Nikita Malevanny

Nikita Malevanny is an associate in the Munich office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations, Litigation, International Trade, Media, Entertainment and Technology and Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Practice Groups.

Nikita focuses on international trade compliance, including EU sanctions, embargoes and export controls. He also carries out internal and regulatory investigations in the areas of corporate anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and technical compliance. His further area of expertise is intellectual property law.

Handelsblatt / The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2024/2025 have recognized Nikita in their list “Ones to Watch” for Intellectual Property Law and Litigation. The Legal 500 Deutschland 2024 and The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 have recommended him for Foreign Trade Law. 

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he was a doctoral fellow and scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. In 2011, his comparative law study was awarded the German-Russian Lawyers Prize for the best paper written in German.

Nikita holds both German and Russian law degrees. He studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, the Uppsala University and the Leipzig University. In 2010, he also obtained his Master of Law (LL.M.) summa cum laude from the University of Freiburg. In 2019, Nikita earned his doctor’s degree from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has been admitted as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) since 2020.

Nikita speaks German, English, Russian and Ukrainian.

Capabilities

• International Trade
• Anti-Corruption & FCPA
• Litigation
• Media, Entertainment, and Technology
• Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation
• Tech and Innovation
• White Collar Defense and Investigations

Credentials

Education:

• Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - 2019 Dr. iur.
• Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - 2018 Law Degree
• University of Freiburg - 2010 Master of Law
• Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University - 2007 Law Degree

Admissions:

• Germany - Rechtsanwalt