Jennifer Bellah Maguire is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office and is Co-Chair of the Firm's Investment Funds Practice Group. She was a law clerk for the Honorable Mary M. Schroeder, currently Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. She holds a bachelor of arts from Bryn Mawr College, magna cum laude , and studied for one year at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Ms. Bellah Maguire graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as an Associate Editor for the California Law Review. She speaks and writes French fluently and practiced in the firm's Paris office in the late 80's.
Ms. Bellah Maguire's practice focuses on private equity and mergers and acquisitions, including public company transactions and divestitures. Currently and for the past several years, Chambers and Partners has recognized her as a leading lawyer nationwide in the areas of Private Equity: Fund Formation and Buyouts and in California in the area of Corporate M&A: Private Equity. International Financial Law Review named her as a Leading Lawyer in US Private Equity 2006 through 2008 and 2010. The Los Angeles Business Journal also named Ms. Bellah Maguire among "The Best of the Bar" for Corporate Transactions in 2007. Recently, Ms. Bellah Maguire was selected among the nation's leading attorneys for the Securities Law category in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Ms. Bellah Maguire has represented a number of groups in raising leveraged buy-out, venture and other funds, including the $5.3 billion leveraged buy-out fund raised by Leonard Green & Partners in 2007, Green Equity Investors IV's going-private acquisition of The Sports Authority, several prior funds for Leonard Green & Partners, and GI Partners' private equity buy-out fund with commitments of $1.42 billion.
Ms. Bellah Maguire speaks frequently on corporate and securities topics. Ms. Bellah Maguire is a member of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Los Angeles, a member of the Board of Governors of the Otis School of Design and a founding member of the board of the Los Angeles Ballet.