Stewart L. McDowell is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  She is a member of the firm's Corporate Transactions Department and is Co-Chair of the firm's Capital Markets Practice. Ms. McDowell's practice involves the representation of business organizations as to mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions and general corporate matters.  She represents both buyers and sellers in connection with U.S. and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and strategic investments. She also has significant experience representing both underwriters and issuers in a broad range of both debt and equity securities offerings. 

Ms. McDowell received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1995 and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1991.

Ms. McDowell is a member of the California State Bar and the New York Bar Association.  She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS

Representative Mergers and Acquisitions

Representative Public and 144A Offerings

• Amazon.com, Inc. – registered convertible note offering
• Cadence Design Systems, Inc. – 144A convertible note offerings
• Xilinx, Inc. – 144A convertible note offering
• Intel Corporation – 144A convertible note offerings
• Chief Auto Parts, Inc. – registered note offering
• Falcon Building Products, Inc. – 144A note offering
• General Cigar, Inc. – initial public offering
• Global Crossing Ltd./Global Center, Inc. – proposed tracking stock offering
• IndyMac Bancorp – warrant and income redeemable equity securities offering
• Silicon Valley Bancshares – follow-on common stock offerings
• Texas Industries, Inc. – trust preferred securities offering
• Thoratec Corporation – 144A offering of convertible notes
• Wells Fargo & Company – over 30 global notes offerings, medium-term note programs, bank note programs and trust preferred and enhanced trust preferred securities offerings