Ashley Gebicke is a litigation associate in the San Diego office and is a member of the firm’s Securities and M&A Litigation Practice.

Ashley represents publicly traded companies and financial institutions and their senior officers and directors in securities litigation, including complex securities class actions, merger disputes, securities fraud actions, de SPAC litigation, and shareholder derivative suits.

Ashley maintains an active pro bono practice representing veterans with disabilities. Before joining Latham, Ashley served as a law clerk to Judge Evan J. Wallach of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Judge Mary Coster Williams of the United States Court of Federal Claims. Ashley earned her JD from Pepperdine University School of Law, where she was on the editorial board of the Pepperdine Law Review.

Prior to law school, Ashley was a Surface Warfare Officer in the United States Navy, serving on two guided-missile destroyers deployed to the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Arabian Gulf. 

Ashley’s recent representations include advising global companies and their directors and officers in state and federal securities class actions, derivative suits, SEC subpoenas and investigations, and book and record inspections. These companies span numerous industries, including technology, oil and natural gas extraction, consumer electronics, retail goods, and aerospace.

Ashley's securities litigation experience includes representing:

  • Lyft, and its officers and directors, in securities class actions in the Northern District of California and California state court arising out of Lyft’s IPO
  • Homology Medicines in a securities class action in the District of Massachusetts, securing a full dismissal of all claims. Pizzuto v. Homology Medicines, Inc. (D. Mass.)
  • The former CEO of a publicly traded commercial bank in a securities class action in the Northern District of California arising out of the bank’s closure
  • A publicly traded spaceflight company in a Section 10(b) securities class action in the Eastern District of New York 
  • The directors of a publicly traded biotechnology company in shareholder derivative litigation in Delaware Chancery Court 
  • The former officers and directors of a publicly traded oil & gas extraction company in a Section 10(b) securities class action in the Southern District of Texas arising out of a deSPAC transaction

Bar Qualification

  • California

Education

  • JD, Pepperdine University School of Law, 2019
    summa cum laude, Order of the Coif
  • BS, United States Naval Academy, 2009

Languages Spoken

  • English