Alexander Southwell > Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

The team at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP handles the full range of mandates, including global privacy compliance program developments, FTC and regulatory investigations, class action litigation and cyber due diligence for corporate transactions. The privacy, cybersecurity team also assists major tech companies in strategic product counselling. New York-based Alexander Southwell, a specialist practitioner in advising clients on data breaches and cyber fraud crises, and Palo Alto-stationed Ashlie Beringer, experienced in representing media and tech companies in various non-contentious and contentious matters, head the team. Ryan Bergsieker, in Denver, focuses on cyber-related white-collar defenses and government investigations. Co-chair of the AI and automated systems team, based in Palo Alto, Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter works on legal and regulatory compliance with the CPRA, GDPR and COPPA as well as other federal state regulations. Former Director of the DOJ’s Consumer Protection Branch, Gustav Eyler in Washington DC, adds depth to the practice group, having re-joined the Washington DDC office in November 2022. Other key advisors for big tech clients include Lauren Goldman and Vivek Mohan, who both arrived from Mayer Brown in the summer of 2022- the former is based in New York, while the latter is in Palo Alto. Rosemarie Ring, in San Francisco, Ashley Rogers, in Dallas, and Eric Vandevelde, in Los Angeles, are also names to note. Joining in April 2022 from an in-house position, former FTC official Svetlana S. Gans is noted for her expertise in digital platform matters.