Oleh Vretsona is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department, where he focuses on white collar criminal defense, internal investigations, regulatory inquiries, and corporate compliance. Oleh has represented clients in a wide variety of matters, including matters arising under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and he has advised clients on structure and implementation of corporate compliance programs.

Oleh has significant experience in conducting internal investigations and advising clients on the effectiveness of their internal compliance controls. Oleh has managed numerous internal investigations for publicly held corporations involving operations in Russia, Eastern Europe, China, the Middle East, and various other countries and regions, and conducted extensive fieldwork in those countries, including numerous witness interviews. In the area of corporate compliance, Oleh’s work often includes performing compliance risk assessments, compliance program evaluations, and due diligence reviews, as well as advising on reporting mechanisms, internal payment controls, third-party controls, compliance training and messaging, and various compliance policies.

Oleh’s engagements include:

  • Currently representing a U.S. multinational in a major government and internal investigation regarding allegedly improper business practices in Europe, including Russia;
  • Currently representing a life sciences company in an internal investigation relating to distributor operations in Belarus;
  • Currently representing a foreign mining company an government investigation relating to Eastern Europe.
  • Currently representing a U.S. pharmaceutical company in a government investigation involving operations in Eastern and Central Europe and the Middle East;
  • Currently representing a multinational pharmaceutical company in several internal investigations into business practices and distributor operations in Central and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus;
  • Represent a major U.S. public research and technology manufacturing company in an internal investigation relating to a distributor in Eastern Europe;
  • Represented a leading food and beverage company in connection with internal investigations in Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine;
  • Represented a European telecommunications company in connection with an anti-corruption risk assessment project relating to construction projects in Russia and the CIS;
  • Represented a U.S. multinational in connection with a compliance governance and evaluation project;
  • Represented a multinational hospitality company connection with a compliance risk assessment and evaluation project;
  • Represented a U.S. multinational in connection with a government investigation involving business activities in Russia;
  • Represented a U.S. consumer products company in an internal investigation relating customs clearance and logistics processes in Eastern Europe;
  • Represented a U.S. multinational in connection with several internal investigations in Eurasia and Africa;
  • Represented a Japanese multinational in connection with an antitrust investigation; and
  • Represented a European multinational in an internal investigation regarding allegedly improper business practices in Russia.
  • Conducted compliance risk assessment and evaluation reviews in connection with monitorships imposed by the U.S. government at Statoil ASA and Siemens AG.

Publications:

  • “Making Way For International Business Integrity And Compliance Due Diligence In Cross-Border Acquisitions,” The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, (with Daniel Plaine and Judith Lee), May 2007;
  • “The Federal Trade Commission Reauthorization Act of 2008: Bill Would Add Authority, Procedures, Civil Penalties,” Federal Civil Enforcement Committee Newsletter, September-October 2008;
  • Contribution to ABA’s Proving Antitrust Damages: Legal and Economic Issues (2d Ed. 2010);
  • “How to Use Company Data Efficiently to Detect Fraud and Corruption,” Financier Worldwide (with F. Joseph Warin and Michael Diamant), August 2013;
  • Joseph Warin, Oleh Vretsona & Lora E. MacDonald, A Practical Guide to the Use of the Commissioned Public Report as an Effective Crisis-Management Tool, 29 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol’y 87 (2015);
  • 2012, 2013, 2014 Mid-Year and Year-End FCPA Updates (contributor); and
  • Delivered a presentation on FCPA developments to the Ukrainian Lawyers’ Association in April 2017.

Oleh received his law degree, magna cum laude, in 2006 from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif, and served as an editor of the University of Minnesota Law School Journal of Law and Inequality. Oleh also earned a Specialist Degree in Law, with High Distinction, in 1997 from L’viv National University, L’viv, Ukraine, where he was a recipient of the I. Franko Scholarship. In Ukraine, where he practiced law for two years, Oleh substantially contributed toward receiving a Constitutional Court of Ukraine interpretation of labor law favoring recognition of the role of independent trade unions in protecting the labor rights of their members.

Oleh is fluent in Ukrainian and Russian. He is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia.

Peter J. Hanlon is a corporate partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Energy Industry Group and its Power and Renewables Practice Group. He is also a member of Gibson Dunn’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets Practice Groups.

Mr. Hanlon’s practice focuses upon transactions in the energy industry, particularly the power sector (including generation, transmission and distribution) and the gas pipeline and storage sectors. It encompasses mergers and acquisitions, project investments and financings, public and private securities offerings, joint ventures, investments, restructurings, going-private transactions, private equity transactions, securities regulation, corporate governance, and general corporate law. He has more than 25 years of experience in the energy industry. He also has substantial corporate transactional experience in the manufacturing, transportation, water, telecommunications, packaging, financial services, real estate, healthcare and retail industries.

He has worked with clients in a large number of energy-related businesses, including electric and gas utilities, independent power companies, gas pipeline and storage companies, renewable projects (including solar, wind and geothermal power sponsors, investors and developers), electricity transmission providers, and yieldcos, as well as joint venture partners, foreign investors, private equity investors, investment funds, management teams and investment advisors.

Mr. Hanlon is regularly recognized as one of the leading Energy transaction lawyers in the U.S. His recent rankings include the following:

  • Hall of Fame: Energy Transactions (Conventional Power) by The Legal 500 (2021-2023)
  • Band 1 by Chambers USA (Nationwide) for Electricity Finance (2024)
  • Band 1 by Chambers Global (USA) for Electricity Finance (2025)
  • Leading Lawyer by The Legal 500 for Energy Transactions: Conventional Power (2024)

Chambers notes Mr. Hanlon is “a very experienced and talented attorney who clients hold in great confidence” who “provides exceptional value,” and is “an expert in his field, incredibly responsive and a good communicator.”

Mr. Hanlon received his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. Mr. Hanlon received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University.

Representative Engagements

  • Represented Berkshire Hathaway Energy in its $8.0 billion acquisition of substantially all of the natural gas transmission and storage business of Dominion Energy (closed November 1, 2020).
  • Represented Eastern Energy Gas Holdings (EEGH) and Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage (EGTS) in connection with the successful offering of five series of new EGTS notes totaling $1.6 billion in principal amount in exchange for the tender of $1.6 billion of comparable EEGH notes and a related consent solicitation in June 2021.
  • Represented Berkshire Hathaway Energy in two separate Rule 144A note offerings totaling $5.25 billion in 2020 and the exchange of such notes for SEC-registered notes in 2021.
  • Represented Northern Natural Gas Company in a Rule 144A offering of $550 million of notes in 2021.
  • Represented MidAmerican Energy Company in a public offering of $500 million of green bonds in 2021.
  • Represented Berkshire Hathaway Energy in its proposed $18 billion acquisition of Energy Future Holdings (merger agreement terminated by mutual agreement).
  • Represented Berkshire Hathaway Energy in its $10.5 billion acquisition of NV Energy (NYSE).
  • Represented BHE Renewables and its subsidiaries in connection with multiple acquisitions of wind and solar power projects since the formation of BHE Renewables in 2012, including the $2.5 billion 579 MW Solar Star power projects in California, the $2.4 billion 550 MW Topaz Solar power projects in California, the $1.8 billion 290 MW Agua Caliente solar power project in California, the 400 MW Grand Prairie wind project located in Nebraska, the 210 MW Walnut Ridge wind project located in Illinois, a large portfolio of Community Solar renewables projects located in Minnesota, the 300 MW Texas Jumbo Road wind project and others.
  • Represented BHE Renewables and its subsidiaries in connection with more than a dozen tax equity investments in utility scale renewable power projects in recent years.
  • Represented Evercore Partners in connection with its role as advisor to the Special Committees of the YieldCos established by Pattern Energy Group and NextEra, respectively, in connection with the acquisition by such YieldCos of more than a dozen utility scale renewable power projects.
  • Represented First Reserve in connection with its majority equity investment in a joint venture formed for the purpose of acquiring development stage renewable power projects and selling them upon completion of construction.
  • Represented Solar Star Funding in its $1.0 billion senior secured bond offering that was named “2013 Bond Deal of the Year” by Project Finance Magazine, referring to it as “the largest single renewable energy project finance bond offering executed in history.”
  • Represented Topaz Solar Farms (owner of a 550 MW solar power project then in construction) in connection with its Rule 144A offering of $1.2 billion of its notes. According to Project Finance, this was the largest renewables bond financing ever, and they named it the 2012 North American Solar Deal of the Year.
  • Represented an ESOP-owned manufacturing company in connection with significant debt restructurings and related matters in 2020 and 2021.
  • Represented a family-owned investment company in connection with private equity investment matters in 2020 and 2021.
  • Represented MidAmerican Energy Holdings in connection with (1) its $4.7 billion agreement to acquire Constellation Energy Group, which was terminated pursuant to mutual agreement, and the related successful investment of $1.0 billion in preferred stock of CEG, (2) its $9.4 billion acquisition of PacifiCorp (NYSE) from Scottish Power plc, (3) its $4.0 billion acquisition of MidAmerican Energy Company (NYSE), (4) its $1.4 billion acquisition of Northern Natural Gas Company from Dynegy, Inc., (5) its $1.0 billion acquisition of Kern River Gas Transmission Company from The Williams Companies, Inc., (6) its successful $1.2 billion tender offer for UK-based, Northern Electric plc, and (7) its successful $1.0 billion tender offer for Magma Power Company.*
  • Represented an investor group led by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in connection with the $9.0 billion MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company going-private transaction.*
  • Represented insurance companies and other institutional investors in connection with a wide variety of debt and equity investments in the energy industry, including (1) a $900 million secured loan to Williams Production RMT Company, (2) a $1.3 billion secured loan to CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC and (3) a $275 million investment in Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock of The Williams Companies, Inc.*
  • Represented strategic partners in connection with the formation of several large joint ventures in the power transmission and conventional power generation spaces.
  • Represented Electra Private Equity (LSE) and its affiliates, including Electra International (Brazil), in connection with the purchase or sale of a large number of portfolio investments, including the sale of Rio Trens Corporation (the Rio de Janeiro transit system) to Odebrecht Transport, and private equity investments in Planet Hollywood International (pre-IPO), Steinway Musical Properties, Act III Cinemas, DeCrane Aircraft Holdings, Leiner Healthcare, Capital Health Partners and E-Z Serve Corporation.*
  • Represented one of the country’s largest toy manufacturers in connection with its negotiated $1.3 billion acquisition of Fisher-Price in a stock-for-stock transaction.*
  • Represented founding family members in connection with the reorganization of Schein Pharmaceuticals; the spinoff of Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ); stock sales; and governance matters.*
  • Represented Peter Kiewit Sons’ in connection with two separate sales involving major subsidiaries of the Continental Can Company.*
  • Represented the general partners and/or sponsors of CDK Group LLC, Patagonia Fund, Electra International (Brazil), Rio Rail Partners, Wafra Investment Advisory Group, MidAmerican Capital Company and Aqua International in connection with the establishment of on-shore and off-shore funds, fund investments, dispositions of portfolio companies and restructuring and governance matters.*

*Representations occurred prior to attorney’s affiliation with Gibson Dunn.

Brian Yeh is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts, at both the trial and appellate levels. He has represented clients across a variety of industries, including technology, labor and employment, and life sciences. 

Brian maintains an active pro bono practice. He currently represents several individuals in an appeal before the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, in an action raising novel questions about the scope of New Jersey’s recently enacted law against strategic lawsuits against public participation (“SLAPP”). Brian successfully represented a client in an appeal of the denial of a resentencing application under New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA), resulting in the client’s immediate release from incarceration. Brian was also part of a trial team that secured a unanimous federal jury verdict in the Central District of California for the firm’s pro bono client, Deon Jones, who was shot in the face with a rubber bullet during racial justice protests in May 2020. He also secured the dismissal of defamation and other claims targeting a pro bono client for exercising her First Amendment right to advocate that her ex-husband grant her a religious divorce. 

Brian clerked for the Honorable Helene N. White of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Honorable Edward G. Smith of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prior to clerking, he was an associate in Gibson Dunn’s New York office.

Brian received his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2019, where he served as an Articles Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Prior to law school, Brian worked as a program associate at the Center for Reproductive Rights, and as a legal assistant at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). He received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude from the Ohio State University in 2014, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Brian is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Publications

Alec Fisher is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property group. Alec has experience litigating a wide variety of patent, trade secret, and intellectual property matters, and has previously represented technology, media, and pharmaceutical clients.

Alec received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 2021, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts. During law school, Alec received the Andrew D. Fried Memorial Prize, awarded annually to the best student essay on a subject in the field of intellectual property.  Alec received his B.A. from Florida State University in 2012, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

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

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Alec was an associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation department of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York.

Ritchie Vaughan is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. They currently practice with the firm’s litigation department, focusing on real estate-related disputes.

Ritchie received their J.D. from The University of Virginia School of Law in 2022. They graduated summa cum laude from Virginia Polytechnic and State University in 2009, receiving their Bachelor of Science in Forestry. Ritchie also received their Master of Science in Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation from Virginia Tech. They are a licensed real estate broker in the Commonwealth of Virginia, where they practiced real estate prior to law school.

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

Michael Murphy is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office. He is a leader of the firm’s ESG: Risk, Litigation, and Reporting practice area, and is a member of the firm’s Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice Groups. Michael counsels clients on environmental and ESG issues related to corporate transactions and compliance. He also represents clients in a wide variety of investigation and litigation matters. Michael has been recognized by Chambers, by Lawdragon as one of the “Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law,” and as a Law360 “Rising Star.”

Michael advises clients in a variety of corporate, private equity, finance and real estate transactions. He is experienced in identifying environmental risks and negotiating transactional documents for buyers, sellers and investors of manufacturing, service, technology, aerospace, petroleum, energy, and financial industry clients. His litigation experience enables him to approach each environmental transactional issue with a broad perspective that takes into account all of his clients’ concerns. He advises clients on ESG and sustainability matters, including corporate disclosures, policies, reporting and integration issues. He also helps clients manage large remediation projects, including negotiating final remedies with state and federal regulators.

Michael has handled a wide variety of litigation matters in both federal and state courts. He has served as first chair trial counsel and has argued before three federal appellate courts. As lead trial counsel, he obtained a significant CERCLA recovery for Lockheed Martin from the United States based on the government’s involvement at a Cold War-era rocket manufacturing facility in Southern California. Lockheed Martin Corp. v. United States (D.D.C). He has assisted other leading government contractors in obtaining contribution from the federal government at military production facilities across the country. He presented arguments to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to further define the relationship between CERCLA’s cost recovery and contribution causes of action, and the court ultimately adopted the position urged by Michael during oral argument.

Michael defends clients in state and federal environmental enforcement and civil actions involving air, water and waste allegations. He also represents clients in toxic tort mass and class actions, and has experience working with a variety of leading environmental consultants and experts on technical issues regarding groundwater, sediment transport, and air dispersion modeling.

In addition, Michael represents clients in administrative litigation, rulemaking proceedings, and permit actions to obtain government approval for infrastructure projects, including airport, highway, and railroad projects, and other regulated actions. These representations involve a number of state and federal environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, as well as state counterparts such as CEQA and NY SEQR, the Endangered Species Act, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Toxic Substances and Control Act, and Federal Land Policy and Management Act. He also has experience in a variety of government contract matters.

Michael received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1999, where he was a member of the Virginia Journal of International Law. He received his Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1993. He attended the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, receiving a M.Sc. in International Law. Michael is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Selected representations include:

  • Representing Chevron in climate change litigation in multiple state and federal jurisdictions across the United States.
  • Obtaining a favorable settlement for a Department of Energy contractor against a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act enforcement action and related False Claims Act allegations brought by the United States at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky.
  • Defending a paper company against a state statutory penalty action brought by Harris County, TX, seeking billions of dollars for past waste disposal practices, and assisting in obtaining a jury verdict clearing the company of any liability.
  • Defending an Environmental Impact Statement issued by the Federal Highway Administration against attack by local residents who sought to halt CSX’s reconstruction of the Virginia Avenue Tunnel in Washington, DC.
  • Representing CSX before the Surface Transportation Board in matters related to passenger rail regulation.

Nilofar Rahimzadeh is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher.

She received her Juris Doctor in 2023 from Columbia Law School, where she served as Staff Editor and Diversity Co-Chair of the Columbia Law Review. 

Nilofar received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from Fordham University’s Honors College in 2018.

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

Peter S. Modlin is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort practice group.

Peter’s practice focuses on environmental, health & safety, toxic tort and products liability litigation and counseling. He has represented clients in a wide variety of federal and state litigation, including mass tort actions, product liability claims, cost recovery cases, citizen lawsuits, natural resource damages and enforcement actions.

Peter is ranked by Chambers USA in the California: Environment category, with clients praising his “tremendous breadth of knowledge in environmental issues.” He was recognized as San Francisco’s “Environmental Litigation Lawyer of the Year” for 2021 by Best Lawyers and has been consistently recognized by the publication as a leading lawyer in his field since 2010. Lawdragon recognizes Peter in its 500 Leading Environmental Lawyers – The Green 500 guide, and he was recognized in the 2023-2024 editions of Who’s Who Legal Thought Leaders: USA guide, and the 2022 Who’s Who Legal Environment guide.

Representative Matters

  • Defending claims arising from industrial accident, including wrongful death lawsuit, appeal of OSHA citation and criminal investigation.
  • Managing defense of 2,000+ plaintiff toxic tort claims by former workers at industrial plant in Asia.
  • Representing company in connection with multi-facility Clean Air Act enforcement action.
  • Defending Fortune 50 company in precedent-setting natural resource damage lawsuit.
  • Representing chemical company and mid-stream company in government investigations and enforcement actions arising from industrial accidents.
  • Defending criminal, civil penalty and natural resource damages claims relating to pipeline rupture.
  • Defending pharmaceutical company in product liability claims arising from adverse drug reactions.
  • Handling numerous product liability claims involving MTBE, asbestos, pigments, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and pesticides.
  • Representing logistics company in remediation of crude oil pipeline release.
  • On behalf of special committee of Board of Directors, investigated shareholder claims arising from pipeline rupture.
  • Prosecuting and defending environmental indemnity claims on behalf of a variety of corporations.
  • Representing successful bidder in negotiation of environmental agreements in connection with 50-year concession to operate major port.
  • Representing national retailer in disabled access and employment litigation and counseling.

Peter graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1990. He is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

Katy R. Baker is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the firm’s Securities Litigation Practice Group. Katy’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on securities class actions, shareholder derivative litigation, and government enforcement matters. Katy also maintains an active pro bono practice, focusing on civil rights impact litigation and immigration related proceedings.

Katy earned her J.D. and her LL.M. in International and Comparative Law, cum laude, from Duke Law School in 2020. While in law school, she was a Fellow with the Bolch Judicial Institute and served as the Senior Executive Editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. Prior to her legal studies, Katy earned her B.A., summa cum laude, in Political Science and Religious Studies from California State University, Bakersfield.

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

Raymond B. Ludwiszewski is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He joined the firm’s Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice Group after spending eight years in senior legal positions in the United States government dealing with environmental regulatory issues and litigation in the Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department.

Under EPA Administrator William Reilly, Raymond served as General Counsel at the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. Before assuming that position, he served as Assistant Administrator for Enforcement at EPA. Earlier, Raymond held a number of senior positions at the United States Department of Justice, with an emphasis in environmental litigation. First, he was Special Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division. Subsequently, Raymond was Associate Deputy Attorney General.

Some significant matters he has handled include the defense of complex toxic tort “contaminated community” cases, the defense of important environmental civil enforcement cases; the successful challenge of major environmental regulations; the defense of large environmental criminal matters; and the prosecution of litigation against the United States. Additionally, he has handled noteworthy Supreme Court litigation, including Nollan v. California Coastal Commission and First English Evangelical Church v. Los Angeles.

Raymond was a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He has written and spoken extensively on administrative law and environmental issues. Raymond was Vice Chairman of the National Environmental Enforcement Council and of the American Bar Association Committee on Environmental Crimes and Enforcement. Most recently, Raymond has been featured by Lawdragon as one of the Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law. He has also been listed in Washingtonian magazine’s Best Environmental Lawyers List, the Washington Post magazine’s Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who Legal Thought Leaders: USA, Who’s Who Legal Environment, and Chambers USA. In August 2009, he was also named as a finalist for the top Environmental lawyer in Washington by The Washington Business Journal. Raymond is a member of the Environmental Law Institute’s Board of Directors. Additionally, he served for seven years on the seventeen-person Executive Committee responsible for managing the Firm.

Before joining the Justice Department, Raymond was a judicial law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School in 1984, Raymond was Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Northeastern University in Boston summa cum laude in 1981.

Eddie is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

He received his J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law in 2024, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Eddie interned in the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He also served as a Supervising Editor for the Berkeley Business Law Journal.

Eddie received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Middlebury College in 2009, his Master of Arts in History from Arizona State University in 2013, and his Doctor of Philosophy in History from Arizona State University in 2015. Before attending law school, Eddie taught in Virgina and Colorado.

Eddie is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Jason Ferrari is an associate in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices across the firm’s transactional practice groups.

Jason earned his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center, graduating magna cum laude and as a member in the Orders of the Coif and Barons. While attending law school, he served as the Senior Notes and Comments Editor for the Houston Law Review. In 2019, Jason received his Bachelor of Science in Materials Science & Engineering from the Clemson University.

Jason is admitted to practice in the State of Texas.

Alex Plaia is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where she currently practices in the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization, Liability Management and Special Situations, and Finance Practice Groups. Alex’s practice focuses on liability management and distressed financing transactions, including out-of-court debt exchanges and other restructurings, distressed investments, DIP financings and exit financings. She also has experience in a wide range of leveraged finance and high yield bond transactions, representing both financing sources and private equity clients and public companies.

Representative Clients and Transactions:

  • Represented an ad hoc group of first lien term loan lenders in the prepackaged Chapter 11 cases and DIP-to-exit financing facility of Jo-Ann Stores, eliminating approximately $505 million in funded debt and keeping all retail stores open.
  • Represented an ad hoc group of first lien lenders to AMC Entertainment Holdings in a series of liability management refinancing transactions, extending the maturity of approximately $1.6 billion in debt.
  • Represented an ad hoc group of first lien lenders in the restructuring of Cano Health, converting more than $1 billion of funded debt into common stock with investors committing more than $200 million to support Cano’s business plan going forward.
  • Advised an ad hoc group of secured lenders to Mallinckrodt PLC in a prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring with secured creditors and an opioid trust formed in its previous bankruptcy case.
  • Advised the term lenders to Monarch Alternative Capital LP, on the financing aspects in Mohari Hospitality’s acquisition of TAO Group Hospitality.
  • Represented RXR Realty in its acquisition of View Inc. following View’s Chapter 11 protection and reemergence as a privately held company by investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and RXR Realty.
  • Advised an ad hoc group of term lenders in the negotiation of a restructuring, amendment, and financing transaction of debt facilities of Vyaire Medical, Inc. and certain of its affiliates and subsidiaries.
  • Advised Monarch Alternative Capital LP in connection with the refinancing of existing debt of Ascent Hospitality Management LLC, the parent company of Huddle House and Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, with a $75 million first lien senior secured term loan facility.
  • Represented an ad hoc group of cross-holders to Venator Materials PLC serving as DIP lenders, RSA parties, and backstop parties in the prepackaged bankruptcy cases.
  • Advised Rhône Capital on the acquisition by HBC, parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, of Neiman Marcus Group, parent company of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman.
  • Represented an ad hoc group of term lenders to ClubCorp Holdings in connection with an out-of-court debt restructuring deal, which involved an agreement with term lenders for an amend-and-extend transaction that provided maturity runway, liquidity enhancement, increased lender economics, and significant document tightening for the benefit of the ad hoc group and all other lenders.
  • Represented an ad hoc group of term lenders in the $1.6 billion out-of-court debt restructuring of Aventiv Technologies, which included a super-priority first lien guaranty agreement.

Alex received her Juris Doctor from the Fordham University School of Law in 2017, where she served as an associate editor on the Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, and served as Business Editor for the Dispute Resolution Society. In 2014, she graduated from Georgetown University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

Tristan Locke is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices with the firm’s Litigation Department.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, he served as a law clerk to Judge Chad A. Readler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Tristan received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. While in law school, he served as an editor of the Virginia Law Review and a member of the Appellate Litigation Clinic.

Prior to law school, Tristan worked as a private equity analyst for a software-focused growth equity firm. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas with degrees in Finance and Accounting.

Tristan is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Rachael A. Rezabek is a Senior Counsel in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Her practice focuses primarily on consumer protection investigations and class action litigation, as well as pharmaceutical antitrust matters.

Rachael received her Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law in 2014, where she was Executive Senior Editor of the Southern California Law Review. In 2009, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ohio State University, where she graduated magna cum laude.

Rachael is admitted to practice law in California, Texas, and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Recent Representations:*

  • Represented multi-level marketing company in securities fraud class action concerning pyramid scheme allegations. Successfully drafted and argued opposition to class certification as to plaintiff’s 10b-5 claim.*
  • Represented multi-level marketing company in false advertising class action. Drafted successful motion to dismiss. Drafted and negotiated complex classwide, claims-made reversionary settlement.*
  • Represented a health-related technology company in first-of-its-kind Health Breach Notification Rule FTC investigation leading to settlement creating new ground rules for health-related online marketing.*
  • Represented a brand pharmaceutical manufacturer in district court antitrust litigation against claims by consumers and other direct and indirect purchasers alleging that the company maintained a monopoly in the HIV drug market by unlawfully extending its patent protection for its blockbuster HIV drugs. After a six-week jury trial, a San Francisco jury returned a complete defense verdict, rejecting the plaintiffs’ claims seeking more than $10 billion in damages.  This case is only the third reverse payment antitrust case ever to go to verdict (even though more than 30 such cases have been filed in the 12 years since the Supreme Court blessed this theory of antitrust liability in 2013), and the first verdict for defendants on the dispositive threshold issues of no market power and no anticompetitive payment.*
  • Trial counsel for pharmaceutical manufacturer in indirect purchaser antitrust class action alleging unlawful reverse payment in violation of Actavis related to settlement of patent litigation involving the blockbuster Alzheimer’s drug Namenda.* The case settled on terms highly favorable to the manufacturer.
  • Represented fintech company to defend FTC action in N.D. Cal. alleging violations of Section 5 of the FTC Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (the “GLBA”), achieved dismissal of the GLBA claim at summary judgment and settled the remaining allegations for less than 2% of the FTC’s litigation demand.*
  • Represented a pharmaceutical company in a consolidated MDL antitrust putative class action involving complex patent- and FDA-related monopolization claims predicated on allegations of delayed entry of generic drugs.
  • Served as a member of the trial counsel defending a satellite television service provider against the Federal Trade Commission in a lawsuit alleging deceptive advertising and alleged violations of the Restore Online Shoppers Confidence Act. Following a bench trial, the district court granted in part the client’s motion for judgment on partial findings, and the case was subsequently dismissed by the FTC with prejudice.*
  • Represented a global hospitality and entertainment company in connection with an internal investigation relating to a mass shooting.*
  • Represented numerous clients in defending against consumer class actions brought under California’s CLRA, UCL, and FAL relating to consumer products such as soap and dietary supplements.*
  • Represented numerous survivors of domestic violence in obtaining new or renewed domestic violence restraining orders.*

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

Laura Raposo is an Associate General Counsel based in Gibson Dunn’s New York office. Prior to joining the Firm’s Office of General Counsel, Laura practiced in the Firm’s Litigation Department, where she primarily represented tech industry clients in high-stakes commercial disputes.  Laura also maintains an active pro bono practice focused on immigration matters.

From 2016 to 2017, Laura served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edgardo Ramos of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She received her Juris Doctor degree in 2013 from Yale Law School, where she was an editor on The Yale Law Journal. Laura received her Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, from Barnard College in 2008.

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

Cheyenne Joshua-Gross is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where she practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Cheyenne earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2024, where she served as Co-President of the Black Law Students Association. She represented indigent criminal clients through Stanford’s Three Strikes Project and Criminal Defense Clinic, notably arguing and securing a motion for early termination of her client’s three-year supervised release term in the Northern District of California. Additionally, Cheyenne was a Teaching Assistant for 1L Criminal Law and a Research Assistant to Professor Richard Ford.

Before attending law school, Cheyenne graduated from Carleton College with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Neuroscience.

She is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Hannah Morris is an Associate in the Dallas, Texas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group.

Hannah earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2022. During law school, Hannah served on the leadership board of a child advocacy student group and worked as a research assistant, where she drafted portions of the Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law. Hannah graduated magna cum laude in 2017 from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy & French. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Before law school, Hannah taught fourth grade in North Carolina as a Teach for America corps member.

Hannah is admitted to practice in the States of Texas and New York, as well as in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Michael Landell is an associate in Gibson Dunn’s Palo Alto office where he is a member of the Artificial Intelligence and Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation practice groups.

Michael has extensive experience advising clients with respect to regulatory and transactional matters involving novel and existing technology.

Michael earned his LL.M. degree in 2016 from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and his Juris Doctor degree from The University of Western Ontario in 2014. While in law school Michael was a lead researcher for Professor Richard H. McLaren, law review editor, and provided pro bono guidance as a member of the Sport Solution Legal Clinic.

Michael is a member of the State Bar of California and New York.

Michael is also an Adjunct Professor at Queen’s University Faculty of Law.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Michael was an associate in the Privacy and Cybersecurity practice group at another multinational law firm.