08 Jun 2026
Matthew Owen joins Gibson Dunn as partner in Litigation and Congressional Investigations
"Matthew Owen joins Gibson Dunn in Washington, D.C., as a partner in the Litigation and Congressional Investigations practice, focusing on complex commercial litigation, congressional probes, antitrust and drug pricing."
Owen’s practice encompasses complex commercial disputes, congressional and other government investigations, and appeals, with notable expertise in antitrust and drug pricing matters and experience in crisis management. He has represented clients in antitrust suits, drug pricing litigation, environmental cases, consumer class actions, contested bankruptcy proceedings, contract disputes, and regulatory matters.
He joins Gibson Dunn as a partner after serving as a partner at an international law firm. In government service, Owen was Majority Staff Director and Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights; during his Senate tenure he supervised the successful litigation of the Senate’s first contempt action in more than twenty years and led inquiries into competition in the cable and satellite television industry and drug pricing. He also served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Neil Gorsuch and as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice.