Patrick (Yunpeng) Xiong is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he currently practices in the firm’s Corporate Department.

He earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 2021, where he received the Jurisprudence Award in Contracts and the Prosser Prize in Venture Capital Finance. While in law school, Patrick served as an Executive Editor of the California Law Review. He also served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Susan Illston of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and to the Honorable Gregory H. Woods of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Patrick earned his LL.B. in Law and B.A. in English from the Beijing Foreign Studies University and his M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he was a corporate associate in the Bay Area office of Kirkland & Ellis.

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