Azad Niroomand is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Azad earned his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from the George Washington University Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Azad served as an Online Editor for the George Washington Law Review. Azad also interned with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the Civil Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Diplomatic Law and Litigation Bureau of the U.S. Department of State.

Azad received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 2020 from the University of Pittsburgh, where he graduated summa cum laude with a major in Political Science and a minor in French.

He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

Tin Le is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Tin earned his law degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles. While in law school, he served as a Production Editor for the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, the President of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and a Co-VP of Outlines & Tutoring for the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society.

Prior to law school, Tin graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a minor in Political Science.

He also currently serves on the Governing Board of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles (APABA LA).

Tin is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Zach Kosbie is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Zach earned his Juris Doctor at NYU School of Law, where he was Senior Executive Editor of NYU’s Journal of International Law and Politics. He received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, cum laude, from Georgetown, majoring in International Politics. He also received a Master of the Arts in Security Studies from Georgetown. 

He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

Kyle Parrott is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Kyle earned his Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from American University Washington College of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and awarded the Gillett Prize for graduating first in his class. In addition to serving as a Senior Staffer on the American University Law Review, Kyle worked as a student attorney for the Montgomery County, Maryland State’s Attorney’s Office through the Prosecution Section of the Criminal Justice Clinic. During law school, Kyle also interned for the National Security Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, as well as the Public Integrity and Fraud Sections within the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division.

Kyle received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2017 from the University of Maryland, where he graduated magna cum laude as a double major in Economics and Government & Politics. Prior to attending law school, Kyle served as a regulatory paralegal at a large law firm and worked in project management at a large nonprofit institution.

He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

Ty Shockley is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Ty earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2023. During his final semester of law school, Ty was an extern for U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia and appeared in federal court under a third year practice certificate.

Ty graduated summa cum laude from the University of Wyoming with Bachelors’ of Science in Accounting and Agri-business and worked as an auditor prior to attending law school.

Ty is admitted to practice law in Colorado.

Richard Dudley is a Partner and Deputy General Counsel of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and is based in the Firm’s New York office. Prior to joining the General Counsel’s office, he was a member of the Firm’s Litigation Department and has substantial trial, appellate, and investigative experience in a wide range of complex civil matters, with an emphasis on transnational litigation. Richard was a key member of Gibson Dunn’s trial and appellate teams representing Chevron Corporation in its successful RICO and fraud suit against the individuals and entities behind a $9.2 billion judgment against the company, and he also was one of the lead associates on the team representing Chevron Corporation in over a dozen tort suits brought by states, counties, and municipalities for alleged climate change-related damages. He also has substantial experience representing clients in regulatory and internal investigations, with a focus on securities, anti-corruption, and False Claims Act issues. 

Richard earned his Juris Doctor in 2012 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as an Executive Editor on the Virginia Law Review. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy from Georgetown University in 2009.

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

Selina Gardiner is an English-qualified associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practises in the firm’s Dispute Resolution, Competition and International Arbitration practice groups. Selina has experience of complex commercial litigation and international arbitration.

Selina trained at Gibson Dunn, during which time she gained experience in construction arbitration under the DIAC rules and Investor-State arbitration. Most recently, she has assisted in the defence of a UK retailer in the largest private sector equal pay claim to be heard in the English courts.

Selina holds a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the University of Liverpool.

Nika Madyoon is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group. She is currently on secondment in the London office.

Nika has experience in a wide range of cross-border disputes, including commercial and investment treaty arbitrations covering a number of different sectors. She has advised clients under arbitration rules including the ICSID, ICSID AF, UNCITRAL, and ICC Rules. She has developed particular experience in construction, mining, infrastructure, insurance, and consumer products disputes.

She was recently recognized as one of eight “rising stars” globally in international arbitration, and nominated for participation in the Seventeenth Annual Juris Conference on Investment Treaty Arbitration. She was previously the First Prize recipient in the Charter Institute of Arbitrators’ Student Writing Competition.

Nika earned her Juris Doctor in 2021 from Columbia Law School, where she was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and recipient of the Parker School Certificate for Achievement in International and Comparative Law. In law school, she served as research and teaching assistant to Professor George A. Bermann. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Political Science from Columbia University in 2016.

She maintains an active pro bono practice at the firm, advising clients on issues of public international law, international human rights law, and immigration law.

Nika is fluent in French and Farsi, and has working proficiency in Spanish. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Alyse Ullery is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the Firm’s Litigation Department, focusing on white collar criminal defense, internal investigations, False Claims Act litigation, and corporate compliance.

Her experience includes representing both corporate and individual clients in government investigations involving the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and other regulatory and enforcement agencies. Alyse has helped defend clients against a wide range of allegations, including potential violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and both federal and state False Claims Act statutes. Alyse also regularly counsels clients on the structure and effectiveness of their anti-corruption compliance programs, in addition to a variety of health care fraud and abuse compliance matters.

 Alyse received her law degree magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2020. During law school, she was a Managing Editor for the American Criminal Law Review’s Annual Survey of White Collar Crime. Prior to law school, Alyse worked as a Senior Policy Advisor to a state senator in Texas, where she specialized in criminal justice, health and human services, and veterans’ affairs policy. Alyse graduated with Highest Honors from the University of Texas in 2015, where she earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts Honors Government and a B.A. in Theater & Dance. 

 Alyse is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Ernest Hsin is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s San Francisco office and is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s National Intellectual Property Practice Group. Ernest specializes in high-tech and life sciences patent litigation, representing his clients as lead or co-lead counsel in federal district courts, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the International Chamber of Commerce. Ernest was recognized by the Daily Journal as a Top Intellectual Property Lawyer 2023.

Ernest represents leading technology and life sciences companies in some of their most significant intellectual property and technology disputes. Companies he represents and has represented include: Organon, Merck, Peloton, Fitbit, Tesla, VMware, Nestlé, T-Mobile, Avi Networks, Sanofi-Aventis, Amazon.com, Hewlett-Packard, St. Jude Medical, Johnson & Johnson, Ethicon, Electronic Arts, Sharp, Emulex, and CNET (CBS Interactive).

Ernest is also active in pro bono matters, as well as in the legal community. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Asian Law Alliance, an organization that provides free legal services to under-resourced Asian communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ernest received a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1998 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1995. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Representative Matters

  • Lead counsel for Tesla, Inc. and SolarCity Corp. in an international arbitration regarding solar energy technology in Mexico
  • Co-lead counsel for Organon and Merck in a multi-patent case involving implantable contraceptive devices
  • ITC and district court counsel for Fitbit, Inc. in multiple cases relating to consumer fitness-tracking devices
  • Counsel for VMware in multiple lawsuits relating to cloud computing and software technology
  • Counsel for T-Mobile U.S., Inc. in multiple multi-patent cases in the Eastern District of Texas involving standards essential telecommunications patents
  • Counsel for Sanofi-Aventis in a multi-patent case involving diabetes drugs and injection devices
  • Counsel for Amazon.com in a multi-patent case involving the delivery of electronic books
  • Counsel for Hewlett-Packard in a patent case involving computer locking technology
  • Counsel for Electronic Arts in multiple patent cases relating to videogame technologies

Amy Cooke is an English qualified barrister and associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

She practices in the firm’s Dispute Resolution Group and specializes in white collar investigations. Her recent work includes large-scale multi-jurisdictional disputes and investigations in the financial services sector.

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

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Amy was a lawyer at the Serious Fraud Office where she gained extensive experience of complex fraud and bribery investigations and prosecutions involving both corporate entities and high net worth individuals. She also dealt with a number of confiscation and restraint matters.

Amy also has a wide range of advocacy experience from her time at the independent bar, during which she handled a variety of criminal and civil cases.

Raymond LaMagna is Of Counsel in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Litigation department.

Raymond has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” in Intellectual Property Litigation from 2012 to 2016.

Raymond’s practice focuses on complex intellectual property and technology litigation. He has represented research universities and numerous Internet, technology, and media companies in patent litigation and licensing matters, and in antitrust, trademark, unfair competition, false advertising, copyright, contract, and trade secret actions. Raymond’s practice also extends to appellate advocacy, including in briefing before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth and Federal Circuits and before the United States Supreme Court.

Representative Matters:

  • Defend Facebook and Instagram against advertiser claims for breach of contract, unfair competition, and tortious interference, obtaining a favorable early ruling denying a preliminary injunction and confirming Meta’s right to control advertising activities on its sites, resulting in dismissal of all claims (Putian Authentic Enter. Mgmt. Co. v. Meta Platforms, Inc.).
  • Defend Netlist before the U.S. Patent Trial & Appeal Board in IPRs brought by Samsung Electronics Co., resulting in a Final Determination holding that none of the claims of Netlist’s U.S. Patent 10,217,523 were shown to be unpatentable (IPR2022-00063).
  • Represent Fitbit in multi-patent ITC investigation initiated by Koninklijke Philips NV, obtaining determination of ineligibility, invalidity, and/or non-infringement on all asserted claims, with Commission affirmance of same, followed by successful representation and affirmance in the Federal Circuit (The Matter of Certain Wearable Monitoring Devices, Systems, and Components Thereof).
  • Defend leading U.S. multinational technology company against patent infringement and antitrust claims asserted against its single sign-on authentication technology, obtaining determination of patent ineligibility and dismissal of all claims on a motion to dismiss (later also affirmed by the Federal Circuit).
  • Represent Sharp Corporation in international arbitration over technology licensing and antitrust dispute, obtaining successful resolution and avoidance of over $750M in damages claims.
  • Represent Taiwan-based consumer electronics manufacturers (Foxconn, Pegatron, Compal, and Wistron) in multi-billion-dollar action and counterclaims asserting antitrust, breach of contract, FRAND, and patent claims in litigation against wireless technology licensor (In re Qualcomm Litigation).
  • Represent Nippon Steel in multi-jurisdictional patent infringement and trade secrets litigation resulting in a $250 million settlement in client’s favor, including managing U.S. litigation and advising on copending PTO, foreign, and appellate proceedings (Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal v. POSCO).
  • Represent Discovery Communications in various intellectual property matters, including in patent litigation with Personal Audio, in which Personal Audio dismissed all claims against Discovery (Personal Audio v. Howstuffworks.com).
  • Defend VIZIO, Inc. and coordinate joint-defense group in multi-patent litigation over LED backlight technology, managing all aspects of case (Delaware Display Group et al. v. VIZIO, Inc.).
  • Represent multiple media companies in district court, Federal Circuit, and Supreme Court writ proceedings involving patent infringement claims, resulting in favorable resolution for clients (1st Media v. Electronic Arts Inc., Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., and Viacom, Inc.).
  • Defend pharmaceutical company in patent litigation against interferon-beta drug products; including developing unenforceability and invalidity defenses for case (Biogen Idec MA v. EMD Serono, Inc.).
  • Defend Viacom and Discovery Communications against patent infringement claims asserted against delivery of video and advertising via the Internet, resulting in favorable resolution for clients (Intertainer v. Viacom, Inc. and Discovery Communications, LLC).
  • Represent leading Internet company in multi-jurisdictional federal and state litigation involving trademark, false advertising, unfair competition, copyright, and contract claims (CoStar v. LoopNet).*
  • Represent PDL BioPharma in patent litigation involving methods of antibody humanization and design asserted against the RSV biologic Synagis®, including obtaining summary judgment on unenforceability and recoupment claims (MedImmune, LLC. v. PDL BioPharma).*
  • Represent University of Pennsylvania in patent infringement claims covering methods of inhibiting recurrence of HER2-related breast cancer asserted against Herceptin®, a leading biologic (Genentech, Inc. v. Trustees of University of Pennsylvania).*
  • Represent ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Harvard University, MIT, and Whitehead Institute in patent litigation over therapies for intracellular signal modulation, including Enbrel® (Amgen, Inc. v. ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc.).*

*Representation involving prior employment

Pro Bono:

  • Advise Tahirih Justice Center on impact litigation against Department of Homeland Security to end DHS procedures illegally impairing asylum seekers from gaining access to the U.S. asylum process.
  • Represent children in asylum and immigration proceedings in cooperation with Kids In Need of Defense (KIND); successfully obtain asylum for victims of gang violence in Central America.
  • Represent National Association of Counsel for Children, including in briefing before the Supreme Court regarding the testimonial capacity of children (Giles v. California, 554 U.S. 353 (2008)).*

Publications:

  • “The History of Children’s Hearsay: From Old Bailey to Post-Davis,” 82 Ind. L. J. 1029 (2007) (with Thomas D. Lyon, Ph.D); reprinted in Hearsay Evidence: Limits and Limitations (2008); cited by the Supreme Court in Ohio v. Clark, 135 S. Ct. 2173, 2182 (2015).
  • “(Re) Constitutionalizing Confrontation: Reexamining Unavailability and the Value of Live Testimony,” 79 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1499 (2006).

Raymond received his Juris Doctor at the University of Southern California where he was articles editor of the Southern California Law Review. He graduated Order of the Coif and received the James C. Holbrook Award. The Los Angeles Copyright Society also honored him with the Peter D. Knecht Award for excellence in contract, entertainment, and copyright law. Raymond has a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema/Television Production from the University of Southern California. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he produced motion picture advertising and was a small business entrepreneur.

Raymond is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Ninth Circuit, the Eastern District of Texas, and the Northern District of Illinois.

Jeffrey M. Trinklein is a partner in the London and New York offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and a member of the Tax Practice Group. Jeff has extensive experience in U.S. and international taxation, with special emphasis on advice to foreign clients with investments in the United States and advice to U.S. clients with foreign operations.

Jeff’s areas of practice include advice to U.S. individuals and companies establishing investments outside the U.S., planning advice on worldwide investment structures and acquisition financing and general U.S. corporate and partnership tax planning. He has represented clients with tax structuring for a range of mergers and acquisition transactions, ranging from public company acquisitions, to private equity fund transactions, to the acquisition of a U.S. professional sports franchise. He has also assisted foreign countries with the drafting of proposed legislation.

Jeff is ranked by The Best Lawyers in America®, Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Legal 500 United States as a leading tax lawyer. Chambers USA describes Jeff as “a creative and confidence-inspiring practitioner who can effectively communicate tax nuances” and “communicates clearly and is always very responsive and ready to assist, often in a compressed timeframe.” He is also recognised in Legal 500 UK 2024 for Corporate Tax and for VAT and Indirect Tax, which previously noted that he “has a specialism in advising foreign clients with investments in the US, as well as US clients with foreign operations.”

Jeff joined Gibson Dunn in 1985 and has previously worked in Gibson Dunn’s Munich, London, Dallas and Orange County offices. From 1998 to 2002, Jeff was a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, where he taught courses on U.S. taxation of international transactions and financial derivatives. Jeff has also served as an adjunct faculty member at the London Program of the University of Detroit School of Law and lectures and writes frequently on tax law topics. He has a working knowledge of German and French.

Publications

  • Author, “Sovereign Wealth Funds: Tax Makes a Difference,” ABANA Review (2008).

Brian Sanders is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices with the Firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law and Litigation Practice Groups.

Brian has represented clients in complex matters before the United States Supreme Court and the Texas Supreme Court. See Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, No. 21-418 (U.S.) (representing former U.S. Attorneys General); Gregory v. New Prime, No. 21-0017 (Tex.) (representing U.S. Chamber of Commerce).

Brian graduated with Honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 2020. At law school, he received the Thomas R. Mulroy Prize for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy and served as the Business and Communications Editor of The University of Chicago Law Review. Brian earned his Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude from Pepperdine University, majoring in English and minoring in Philosophy.

Before joining the firm, Brian served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Honorable Brantley Starr of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Brian is admitted to practice in Texas. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

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

She earned her Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Duke University School of Law where she was elected to the Order of the Coif.  In law school she interned with the Federal Tort Claims Act Section of the Department of Justice. She earned her undergraduate degree from Duke University.

Prior to joining the firm, Alexandria served as a law clerk to the Honorable William L. Osteen, Jr. in the Middle District of North Carolina.

Alexandria is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Zachariah Humleker is a senior staff attorney in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, DC office. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations and the Electronic Discovery and Information Law Practice Groups.

Zachariah has defended corporate clients and individuals in investigations brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and other federal and regulatory agencies. He has significant experience representing clients in complex class action matters and proceedings before arbitration panels. Zachariah frequently advises clients regarding all aspects of the e-discovery life cycle. He has successfully represented clients in hearings conducted by U.S. Senate and House of Representatives committees, and has prepared numerous CEOs and top executives for testimony for committee hearings and interviews.

Representative Matters:

  • Represented several pharmaceutical companies in investigations by the Senate Aging Committee and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations into increases in drug pricing;
  • Represented health insurance company, multiple government contractors, and a non-profit entity in House and Senate investigations relating to the Affordable Care Act;
  • Represented Big 4 accounting firm in an investigation by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations into alleged offshore tax evasion. This investigation culminated in a hearing at which our client successfully defended its actions resulting in no follow-up by the Subcommittee and avoiding negative press coverage and reputational damage;
  • Represented automaker in connection with potential congressional and executive branch investigations relating to emissions controls;
  • Represented Member of Congress in Office of Congressional Ethics’ and House Ethics Committee’s inquiries into alleged insider trading. The Office of Congressional Ethics unanimously recommended that the allegations concerning the Member of Congress be dismissed;
  • Represented several companies in investigation by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee of career colleges;
  • Prepared Cabinet Secretary nominee for confirmation hearing before the Senate;
  • Represented the Audit Committee of an educational services company before the DOJ and SEC in an FCPA investigation in Europe;
  • Represented a national REIT in a breach of contract arbitration that resulted in an award of only $1 in nominal damages for several multi-million dollar breach claims;
  • Represented various insurance companies in more than a dozen putative class actions arising out of Hurricane Katrina

Zachariah is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia, as well as before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Zachariah received a Juris Doctorate from the University of Richmond School of Law in 1997, where he was a member of the T.C. Williams Moot Court Board. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1994.

Clark Adams is a staff attorney in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. As a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, Clark has defended clients in investigations brought by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, in addition to other federal and regulatory agencies. He also has considerable experience representing corporate clients in complex civil litigation, including consumer and securities class actions in federal and state courts. Clark is a member of the firm’s Electronic Data Discovery Initiative, a task force devoted to issues of electronic discovery, information law, records management and litigation readiness solutions.

Clark earned his Juris Doctor from George Mason University School of Law in 1998. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in 1994.

He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

Katherine (Katie) Rubanka is a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Prior to joining the firm, Katie clerked for two years for Judge Richard A. Hertling on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, where she developed experience with cases involving government contracts, bid protests, Takings under the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and other claims against the federal government for monetary damages.

Katie graduated Order of the Coif from Vanderbilt Law School in 2021. During law school, she served as an articles editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. She received scholarship awards for her achievement in international legal studies, including the Raymonde I. Paul Scholar in International Legal Studies and the G. Scott Briggs Transnational Legal Studies Award. The American Society of International Law awarded Katie the Arthur C. Helton fellowship to work at Global Rights Compliance LLP, a nonprofit organization specializing in international human rights and humanitarian law.

Between college and law school, Katie taught English language classes through the Peace Corps in Ukraine. Katie graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in linguistics and Russian language. She is proficient in French, Spanish, and Ukrainian; she has intermediate skills in Russian.

Katie is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia.

Diego A. Wright is an associate attorney in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Diego received his Juris Doctor in 2022 from New York University School of Law where he was a competitions advocacy editor of the NYU Law Moot Court Board and was the 1st place winner of the 2021 Wechsler National Criminal Moot Court Competition. While in law school, he served as a judicial extern to the Honorable J. Paul Oetken of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and was a legal intern for the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.

Diego graduated with high honors from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in Physics in 2017.

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

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

Olivia advises on a range of advisory and transactional matters, including employment law and share incentives aspects of multi-jurisdictional public and private mergers and acquisitions and investments. She also has experience advising on ARD/TUPE, redundancies and workforce restructurings, day to day employment law issues, contractor misclassification issues, settlement agreements, workplace investigations and all aspects of employee incentivisation.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Olivia trained at Hogan Lovells during which she spent six months on secondment to MSD. She then spent three years in the Employment & Benefits practice of Latham & Watkins LLP before joining the employment team of Gibson Dunn.