M. Theodore Takougang is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Trial, Litigation, and White Collar Defense & Investigations practice groups.
Theo is a trial lawyer with significant courtroom experience. He has counselled clients through all phases of litigation, from pre-suit strategy to trials and appeals. Theo has also helped successfully guide boards of directors through highly sensitive internal investigations and in criminal and regulatory matters before the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, various state Attorneys General, and other regulators. Theo has deep experience representing public companies, private equity firms, closely held corporations, and senior executives across a range of industries in litigation and investigations involving complex financial products, healthcare regulations, business torts, contract disputes, and federal environmental and bribery laws.
Before joining Gibson Dunn, Theo was a litigation associate in the New York offices of a leading international law firm and a prominent litigation boutique. Prior to that, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Eric L. Clay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Honorable Kenneth M. Hoyt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Before law school, Theo worked as an aide to a congressman from Ohio.
Theo earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an editor of the Virginia Law & Business Review and a Paul D. White Scholar. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with High Honors from the University of Cincinnati, where he majored in Economics.
Theo is a member of the California and New York bars, and he is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Central District of California and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, as well as the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Sixth Circuits.
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Credentials
Education:
- University of Virginia - 2013 Juris Doctor
- University of Cincinnati - 2009 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- California Bar
- New York Bar
Clerkships:
- US Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, Hon. Eric L. Clay, 2014 - 2015
- USDC, Southern District of Texas, Hon. Kenneth M. Hoyt, 2013 - 2014