Hannah Yim is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Litigation Department.

She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. While at Berkeley, Hannah was an editor for the Asian American Law Journal and Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, San Diego, earning her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn full-time, Hannah was a summer associate in the Los Angeles office. She also interned for a semester at the Data Protection Authority in Germany.

Hannah is a member of the State Bar of California and the State Bar of Colorado.

Josh Panas is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.  His practice focuses on real estate law, particularly on real estate finance, including lender and borrower representation.

Josh frequently represents domestic and international banks, investment firms, and private funds in the origination, syndication, structuring, servicing and work-out of mortgage and mezzanine loans.

Josh also represents clients in lease and master lease negotiations.

Additional information about Josh includes:

• Josh received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 2003. He also received his Master of Philosophy degree from Cambridge University in 2000, where he was a Henry Fellow, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, cum laude, from Yale University in 1999.
• Josh served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ricardo Urbina of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in 2004-2005.
• Josh is admitted to practice in New York.

Publications:

• Healthcare Master Leases in Bankruptcy: Out of One, Many (Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, 2018; with Steven Horowitz, Jane VanLare and Benjamin Beller).
• In a Health Provider Restructuring, Beware the Master Lease (Law360, 2018; with Steven Horowitz, Jane VanLare and Benjamin Beller)

Antony Nguyen is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices in the firm’s Corporate Department.

Antony earned his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2023, where he served on the Berkeley Business Law Journal and Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law. Prior to law school, he graduated with High Honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.

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

Varant Anmahouni is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and currently practices with the firm’s Litigation Department.  He joined the firm after serving as a law clerk to the Hon. Yvette Kane of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Varant earned his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2022.  While in law school, he served as a judicial extern to the Hon. Dorothy C. Kim of the California Court of Appeal. Varant received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating summa cum laude in 2018.

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

Jerelyn Luther is an associate attorney in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department.

Jerelyn earned her Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 2023, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Executive Managing Director of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review – a Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual. While at Columbia, Jerelyn worked as a student attorney for Columbia’s Mediation Clinic, and an extern at Legal Aid Society. Jerelyn also served as the President of Empowering Women of Color. She is the 2023 recipient of the Carol B. Liebman Mediation Prize.

Prior to law school, she taught middle school as a Teach for America corps member, and received her Bachelor of Arts in history from Yale University.

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

John Ryan is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices with the firm’s Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data innovation group as well as the Litigation group.

John has represented clients in connection with matters related to data privacy, cybersecurity, securities, regulatory inquiries, and strategic counseling.

John received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 2023 and is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

Lindsay Laird is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Lindsay served as a law clerk to the Honorable Gonzalo P. Curiel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

Lindsay received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. She was Executive Managing Editor of the Harvard Law & Policy Review. 

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

Hannah is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She currently practices in the firm’s Corporate Department.

Hannah earned her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 2023. While in law school, she was a recipient of the Judge Thelton E. Henderson Prize for Outstanding Performance for her work in the Stanford Organizations & Transactions Clinic. She also served as Managing Editor of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance, Co-President of the Native American Law Students Association, Vice President of the Asian and Pacific Islander Law Students Association, and Financial Officer of the Women of Color Collective. 

Prior to law school, Hannah received her Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and English with a Creative Writing concentration from Fordham University in 2020. She graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Hannah is admitted to practice in the state of California.

Chad Kang is a corporate associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, investment funds, and general corporate matters.

Chad earned his Juris Doctor from the J. Reuben Clark Law School in 2023, where he graduated magna cum laude. He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University, where he graduated with a major in English.

Chad is admitted to practice in California.

Janice Yingzhuang Jiang is an associate attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Janice earned her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. During law school, Janice was a quarterfinalist in the law school’s annual moot court competition, the Edwin R. Keedy Cup, and served as a board member on the Moot Court Board. She was a teaching assistant for Appellate Advocacy with Professor and AUSA Robert A. Zauzmer and for Constitutional Law with Professor Kermit Roosevelt III. She was a research assistant to Professor Roosevelt, Professor Karen Tani, and now-Dean Sophia Z. Lee. Janice served as the Research Editor on the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and published her article, Duty to Contract: Free Labor Ideology and Contractual Freedom in the Postbellum South, 1865-1867 (2023), in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online. She earned her undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College as a double major in History and International Relations.

Janice is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. She is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Elizabeth Penava is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Elizabeth earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where served on the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and The Regulatory Review. Elizabeth also served as a Littleton Fellow for the Legal Practice Skills program. Elizabeth earned Bachelor’s degrees, summa cum laude, in Political Science in Spanish from the University of Kentucky in 2017. Prior to law school, she taught English in the Spanish Basque Country before directing volunteers at a civic engagement nonprofit.

Elizabeth is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

John Ito is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He currently practices in the firm’s Litigation Department.

John earned his law degree cum laude in 2023 from the University of Michigan Law School.  During law school, he was a Student Attorney for the Human Trafficking Clinic. John graduated magna cum laude from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.

John is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Molly Teague is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Molly graduated with first honors from Vanderbilt University Law School, where she received the Founder’s Medal for her scholastic achievement. She also received scholastic excellence awards for earning the highest grades in Property, Contracts, American Legal History, and Constitutional Law II – Individual Rights. Molly served as Senior Managing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review, where she published a note on conservation easements for which she received the Myron Penn Laughlin Note Award. She was also elected to the Order of the Coif. In 2016, Molly graduated magna cum laude from Davidson College with a bachelor’s degree in History and a minor in French.

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

Jason C. Lo is a partner resident in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he practices litigation with a specialty in intellectual property law, with a focus on patent and trade secrets litigation, as well as antitrust and competition law. He has successfully represented leading companies in various industries, including the video game, semiconductor, military defense, and pharmaceutical industries. He has litigated high-stakes patent infringement cases in courts throughout the United States, as well as the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Recognized as a leading intellectual property lawyer, Jason is consistently recognized by IAM Patent as one of the “world’s leading patent professionals.” He was also named by Daily Journal as one of its 2020 Top Intellectual Property Lawyers. In addition, the Los Angeles Business Journal named Jason to its 2017 list of Most Influential IP Attorneys, and the 2012 list of Who’s Who in Intellectual Property Law for his work representing clients in the video game, technology, and semiconductor industries in intellectual property litigation.

Jason also has represented clients in high stakes antitrust litigation. In separate cases, Mr. Lo helped his clients defeat a preliminary injunction motion seeking billions of dollars in royalties pending trial, helped his client defeat with prejudice at the pleadings stage claims under the UCL as well as Section 1 and Section 2 of the Sherman Act, and helped his client defeat antitrust claims of monopolization and restraint of trade after a bench trial.

Jason graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2001. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and a Minor in Accounting from UCLA in 1998. Prior to joining the firm, Jason served as a law clerk to The Honorable Mariana R. Pfaelzer in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Since 2015, Jason has served as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, teaching courses in patent litigation and intellectual property litigation.

Some of Jason’s recent achievements and representations include:

• Represented Netlist in a breach of contract dispute against Samsung Electronics, Inc. Obtained summary judgment on behalf of Netlist that Samsung had materially breached its contract obligations, and that Netlist properly terminated the contract, leaving Samsung unlicensed to Netlist’s valuable patents. Also obtained Rule 37 sanctions against Samsung after prevailing on the merits. (Netlist v. Samsung);

• Represented SoundCloud in a trade secrets dispute relating to digital music services for DJs, in which SoundCloud obtained a dismissal with prejudice of all of asserted claims (Beatport v. SoundCloud);

• Represented four Taiwan-based consumer electronics device manufacturers (Foxconn, Pegatron, Compal, and Wistron) in multi-billion dollar action asserting antitrust, breach of contract, FRAND, and patent claims against wireless technology licensor, in which the manufacturers defeated a motion for preliminary injunction seeking to force them to pay billions of dollars in royalties under patent license agreements being challenged as anticompetitive and violating FRAND (In re Qualcomm Litigation);

• Represented Fitbit in dispute against Jawbone spanning multiple federal district court cases and an International Trade Commission trade secrets and patent investigation, regarding technologies used to monitor activity and heart rate in activity trackers (Jawbone v. Fitbit);

• Represented Huy Fong Foods (makers of the famous Sriracha chili sauce) in its dispute with the City of Irwindale (City of Irwindale, et al. v. Huy Fong Foods, Inc.);

• Represented VIZIO in multi-patent infringement action in D. Delaware relating to LED edge-lit display technology (Delaware Display Group LLC et al v. VIZIO, Inc.);

• Represented Glenair in patent infringement action relating to connectors used in aerospace applications (Radiall S.A. et al v. Glenair, Inc.);

• Represented Discovery Communications in various intellectual property matters, including a patent litigation with Personal Audio, which ultimately resulted in a dismissal of the case by Personal Audio (Personal Audio, LLC v. Howstuffworks.com);

• Represented a large steel producer in U.S. patent and Lanham Act claims as part of multi-jurisdictional litigation resulting in a $250 million settlement in client’s favor (Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal v. POSCO);

• Defended Amazon.com in multi-patent infringement action in D. Delaware relating to technology in Amazon’s best-selling Kindle E-reader products (Adrea, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc.);

• Defended Viacom in multi-patent infringement action in E.D. Texas relating to technology in critically acclaimed Rock Band video games (Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. v. Viacom, Inc., MTV Networks, and Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.);

• Represented Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon in patent litigation against Inamed pertaining to bariatric surgical devices and methods (Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon v. Inamed Corporation);

• Represented a provider of advanced armoring solutions in a theft of trade secrets case involving armor packages for military vehicles (ADSI v. Southern California Gold Products, et al.);

• In a patent damages trial, helped persuade a jury to award only $446,000 when the plaintiff had been seeking damages in excess of $11 million (Juicy Whip v. Orange Bang);

• Defended an overseas company accused by British Petroleum of trade secret misappropriation relating to the manufacture of equipment for an acetic acid plant in China. The defense team defeated BP’s motion for preliminary injunction in federal court in Los Angeles on jurisdictional grounds, and then defeated BP’s subsequent emergency stay motion in the Ninth Circuit. After BP re-filed the case and sought an immediate TRO, the team obtained yet another dismissal, allowing the client to ship key equipment (BP v. Yankuang Group);

Jason is a member of the California Bar. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and a proficient speaker of Cantonese.

Sanjay Nevrekar is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP where he practices in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group.

Sanjay earned his Juris Doctor in 2021 from the Ohio State University. He received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from Miami University in 2016.

Sanjay’s recent patent litigation experience includes:

• Defending an American multinational finance company in patent litigation over its cybersecurity software 
• Defending a manufacturer of networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment in patent litigation brought by an Atlantic IP entity over its network switches
• Representing an American consumer goods company in its claim for patent infringement against a foreign competitor

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Sanjay was an IP Litigation associate at a multinational law firm.

Sanjay is a member of the bar in the State of New York and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Kayoko Fong is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group.

Kayoko received her Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law in 2023. While at Emory Law, she was a member of the drafting team for the 2022 Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Health from Emory University, summa cum laude, in 2019. Kayoko is admitted to practice in Texas.

Hannah Corning is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Dallas office and a member of the firm’s Litigation Department.

Hannah’s experience includes defending two global companies against multi-billion dollar State Attorney General actions, defeating class certification in a series of actions on behalf of a global pharmaceutical company, and representing telecommunications and technology companies in a variety of litigation matters.

Hannah received her law degree from New York University School of Law. While in law school, she served as the Managing Editor of Production on the Annual Survey of American Law. Hannah graduated summa cum laude from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Arts and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Hannah is admitted to practice in Texas and New York and before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jennifer Coales is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher.

Jennifer earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law in 2021 where she served as a Notes and Articles Editor on the Urban Law Journal and was a Ruth Whitehead Whaley Scholar. Jennifer earned her Bachelor of Arts in History, magna cum laude, from George Mason University.

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

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

He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2023, where he was Lead Editor of the Stanford Technology Law Review. While in law school, Aaron served as a student attorney in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic.

Aaron received his Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011, his Master of Arts in Philosophy from San Francisco State University in 2014, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2020.

Aaron is admitted to practice law in the State of California and before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

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

Joanna earned her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law in 2023. In addition to serving as a Senior Executive Editor of the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Joanna was co-president of the International Law Society and a student advocate with the Global Justice Clinic. Joanna was also a recipient of the International Law and Human Rights Fellowship and interned for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Prior to law school, Joanna earned a dual degree in International Relations and Arabic Studies from the University of Maryland, where she graduated summa cum laude.

Joanna is admitted to practice law in the State of California and U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.