular featured speaker on white collar enforcement and regulatory topics, including for Thomson-Reuters Forums, the American Conference Institute, and the Practising Legal Institute. He has guest lectured at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Georgetown Law Center, George Washington University Law School, Notre Dame Law School, Columbia Law School, and the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. He is on the Board of Directors of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.

Daniel is a 2003 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Following law school, Daniel served as a law clerk for the Honorable Norman H. Stahl on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and then for the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Daniel is admitted to practice in the state of New York and the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Dhananjay (DJ) Manthripragada is a partner in the Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Chair of the firm’s Government Contracts practice group, and also a member of the Litigation, Class Actions, Labor & Employment, and Aerospace and Related Technologies practice groups. Mr. Manthripragada has a broad complex litigation practice, and has served as lead counsel in precedent setting litigation before several United States Courts of Appeals, District Courts and state courts in jurisdictions across the country, the Court of Federal Claims, and the Federal Government Boards of Contract Appeals. He has first-chair trial experience and has successfully tried to verdict both jury and bench trials, and has served as lead counsel in arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution forums. His practice spans a wide range of industries, and he has represented some of the world’s leading aerospace and defense, finance, logistics/transportation, high-technology, and pharmaceutical companies in their most significant matters. Mr. Manthripragada is also highly regarded as a trusted advisor to clients regarding significant compliance/enforcement, contract, dispute resolution, and employment issues. He was recommended by The Legal 500 in 2025 for his work in Government Contracts, and recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® “Ones to Watch” in Commercial Litigation in 2021 and 2022.

Complex Trial and Appellate Litigation: Mr. Manthripragada has extensive experience in a broad range of business litigation, including class and mass action litigation. He has served as lead counsel in employment, consumer, wage-and-hour, and unfair competition class actions and other complex litigation matters. In addition to litigating, Mr. Manthripragada counsels clients on compliance with rapidly evolving state and federal law, as well as the development and implementation of business model changes and best practices to minimize the risk of litigation or government enforcement actions. He has counseled clients across a range of industries on recent trends in worker classification, and successful strategies by companies and employers to manage potential liability. He has also conducted numerous internal investigations regarding sensitive matters. Clients have praised Mr. Manthripragada’s ability to craft practical legal solutions to complex problems. Recognized as a thought leader in the industry, Mr. Manthripragada has delivered numerous seminars on key developments in worker classification and arbitration laws. Some of Mr. Manthripragada’s most recent non-confidential matters include:

 

  • Represent logistics companies defending multiple enforcement actions alleging misclassification of truck drivers as independent contractors and involving complex issues regarding the preemption of worker classification law AB5.
  • Represent Grubhub in landmark trial victory in a federal case ruling that a driver who used Grubhub’s app was an independent contractor, after preemptively defeating class certification.
  • Represented Uber in a series of putative class actions asserting that Uber has misclassified drivers as independent contractors, including persuading the Ninth Circuit to grant interlocutory review of a class certification order, and obtaining decisions by the Ninth Circuit enforcing Uber’s arbitration agreements and decertifying a class of hundreds of thousands of drivers.
  • Obtained rulings from federal and state courts across the country compelling individual arbitration and dismissing and/or staying class and collective actions.
  • Lead counsel for logistics and network companies in a series of putative class actions, PAGA actions, and FLSA actions pending in California state and federal courts, asserting misclassification of drivers as independent contractors.
  • Lead trial counsel for multiple platform companies in arbitrations and administrative trials regarding independent contractor classification.
  • Represented Hewlett-Packard Company in a two-part, multi-week trial involving breach of contract and unfair competition claims that resulted in a unanimous jury verdict in favor of HP, with the jury awarding HP over $3 billion in damages.
  • Counsel for Co-CEOs of algorithmic trading company in five-day arbitration of claims alleging breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty, which resulted in a complete victory on all claims and the award of $3 million in attorneys’ fees and costs in favor of Gibson Dunn’s clients.
  • Presented CLE class titled “Recent Trends in Arbitration and Worker Classification: What Companies Need to Know Going into 2020.”

Government Contracts Practice: As Chair of the firm’s Government Contracts practice, Mr. Manthripragada has a breadth of experience in the field of government contracts. His government contracts practice focuses on civil and criminal fraud investigations and litigation, complex claims preparation and litigation, qui tam suits under the False Claims Act, defective pricing, cost allowability, the Cost Accounting Standards, and compliance counseling. He has represented government contractors and their subcontractors, vendors, and suppliers before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, the United States Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, and federal appellate and trial courts across the country, and has provided advice to clients on issues involving contract negotiations, claims analysis, and contract performance. Mr. Manthripragada also maintains a robust compliance counseling practice, aimed at offering practical guidance on complex regulatory issues while remaining mindful of clients’ business goals.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Government Contract Costs, Pricing and Accounting Report. He also serves on The Government Contractor Advisory Board. Some of Mr. Manthripragada’s most recent non-confidential matters include:

  • Ongoing representation of multiple major defense contractors before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals in disputes regarding compliance with the Cost Accounting Standards.
  • Successful bid protest before the Government Accountability Office on behalf of a logistics and shipping company.
  • Lead counsel for a Department of Defense contractor in negotiating a zero dollar settlement of a government contracts dispute before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.
  • Lead counsel for a Department of Defense contractor in a breach of contract claim filed by a subcontractor in California federal court.
  • Lead counsel for NASA contractor in successful resolution of a contract dispute relating to labor costs incurred under a services contract in proceedings before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.
  • Lead counsel for government contractor in dispute with the Department of Homeland Security, which resulted in resolution of all disputes in contractor’s favor.
  • Lead counsel for Department of Defense contractor with respect to contract disputes in Iraq.
  • Lead counsel for government contractor with respect to its agreements with the Department of the Treasury to provide cash management services.

Community and Firm Involvement: In addition to serving as a practice group leader, Mr. Manthripragada is Co-Chair of the Los Angeles Office’s Diversity Committee. Mr. Manthripragada is also deeply committed to his pro bono practice and was recognized by the City of Los Angeles for his pro bono work on behalf of human trafficking victims and transition-aged foster youth. He has been recognized by various other organizations, including the Bay Area Legal Aid Foundation, for his pro bono efforts. He was also honored as a winner of Gibson Dunn’s Frank Wheat Memorial Award for his commitment to pro bono work.

Mr. Manthripragada currently serves on the board of the Los Angeles Urban League, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting education, job training, housing, and community development in underserved communities in Los Angeles.

Selected Publications and Webcasts:

  • “Aerospace and Related Technologies Update – Spring 2021” Gibson Dunn Client Alert, April 20, 2021
  • Recent Trends in Arbitration and Worker Classification: What Companies Need to Know in 2020, May 22, 2020
  • “Aerospace and Related Technologies Update – Spring 2020” Gibson Dunn Client Alert, May 19, 2020
  • “2018 Year-End Government Contracts Litigation Update” Gibson Dunn Client Alert, February 14, 2019
  • “2018 Mid-Year Government Contracts Litigation Update” Gibson Dunn Client Alert, July 30, 2018
  • “Aerospace and Related Technologies – Key Developments in 2017 and Early 2018” Gibson Dunn Client Alert, March 16, 2018
  • “Species protection versus state agency autonomy: who wins under the California Endangered Species Act?” 36 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10644-10657 (2006).

Education and Background: Mr. Manthripragada received a law degree in 2007 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he served as Chief Comments Editor and Articles Editor of the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy. While in law school, Mr. Manthripragada served as a judicial extern to Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Duke University in 2004.

Before attending law school, Mr. Manthripragada worked in the field of public health, including at the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Public Health Association.

Mr. Manthripragada is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and the state of California.

Shawn Burrows is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson Dunn. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and general corporate matters. He also advises clients on cybersecurity, international trade, and technology matters. 

Shawn graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as Co-President of the Harvard Association for Law and Business. He earned his B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy where he graduated as a Distinguished Honor Graduate. Prior to attending law school, Shawn served as an active duty infantry officer in the U.S. Army. He is a graduate of U.S. Army Ranger School, Airborne School, and Air Assault School.

Shawn is admitted to practice in Texas.