‘The Dallas market has shifted a lot,’ says Krista Hanvey (pictured), co-chair of the employee benefits and executive compensation practice at Gibson Dunn, and co-partner in charge of the firm’s Dallas office. ‘There’s a lot of competition, as we’re all going after the same Fortune 500 clients headquartered here.’
With a presence in Dallas since the 1980s, Gibson Dunn is part of an older guard of major US firms active in the city. Others include Sidley Austin, which entered through a merger with local firm Richards, Medlock and Andrews in 1996, Kirkland & Ellis and Reed Smith, which opened in 2018 and 2019 respectively through a clutch of local partner hires.
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