Michael A. Rosenthal is a retired partner in the New York and Texas offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He was previously Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group for over 30 years. Mr. Rosenthal has extensive experience in reorganizing distressed businesses and related corporate reorganization and debt restructuring matters. He has represented complex, financially distressed companies, both in out-of-court restructurings and in pre-packaged, pre-negotiated and freefall chapter 11 cases, acquirors of distressed assets and investors in distressed businesses. Mr. Rosenthal’s representations have spanned a variety of business sectors, including investment banking, private equity, energy, retail, shipping, manufacturing, real estate, engineering, construction, medical, airlines, media, telecommunications and banking. He has been recognized for his ability to build consensus, to mediate disputes, and to bring practical results to complicated business situations.

Mr. Rosenthal has broad experience in representation of the debtors in some of the most significant and unique multi-jurisdictional chapter 11 cases filed in the Southern District of New York: Arcapita Bank B.S.C.(c) (SDNY, Bahrain, Cayman Islands); and Almatis B.V. (SDNY, Netherlands, Germany).. Other debtor clients have included, among others, Mesquite Energy, Inc. (as successor to Sanchez Energy), TBS International, Ltd.; Building Materials Holding Corporation; Prentiss Copley Investment Group; FINOVA; FLAG Telecom; Atlantic Coast Airlines; First Republic Bank Corporation; Resorts International; Financial News Network (now known as CNBC); and National Gypsum Company (now known as Asbestos Claims Management Corporation). Non-debtor clients have included, among others, AIG, Truck Insurance Exchange, the George Kaiser Foundation (as the largest investor in Solyndra LLC), Investcorp and various of their portfolio companies, First Reserve and various of their portfolio companies, Intel, General Electric Credit Corporation, Textron Financial, L Catterton Partners, Oldcastle, Q Investments, Tenet Healthcare, Cooper Industries, Jacobs Engineering, Bechtel, The Shaw Group Inc. and Bernhard Capital Partners LLC

Mr. Rosenthal has been active in representing and providing advice to entities regarding their rights and exposure related to difficulties in the financial services sector, including issues related to loan restructurings, spin-offs, derivative products, securitizations and customer account issues. Among others, he has represented PWC (Zurich) as foreign representative in the chapter 15 case of Lehman Brothers Finance A.G. (SDNY, Switzerland), (the Swiss affiliate of Lehman that originated much of Lehman’s non-U.S. derivatives business), the Lehman Brothers Private Equity Funds and various other large, public companies involved in the global restructuring of Lehman and its affiliates. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Mr. Rosenthal played an important role in providing input and advice regarding proposed U.S. financial regulatory reform legislation—recently enacted as the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Regulatory Act— including testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on issues related to the new Orderly Liquidation Authority enacted to facilitate the efficient resolution of systemically significant financial companies.

In addition to debtors, acquirors and investors, Mr. Rosenthal has represented creditors’ committees, secured and unsecured creditors, bondholders and trustees. He also has substantial experience in advising private equity firms and others on distressed and fulcrum security investing strategies. In this regard, Mr. Rosenthal is frequently consulted to analyze the capital structure of companies and to advise on first lien/second liens issues and the strengths, weaknesses and relative priorities of outstanding bond and/or equity security issues.

Mr. Rosenthal is one of the country’s leading lawyers on restructuring issues related to companies with asbestos, sex abuse and other mass tort liability. He has advised the trustees of some of the largest section 524(g) asbestos settlement trusts, companies seeking to resolve their asbestos, sex abuse and other mass tort exposure, insurers that provide coverage for mass tort liabilities, and entities seeking to acquire or invest in companies that have such exposure. Most recently, he is advising the AIG Member Companies in connection with their potential exposure for the sex abuse liability of the Boy Scouts of America and their affiliated local counsel and chartered organizations, and of various Catholic dioceses and archdioceses.  And, he represented Truck Insurance Exchange in a recent landmark United States Supreme Court decision which unanimously rejected the insurance-neutrality doctrine and held that an insurer with financial responsibility for a bankruptcy claim is a ‘party in interest that may object to a reorganization plan under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.’ Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum, Inc., 144 S. Ct. 1414 (2024).

Mr. Rosenthal has lectured and published at the national and local levels on matters involving bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. He has also published and written extensively on directors’ fiduciary obligations in the context of distressed businesses. Mr. Rosenthal is consistently ranked as one of the best bankruptcy lawyers in the United States. He has been ranked in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Who’s Who Legal, The Daily Deal, The Legal 500, The Best Lawyers in America^® and Texas, New York Super Lawyers and Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Lawyers. Chambers has described Mr. Rosenthal as “a seasoned and experienced lawyer” and notes that clients appreciate his “help in navigating difficult bankruptcy issues,” finding him “efficient, thoughtful and proactive” in his approach.

Mr. Rosenthal received his Juris Doctor in 1979 from the University of Chicago and his Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in 1976 from the University of Virginia. He also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mr. Rosenthal is a member of the Bars in New York and Texas.

Mr. Rosenthal has been responsible for or active in the representation of the following debtors, either in out-of-court restructurings or Chapter 11 cases or as reorganized entities:

• Mesquite Energy, Inc. (as successor to Sanchez Energy); Represented the reorganized entity, a Texas-based oil and gas producer which filed a chapter 11 case in the Southern District of Texas, in its post-effective date operations and liquidation which resulted in net asset value that vastly exceeded the emergence net asset value.
• Arcapita Bank B.S.C.(c): Representation of Arcapita Bank, a Bahrain-based investment bank and private equity company, and its affiliates, in their Chapter 11 cases filed in the Southern District of New York and in ancillary proceedings in the Cayman Islands. At the time of its chapter 11 filing, Arcapita, a leading global manager of Shari’ah-compliant alternative investments, had approximately $7 billion in assets under management related to approximately 30 portfolio companies located around the world. The cross-border and Shari’ah-compliant aspects of the Arcapita restructure were both complicated and unique. The confirmed chapter 11 plan of reorganization for Arcapita went effective on September 17, 2013. Gibson Dunn received The American Lawyer‘s 2014 Global Legal Award, for “Global Finance Deal of the Year: Restructuring and Insolvency (Middle East),” and The M&A Advisor’s 2014 Turnaround Award for “Cross-Border Restructuring Deal of the Year (Over $1 Billion)” for its work on the Chapter 11 restructuring of Arcapita Bank B.S.C.
• TBS International Ltd.: Representation of TBS International and its affiliates in their recent, successful Chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of New York. TBS is an international ocean shipping company. In April 2012, scarcely 50 days after filing for Chapter 11, TBS confirmed its prepackaged Chapter 11 plan.
• Almatis, B.V.: Representation of Almatis and its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases filed in the Southern District of New York. The Frankfurt-based, Netherlands- incorporated debtors are one of the world’s leading suppliers of alumina products. Despite a hotly contested valuation litigation surrounding the filing of a prepackaged plan of reorganization, a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization was, in a short five-month time frame, confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court and consummated.
• Building Materials Holding Corporation: Representation of Building Materials Holding and its subsidiaries in their successful, pre-negotiated Chapter 11 cases filed in Delaware. The debtors have a significant national presence in the building materials and construction services sectors, and confirmed a pre-negotiated plan of reorganization that, among other things, implemented a debt to equity conversion of the debtors’ secured revolver and term debt owed to a 70-member bank/hedge fund syndicate.
• Lehman Brothers Finance, S.A.: Representation of PwC, as liquidator of Lehman Brothers Finance, A.G., a Swiss affiliate of Lehman that originated much of the non-U.S. derivatives business. The representation has involved advising PwC on its rights and obligations as liquidator, including those rights and obligations arising from the filing on behalf of the liquidator of a petition under Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code for Lehman Brothers Finance, S.A., and on the tens of billions of dollars of intercompany claims between LBF and Lehman Brothers Holding Inc.
• Dexia, Ltd.: Represented Dexia, a large French/Belgian insurance holding company, on its exposure, investment and ownership interest in Financial Security Assurance Holdings, Inc. (“FSAH”), a U.S. entity that owns FSA Inc., one of the three largest U.S. monoline insurance carriers, and several non-insurance entities that issued billions of dollars of underwater Guaranteed Insurance Contracts. Mr. Rosenthal advised Dexia on its options relative to the sale of FSAH and/or the financial restructuring of these entities, and ultimately, assisted Dexia in the sale of FSAH to Assured Guaranty, Ltd.
• FINOVA Group Inc., et al.: Representation of Chapter 11 debtor in stand-alone reorganization involving approximately $11 billion of debt. Plan confirmed less than six months after filing.
• FLAG Telecom Holdings Limited: Representation of London-based Chapter 11 debtor in its six-month reorganization case that restructured more than $3 billion in debt.
• Building Industry Restructurings: Representation of various major U.S.-based construction and homebuilding entities in their out-of-court restructuring efforts. The names of these entities cannot be disclosed at this time.
• Prentiss/Copley Investment Group: Representation of The Prentiss/Copley Investment Group in connection with an out-of-court restructuring of 122 office buildings and industrial properties located throughout the United States.
• Kalikow Real Estate Company: Representation of New York developer Peter Kalikow in simultaneous restructuring negotiations and Chapter 11 cases. Continued representation to enforce discharge provisions of plan.
• Asbestos Claims Management Corporation: Representation of Chapter 11 debtor with billions of dollars of asbestos-related liabilities. The plan, which was confirmed and consummated less than a year after the case was commenced, resulted in the creation of one of the few asbestos trusts that is operational and well-funded today.
• Resorts International, Inc.: Representation of Chapter 11 debtor in the pre-packaged stand-alone reorganization of high-profile Merv Griffin Casino in Atlantic City, and in the sale of Paradise Island, Bahamas Casino, which is now known as The Atlantis. The case was concluded in a matter of months.
• First Republic Bank Corporation: Representation of First Republic Bank, one of the largest bank holding companies ever to seek Chapter 11 protection, in a vigorously contested Chapter 11 case in which pension fund surpluses were preserved for creditors of insolvent bank holding companies through a settlement negotiated with the FDIC.
• Hawaiian Airlines, Inc.: Representation of Hawaiian Airlines in its Chapter 11 case, including labor negotiations, aircraft lessor litigation and formulation of code share/frequent flyer alliance with American Airlines.
• The Shaw Group/Military Housing: Representation of The Shaw Group in connection with restructure at privatized Army, Navy and Air Force military housing projects.
• American Pad & Paper Company: Representation of Chapter 11 debtor that was one of the largest manufacturers and marketers of nationally branded and private label paper-based office products in the North American office products industry.
• Financial News Network: Representation of Chapter 11 debtor, including its highly publicized section 363 auction between Dow Jones/Westinghouse and General Electric’s NBC unit, which led to the formation of NBC’s cable news affiliate, CNBC. The Second Circuit decision upholding the sale established new precedent concerning flexible auction procedures.
• Money’s Foods U.S., Inc.: Representation of Chapter 11 debtor in stand-alone reorganization of second-largest mushroom producer in North America. During the case, the company sold several of its operating farms pursuant to section 363 sales.
• Graham-Field Health Products, Inc.: Representation of Graham-Field Health Products, Inc. and its affiliates, suppliers of medical and home health care products, in their Chapter 11 cases.
• NACO Finance Corporation: Representation of NACO Finance Corporation in complex reorganization.
• Sunnyside Cogeneration Associates: Representation of Sunnyside Cogeneration Associates, a Utah cogeneration facility, in an out-of-court restructuring.
• AutoFuel Company: Representation of AutoFuel d/b/a AFCO, a distributor of motor fuels in the Southwest and Hawaii, in its Chapter 11 case in the Northern District of Texas.
• Metrocall: Representation of debtor in Chapter 11 case in the Northern District of Texas.
• Comtel Telcom Assets, L.P.: Representation of debtor in Chapter 11 case in the Northern District of Texas.

Mr. Rosenthal has been responsible for or active in the representation of the following entities involved in mass tort cases:

• AIG: Representation of AIG as insurer in hotly contested litigation surrounding responsibility for legacy sexual abuse liability of Boy Scouts of America as well as various Catholic dioceses or archdioceses.
• Truck Insurance Exchange: Representation of Truck Insurance Exchange as the primary insurer of Kaiser Gypsum Company, including in connection with successful petition for certiorari to United States Supreme Court which resulted in landmark decision establishing principle that insurers have standing to be heard regarding any aspect of a chapter 11 plan or reorganization.
• Koch Industries: Representation of ultimate parent of Bestwall LLC in connection with asbestos related advice regarding Bestwall case and funding of qualified settlement trust.
• Yarway Corporation: Representation of chapter 11 plan sponsor (Tyco International) that contributed $325 million to establish section 524(g) asbestos settlement trust.
• Grinnell LLC: Representation of Tyco International plc in establishing and funding a qualified settlement fund to resolve asbestos claims.
• Asbestos Claims Management Corporation:  Representation of chapter 11 debtor (formerly known as National Gypsum Company) with billions of dollars of asbestos-related liabilities in connection with successful chapter 11 case that resulted in creation and funding of NGC Settlement Trust.
• NGC Settlement Trust:  Representation of the settlement trust created in the chapter 11 reorganization of National Gypsum Company to resolve billions of dollars in asbestos-related claims.
• Cooper Industries/Federal Mogul:  Representation of Cooper Industries in connection with its asbestos issues arising in connection with the chapter 11 cases of Federal Mogul, Inc. and its affiliates.
• Confidential Liability Management Representations: Confidential representation of a number of major companies seeking advice on asbestos liability management.
• DII Industries Asbestos PI Trust:  Representation of DII Industries Asbestos PI Trust, the multibillion dollar trust funded by Halliburton Company to resolve the asbestos claims against Halliburton, DII Industries and other Halliburton affiliates.  The trust is one of the largest of its kind ever to be created.
• Participation in most major asbestos cases: Participated in most of the major asbestos-related cases that have been filed over the years.

Mr. Rosenthal has been responsible for the representation of the following acquirors of substantially all of the business and assets of Chapter 11 debtors:

• GCL Poly-Energy Holdings Limited: Representation of GCL Poly-Energy Holdings Limited, one of the world’s largest solar photovoltaic enterprises, in its acquisition of the Solar Materials division of SunEdison, a Chapter 11 debtor in the Southern District of New York.
• Celanese/Clear Lake Cogeneration: Representation of Celanese, one of the world’s largest chemical companies, in connection with negotiation of agreements with Clear Lake Cogeneration, a Chapter 11 debtor and affiliate of NRG Energy, also a Chapter 11 debtor, to restructure and, in certain instances, acquire cogeneration assets critical to continued, uninterrupted, operation of Celanese’s largest chemical plant in Clear Lake, Texas.
• NRG Energy/Cajun Electric: Representation of NRG Energy in acquisition of the electric generating assets of Cajun Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., a Chapter 11 debtor in the Middle District of Louisiana. Cajun Electric is the utility provider to virtually all of rural Louisiana.
• NRG/O’Brien Environmental: Representation of NRG Energy in the acquisition of a controlling interest in O’Brien Environmental Energy, Inc., a Chapter 11 debtor in the District of New Jersey, through a competing plan of reorganization and highly contested auction.
• The Shaw Group/IT Group: Representation of The Shaw Group, a worldwide engineering and construction company, in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of IT Group, Inc., another large worldwide engineering and construction company, which is a debtor in a Chapter 11 case in the District of Delaware.
• Tenet Healthcare/Allegheny Health: Representation of Tenet Healthcare in the purchase of eight Philadelphia area hospitals and the medical school owned by Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation and its affiliates, which are debtors in Chapter 11 cases in the Western District of Pennsylvania.
• TELUS/PSINet: Representation of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunication providers, in its acquisition of Canadian assets of PSINet, Inc., a Chapter 11 debtor in the Southern District of New York.
• Jacobs Engineering/Stone & Webster: Representation of Jacobs Engineering Group in the highly contested auction to acquire the assets of Stone & Webster, Inc., a Chapter 11 debtor in the District of Delaware.

Mr. Rosenthal also spearheaded the successful representation of creditors, equity holders and Official Unsecured Creditors’ Committees in the following Chapter 11 cases:

• Solyndra: Representation of affiliates of the George Kaiser Foundation and the Rob Walton Foundation, as principal lenders to and investors in Solyndra LLC, a solar energy firm that filed a Chapter 11 case in the District of Delaware. These affiliates provided debtor in possession financing to and sponsored the successful chapter 11 plan of reorganization for Solyndra.
• Lehman Brothers: Representation of all of the Lehman Brothers Private Equity Funds, and various other parties, in connection with their rights and obligations related to the Chapter 11 filing of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the Securities Investor Protection Act case filed against Holdings’ broker-dealer subsidiary, Lehman Brothers Inc.
• Zale Official Unsecured Creditors’ Committee: Representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Zale Corporation, the largest jewelry store chain in the United States with thousands of retail locations.
• I.C.H. Official Unsecured Creditors’ Committee: Representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of I.C.H. Corporation, a large U.S. insurance holding company.
• KCS Energy Official Unsecured Creditors’ Committee: Representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of KCS Energy, Inc.
• Sunrise Energy Official Unsecured Creditors’ Committee: Representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Sunrise Energy Company and Sunrise Energy Management Company, which successfully concluded their Chapter 11 proceedings in seven months.
• DII Industries Asbestos PI Trust: Representation of DII Industries Asbestos PI Trust, the multibillion dollar trust funded by Halliburton Company to resolve the asbestos claims against Halliburton, DII Industries and other Halliburton affiliates. The trust is one of the largest of its kind ever to be created.
• Textron Financial/Brooke: Representation of loan servicing in issues related to financial distress at Brooke Capital Corporation and Brooke Credit Corporation.
• NGC Settlement Trust: Representation of the settlement trust created in the Chapter 11 reorganization of National Gypsum Company to resolve billions of dollars in asbestos-related claims.
• Atlantic Coast/United Airlines: Representation of Atlantic Coast Airlines, as a creditor in the Chapter 11 cases of UAL Corporation and its affiliates currently pending in the Northern District of Illinois.
• Shaw Communications/360 Networks: Representation of Shaw Communications, Canada’s largest cable TV provider, in the 360Networks case pending in the Southern District of New York.
• Nortel Networks/GST Telecom: Representation of Nortel Networks, a creditor in the GST Telecom, Inc. Chapter 11 case in the District of Delaware.
• Cooper Industries/Federal Mogul: Representation of Cooper Industries in connection with its asbestos issues arising from the Chapter 11 cases of Federal Mogul, Inc. and its affiliates currently pending in the District of Delaware.
• Crosby Capital/Aviva America: Representation of Crosby Capital, a secured lender in the Aviva America, Inc. Chapter 11 case in the Northern District of Texas.
• Potomac Electric/Ferranti International: Representation of Potomac Electric Power Company as large unsecured creditor in the Ferranti International Controls Corporation Chapter 11 in the Southern District of Texas.
• Bank of Nova Scotia: Representation of The Bank of Nova Scotia in various troubled credits.

Christina M. Brown is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and is a member of the Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. Christina represents a diverse array of parties in bankruptcy and insolvency related matters, financings, debt exchanges, and in-court and out-of-court restructurings. In 2023, she was recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law.

Representative Clients and Transactions:

• Advised an ad hoc group of secured creditors to Endo International plc, a specialty pharmaceutical company with approximately $8 billion in funded debt, in Chapter 11 proceedings in which the first lien creditors purchased substantially all of the Debtors’ assets pursuant to an innovative Plan sale, ending a multiyear effort to resolve opioid liabilities.
• Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders in the Chapter 11 restructuring of Serta Simmons Bedding, providing new liquidity and capital structure relief.
• Advised an ad hoc group of term lenders in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Cano Health.
• Advised an ad hoc group of first lien lenders in the Chapter 11 proceedings of Skillsoft, a global ed-tech company with over $2 billion in funded debt.
• Represented an ad hoc group of first lien lenders in connection with the bridge financing and in-court restructuring of NPC International, the largest franchisee company in the United States.
• Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders in the out-of-court restructuring of David’s Bridal, the nation’s largest bridal-store chain.

Christina received her B.S. in Engineering and Architectural Design from Stanford University in 2007 and her J.D. and LL.M. from Duke University in 2012. Prior to entering the legal profession, she worked as a transportation engineer in the Los Angeles area.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Christina practiced in the Restructuring Group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

Aiyanna W. Isom is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Her practice focuses on Litigation and White Collar Defense and Investigations.

Prior to joining the firm, Aiyanna served as a law clerk to the Honorable Barrington D. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

 Aiyanna received her Juris Doctor in 2020 from Harvard Law School, where she served as a Notes Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  Aiyanna received her Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.

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

Jaysen S. Chung is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of the firm’s Litigation department. He focuses on patent and appellate litigation, and has experience in a range of arts and practices, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, DNA sequencing applications, artificial intelligence, virtual networking, RF switch circuits, and semiconductor products and processes. Jaysen has experience in all phases of litigation from pre-suit due diligence to trial and appeal.

Jaysen was most recently part of a trial team that obtained a precedent-setting directed verdict of noninfringement in a Western District of Texas litigation that involved three patents related to cloud computing. He also was part of a trial and appellate team that secured a favorable result for a client in a multi-billion-dollar patent litigation involving a therapy for multiple sclerosis.

Jaysen has received several awards and accolades for his work. He was named a “2024 Top Attorney Under 40” by Law360 for Intellectual Property, and the Daily Journal named him as a 2024 Top Intellectual Property Lawyer. He has been recognized as a “Patent Star” and a “Rising Star” by Managing IP, and was named in Lawdragon’s 2023 and 2024 The Next Generation guides.

Jaysen serves as Co-Hiring Partner of the San Francisco office and is a member of the firm’s Hiring Committee.

Prior to joining the firm, Jaysen served as a law clerk to the Honorable Randall R. Rader, then-chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Jaysen received his J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in 2011. He earned his B.S. in Psychobiology from UCLA in 2007 and was a member of the university’s 2005 NCAA Division I Championship tennis team.

Jaysen is currently admitted to practice law in the State of California and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Peter Jacobs is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices in the firm’s litigation practice group.

Peter earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2022, and his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Cornell University in 2013. During law school, Peter was the Comments Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and completed an externship with the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Conviction Integrity Unit. Between college and law school, Peter worked as a journalist, covering international breaking news and foreign affairs.

Clare Platt is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Clare earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the New York University School of Law. While in law school, Clare was a staff editor for the NYU Law Review and served as a civil procedure teaching and research assistant for Professor Arthur R. Miller. Clare advised clients on First Amendment issues with the NYU Technology Law and Policy Clinic and served as the president of the Domestic Violence Advocacy Project.  

Clare received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, where she graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors.

Nicole Jibrine is an Associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and Labor and Employment Practice Group.

Nicole assists clients in a wide variety of labor and employment matters, including federal and state litigation and mediation proceedings, as well as investigations and advising clients on day-to-day employment issues.

Nicole graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2020, where she served as an Executive Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law. She graduated from Cornell University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Nicole was an associate in the Employment Practice Group of an Am Law 200 firm in New York.

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

Hannah Stone is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.  Her practice focuses on commercial litigation matters in federal and state court, internal investigations, and high-stakes matters related to government investigations, regulatory inquires, and enforcement actions. 

Hannah’s representative matters include defending a financial institution in connection with civil and criminal investigations by the DOJ and multiple U.S. Attorney’s Offices relating to federal guaranteed loan programs for alleged violations of the False Claims Act; representing a leading technology company in litigation and securing opinion from the California Court of Appeal reversing order denying motion to compel arbitration; conducting independent investigation for a national professional sports team in connection with allegations of sexual abuse involving the team’s youth development program; representing a law firm in obtaining favorable settlement of professional negligence claims; and representing a leading IT service provider in a two-week civil jury trial in the Central District of California.

She also maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing youth offenders in their post-conviction matters.  

Hannah graduated summa cum lade from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, she served as a Judicial Extern to the Honorable Robert G. Klausner, United States District Judge for the Central District of California. Hannah also was a member of the Juvenile Innocence and Fair Sentencing Clinic and served as an articles editor for the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. Prior to law school, Hannah received her B.S. in Journalism from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where she was recruited and played for the Division I tennis team.

She is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Chumma Tum is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the White-Collar Defense and Investigations, FDA and Health Care and False Claims Act/Qui Tam Defense Practice Groups. Chumma’s practice focuses on government and internal investigations, white-collar defense and complex civil litigation, particularly within the health care and life sciences industry. She has experience with internal and government investigations, including civil and criminal investigations by the Department of Justice and Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.

Chumma received her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an editor for the American Criminal Law Review. While in law school, she also served as a legal intern for the Honorable Patti B. Saris, then Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Chumma graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and she served as a Reginald C. Lindsay Fellow with the US District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Chumma’s representation experience includes:

• A global technology services company in connection with civil litigation that alleges novel theories of FCA liability against the company. 
• A leading pharmaceutical distributor in criminal and civil investigations by DOJ related to the distribution of controlled substances.*
• A diagnostic laboratory in multiple state enforcement matters, including suspension proceedings and FCA investigation.*
• A medical device company in connection with the development of the company’s compliance policies with respect to a new product line.*

*Matters handled prior to Chumma joining Gibson Dunn

Monica Paladini is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and its Labor and Employment, Class Actions, and Trial practice groups.

Monica’s practice focuses on business litigation, with particular emphasis on employment litigation, mass and class actions, and complex commercial disputes.  She has litigated a range of labor and employment matters, including defending employers against wage and hour and discrimination actions in federal and state courts, as well as in arbitrations.  She has taken and defended depositions, authored and argued motions, negotiated favorable settlements, and prepared and taken witnesses at trial.  Monica also dedicates a significant portion of her practice to advising employers with respect to business-model development and a variety of business-related contracts and arbitration agreements.

 Monica’s representative experience includes:

• Obtained a complete defense verdict in an 8-day jury trial alleging age discrimination, worker misclassification, and violation of the Cal-WARN Act, including novel legal issues related to COVID-19.  Monica served as third chair eliciting important testimony from key witnesses.
• Prevailed on class decertification in a state-wide California class action on commonality and predominance grounds after garnering deposition testimony from plaintiff’s witnesses demonstrating that the putative class members’ experiences varied.   
• Obtained a full defense victory following a week-long, class action bench trial, successfully arguing that the requirements of California Labor Code section 226 did not apply to the company’s unique bonus structure—a conclusion recently embraced by the California Supreme Court.   
• Secured a complete victory after multi-week, bifurcated panel arbitration on behalf of an aerospace engineering manufacturer in a breach of contract dispute related to an environmental remediation indemnity provision.
• Represent a number of gig economy clients in putative class actions, PAGA actions, and government enforcement actions alleging misclassification of workers as independent contractors.
• Presented multiple CLE classes to clients on topics including recent trends in independent contractor classification.

Monica also has a strong commitment to pro bono work and community involvement.

Monica earned her Juris Doctor from the Pepperdine University School of Law, where she graduated magna cum laude and was elected to the Order of the Coif and the Order of the Barristers.  She served as the Business Production Editor for the Pepperdine Law Review, a legal writing teaching assistant to Professor Mireille Butler, and a research assistant to Professor Peter T. Wendel.  Monica also served as a judicial extern for the Honorable John A. Kronstadt in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.  She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Public Address from Liberty University, where she graduated summa cum laude.

Prior to law school, Monica worked in marketing where she taught training seminars on marketing strategies and tools, developed, and implemented digital marketing campaigns for an array of businesses of various industries, and served as the director of marketing for a national manufacturer of building materials.  She authored a monthly column in a print magazine focused on emerging technology.  She also holds her private pilot license and motorcycle license.

Monica is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Brenton Gutkowski is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP where he currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Brenton earned his Juris Doctor in 2023 from the University of San Diego School of Law where he graduated summa cum laude and was elected to the Order of the Coif. During law school, he served as Articles Editor of the San Diego Law Review and was a judicial extern to the Honorable Michael S. Berg of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

Prior to attending law school, Brenton graduated magna cum laude from The Ohio State University. He majored in Public Policy Analysis with a minor in Global Public Health.

Brenton is a member of the bar of the State of California and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Dr. William R. Hollaway is chair of Gibson Dunn’s Energy Regulation and Litigation practice. He is also a leader in Gibson Dunn’s Energy Power and Renewables practice, focused on the federal and state regulatory aspects of electric utility mergers and acquisitions, financing, and project development. Dr. Hollaway also represents clients on oil and gas matters, including federal regulations and authorizations. He is recognized as a leading Energy Regulatory practitioner by Chambers USA and Chambers Global – Energy: Electricity (Regulation and Litigation). The U.S. Legal 500 named him a “Leading Lawyer” for Energy regulation: electric power and Who’s Who Legal
for Power/Electricity. Dr. Hollaway has extensive experience representing clients on a broad range of issues in the energy regulation and transactions, including numerous proceedings and matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). His clients include public utilities, independent power producers, transmission companies, and oil and gas companies. Dr. Hollaway’s deep understanding of power generation and transmission technology has enabled him to work seamlessly with clients on virtually every type of power project. He has represented clients on many wind, solar, and hydro renewable power projects, nuclear power projects, and natural gas and coal projects. Dr. Hollaway possesses in-depth knowledge of project development agreements and interconnection agreements, exemplified by his ground-breaking work on the Neptune Transmission System and Hudson Transmission Project. Dr. Hollaway also represents clients on Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), oil and gas pipeline, and oil refining matters.

Dr. Hollaway represents clients on energy utility mergers and acquisitions, financing, and project development. His transactional work includes transaction structuring to address federal and state regulatory requirements, due diligence of utility assets and businesses, negotiating transaction agreements, and obtaining federal and state regulatory approvals for mergers and acquisitions. Dr. Hollaway has obtained federal and state regulatory approval for numerous energy transactions. He has also obtained numerous required regulatory approvals for wholesale and retail power sales, and transmission service rates. Dr. Hollaway has extensive experience working with the nation’s Regional Transmission Organizations (RTO)/Independent System Operators (ISO) including PJM, MISO, ERCOT, CAISO, NYISO, SPP and ISO-NE, and has a thorough understanding of RTO/ISO open access transmission tariffs and operating agreements.

Dr. Hollaway received his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif. Dr. Hollaway also received his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and undergraduate engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been elected a member of the Sigma Xi scientific research honor society, Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society and Alpha Nu Sigma nuclear engineering honor society, and was awarded a fellowship from the United States Department of Energy.

Christopher M. Joralemon is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of several Gibson Dunn Practice Groups, including Securities Litigation, Trials, and White Collar Defense and Investigations. Since 2014, Christopher has served as Chair of the New York Community Affairs Committee, Pro Bono Chair of the New York Office, and as a member of Gibson Dunn’s Global Pro Bono Committee.

Christopher represents multinational companies, financial institutions, and senior executives in complex trial and appellate litigation, regulatory proceedings, and internal investigations. He currently serves as lead counsel for Vale S.A., one of the world’s largest mining companies, in a billion-dollar securities class action filed in the wake of catastrophic mining accident in Brazil. He also currently represents Kraft Foods Group, Inc. and Mondelez Global LLC in a federal class action asserting Commodity Exchange Act and antitrust claims based on an alleged wheat futures market manipulation.

Christopher has successfully defended a wide range of clients in some of the most noteworthy cases of the last twenty-five years. For example, he was a key member of the Gibson Dunn trial team that successfully prosecuted a RICO action on behalf of Chevron Corporation to block enforcement of a fraudulent $9 billion judgment in the widely covered “case of the century.”

Christopher also recently served as co-lead trial counsel for Investcorp, a world-leading manager of alternative investments, in a $500 million negligent misrepresentation lawsuit brought by a failed hedge fund. Following a three-week bench trial in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Christopher and his colleagues achieved a complete defense verdict in favor of Investcorp.

He also compiled a perfect record over eight years in defending leading global asset management firm Trust Company of the West (“TCW”) against a series of unrelated post-financial crisis lawsuits stemming from investment losses in multi-billion-dollar structured finance transactions. In the crowning achievement of that run, the New York Appellate Division (First Department)—in a virtually unprecedented ruling—granted TCW summary judgment against two now-defunct Australian hedge funds based on their failure to rebut TCW’s showing that the global financial crisis commencing in 2007 caused plaintiffs’ investment losses.

Early in his career, Christopher orchestrated an important victory on behalf of a former mutual fund executive in a closely watched “market timing” enforcement action by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Following an appeal by the SEC from an order dismissing the action, an en banc panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the SEC’s efforts to expand the scope of Rule 10b-5 primary liability based on an actor’s “central role” in securities markets.

Other Representative Matters:

• Vale: Successfully moved to dismiss a multi-billion-dollar putative securities class action (affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) based on plaintiff’s failure to allege a domestic securities transaction.
• Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS and BNY Mellon Capital Markets: Obtained voluntary dismissal with prejudice of a putative securities class action concerning foreign exchange practices.
• Coty: Defeated at motion to dismiss stage a putative securities class action arising out of $1 billion IPO of leading beauty products manufacturer despite the complaint’s inclusion of seven “confidential informants” supporting an allegation that company had failed disclose negative material trends in its business.
• The Royal Bank of Canada: Favorably resolved highly publicized regulatory and civil proceedings arising out of structured finance investment losses realized by five Wisconsin School Districts in the wake of the global financial crisis.
• Moody’s: Secured positive eve-of-trial settlements of two separate investor actions stemming from the collapse of multi-billion-dollar structured investment vehicles during the global financial crisis.
• Prominent Accounting Firm: Convinced the SEC to forego any charges against the client in connection with investigation and subsequent enforcement action against a publicly traded international technology company.
• Morgan Stanley and The Bank of New York Mellon: Negotiated advantageous settlements in $5 billion civil litigation relating to the collapse of Adelphia Communications Corporation.
• Citigroup: Won summary judgment in a $13 billion class action litigation arising out of the failure of Parmalat.
• Merrill Lynch: Successfully navigated a broad range of Enron-related hearings, investigations, and proceedings.
• SMBC Capital Markets: Won dismissal of a federal False Claims Act qui tam action—affirmed in a seminal Second Circuit decision—involving the municipal bond market “yield burning” scandal.

Throughout his career, Christopher has devoted significant attention to pro bono and charitable efforts. He recently chaired a hearing panel appointed by the Judicial Committee of USA Climbing to resolve disputes involving alleged violations of governing conduct codes. He also has led a team of attorneys representing a man wrongly convicted of murder almost twenty-five years ago, has supervised young attorneys handling criminal appeals on behalf of the District Attorney’s Offices for Kings and Queens Counties, has represented the Republic of Liberia in disputes involving diplomatic operations in New York, and has organized groups of lawyers to monitor polling locations in several states as part of nonpartisan voter protection efforts during presidential elections. He also has coordinated fundraising efforts through law firm participation in corporate sporting events on behalf of charitable organizations dedicated to preventing domestic abuse and providing a safe haven for victims of domestic violence.

Christopher graduated magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law, where he served as Editor of the Boston University Law Review.

Kareem Ramadan is a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he is a member of the Public Policy, Congressional Investigations, White Collar Defense and Investigations, and Antitrust practice groups.

Kareem has a wide range of experience advising clients on their interactions with Congress. He represents clients undergoing investigations by various congressional committees, including United States House and Senate Committees. The committees Kareem has worked with include House Education & Workforce, House Oversight and Accountability, House Financial Services, House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol, House Judiciary, House Energy & Commerce, House Homeland Security, Senate Finance, Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Senate Judiciary, Senate Budget, and Senate HELP. Kareem supports clients through all stages of investigations including subpoena responses and preparing witnesses for transcribed interviews and congressional hearings. He also provides counsel around federal ethics and lobbying rules. 

Additionally, Kareem regularly supports companies through DOJ investigations, internal investigations, and internal risk assessments involving anti-corruption, securities fraud, false statements/obstruction, and the unlawful sale of regulated products.

Kareem earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2020, where he received the Thomas Marshall Miller Prize and was a member of the Raven Society. During law school, he served as the Managing Editor for the Virginia Law Review, president of the Muslim Students Association, and president of the Middle East and North Africa Student Association. From 2020 to 2021, Kareem served as a law clerk to the Honorable Norman K. Moon in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

Prior to law school, Kareem worked in business development and strategy for a large IT government contractor in Northern Virginia. He received a B.S. in business administration and a second major in economics from the University of North Carolina in 2014.

Kareem is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

Publications

• Kareem W. Ramadan, Confessionalism in Lebanon: The Costs of Seeking Consensus Through Fragmentation, 61 Va. J. Int’l L. 137 (2020).

Monica Lin is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Dallas office, where she currently practices in the firm’s Litigation, Life Sciences, and Intellectual Property Practice Groups.

Before joining the firm, Monica was an associate in the IP Litigation group at Sidley Austin.

Monica received her B.A. cum laude in Chemistry from Harvard University and her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law, where she served as an articles editor for the Texas Law Review and as a Cybersecurity Graduate Fellow in the Strauss Center. Monica also participated in the Texas Law Supreme Court Clinic, helping to draft cert petitions and merits briefs. In addition, while at UT, she interned for Justice Patricia Alvarez at the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals.

Monica is admitted to practice in the states of Illinois and Texas.

Kemi Kehinde is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s New York Office. She is a member of the Litigation Department, where she currently practices in the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Group.

Kemi earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 2023 from Georgetown University Law Center where she was an Opportunity Scholar and a Reactions Editor of the Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives. While at Georgetown, she was a student-lawyer in the Racial Equity in Education Law and Policy Clinic, a teaching fellow, and a law clerk for the Mothers’ Outreach Network. Kemi also served as the Communications Director and Corporate Relations Chair of Georgetown’s Women of Color Collective and was a former scholar and intern of PracticePro, an organization that supports law students as they enter the professional world.  

Kemi graduated summa cum laude in 2019 from the University at Albany with a Bachelor of Arts in English Honors.

Kemi is admitted to practice in New York.

Philip Rocher is the senior partner in the Dispute Resolution Group in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s London office. He specialises in litigation, often with an international element, and regulatory and internal investigations. He has extensive experience in the financial services sectors and in competition litigation and class actions.

Philip regularly advises on high value disputes arising from the full range of commercial activities and has taken many large and complex matters through to a concluded trial. In recent years he has conducted a three-month hedge fund fraud trial in the Cayman Islands, a ten-week fraud trial in the Commercial Court, and multiple hearings in the appellate courts (including the UK Supreme Court) in a ground-breaking private sector equal value employment claim. He has also defended clients in the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the UK Commercial Court.

He has conducted numerous regulatory and internal investigations in the UK and internationally for clients in the financial services sector and in other industries, reporting the results to both regulators and boards of directors. These matters range from examining the conduct of senior managers in an investment bank, to major multinational regulatory investigations.

Philip was ranked as a leading lawyer in the field of Commercial Litigation in Chambers UK 2017. He is included in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame listing for Commercial Litigation and also recognised for Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail, Competition Litigation, Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime and Administrative and Public Law in The Legal 500 UK 2024, in which clients have noted “Philip Rocher’s depth of experience, sound judgement and ability to cut through the detail to the essentials provide an invaluable resource on any litigation team. He is a superstar of commercial litigation.” Philip is recommended in the field of litigation by Best Lawyers UK (2014-2025), and is listed as one of the leading practitioners worldwide in the most recent issue of International Who’s Who of Commercial Litigation Lawyers. Benchmark Litigation Europe 2022 ranked Philip as a Litigation Star in the areas of Insurance, International Arbitration and Commercial & Transactions. He is also ranked for International Arbitration and Litigation in the Lawdragon 500 Global Litigation Lawyers guide 2021.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Philip was a partner in the London office of Clifford Chance.

Joel Harrison is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a Co-Chair of the firm’s Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Technology Transactions Practice Group.

Joel advises on everything technology-related, including transactions, disputes and renegotiations, as well as regulatory issues. He also specialises in data protection and cybersecurity, advising on the full range of regulatory, transactional and contentious matters. Joel’s clients include some of the world’s leading corporations and financial institutions.

Joel advises clients on a wide range of technology projects, including outsourcing, cloud computing, software development and licensing and system integration agreements, as well as collaborations and strategic alliances in the technology sector. He has also represented clients in major disputes and renegotiations on technology projects, and regularly advises on a wide variety of issues in technology regulation and policy development.

Joel also advises clients on data protection matters, including data protection and ePrivacy issues in the development of new products and services and international data transfers, as well as data protection disputes and regulatory proceedings. He regularly advises on cybersecurity issues, and has represented clients in a wide range of sectors (including financial services, technology and pharmaceuticals) on incident preparedness and response.

He is listed as a leading individual for both Information Technology and Outsourcing in Chambers & Partners and as a leading individual for Information Technology in Legal 500. In addition, he is recognised by the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom as a leading lawyer for Technology Law and Outsourcing.

Aliya Padhani is an English law qualified Associate in the Dubai office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Financial Regulatory Practice Group. She has experience advising governments, regulators and a broad range of financial institutions in both the UAE and UK, including investment managers, commercial and investment banks, payment service providers, FinTechs and digital asset service providers on complex regulatory issues.

She completed her bachelor’s degree in human, social, political science at the University of Cambridge in 2019 before completing her Graduate Diploma of Law and Legal Practice Course at BPP Law School in London. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Aliya completed her training contract and qualified into the financial services regulatory team at an international law firm in London.

Kylah Turner is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Kylah earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in 2023.  While in law school, Kylah served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Jacqueline Scott Corley.  In addition, Kylah was a member of the Interdisciplinary Law Journal and served as vice-president of the Health Law Society. 

Kylah graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in History.

Kylah is admitted to practice in the State of California.