Americas

Overview

Gibson Dunn’s lawyers deliver the highest quality legal services to clients throughout the Americas. We advise companies ranging from start-up ventures to multinational corporations in all major industries on domestic and cross-border litigation, regulatory and transactional matters.

Our lawyers are qualified across the United States and in several Latin American jurisdictions and skilled at advising on matters implicating the competing laws of multiple U.S. jurisdictions and the laws of countries around the world. We consistently achieve top rankings in industry surveys and major publications and are known for excellence in the practice of law. Gibson Dunn operates as a single unified law firm in practice and culture which means our lawyers work together across offices and practices to seamlessly provide clients with coordinated advice.

We have represented most of the Fortune 100 and more than half of the Fortune 500 as well as emerging companies. We have expertise in all major industries, including betting and gaming, consumer goods (including fashion and retail), energy and infrastructure (including oil & gas and renewable sources), entertainment, financial institutions, healthcare, insurance and reinsurance, life sciences, media, sports, technology, telecommunications, and transportation.

Gibson Dunn is acclaimed as a litigation powerhouse with an extraordinarily strong and high-profile presence and record of success in state and federal courts across the United States. Our seasoned trial lawyers have collectively tried thousands of cases, both criminal and civil, in state and federal courts across the United States, as well as arbitrations seated around the world. We have one of the leading U.S. appellate practices, with broad experience in complex appellate proceedings at all levels of the state and federal court systems. Our commercial litigation practice spans a broad array of areas that include antitrust, cybersecurity and data protection (including breach response and consumer protection disputes), environmental litigation and mass tort, insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, labor and employment, M&A-related disputes, securities litigation, and white-collar defense and investigations. We work with clients facing significant U.S., non-U.S., and cross-border claims, leveraging our firmwide experience and proficiency in global litigation strategy and management. The firm also has extensive experience in handling mass arbitrations, class actions and multidistrict litigation (MDL) across the United States. Our litigators are adept at challenging class certifications, securing early dismissals, and negotiating favorable settlements. We also advise leading multinationals in arbitration proceedings across the world.

Gibson Dunn’s lawyers have comprehensive experience in all types of U.S. and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including negotiated and contested mergers, stock and asset purchases, tender and exchange offers, spin-offs, restructurings and acquisitions out of bankruptcy, leveraged buyouts, private equity investments, and joint ventures. Our transactional experience includes capital markets, finance, investment funds, real estate (including providing guidance in relation to land use matters), restructuring and project finance and development. Our experience spans the emerging growth and middle-market sectors to large complex deals for multinational corporations. We advise boards of directors, board committees (including special committees), senior management, and shareholders on a wide range of corporate governance matters, including the implementation of anti-takeover defenses and proxy contests. We also provide large multinational corporations, publicly traded and private companies, sovereign wealth funds, investment funds, partnerships, joint ventures, and startups with state-of-the-art tax advice.

Many of our team members have significant in-house experience and several of our lawyers have played key roles in government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. They bring their unique skills and exceptional insight to the planning and resolution of the numerous securities and regulatory issues that our clients face.