Press Releases - Gibson Dunn

Press Releases

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Gibson Dunn Adds Partner Thomas Kim to the Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice in D.C.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Thomas Kim has joined the firm as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office. Kim, formerly with Sidley Austin, will continue to practice in the areas of securities disclosure and regulation and corporate governance.

December 1, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Partner Joshua Brody to its Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Joshua K. Brody has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Brody, formerly a partner at Jones Day, will continue his corporate bankruptcy and restructuring practice.

November 30, 2020

Gibson Dunn Promotes 20 Lawyers to Partnership

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has elected 20 new partners, effective January 1, 2021. “We congratulate our new partners on this significant and well-deserved professional milestone,” said Ken Doran, Chairman and Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn.

November 16, 2020

Finance Partner Laura Rupenian Joins Gibson Dunn in San Francisco

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Laura Rupenian has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a member of the Global Finance and Private Equity Practice Groups, where she will focus on leveraged financings for private equity firms.

November 2, 2020

Matthew Nunan, Former EMEA Head of Conduct Risk at Morgan Stanley, Joins Gibson Dunn in London

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Matthew Nunan has joined the firm’s London office as a partner. Nunan, formerly a Managing Director and EMEA Head of Conduct Risk at Morgan Stanley, will focus on complex contentious financial regulatory investigations and disputes.

November 2, 2020

Gibson Dunn Launches Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Practice Group

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has launched a new practice, the Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Practice Group, which will offer clients innovative enforcement strategies and deliver creative solutions.

October 27, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Antitrust Partner Georg Weidenbach in Frankfurt

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Georg Weidenbach will join the firm’s Frankfurt office. Weidenbach, formerly a partner at Latham & Watkins LLP, will continue his global antitrust practice.

October 19, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Litigation Partner Christopher Belelieu in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Christopher D. Belelieu has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Belelieu, formerly a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, will continue his complex commercial litigation practice.

September 21, 2020

Corporate Partner Robert Phillips Joins Gibson Dunn in San Francisco

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Robert Phillips has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner. Phillips, formerly a partner at Cooley LLP, will continue to focus on corporate and capital markets transactions for life sciences and technology companies.

September 8, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Investment Funds Partner Roger Singer in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Roger Singer has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Singer, formerly a partner at Clifford Chance, will continue his investment funds practice.

September 8, 2020

Securities Litigation Partner Craig Varnen Joins Gibson Dunn in Los Angeles

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Craig Varnen has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner. Varnen, formerly a partner at Irell & Manella, will continue to focus on securities litigation and other complex litigation at Gibson Dunn.

September 1, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Former SDNY Prosecutor Karin Portlock as Of Counsel in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Karin Portlock has joined the firm as an of counsel in its New York office. She will serve as a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations, Crisis Management, and Litigation Practice Groups.

August 13, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds London Finance Partner Ben Myers

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Ben Myers has joined the firm’s London office. Myers, formerly a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, will continue his global finance practice.

August 10, 2020

Tax Partner Pamela Lawrence Endreny Joins Gibson Dunn in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Pamela Lawrence Endreny has joined the firm’s New York office. Endreny, formerly a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, will continue to focus on advising clients in a broad range of U.S.

August 4, 2020

Technology and Privacy Partner Connell O’Neill Joins Gibson Dunn in Hong Kong

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Connell O’Neill has joined the firm as a partner in the Hong Kong office. O’Neill, formerly with Allen & Overy, will continue his technology transactions and privacy practice with Gibson Dunn.

August 3, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Private Equity Partner Stephen Olson in Houston

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Stephen T. Olson has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner and head of its private equity practice in Texas.

August 3, 2020

Twenty West Coast Universities and Colleges File Lawsuit Challenging DHS and ICE’s Order to Revoke Foreign Student Visas

On behalf of 20 West Coast universities and colleges, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP filed a lawsuit today challenging the July 6, 2020 order by the Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S.

July 13, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Of Counsel in D.C.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Cassandra Tillinghast has joined the firm as an of counsel in its Washington, D.C. office. She will serve as a member of the Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group and will focus on advising clients, including financial institutions, on corporate governance matters, securities law disclosure issues, and an array of complex corporate issues.

June 15, 2020

A Statement on Racial Justice and Equality from Gibson Dunn Chairman and Managing Partner, Ken Doran

Gibson Dunn Chairman and Managing Partner Ken Doran provides thoughts on racial justice and equity in light of the tragic deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and several other African Americans by police.

June 5, 2020

Susy Bullock Rejoins Gibson Dunn as a Disputes Partner in London

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Susy Bullock has rejoined the firm’s London office as a partner. Bullock, formerly a Managing Director and Head of EMEA Litigation at UBS, will focus on helping clients, particularly those in the financial services sector, navigate a wide range of disputes and business and human rights issues.

June 1, 2020