Bina Nayee

Bina Nayee is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, as well as the Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation Practice Group, and the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Group. She began her practice in the firm’s New York office, where she worked on high-stakes constitutional and complex litigation as well as emergency litigation seeking temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions.

Representative matters include:

• Represented top social media company in multiple nonpublic FTC investigations related to third party-information sharing.
• Successfully defended leading online retailer against COVID-19 workplace safety claims asserted by New York Attorney General.
• Defended major cloud-services technology company in five-day trial in Delaware Chancery Court action, second-chairing key client witness examination and participating in all stages of litigation from motion practice to post-trial briefing.
• Won summary judgment for healthcare technology company and its founders in lawsuit filed by early investor alleging breach of contract and fraud.
• Represented The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York in a successful free exercise challenge that yielded a landmark Supreme Court decision, which one commentator described as “one of the two most significant religion cases of the past 30 years.”

Bina maintains an active pro bono practice, tenaciously working to uphold her clients’ constitutional and civil rights across the country. Recently, her work defending a client in Dallas County against racially charged hate crimes was recognized by the Dallas Asian American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Team of the Year award. For another client, she won partial summary judgment in the Southern District of New York through her briefing of prisoners’ due process rights while placed in solitary confinement. Bina has also worked to vindicate the First Amendment rights of peaceful protesters and journalists along the Eastern Shore.

From 2023-2024, Bina served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jane J. Boyle of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. While in law school, she served as a judicial summer intern to the Honorable James J. Cott, former Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Bina graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor of the art’s degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) and a minor in Spanish. She graduated from Fordham University School of Law, cum laude, where she received the Lawrence J. McKay prize for representing the school in the National Moot Court Competition. She served as an Associate Editor for the Fordham Law Review, a teaching assistant in Legal Writing and Civil Procedure, a member of the Moot Court Executive Board, and a competitor in the Vis East International Arbitration Competition in Hong Kong. She was a finalist in the William Hughes Mulligan Memorial Moot Court competition. While participating in the Federal Litigation Clinic, Bina also defended indigent clients.

She is admitted to practice in the States of Texas and New York, as well as before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Bina is fluent in Gujarati and conversant in Spanish.

Capabilities

• Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation
• Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
• Litigation
• White Collar Defense and Investigations

Credentials

Education:

• Fordham University - 2019 Juris Doctor
• University of Pennsylvania - 2014 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• New York Bar
• Texas Bar

Clerkships:

• USDC, Northern District of Texas, Hon. Jane J. Boyle, 2023 - 2024