Robert Bollinger is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he practices in the firm’s Finance, Business Restructuring and Reorganization, Liability Management and Special Situations, and Private Equity Practice Groups. Robert advises financial institutions, debt funds, private equity firms and corporate borrowers in a variety of transactions including debt-financings, corporate restructuring, sponsor-led acquisition financings, asset-based loans, cash flow-based facilities and other leveraged financings.

Robert received his Juris Doctor from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He also received his Master of Business Administration from Yale School of Management and his Bachelor of Science and Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.

Martin Coombes is an English qualified senior solicitor in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Financial Regulatory, Financial Institutions, Investment Funds and ESG Practice Groups.

Martin specializes in advising on UK and EU financial services regulation. He advises on a wide range of financial services and compliance issues including advice on UK and EU regulatory developments, the regulatory aspects of corporate transactions and the on-going compliance obligations of financial services firms. Martin also has experience of conducting internal investigations for financial services firms and acting on a section 166 skilled person review under the Financial Services and Markets Act. His clients include institutional asset managers, private equity firms, hedge fund managers, credit fund managers, investment banks, cryptoasset firms, payment services firms and corporate finance houses.

Martin has completed client secondments to the London Legal and Compliance departments of two US asset managers.

He graduated from Newcastle University with a First Class honors degree in Law and has been awarded the Bachelor of Civil Law from Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He completed the Legal Practice Course (Distinction) at BPP Law School, London. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Martin practiced in the Financial Services Regulation Department of a leading international law firm in London.

Nicole M. Butze is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where she currently practices in the firm’s Tax Controversy and Litigation Practice Group.

Nicole earned her Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law, where she graduated cum laude. She served as the Symposium Editor for the Pepperdine Law Review and a research assistant to Professor Kristine S. Knaplund. Nicole earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Nicole was a general attorney at the Internal Revenue Service where she handled numerous complex tax controversy cases ranging from micro captive insurance to fraud. Nicole has litigated numerous cases in front of the United States Tax Court.

Nicole is admitted to practice in the State of California and in the United States Tax Court.

Lisa L. Jacobs is a Senior Counsel working with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Capital Markets Practice Group.

Lisa has unparalleled experience in the capital markets having advised on more than $1 trillion in securities offerings globally over a nearly four-decade career. She has advised major corporations and investment banking houses on disclosure matters, liability management and capital markets transactions, including the creation of new types of securities. She has advised C-Suites and corporate boards on corporate governance, transformational transactions and capital raises throughout economic cycles and unprecedented times. Throughout her career, Lisa has been consistently recognized as one of the top women transactional lawyers. 

Lisa Stevens is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Lisa is a member of the Business Restructuring and Reorganization, and Finance Practice Groups. 

Lisa advises global clients on bespoke and complex cross border restructurings, special situations debt transactions and stressed liability management transactions. Lisa has a broad client base which includes capital solutions funds, direct lending funds, CLOs, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, other large asset managers and corporates.

Lisa’s experience includes the following matters:*

  • Investment in The Very Group
  • Recapitalisation transaction undertaken by the McLaren Group (including the heritage car collection sale)
  • Restructuring of the Selecta Group (UK scheme of arrangement)
  • Restructuring of the Technicolor Group (French process)
  • Restructuring of HK China Fisheries (UK restructuring plan)
  • Restructuring of the NMC Group, including assisting with the novel administration funding facility and exit financing (UAE process)
  • Restructuring of the ACPS group (out of court)
  • Holdco PIK loan with warrants to fund an “equity cheque” required to be made in connection with a recent UK restructuring plan
  • Large structured minority investment in a substantial UAE-based retail franchise
  • Liability management transactions involving stressed real estate companies

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

Ben Myers is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Ben is a member of the firm’s Finance and Business Restructuring Practice Groups. He is also one of the leaders of the firm’s UK ESG practice and a member of the firm’s global ESG Practice Group.

Ben regularly advises private equity sponsors and their investment funds/portfolio companies, major financial institutions, corporates, hedge funds and other investors and agency/trustee services providers across a wide range of complex and multi-jurisdictional financing transactions including leveraged finance, real estate finance, asset finance, fund finance and restructuring transactions.

In addition to advising clients on mainstream finance and restructuring transactions, Ben’s practice has a particular focus on special situations transactions. He has extensive experience advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, special situations teams at major financial institutions and credit/special situations funds on deal specific credit solutions including holdco/PIK financings, rescue financings, GP co-invest financings, minority investment financings and post-restructuring recapitalisations.

Ben previously worked for extended periods in the leveraged loan and high yield finance teams of the investment banking divisions of Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank.

Ben was recommended for Property Finance by The Legal 500 UK 2024 and was previously named as a “Rising Star” by Legal Business.

Representative Matters

Ben has been involved in the following representative matters:

  • RedBird Capital Partners in connection with its acquisition of AC Milan
  • A Hong Kong investment firm in connection with its GP co-invest financing arrangements
  • A U.S. Credit Fund in connection with a holdco financing of a Swiss data centre business
  • EQT Exeter in connection with the subscription facility for its China property fund
  • Investcorp in connection with its acquisition of Investis Digital, a leading global digital corporate communications and marketing company
  • Amazon in connection with the establishment of its European commercial paper programme
  • Lucid Agency and Trustee Services Limited as the replacement agent/security trustee in connection with the financial restructuring and recapitalisation of a portfolio business of a UK PE Sponsor
  • Porthaven Care Homes and its shareholders in connection with the refinancing of the acquisition financing arrangements established in connection with the acquisition of Porthaven Care Homes
  • Banijay Group in connection with the financing arrangements for the acquisition of Endemol Shine*
  • Searchlight Capital Partners on the holdco financing arrangements for one of its portfolio companies in connection with a minority investment by that portfolio company*
  • A consortium of lenders including Blantyre Capital and Bulgarian Development Bank in relation to the financial restructuring and recapitalisation of Bulsatcom EAD, a Bulgarian satellite television, internet and mobile operator*
  • An ad hoc group of noteholders in relation to the financial restructuring and recapitalisation of the Lebara Group*
  • Vector Capital on the financing arrangements for its investment in Cloudsense, a leading commercial software service provider with operations across the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific and the subsequent refinancing of such financing arrangements*
  • Centerbridge and KKR as principal investors in connection with the financial restructuring, and subsequent disposal, of BMI Healthcare and the GHG Group*
  • Selecta Group B.V., a portfolio company of KKR, in connection with its acquisition of Gruppo Argenta S.p.A. and Pelican Rouge and the refinancing of Selecta’s existing debt*
  • An ad hoc group of creditors to Danaos Corporation in connection with the restructuring of $2.2bn of the company’s debt*
  • FNZ Group on the financing arrangements for the acquisition of European Bank for Financial Services GmbH (ebase), the public to private acquisition of GBST Holdings Ltd and the refinancing of FNZ’s existing debt*
  • SK Capital in connection with the financing arrangements for the acquisition by its portfolio company, Wavelength Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., of Perrigo Company PLC’s active pharmaceuticals ingredients (“API”) business in Israel, the United States and India*
  • Global Logistics Properties (GLP) on its acquisition of European logistics business IDI Gazeley from Brookfield Asset Management for approximately US$2.8 billion*
  • A group of lenders in connection with the refinancing of Manchester United’s bank facilities and notes*
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch in connection with the bridge facilities established for the purposes Royal Dutch Shell’s public offer to acquire BG Group*

*Experience prior to joining Gibson Dunn.

Dennis B. Arnold is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. A member of the firm’s Real Estate Department, Finance Practice Group, and Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group, he has had extensive experience in all aspects of commercial and residential real estate and finance, as well as workouts, bankruptcies and debt restructurings. Mr. Arnold is a nationally recognized expert in real estate, finance, insolvency and commercial law, including significant expertise in Uniform Commercial Code remedies and mezzanine loan foreclosures and unparalleled expertise in mortgage remedies and foreclosures. Mr. Arnold’s primary areas of concentration include real estate, banking, workouts, bankruptcy, debt restructure and finance (especially Articles 3, 5 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code). He is also a noted authority on California’s “one action” and “anti-deficiency” laws and successfully briefed and argued the seminal Wozab, Western Security Bank and Union Bank v. Dreyfuss cases before the California Supreme Court. Mr. Arnold is also a recognized authority on secured transactions, the law of guaranties and letters of credit.

Mr. Arnold has been ranked in the first tier of real estate lawyers by Chambers USA for many years. He was recognized in 2020 by Connect CRE in its first annual list of the top 50 “Lawyers in Real Estate” in the U.S. In 2016 and 2017, he was featured in the Who’s Who Legal listing for Real Estate Law, which recognizes outstanding practitioners in various practice areas. In 2013, he was named by The Real Property Law Section of the State Bar of California as the first ever “Real Property Person of the Year”. For decades, Mr. Arnold has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Banking and Finance Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights, Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and Real Estate Law. Best Lawyers also named Mr. Arnold as “Lawyer of the Year” in Los Angeles for Real Estate in 2010 and for Banking and Finance in 2018. The Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Real Property Section honored him with its Outstanding Real Estate Lawyer Award in 2009.

Mr. Arnold received his J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1975. He has lectured extensively for many organizations. Mr. Arnold is a member of The American Law Institute, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the Board of Governors of The Financial Lawyers Conference and a former member of the Executive Committees of both the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section and the Real Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Mr. Arnold is the author of “Guaranties of Indebtedness under California Law: Issues in Drafting and Enforcement” (California Real Property Journal, Spring, 1983), “Anti-Deficiency in the Eighties: The Sanction Aspect, Fair Value and Where The Action Is (And Isn’t)” (California Real Property Journal, Spring, 1987), co-author of “The U.C.C. Mixed Collateral Statute – Has Paradise Really Been Lost” (36 U.C.L.A. Rev. 1, 1988), co-author of “Western Security Bank Case Clouds Use of Letters of Credit As Security Enhancement” (California Real Property Journal, Summer, 1993) and author of “Western Security Bank, Part Deux: The Empire Strikes Out” (California Real Property Journal, Winter, 1994).

Mr. Arnold also acted as an Advisor to The American Law Institute on the Restatement of the Law Third, Suretyship and Guaranty (ALI 1996) published by The American Law Institute, and drafted California Civil Code Section 2856, which authorizes waivers of defenses by guarantors.

Olivia St. Amand is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Olivia earned her Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

Olivia is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.

Janiel Myers is an associate in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP where she currently practices in the firm’s Litigation and Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation practice groups. Janiel also has an extensive pro bono practice and has represented individuals in guardianship matters and asylum proceedings, small businesses in commercial disputes and organizational restructurings, and non-profit organizations regarding privacy and reproductive justice issues.

Janiel earned her Juris Doctor in 2018 from Emory University School of Law. She received her Bachelor of Arts in General Theatre from the University of Florida in 2014. While at Emory, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Emory Law Journal (Vol. 67). Janiel is also an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). 

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Janiel also worked in the New York and Houston offices of another major law firm in their restructuring practice group. Janiel also served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Deborah J. Saltzman of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.

Janiel is a member of the bar of the State of New York and the State of Texas.
 

Samantha Abrams-Widdicombe is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office, and previously practiced in the firm’s Palo Alto office. Samantha’s practice is mainly focused on defending companies in regulatory matters and advising on product, business and compliance strategies, particularly on issues related to data privacy, cybersecurity, AI and biometrics issues. Samantha advises clients in various industries, from leading tech companies to luxury fashion, retail, software, utility, and medical device companies. Samantha also maintains a significant pro bono practice.

Samantha earned her J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where she served as an editor on the Duke Law Journal, as Executive Vice President of the Women Law Students Association, and as a Legal Analysis, Research and Writing teaching assistant. Samantha was awarded The Outstanding Client Service Award for her work as a student attorney in the Duke Law Community Enterprise Clinic. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Scripps College, and studied abroad for an academic year at the London School of Economics.

Samantha’s representative engagements include:

  • Advising clients in various industries on product, business and compliance strategies, with particular experience related to data privacy, cybersecurity, AI and biometrics issues.
  • Representing publicly traded tech company in selecting and interfacing with an independent assessor appointed under an FTC consent order.
  • Advising publicly traded tech company in implementing a privacy and cybersecurity program under an FTC consent order.
  • Advising publicly traded software company in implementing an advertising compliance program under an FTC consent order.
  • Advising publicly traded pharmaceutical and medical device company in implementing an anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance program and drafting required compliance reports under a DOJ Deferred Prosecution Agreement.
  • Representing publicly traded pharmacy retail company in a False Claims Act investigation by the DOJ.
  • Representing publicly traded pharmaceutical and medical device company in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation by the DOJ.

Adam Lapidus is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Derivatives Practice Group and Cleantech Industry Group.

Adam advises both end users and dealers on structuring, documenting, and negotiating transactions across a broad range of derivatives products. Such products include equity derivatives, interest rate hedges, commodity derivatives, and privately negotiated FX and currency option transactions.

Adam’s practice also covers the margin, clearing, netting, and governance considerations related to derivatives transactions. In addition, he advises clients on the generation, sale, and purchase of renewable energy credits and carbon offsets.

Adam graduated from Fordham University School of Law in 2009, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board and the Fordham International Law Journal.  He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from The University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, in 2005. Prior to entering private practice, Adam worked for nearly a decade as in-house counsel to financial institutions.

Frank P. Coté is an Of Counsel in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he practices as part of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. He focuses his practice on patent litigation matters, with a particular emphasis in high-tech cases.

Frank has experience in a wide variety of technologies, including digital imaging, hard disk drives, flash memory, random access memory, integrated circuit manufacture and packaging, print controllers, variable data printing, power conversion, high-voltage protection circuitry, computer display technology, internet security and authentication, medical devices, wireless data transmission, lighting applications, clean power generation, and 3D graphics. His experience includes involvement in several patent trials, including cases before district courts in Texas and California and a hearing before the International Trade Commission. Frank also has assisted clients with IP due diligence, technology licensing, and trademark clearance. His trial experience, technical skill, and business acumen allow him to effectively manage complicated technical cases with an eye towards summary judgment, trial, and achieving client objectives.

In addition to his experience in intellectual property matters, he has experience in complex commercial litigation matters involving contract disputes, insurance coverage, and products liability. He also has experience in immigration law, which he gained through his pro bono efforts.

Frank received his law degree in 1999 from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he was a member of Loyola’s International and Comparative Law Review and selected for the Scott Moot Court Honors Board. In 1992, he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University, which he attended on a four-year Air Force ROTC Scholarship.

Before beginning his legal career, Frank served as an officer in the Air Force, where he held positions that honed his technical and managerial skills, including project engineer for Milstar, a multibillion dollar communications satellite system; assistant team leader for the International Space Station program; team leader for the Space Shuttle’s Main Engine program; and assistant professor of aerospace studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Frank has most recently been recognized in the area of patent litigation by The Best Lawyers in America®. He has also been recognized as a Super Lawyer (2012-2017) in intellectual property litigation by Southern California Super Lawyers and Los Angeles Magazine. Frank is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Central, Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of California; the Eastern District of Texas; and in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Federal Circuits. Before joining Gibson Dunn, Frank was a partner at Jones Day and Howrey LLP.

Andrei Malikov is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

He has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Commercial Litigation since 2021 and Appellate Practice since 2023.

Andrei received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 2015 from the University of Michigan Law School. He received his Bachelor of Arts with departmental honors in English Literature from the University of Southern California in 2010.

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

Matt Buongiorno is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and practices in the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Practice Group.

His practice focuses on a variety of data privacy and consumer protection matters, with an emphasis on representing clients in the technology and internet industries in both litigation and government investigations contexts. He also has experience advising companies on privacy and cybersecurity issues—including relating to legal and regulatory compliance with state, federal, and international laws—as well as counseling on data breach response management and notification issues.

Matt also has extensive antitrust litigation and related government investigations experience. He has previously defended one of the world’s largest banks in large class actions involving alleged manipulation of U.S. Dollar LIBOR and other interest rate and financial derivative benchmarks (Euribor, Yen, LIBOR, ISDAFix) and alleged manipulation of foreign exchange (FX) benchmarks.

He has been recognized on the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America lists from 2022-2025 for Antitrust Law, Litigation – Antitrust, and Litigation – Banking and Finance.

Matt earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas School of Law, where he served as an articles editor for the Texas Review of Litigation and competed in a moot court and mock trial. He graduated valedictorian from Texas Christian University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.

Before attending law school, Matt was a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow with the Federation of American Scientists in Washington D.C. He then served as a Teach For America corps member on the Big Island of Hawaii where he taught high school math and comparative politics, and coached cross country and triathlon.

Outside of work, Matt is an avid and competitive triathlete. He has competed in over a dozen Ironman 70.3 triathlons—qualifying for the World Championship in 2018 and 2021—and three full Ironman triathlons.

Donald Harrison, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, joined the firm in 1988. His area of concentration is international trade matters, including representation and advice concerning the antidumping and countervailing duty laws and other United States import relief statutes. Mr. Harrison also focuses on United States customs matters, including customs classification and valuation issues, country of origin marking issues, customs audit and penalty matters, quota programs, and specialized areas such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, the foreign-trade zone program, and the Generalized System of Preferences. He is also actively involved in legislative developments in the trade area. Mr. Harrison was ranked by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as one of the top attorneys in the nation for international trade and customs law. He has also been consistently recognized since 2022 by The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of International Trade and Finance Law.

Mr. Harrison’s experience includes representing clients in cases and proceedings before the Commerce Department, the International Trade Commission, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (formerly the Customs Service), and the United States Trade Representative’s Office, as well as the Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Harrison also represents clients in connection with non-United States international trade matters, including representation in antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. He has written and spoken widely on United States trade law and policy, and has been invited by the Commerce Department to speak at programs on recent developments in antidumping and countervailing duty law, and by the Judicial Conference of the United States Court of International Trade in New York to participate as a panelist.

Following graduation from law school, Mr. Harrison served as a law clerk to Judge Francis L. Van Dusen, a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in economics and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Harvard Law Review.

Evan Kratzer is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property; Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation; and Artificial Intelligence practices. Evan has experience litigating patent disputes in federal district court, before the International Trade Commission, and on appeal to the Federal Circuit. He also advises clients on matters relating to data privacy and AI legal issues. Evan maintains an active pro bono docket focused on veterans benefits appeals and immigration proceedings.

Evan previously served as a law clerk for the Honorable Tiffany P. Cunningham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Honorable James V. Selna of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

He earned his law degree from Stanford Law School, graduating with high pro bono distinction. While in law school, Evan was the Online Projects Editor of the Stanford Law Review, the Lead Articles Editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Review, and a member of the Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic. He also received the Jay M. Spears Award, given to recognize outstanding service to the Stanford Law Review. Prior to law school, Evan earned an A.B. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, from which he graduated summa cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

He is admitted to practice law in the state of California and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Evan is a member of the Board of Directors of the Asian Law Alliance, a Silicon Valley pro bono legal assistance non-profit. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University.

To Nhu Huynh is an associate in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the areas of real estate and corporate law. To Nhu advises institutional lenders, investors and businesses on real property secured financing, development, acquisitions and dispositions. To Nhu also maintains an active pro bono practice, representing clients in family and immigration law matters.

To Nhu graduated magna cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif. While in law school, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy. To Nhu received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Phi Omega, a national fraternity dedicated to community service and leadership development.

Jimmy Rotstein is a senior associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a former federal prosecutor with extensive experience in litigating high-stakes criminal and civil matters across a broad range of practice areas. Jimmy specializes in white-collar criminal matters, government investigations, internal investigations, and complex civil litigation. He has first-chaired federal jury and bench trials and has argued significant motions at every stage of litigation.

Jimmy was recently recognized in the 2025 editions of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Criminal Defense: White-Collar.

Jimmy represents individuals and major companies in high-profile criminal and civil matters, which include:

  • Represented COO of publicly traded company who was the target of parallel DOJ and SEC investigations involving alleged financial fraud. All criminal charges were dismissed.
  • Represented CFO of publicly traded company in SEC investigation alleging market manipulation. SEC closed the investigation and no charges were filed. 
  • Represented multiple real estate companies in criminal investigation conducted by United States Attorney’s Office. No criminal charges were filed.
  • Secured dismissal with prejudice on behalf of major healthcare company for alleged securities laws violations. 

From 2019 – 2021, Jimmy served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California. During his time at the United States Attorney’s Office, he  successfully prosecuted a wide range of federal crimes including international money laundering, various frauds and conspiracies, human smuggling, and importation and distribution of controlled substances. Jimmy also successfully briefed cases before the Ninth Circuit and led a successful multi-year investigation involving a complex conspiracy.

Before his tenure at the United States Attorney’s Office, he was an associate at Latham & Watkins LLP. During that time, he specialized in white-collar criminal and complex litigation matters, in which he obtained multiple favorable resolutions for his clients.

Jimmy received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown, he was a member of the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy. Jimmy received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. While at UCLA, Jimmy was a member of the UCLA football team, where he was a multiple letter winner and elected to the Pac-10 All-Academic team for two consecutive years.

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

Mary Lindsay Krebs is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices with the firm’s Litigation Department.

Mary Lindsay graduated from Vanderbilt Law School in 2023. She served as the Senior En Banc Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review, in which she published a Note analyzing educators’ First Amendment rights in light of anti-CRT classroom speech restrictions. She received Scholastic Excellence Awards in Regulatory State and Education Law. While in law school, she served as a board intern with the PENCIL nonprofit via Young Leaders Council.

Mary Lindsay graduated with honors from Washington University in Saint Louis in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology. Prior to law school, Mary Lindsay was an elementary school teacher and dean with Teach for America in Chicago, Illinois.

Mary Lindsay is admitted to practice law in the State of Tennessee and the District of Columbia.

Kio Bell is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP where he currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Kio earned his Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School, where he served as Managing Editor of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance, and participated in the Stanford Criminal Prosecution Clinic. While in law school, he interned for the Virginia Office of the Attorney General in the Conviction Integrity Unit. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. 

Kio is a member of the California Bar. He is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Central District of California.