Luke A. Dougherty is a senior associate in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Litigation Practice Group and focuses on complex commercial litigation, securities litigation and enforcement, and white collar defense and investigations.
Representative matters include:
- Defending national pipeline company and certain officers and directors in securities class action challenging statements regarding pipeline construction projects.
- Defending majority stockholder in lawsuit seeking to prevent sale of medical device company and post-acquisition lawsuit alleging breach of fiduciary duties and related claims.
- Represented special litigation committee of the board of a pharmaceutical wholesaler and service provider in litigation of derivative Caremark claims regarding board oversight of company compliance program, resulting in dismissal by the Delaware Court of Chancery and summary affirmance by the Delaware Supreme Court.
- Defended biopharmaceutical company and certain of its officers and directors in securities class action based on alleged misstatements and omissions regarding a data integrity breach.
- Represented special litigation committee created by the board of a publicly traded, national restaurant chain to investigate allegations of insider trading and breach of fiduciary duties arising from the sale of $118 million of company stock, resulting in dismissal by the Delaware Court of Chancery and affirmance by the Delaware Supreme Court.
- Represented global nutrition company in an investigation before the DOJ and SEC of potential FCPA violations, as well as in an investigation before the SEC relating to its public disclosures regarding the business model of certain foreign subsidiaries.
Luke earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2017, where he was a Senior Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He also received his Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in Environmental Policy from Rutgers University in 2014.
Luke is admitted to practice in the State of Colorado and State of New York.
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Credentials
Education:
- University of Pennsylvania - 2017 Juris Doctor
- Rutgers University - 2014 Bachelor of Science
Admissions:
- Colorado Bar
- New York Bar