Mylan L. Denerstein is a litigation partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Ms. Denerstein is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Public Policy Practice Group and a member of the Crisis Management, White Collar Defense and Investigations, Financial Institutions, Labor and Employment, Securities Litigation, and Appellate Practice Groups. Ms. Denerstein is a member of the Firm’s Executive, Diversity and Community Affairs Committees, and serves as co-hiring partner for the New York office.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, from 2010 to 2014, Ms. Denerstein served as Counsel to New York State. In this role, she acted as the Governor’s chief counsel. From 2007 to 2010, she served in the New York Attorney General’s Office as the Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice and managed approximately 100 attorneys statewide. From 2003 to 2007, she served as Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs for the New York City Fire Department. From 1996 to 2003, Ms. Denerstein served first as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, prosecuting complex securities, money laundering and organized crime cases, and then as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division.
Ms. Denerstein graduated from Columbia Law School.