Linda L. Curtis is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office and a member of the firm's Global Finance, Business Restructuring and Reorganization and Corporate Transactions practice groups. Her practice focuses on all aspects of corporate finance, including leveraged financings (with a specific focus in recent years on acquisition financings), debt capital markets transactions, securitization transactions, other secured and unsecured senior, mezzanine and subordinated financings and preferred stock financings. She also has experience in debt restructurings and workouts, including debtor-in-possession financings and other bankruptcy reorganization transactions. Ms. Curtis' clients include public and private companies in a variety of industries, lenders and equity investors.

Representative finance matters include:

• a public company in a $600 million senior credit facility.
• a public company in a $450 million Rule 144A senior subordinated note offering and $1.1 billion senior secured credit facility.
• an equity sponsor in a $120 million cross-border acquisition financing ($60 million in senior secured debt and $60 million in subordinated notes).
• a public company in a $285 million Rule 144A senior note offering and related exchange offer.
• an investor in a $15 million series B preferred stock venture capital financing for a private company.
• a real estate fund in a $175 million subscription line financing.

Ms. Curtis has been selected by Chambers and Partners as a leading lawyer in Banking and Finance in California for its Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business directories, and also has been named one of Southern California's "Super Lawyers" by Law and Politics and Los Angeles magazines.

Ms. Curtis is a trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) and served in 2009 as its treasurer and chair of its finance committee. She has served as chair of LACBA’s Business and Corporations Law Section Executive Committee and LACBA’s Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section Executive Committee.  Recent speaking engagements include Debtor In Possession Financings: Current Developments, Los Angeles County Bar Association, March 22, 2010.

Ms. Curtis received her joint Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University in 1987, where she was an Articles Editor of the Law Review. Prior to her graduate work at Stanford, Ms. Curtis received a Bachelor of Arts in jurisprudence from Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar, and an A.B. in public affairs/economics from Princeton University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. After graduating from Stanford, Ms. Curtis clerked for one year for the Honorable Robert F. Peckham, who was then Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.