Kevin Simmons is a litigation associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He has significant experience in every phase of a dispute, from initial investigation to trial to defense on appeal, in federal and state courts across the country. Kevin’s experience includes representing the world’s largest technology, oil and gas, and finance companies, among others.

Representative Matters Include: *

• Represented a leading technology company in a lawsuit in which the State of Texas demanded $300 billion for privacy violations.
• Represented a leading debit card company in a lawsuit brought by another leading debit card company alleging Sherman Act violations.
• Represented a leading cellphone producer in its defense against product liability claims.
• Represented a leading investment bank in investigating potential violations of non-compete agreements.
• Represented an oil and gas producer at trial and in arbitration against an oil major in a contract dispute over a subsea pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Represented an oil and gas producer at trial and on appeal to the Fifth Circuit in a complex dispute involving the intersection of federal bankruptcy law, a Louisiana statute, and Texas and Louisiana contract law.
• Represented a major investment bank in its $200 million contract dispute against foreign banks regarding currency exchange rates.
• Represented multiple debtors in adversary proceedings, evidentiary hearings, and other litigation during their Chapter 11 bankruptcies, concerning contractual, statutory, regulatory, and constitutional claims.
• First-chaired a bench trial on behalf of a woman from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in her application for asylum after she was tortured for her political activity.
• Represented a Jewish all-girls school at the trial court and on appeal to the Second Circuit against a town for its abuse of its zoning laws against the school.

*Includes representations prior to Kevin’s association with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Before joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Kevin clerked for the Honorable Eva Guzman of the Supreme Court of Texas.

He graduated from Duke Law School, where he served as managing editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. He earned his Masters of Bioethics and Science Policy from Duke Graduate School. He graduated magna cum laude  and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Dallas with a double major in Philosophy and Classics.

Kevin is admitted to practice in the State of Texas.