Oscar Garza, a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Orange County and Los Angeles offices, joined the firm in 1990.  He is a former co-chair of the firm's National Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group.

Mr. Garza's practice involves representing debtors, creditors' committees, secured creditors in chapter 11 cases, advising buyers and sellers of the assets of financially distressed companies and representing Bankruptcy Trustees in complex cases.  Mr. Garza has played a key role in some significant national cases, including the following most recent representations:

• He is currently debtors counsel to House2Home, Inc. and E-M-Solutions, Inc. (each with debts in excess of $400 million) and previously represented MicroAge, Inc., and CollegeClub.com in their chapter 11 cases pending in Santa Ana, CA, Oakland, CA, Phoenix, AZ and San Diego, CA respectively;
• He was counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Lyons Restaurants, Inc. chapter 11 case in San Francisco;
• He recently was lead counsel to Ameristar Casinos in its purchase of the Mountain High Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado from Windsor Woodmont Black Hawk Resort Corp, a chapter 11 debtor, through a plan of reorganization for $119,500,000 (which sale closed in December 2004), and was counsel to Convergent Communications, Inc. in its acquisition of substantially all the assets of TIE/Communications, Inc. and Paramount Petroleum Oil as the stalking horse bidder for substantially all the assets of Golden Bear Oil Specialties Inc.;
• He is currently counsel to the Chapter 7 Trustee in the cases of Commercial Money Center, Inc., and Commercial Servicing Company in San Diego.

Mr. Garza co-authored two related articles on break-up fees for asset purchasers in chapter 11 cases which were published in 2005 in the Daily Deal and the California Bankruptcy Journal as well as an article in the June 15, 2005 Los Angeles Daily Journal on how the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005 may change the sale of lease "designation rights."  He was recently named as one of California's leading lawyers in business and restructuring by Chambers USA – America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2006 edition and in 2000 he was named by Global Insolvency & Restructuring Review as one of the top "40 under 40" international restructuring professionals.

Mr. Garza obtained his law degree from the University of Arizona College of Law, where he was a member of the Arizona Law Review and he currently serves on an advisory board for the law school.  He is a member of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section of the Orange County Bar Association and the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum and has been a lecturer on bankruptcy law and practice for CEB and the State Bar Business Law Section.