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Meryl L. Young

Meryl
Young

Partner

CONTACT INFO

myoung@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 949.451.4229

FAX:+1 949.475.4619

Orange County

3161 Michelson Drive, Irvine, CA 92612-4412 USA

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PRACTICE

Securities Litigation Litigation

BIOGRAPHY

Meryl L. Young is the former Co-Chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Securities Litigation Practice Group and former Co-Partner in Charge of the firm’s Orange County office.  Ms. Young’s practice focuses on complex business and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on securities and merger and acquisition litigation and related government investigations.  Ms. Young represents companies, directors and officers, and accounting firms in class actions, shareholder derivative suits and professional liability actions in both state and federal courts.  She has also handled a wide variety of other types of business litigation, including cases involving contract disputes, unfair business practices, misappropriation of trade secrets and other business torts, trademark and patent infringement, antitrust, real estate, employment and insurance issues.

Ms. Young was named by the Daily Journal as one of California’s Top 30 Securities Litigators and one of California’s Top Women Litigators.  She is listed in Chambers USA:  America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America® and Legal 500. The Best Lawyers in America® 2020 named Ms. Young Securities Lawyer of the Year in Orange County.

Ms. Young participates in a variety of community and professional organizations.  She currently serves on Senator Feinstein’s Judicial Advisory Committee and served as the chair of the federal Judicial Advisory Committee for the Southern District of California during the Bush administration.  She previously served as the chair of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Advisory Board, a member of the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Executive Committee and co-chair of the Southern District of California Lawyer Representatives to the Conference.  She is a past president of the San Diego chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers and a former member of the Board of Governors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers in Orange County.  She is a past chair of the Masters Division of the Orange County Bar Association.  She is admitted to practice before the California and New York state courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, among others.  She is a member of the firm’s Partnership Evaluation Committee.  She previously served on the firm’s Executive and Management Committees and as the partner in charge of the firm’s San Diego office.

Ms. Young graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1980, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Ms. Young was an associate with the New York firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy from 1980 to 1983.

EDUCATION

Columbia University - 1980 Juris Doctor

Barnard College - 1980 Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

California Bar

New York Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Firm News - August 9, 2021 | Ten Gibson Dunn Partners Named Among Benchmark Top 250 Women in Litigation 2021
Firm News - December 10, 2020 | Twelve Partners Named 2020 BTI Client Service All-Stars
Firm News - October 16, 2020 | Benchmark Litigation US 2021 Gives Top Marks to Gibson Dunn
Firm News - April 24, 2020 | Gibson Dunn Earns 84 Top-Tier Rankings in Chambers USA 2020
Firm News - August 19, 2019 | 12 Gibson Dunn Partners Named Lawyers of the Year
Firm News - August 15, 2019 | Five Partners Named Among Top Women in Litigation
Firm News - August 15, 2019 | Gibson Dunn Lawyers Recognized in the Best Lawyers in America® 2020
Firm News - July 12, 2019 | Meryl Young Named Among Most Influential in Orange County
Firm News - July 10, 2018 | Benchmark Litigation Recognizes Gibson Dunn Partners
Client Alert - April 5, 2018 | M&A Report – AOL and Aruba Networks Continue Trend of Delaware Courts Deferring to Deal Price in Appraisal Actions
Client Alert - December 18, 2017 | M&A Report – Delaware Supreme Court Reaffirms the Importance of Deal Price As an Indicator of Fair Value in Appraisal Actions
Client Alert - June 13, 2017 | M&A Report – PetSmart and SWS Group Are Welcome News for Buyers Facing Appraisal Actions in Delaware
Client Alert - June 3, 2016 | Delaware Court of Chancery Awards 28% Price Increase to Stockholders Who Dissented from 2013 Management-Led Buyout of Dell Inc.
Client Alert - January 26, 2016 | M&A Report: The End of M&A “Disclosure-Only” Settlements with Broad Releases In Delaware
Client Alert - September 24, 2015 | M&A Report – Delaware Court of Chancery Signals End to Disclosure-Only Settlements with Full Releases in Delaware
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