Gibson Dunn announced that Michelle Kirschner has joined the firm’s London office as a partner. Focused on noncontentious financial services regulation, Kirschner represents a wide range of financial institutions, including hedge fund managers, private equity sponsors, integrated investment banks and corporate finance boutiques. She has extensive experience advising clients on areas such as systems and controls; market abuse; conduct risk; and regulatory change management and compliance, including the recast E.U. Markets in Financial Instruments Directive; the Market Abuse Regulation; and the Senior Managers and Certification Regime. See “ACA Panel Reviews Effects of Impending MiFID II on U.S. Advisers” (Dec. 7, 2017); and “ESMA Strives to Prepare Markets As MiFID II, MiFIR and Brexit Approach” (Oct. 12, 2017).