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DLA Piper LLP (US) Offices
1251 6TH AVE,
NEW YORK, NY 10020-1104
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Kiera Gans
Work Department
Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations; Regulatory and Government Affairs
Position
Partner
Career
Kiera Gans has represented individuals, domestic and foreign companies and sovereign governments in both ad hoc arbitrations and also arbitrations under the ICC, SIAC, UNCITRAL, AAA/ICDR and ICSID rules, in venues around the globe. Ms. Gans has extensive experience with investor treaty arbitration and has been an advocate acting both for and against sovereign states in a number of prominent claims.
Kiera has provided training to foreign governments related to investment treaty disputes and strategies for managing and preventing such disputes. She has been involved in complex arbitrations and litigations across a wide variety of sectors including oil and gas, education, energy, construction, telecommunications and mining.
Kiera has litigated in connection with arbitration, including enforcing arbitral awards, and routinely advises on the drafting of arbitration agreements and pre-dispute strategy.
Kiera also has extensive experience conducting internal investigations and FCPA due diligence, as well as representing clients in matters involving anti-bribery restrictions worldwide. In particular, she has conducted multi-jurisdictional investigations for clients in the defense, financial services, aerospace and telecommunications industries in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. She also routinely advises clients across various industries regarding the practical implications of the FCPA and its application to business issues, including those resulting from the retention and use of third-party consultants and vendors, government tenders and whistleblower allegations.
Languages
Spanish; English
Memberships
She serves on the Panel of International Commercial Arbitrators of the ICC National Arbitration Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. She is also on the Board of Directors for the New York International Arbitration Center. In addition, she was a member of the Young Attorneys in Alternative Dispute Resolution (Y-ADR) Steering Committee for the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) and served as a chair of the Young Lawyers Interest Network for the American Bar Association, International Law Section.
Kiera has also been named to the international panel of arbitrators for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR).
Kiera also served as a delegate for the UNCITRAL Working Group II Session on Expedited Arbitration.
Education
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > International arbitration
(Next Generation Partners)DLA Piper LLP (US) scores highly with clients for its advice that ‘marries legal acumen to business sophistication‘. The growing practice recently added new clients across a diverse spread of sectors, including energy, financial services, and manufacturing. Global group co-chair Kate Brown de Vejar splits her time between New York and Mexico and acts on a broad range of commercial and investment arbitration cases; she successfully represented the Republic of Lithuania in an investment treaty case brought by a Russian fund in respect of the nationalization of Bankas Snoras. New York-based Kiera Gans is noted as ‘incredible in her focus on the client‘.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners United States > Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- International arbitration United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Tax > International tax
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Tax > Financial products
- Finance > Fintech
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense