Gibson Dunn Adds Public Policy Of Counsel Amanda Neely in Washington, D.C.

December 14, 2022

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is happy to announce that Amanda H. Neely has rejoined the agency’s Washington, D.C. workplace as an of counsel after eight years of service on Capitol Hill.  Neely serves as a member of the agency’s Public Coverage and Congressional Investigations Follow Teams.

Previous to rejoining the agency, Neely served as Director of Governmental Affairs for the U.S. Senate Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs and Normal Counsel to Senator Rob Portman.  Below Senator Portman’s chairmanship, she additionally served as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Everlasting Subcommittee on Investigations.  In these roles, she managed Senator Portman’s regulatory reform agenda and led oversight of federal authorities companies and investigations into non-public entities.  She beforehand served in a number of different Capitol Hill places of work together with as Oversight Counsel for the U.S. Home of Representatives Committee on Methods and Means.

“For years, Amanda has been probably the most revered and well-liked workers individuals on Capitol Hill.  She has earned her fame for working throughout the aisle and getting issues accomplished.  We’re thrilled to have her again at Gibson Dunn and our purchasers are as effectively,” mentioned Michael Bopp, Chair of the agency’s Congressional Investigations Group and Co-Chair of the Public Coverage Follow Group.

At Gibson Dunn, Neely has represented purchasers present process investigations by a number of congressional committees, together with the Senate Well being, Schooling, Labor, and Pensions Committee, the Senate Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs Everlasting Subcommittee on Investigations, the Home Committee on Oversight and Reform, the Home Power and Commerce Committee, and each the Senate and Home Judiciary Committees.  She has helped witnesses put together to testify earlier than the Senate Banking, Housing, and City Affairs Committee, the Senate and Home Agriculture Committees, and the Home Monetary Providers Committee.  She additionally has assisted purchasers showing earlier than impartial commissions such because the Monetary Disaster Inquiry Fee and the Fee on Wartime Contracting, in addition to assisted purchasers partaking with regulatory companies such because the Shopper Monetary Safety Bureau, Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee, and Securities and Alternate Fee of their rulemaking processes.

Neely graduated cum laude from each Duke College Faculty of Regulation in 2008 and Princeton College in 2003.  She clerked for Decide David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.