Press Releases - Gibson Dunn

Press Releases

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Gibson Dunn Adds Aly Kassam as Finance Partner in Dubai

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Aly Kassam has rejoined the firm’s Dubai office. Kassam, formerly with Latham & Watkins LLP, will continue to focus on cross-border banking and finance transactions, including both conventional and Islamic financing, restructuring and other transaction financing matters.

May 27, 2020

Litigation Partner Trey Cox Joins Gibson Dunn’s Dallas Office

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that John T. “Trey” Cox III has joined the firm’s Dallas office. Cox, formerly a partner at Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst LLP, will continue to focus on complex commercial litigation at the trial and appellate levels.

April 1, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Private Equity Partner Stefan dePozsgay in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Stefan dePozsgay has joined the firm’s New York office. DePozsgay, formerly a partner at Paul Hastings LLP, will continue to focus on private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions, including leverage buyouts, growth equity and venture capital work.

March 24, 2020

Life Sciences Partner Karen Spindler Joins Gibson Dunn

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Karen Spindler has joined the firm’s San Francisco office. Spindler, formerly a partner at Goodwin Procter, will continue to focus on advising life sciences companies on complex corporate, commercial and intellectual property transactions.

March 17, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Private Equity Partners Abtin Jalali and Chris Harding in San Francisco

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Abtin Jalali and Chris Harding have joined the firm’s San Francisco office. Formerly partners with Kirkland & Ellis LLP, they will continue their private equity practices at Gibson Dunn.

March 2, 2020

Gibson Dunn Announces Annual Pro Bono Award Winners

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce the winners of the firm’s annual Frank Wheat Memorial Awards. The Frank Wheat Memorial Award is given annually to individual lawyers and teams who have demonstrated leadership and initiative in their pro bono work, obtained significant results for their pro bono clients, and served as a source of inspiration to others.

February 6, 2020

Corporate Partners Ed Batts and Charles Walker Join Gibson Dunn

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Ed Batts and Charles “Chuck” Walker have joined the firm’s Palo Alto and Houston offices, respectively.

February 3, 2020

Leading Hong Kong Litigators Brian Gilchrist and Elaine Chen Will Join Gibson Dunn

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Brian Gilchrist and Elaine Chen will join the firm’s Hong Kong office. They will focus on disputes, including high-end litigation in the Hong Kong courts, arbitration and contentious financial regulatory matters.

January 16, 2020

Gibson Dunn Partner Appointed as Co-Chair of International Bar Association Antitrust Section

The International Bar Association (IBA) has appointed Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Daniel Swanson to serve a two-year term (2020-2021) as Co-Chair of the IBA’s Antitrust Section.

January 7, 2020

Gibson Dunn Named “Litigation Department of the Year” and Partner Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. Named “Litigator of the Year Grand Prize Winner” by The American Lawyer

The American Lawyer has named Gibson Dunn the winner of its biennial “Litigation Department of the Year” competition and selected Los Angeles partner Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. as “Litigator of the Year Grand Prize Winner.”  The firm was also named a finalist in the White Collar/Regulatory Department of the Year.

January 2, 2020

Gibson Dunn Adds Roscoe Jones, Jr. to Public Policy Practice Group in D.C.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Roscoe Jones, Jr. has joined the firm as counsel in its Washington, D.C. office. Jones focuses his practice on advising clients on various public policy matters.

December 17, 2019

Gibson Dunn Promotes 13 Lawyers to Partnership

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has elected 13 new partners, effective January 1, 2020. “We congratulate our new partners on this important and well-deserved professional achievement,” said Ken Doran, Chairman and Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn.

November 20, 2019

Gibson Dunn Adds Leading Litigator Markus Rieder in Munich

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Markus Rieder will join the firm as a partner in the Munich office. Currently a partner with Latham & Watkins, he will continue to practice in the areas of complex commercial litigation, commercial arbitration, and compliance and white collar defense at Gibson Dunn.

November 20, 2019

Gibson Dunn Adds Employment Partner Nataline Fleury in Paris

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Nataline Fleury has joined the firm in Paris as a partner. Fleury, formerly with Ashurst from 2008 as head of the Paris employment practice, will continue to practice in the areas of employment, social security and employee benefits.

November 4, 2019

Kristen Limarzi, Former Chief of the Appellate Section of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, Joins Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. Office

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Kristen Limarzi has joined the firm as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office. She previously served as the Chief of the Appellate Section of the U.S.

October 15, 2019

Gibson Dunn Adds Former SEC Corporation Finance Special Counsel in Washington, D.C.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Courtney Haseley has joined the firm as of counsel in its Washington, D.C. office as a member of the Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group.

October 10, 2019

Gibson Dunn Adds Tax Partner Ben Fryer in London

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Ben Fryer will join the firm as a partner in the London office. Currently a partner with Mayer Brown, Fryer will continue his tax practice at Gibson Dunn.

October 7, 2019

Gibson Dunn Strengthens Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice with Addition of Three Highly Regarded Partners in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Scott J. Greenberg, Steven A. Domanowski and Michael J. Cohen have joined the firm as partners in the New York office.

October 3, 2019

Gibson Dunn Adds Financial Regulation Partner Michelle Kirschner in London

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Michelle Kirschner will join the firm’s London office as a partner. Kirschner, formerly a partner with Macfarlanes, will continue to focus on financial services regulation at Gibson Dunn.

October 1, 2019

Capital Markets Partner Boris Dolgonos Joins Gibson Dunn in New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Boris Dolgonos has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office. Dolgonos, formerly a partner at Jones Day, will continue his capital markets practice, advising issuers and underwriters on equity and debt offerings, as well as providing securities reporting counsel to U.S.

September 23, 2019