Jennifer Bellah Maguire is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office.  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 areas emphasize private equity, mergers and acquisitions, financings and divestitures.  She is featured in The Expert Guide to the World's Leading Private Equity Lawyers for 2005 and 2006 and has been selected by Chambers and Partners as a Leading Corporate/M&A Lawyer for 2005 through 2008 and as a Leading Private Equity: Buyouts and Fund Formation Lawyer for 2008 for the Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business directories.  Ms. Bellah Maguire also has been named among "The Best of the Bar" for Corporate Transactions by the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2007.

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 and a founding member of the board of the Los Angeles Ballet.