Kristy Grant is an associate in the London office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. She began her legal career in the firm’s Los Angeles office. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department with a focus on international data protection and data security law, electronic discovery, antitrust, and white collar criminal law.
As a litigator, Ms. Grant has worked on worldwide antitrust matters, including complex multi-jurisdictional banking and finance cases. She represented a multinational entity in connection with cartel investigations into its conduct by antitrust agencies around the world, including those in the United States, the European Union and APAC. She was instrumental in the processing and production of millions of documents to those regulators in connection with the case.
Ms. Grant also worked on national and international monitorships with the Department of Justice. She aided on a multi-year monitorship of an international healthcare company, and in an ongoing monitorship of an international organization with great risk of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations. She has published articles on trends in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, as well as on the regulation and prosecution of the healthcare industry. She has published recent articles on international electronic discovery and data protection, particularly between litigants in the United States and United Kingdom.
Ms. Grant was recognized by Public Counsel in Los Angeles as an outstanding litigator for her pro bono efforts on behalf of low income residents as part of the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher team that won the Community Development Project Volunteers of the Year award.
Ms. Grant has extensive international legal training, including training in San Juan, Costa Rica, focusing on international human rights and the Inter-American Human Rights Court. She completed a several-month program in comparative South Pacific legal studies, which took place in both Australia and New Zealand.
Ms. Grant graduated summa cum laude from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She was a Sayre MacNeil scholar, member of the St. Thomas Moore Legal Honor Society, and graduated Order of the Coif. Prior to her legal career, Ms. Grant graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with honors, from its School of Theater, Film and Television.