Michael Murphy

Practice Areas

Michael Murphy, Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Environmental, Social and Governance practice, represents clients on environmental and ESG issues related to corporate transactions and compliance. He advises clients in a variety of corporate, private equity, finance, and real estate transactions. Michael is experienced in identifying environmental risks and negotiating transactional documents for buyers, sellers and investors of manufacturing, service, technology, aerospace, petroleum, energy, and financial industry clients. He advises clients on ESG and sustainability matters, including corporate disclosures, policies, reporting and integration issues. He also helps clients manage large remediation projects, including negotiating final remedies with state and federal regulators.

Michael also represents clients in a wide variety of litigation matters in both federal and state courts. He has served as first chair trial counsel and has argued before several federal appellate courts, including in state and federal environmental enforcement and civil actions. He also represents clients in toxic tort mass and class actions and has experience working with a variety of leading environmental consultants and experts on technical issues. Michael represents clients in administrative litigation, rulemaking proceedings, and permit actions. His litigation experience enables him to approach each environmental transactional issue with a broad perspective that takes into account all of his clients’ concerns.

Personal

JD, University of Virginia, 1999; M.Sc., University of Edinburgh, 1994; BS, Georgetown University, 1993.