Mariam Pathan is an associate in the Munich office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation and the White Collar Defense and Investigations Practices.

Ms. Pathan’s practice is focused on white collar defense and sensitive investigations with cross-border elements in the fields of FCPA, sanctions, AML and technical compliance.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Pathan worked at the legal departments of a global franchise corporation in Amsterdam and a tech company in the renewable energy sector in Berlin. She clerked with the transnational criminal law department of the German Foreign Ministry and the organized crime unit of the Berlin Public Prosecutor. Ms. Pathan was an editing assistant to the “Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals” book series in which she published several commentaries during and after law school.

Ms. Pathan earned a master’s degree in international criminal law summa cum laude from the University of Amsterdam in a joint degree program with Columbia Law School, New York. She graduated from the European Law School of Maastricht University with bachelor’s degrees in European and Dutch Law. She is German and Dutch qualified with civil effect and has been admitted as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwältin) since 2018. Ms. Pathan speaks German, English, Dutch and French.