Kathryn Chevalier is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and maintains an active pro bono practice.

Kathryn earned her Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law in 2024, where she was a Senior Editor for the UCLA Law Review. She graduated with honors from The George Washington University in 2018, where she studied Political Science and Theatre. Prior to attending law school, Kathryn was the Chief of Staff at Fund Her, a PAC dedicated to electing women to lead state legislatures.

Kathryn is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

Samarah Jackson is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Samarah earned her Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law. While in law school, Samarah was a Legal Research and Writing Advisor and was a recipient of a Masin Family Academic Excellence Award in Legal Research and Writing. She graduated cum laude from Occidental College with a Bachelor of Arts in Politics with a minor in Philosophy.

Samarah is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

Geoffrey E. Walter is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group. He advises public companies and their boards of directors on a wide range of corporate law matters, including securities and corporate governance practices and disclosure issues, compliance with SEC regulations and executive compensation, shareholder engagement and activism matters, insider trading, shareholder proposals, and responses to SEC inquiries. Geoffrey also has experience advising nonprofit organizations on issues related to corporate governance.

Geoffrey received the Certified Corporate Governance Professional designation, is a member of the Society for Corporate Governance, and is recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America 2025. He co-authored a chapter in the “Executive Compensation Disclosure Handbook: A Practical Guide to the SEC’s Executive Compensation Disclosure Rules” and is a frequent speaker on securities law and corporate governance issues.

Geoffrey earned his Juris Doctor in 2013 from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. While at Columbia, Geoffrey was awarded the Isaac and Jacqueline Weiss Shapiro Fellowship in Japanese Law and received a Certificate in International Law from the Parker School. He graduated in 2004 from Amherst College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he was an associate in the Executive Compensation Group of another international law firm in New York, where he advised clients on executive compensation, equity-based incentive, severance plans and other executive compensation arrangements.

Rob Kelley is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Capital Markets and Securities Regulation & Corporate Governance Practice Groups.

Rob earned his Juris Doctor magna cum laude in 2015 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He graduated in 2009 from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he was an associate in the corporate department at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York.

Ron Kirk is Senior Of Counsel in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Dallas and Washington, D.C. offices. He is Leader of the International Trade Advisory and Enforcement Practice Group and a member of the Sports Law, Public Policy, Crisis Management and Private Equity Practice Groups.

Ambassador Kirk focuses on providing strategic advice to companies with global interests.

Ambassador Kirk has had an extensive career in Public Service. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn in April 2013, Ambassador Kirk served as United States Trade Representative (USTR) and was a member of President Obama’s Cabinet, serving as the President’s principal trade advisor, negotiator and spokesperson on trade issues. He also served as Mayor of Dallas from 1995 – 2001, and as Texas Secretary of State in 1994 appointed by Gov. Ann W. Richards.

Prior to joining USTR, Ambassador Kirk was a partner at Vinson & Elkins LLP, where his principal area of practice was public finance and public policy.

Ambassador Kirk serves as a Corporate Director for Texas Instruments, and Macquarie Infrastructure Corp, and previously as a Director for Brinker International, Dean Foods, and PetSmart. He serves as a Trustee for Austin College, the LBJ Presidential Library Foundation, and on the Board of the Dallas Citizens Council. Ron also is a Board Member of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Ambassador Kirk was born and raised in Austin, Texas, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and sociology from Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He received his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1979. He is married to Matrice Ellis-Kirk, and they have two adult daughters. Ambassador Kirk is admitted to practice in Texas and the District of Columbia.

Mellissa Duru is a corporate partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn, where she is a member of the firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mellissa served as Deputy Director of the Division of Corporation Finance’s Legal Regulatory Policy group at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

As Deputy Director, Mellissa oversaw transactional filings, rules, interpretative guidance, and exemptive and no-action relief requests within the Division of Corporation Finance’s Office of Mergers & Acquisitions, Office of International Corporation Finance, Office of Small Business Policy, Office of Rulemaking, and Office of Structured Finance.

Before her role at the SEC, Mellissa was a special counsel in the Securities & Capital Markets practice at a multinational law firm, advising clients on securities regulation, capital markets transactions, and strategic corporate governance. She also served as a Vice Chair of the firm’s global Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practice.

Mellissa’s distinguished SEC career spanned more than 18 years, during which she served as Counsel to SEC Commissioner Kara Stein, Special Counsel in the Division of Corporation Finance’s Office of Mergers & Acquisitions, and Cybersecurity Legal and Policy Advisor in the Division of Examinations. She also was selected as the SEC Brookings Institute Legislative Congressional Fellow in the Office of U.S. Senator Jack Reed.

Her extensive experience in both private practice and at the SEC has equipped her with deep expertise in a broad range of areas, including 1933 Securities Act and 1934 Securities Exchange Act rules and advisory work, public company reporting obligations, domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, tender offer and going private transactions, proxy solicitations, strategic shareholder engagement and corporate governance advisory work, beneficial ownership reporting, and ESG and cybersecurity disclosure and governance.

Mellissa earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A., First Class Honors, from McGill University. She is a member of the New York State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar.

Timoteo J. L’Esperance is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Timoteo earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he served as an editor on the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. During law school, Timoteo practiced in the Turner Family Community Enterprise Clinic as a student attorney, where he represented a local small business with transactional matters. He concurrently received his Master of Science in Finance from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management.

Timoteo is admitted to practice in the State of Colorado.

Alexander Fischer is a litigation associate in the Houston office of Gibson Dunn. His practice involves high-stakes litigation and arbitration, especially involving complex contract-interpretation and Constitutional issues. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state trial and appeals courts in a wide variety of cases. His pro bono practice focuses on reproductive freedom; immigration; media and nonprofit First Amendment rights; police misconduct; and veterans law, particularly on behalf of veterans with less-than-honorable discharges and post-traumatic stress disorder. He previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Wendy Beetlestone of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Alexander earned his Juris Doctorate in 2022 from Yale Law School. At Yale he was a member of the Veterans Legal Services Clinic. He helped secure a settlement with a military branch on behalf of tens of thousands of veterans in federal district court, and he argued and won a statutory-interpretation case in federal appeals court on behalf of an Iraq War veteran seeking medical retirement. In recognition of his work with the clinic, he was awarded the C. LaRue Munson Prize for excellence in practice. He was also a Coker Fellow for Constitutional Law with Professor Paul Kahn. 

Before law school, Alexander was an aerospace-industry manufacturing consultant. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Highest Honors in Plan II Honors, Rhetoric and Writing, and Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin.

Alexander is licensed to practice in Texas and New York.

Carolyn Ye is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Carolyn represents clients in civil and commercial disputes across a range of practice areas, including labor and employment matters, media and entertainment disputes, domestic and international arbitrations, securities litigation, and real estate-related disputes.

Carolyn also maintains an active pro bono practice in matters of immigration, international human rights, and reproductive rights. She is also actively involved in diversity and mentorship programming, serving as Co-Chair of the New York Office AAPI and Women of Color committees.

Carolyn received her Juris Doctor in 2022 from New York University School of Law where she received the Vanderbilt Medal and served as the Senior Notes Editor of the New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. She graduated from Harvard University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in Human Evolutionary Biology.

Carolyn is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, and District of Columbia.

Lore Leitner is a partner in the London and Brussels offices of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation practice group.  

Lore has fifteen years of experience advising clients on all aspects of tech law, including data protection and cybersecurity. During that time, she has guided several well-known technology companies through litigation and regulatory investigations, sometimes involving multiple agencies across the EU. 

She has considerable expertise in helping companies implement business strategies that involve large-scale data use, and takes a business-first approach to crafting strategic global compliance programs. She also has substantial expertise in M&A and capital markets transactions, assisting deal teams by advising on privacy, data protection, and other deal-related requirements.

Lore was named in Global Data Review’s 40 under 40 for 2021-2022. Her insights have been published in Privacy Laws & Business and PDP Journal, and she has been a featured speaker at TechGC, the IAPP Brussels Panel and the annual Privacy Laws & Business Conference. She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Lore received a Juris Doctor (magna cum laude) in 2008 from the University of Antwerp and received an LLM in 2009 from The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.

Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Lore was a partner in the data, privacy and cybersecurity practice group of another major international law firm. 

Lore is admitted to practice in Belgium and England and Wales. She is fluent in English, Dutch, French and German.

Lore’s experience includes advising:*

• A US developer and marketer of software products for inbound marketing, sales, and customer service on its acquisition and subsequent integration of a large US-based data broker, against a background of heavy European regulatory focus on the industry. 
• A US data broker with formal and informal regulatory investigations in the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Cyprus and France. 
• A global data mapping company with the development of a crowdfunded blockchain-based mapping tool, and the rollout of an informal regulatory engagement program to ensure a high level of regulatory compliance in the UK, Canada and various European countries. 
• A US based operator of an AI-driven romantic chatbot with regulatory engagement with the Garante in Italy to address  an Italy-wide ban preventing the client from operating in Italy until certain issues were resolved. 
• An AI-driven interview intelligence platform for efficient hiring with the development and rollout of its product around biometric data collection and use of data for AI training, including on the recording of communications throughout Europe. 
• An operator of a global SMS-marketing platform on EU and UK compliance in relation to the rollout of cross-customer data anonymization and analytics processes, as well as the development of AI-driven products combining various data fields. 
• A transatlantic data governance platform with applying for and obtaining processor Binding Corporate Rules, with the Belgian data protection authority as lead.
• A Canadian-American multinational information conglomerate with the acquisition of  an online mobile payment and identity verification company that provides card and ID scanning and validation products for mobile and web transactions. Deal failed due to privacy considerations.   
• An American multinational payment card services corporation with the acquisition and integration of a vendor security review platform.

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

Lore’s recent speaking engagements include: 

• Panellist, “The Evolution of Consent or Pay: Legal Insights and Best Practices” Webinar, March 2024
• Panellist, “2024 Children’s Privacy Outlook: Preparing for Regulatory Changes,” Webinar, February 2024
• Panellist, “The Cookie Pledge”, FPF’s AdTech Working Group Call, December 2023
• Panellist, “Data export and controllership”, Associates of Clinical Research Organizations, September 2023
• Panellist, “Comparative and Legal Approaches to AI”, Webinar, June 2023
• Panellist, “Spotlight on AdTech and Marketing”, IAPP Data Privacy Intensive, 8 March 2023

Lore’s recent publications include:

• “Anonymisation through separation: what recent cases teach us about the EU’s anonymisation standards”, PDP Journals, January 2024
• “US and EU reach political agreement on new trans-Atlantic data privacy framework”, Privacy Laws & Business UK, August 2022

Farida Ouriachi is an associate in the Paris office of Gibson Dunn, where she serves as a member of the Firm’s Energy & Infrastructure as well as Power and Renewables Practice Groups.

She advises a wide range of French and international clients in connection with their infrastructure, telecommunications, energy transition and energy (conventional and renewables) and transport projects. Farida has significant experience in structured finance transactions, such as complex cross-border project financing and infrastructure acquisition transactions, as well as in infrastructure and energy M&A transactions.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn in 2023, she practiced in the Paris Energy and Infrastructure department of an international law firm for a year.

Admitted to the Paris Bar since 2023, Farida graduated with a Master’s degree in Commercial litigation and arbitration from Sciences Po in 2018.

She speaks English and French fluently.

Allan Neil is an English qualified partner in the dispute resolution group of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s London office.

His recent work involves large-scale multi-jurisdictional disputes and investigations (both regulatory and internal investigations) in the financial institutions sector.

His work covers investment banking, asset management and compliance matters.

Allan Neil was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 2001, having been awarded the Queen Mother Scholarship in consecutive years, and named a Blackstone Entrance Exhibitioner.

Allan is recognised by The Legal 500 UK 2025 for Commercial Litigation, Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail and Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates), and has been awarded the Client Choice Award 2015 in recognition of his excellence in client service in the area of UK Litigation. He is also recognised in the 2016 Legal Week Rising Stars in Litigation list, which profiles the up-and-coming litigation stars at UK top 50 and top international firms in London.

He speaks French and German.

Danielle Hesse is a senior associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the Firm’s Trials and Litigation Practice Groups.

Danielle has handled a broad range of cases at all stages of litigation, including trade secret disputes, consumer class actions, employment disputes—including wage and hour, classification, and discrimination claims—breach of contract, cybersecurity, real estate matters, and law firm defense. She has vast experience with all aspects of pre-trial discovery, motion practice, negotiating favorable settlements for her clients, and she excels in taking cases to both jury and bench trials.

Danielle has prepared dozens of fact witnesses to testify at deposition and trial, and she has extensive experience working with technical and damages experts on critical reports and testimony. Danielle has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers from 2023-2025.

Danielle’s representative matters include:

• Securing a total denial of trade secret misappropriation claims for a top mortgage servicer after six-week arbitration;
• Securing broad preliminary injunction in DraftKings’ trade secrets and noncompete lawsuit against the former head of its VIP business (DraftKings Inc. v. Michael Hermalyn (D. Mass. 2024));
• Reaching highly favorable settlement for one of the largest tech companies in the world in wage and hour employment dispute;
•  Winning $27 million jury verdict and $10 million punitive damages verdict for real estate company against oil company defendant in breach of contract case after month-long jury trial*

Danielle maintains an active pro bono practice focused on domestic violence and immigration matters. She was awarded the Frank Wheat Memorial Award in 2024. Representative matters include:

• Securing voluntary dismissal with prejudice and mandatory safety measures of federal Hague Convention case on behalf of domestic violence victim and her children;
• Securing immigration benefits for multiple clients seeking asylum;
• Assisting domestic violence victims with DVRO paperwork.

Danielle earned her law degree in 2017 from the UCLA School of Law, where she earned the Masin Family Academic Excellence Gold Award in Cybersecurity. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and English & Creative Writing from Emory University in 2013, where she was a member of the Political Science National Honor Society, Pi Sigma Alpha, and was the Writing Editor of Alloy Literary Magazine.

Danielle is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice law before the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the Northern District of California, the Southern District of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

*Representations prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

Greta Williams is co-partner in charge of the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, the Labor & Employment Practice, and the Media, Entertainment & Technology Practice. 

Greta has been featured on multiple occasions in the Lawdragon 500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers guide for Labor and Employment (Litigation). She has also been recognized as a “Labor & Employment Star” by Benchmark Litigation. The Best Lawyers® in America has recognized her in the area of Litigation-Labor and Employment since 2020. In 2019, Greta was selected by National Law Journal as a DC Rising Star, and Benchmark Litigation recognized Greta as a “Future Star.” In 2018, Law360 selected Greta as one of five “Rising Star” employment attorneys under 40 to watch nationwide and named Gibson Dunn one of its five Employment Practice Groups of the Year. The publication noted that the group “prides itself on working at the vanguard of workplace law and certainly did so last year, winning major gig economy rulings and conducting #MeToo-related probes for prominent companies.”

Greta represents clients in a wide range of employment litigation matters, including those involving non-competition agreements and trade secrets, executive employment disputes, wage-hour and discrimination laws, and class actions.  Greta also has extensive experience leading sensitive workplace investigations, including highly-publicized investigations involving sexual misconduct allegations against CEOs and other C-Suite executives. 

Greta’s representative litigation matters include:

• Represented the founders and early employees of the popular dating app Tinder in multibillion-dollar litigation against InterActiveCorp (IAC) and Match Group, Tinder’s parent companies, in New York State Supreme Court, Commercial Division. After a nearly four-week jury trial, and on the eve of closing arguments, the defendants agreed to pay $441 million to settle;
• Secured temporary restraining order for technology company against former employee who breached his confidentiality and non-competition agreements;
• Won summary judgment and Second Circuit appeal in independent contractor misclassification class actions for Credico on joint employer and outside sales exemption arguments;
• Obtained temporary restraining order and subsequently helped to negotiate settlement after three days of trial in significant non-compete and trade secrets litigation on behalf of AlixPartners against two former Asia-based executives;
• Representing professional services firm in putative reverse discrimination class action.

In addition to litigation, Greta devotes a significant portion of her practice to workplace investigation matters. Representative matters include:

• Led investigation for large media company into highly-publicized allegations of sexual harassment against CEO brought by on-air reporter;
• Engaged by a Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Wynn Resorts to lead investigation of sexual misconduct allegations against Steve Wynn;
• Conducted an investigation into highly-publicized sexual harassment allegations against a senior executive at  a digital media company;
• Represented large media company in successfully resolving EEOC Commissioner’s Charge relating to alleged gender discrimination.  

In addition to her litigation and investigation matters, Greta regularly advises clients on a wide range of employment issues, including exiting C-suite level executives and other employees, drafting and negotiating severance agreements, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and employment-related policies.

Greta earned her law degree in 2009 from University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). She graduated cum laude from Amherst College in 2003, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought. Before law school, Greta worked as a television news writer.

Greta is a member of the District of Columbia and the California bars, as well as numerous federal courts. Greta also serves on the firm’s Diversity Committee and Partnership Evaluation Committee.

Georgia Derbyshire is an English-qualified solicitor in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Labour and Employment Practice Group, specialising in all areas of UK employment law.

Georgia’s practice includes a mix of contentious litigation, advisory and transactional work on a full range of employment issues, with an emphasis on cross-border employment matters. She advises on ARD/TUPE, the employment aspects of public and private mergers and acquisitions, contractor matters, enforcing and resisting post-employment restrictive covenants, protecting confidential information from misuse by current and former employees, redundancies, whistleblowing, discrimination, settlement agreements, responding to regulatory requests for information, workplace investigations and the social aspect of corporate responsibility and environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities. Georgia has also represented clients in relation to disputes before the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, arbitral tribunals and sport bodies.

Representative Experience:

• defence of a UK supermarket chain in a large equal pay claim; 
• acting for a number of sports professionals in connection with claims for breach of contract and restraint of trade before a Sports Resolutions panel;  
• defence of a global manufacturer against claims of race and sex discrimination and harassment made by a former employee in the Employment Tribunal; 
• investigation for large media company into highly publicised allegations of sexual harassment against CEO brought by on-air reporter; 
• various whistleblowing investigations for a global professional services firm; 
• independent review of multiple disciplinary cases arising out of industrial action; 
• advised Kimberly-Clark Corp. in relation to the sale of its global personal protective equipment business; 
• advised RedBird IMI in relation to its acquisition of All3Media, a UK television production company, from its owners Warner Bros. Discovery and Liberty Global; 
• advised RedBird IMI in relation to its sale of The Spectator, the weekly current affairs magazine; and 
• advised KKR in relation to its investment into Dukes Education, a premium school operator.

Georgia also maintains an active pro bono practice, including being a volunteer with the Schools Consent Project, a charity which sends lawyers into schools across the UK to teach students about consent and the key sexual offences, with the aims of normalising conversations about consent and providing young people with a toolkit to change the culture in schools, universities and workplaces and ultimately drive down sexual offending rates.

Ryan M. Shuman is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson Dunn, where he serves as a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. He is currently on secondment.

He has represented various institutional and non-institutional lenders, including life insurance companies, banks and specialty debt funds, in connection with transactions of varying complexity involving loan originations, mezzanine debt financing, loan purchases and sales, post-closing modifications and other related servicing matters. His experience also includes representing non-profit organizations in connection with various leasing matters.

Ryan earned his Juris Doctor in 2017 from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from the University of San Diego. Prior to joining the firm, he practiced with Dechert LLP as a member of their Finance and Real Estate Practice Group.

Ryan is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Alex Downie is an Associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment and Litigation Practice Groups. He is currently on secondment.

Alex represents employers in disputes regarding discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful discharge, and wage and hour laws. Beyond litigation, Alex also regularly advises employers on preventing discrimination and harassment in the workplace, navigating workplace safety requirements, and complying with leave laws.

Alex earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School in 2019, where he served as the Executive Editor of the Virginia Law & Business Review. During law school, Alex volunteered for the school’s employment law clinic, where he assisted with a variety of employment-related matters ranging from employment discrimination to wage and hour disputes. Alex graduated summa cum laude in 2016 from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Alex is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the Southern District of New York.

Prachi Mistry is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Gibson Dunn. She currently practices with the firm’s Litigation Department. Prachi represents clients in connection with high stakes matters related to data privacy, intellectual property, class actions, government investigations and counsels clients on risk assessment. She has experience representing companies on a variety of technologies including relating to social media, cryptocurrency, facial recognition, and pharmaceuticals. She is currently on secondment.

Prachi received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Irvine where she also received her Doctor of Philosophy and Masters of Science in Cognitive Neuroscience. Prior to law school, Prachi worked on research related to computational cognitive modeling and decision-making and has worked with behavioral, physiological and neural data. Accordingly, she has experience with artificial intelligence, automated decision-making and predictive modeling.

James R. Cox is an English law qualified solicitor in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Real Estate, and Finance Practice Groups. He is currently on secondment.

James advises on a range of cross-border and domestic real estate finance transactions, including syndicated acquisition, investment and development financings covering a variety of property sectors.

He is experienced in acting for debtors/sponsors and creditors (including private equity institutions, investment banks and corporate borrowers) on multidisciplinary, senior/mezzanine structured financings secured against real estate in Europe and the UK (both property portfolios and strategic single assets).

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, James was an associate in the real estate finance department of a leading City of London law firm. He has also spent six months on secondment to one of the UK’s largest clearing banks.

While in law school, James was awarded a faculty prize in recognition of his performance in the ‘Business Law and Practice’ curriculum. He earned his undergraduate degree in History and Politics from the University of Warwick.

Alison Cheng is an associate in Hong Kong. She is a member of the Finance Practice Group.

Alison focuses on complex cross-border financing transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance, direct lending and special situations debt investments. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Alison worked for Sullivan & Cromwell (Hong Kong) LLP.

She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Hong Kong in 2021. Alison is admitted to practice in Hong Kong.

She is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.