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Stewart L. McDowell is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a Co-Chair of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Corporate Department.
Ms. McDowell represents companies, investors and underwriters in a variety of complex capital markets transactions, including IPOs, convertible and non-convertible debt and preferred equity offerings, PIPEs and liability management transactions. She also represents companies in connection with U.S. and cross-border M&A and strategic investments, SEC reporting, corporate governance and general corporate matters.
Ms. McDowell is ranked by Chambers USA for Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (California and Western United States). She is frequently ranked by The Best Lawyers in America® as a “Lawyer of the Year,” most recently for 2023 Banking and Finance Law in San Francisco. Expert Guides named her to its 2021 and 2022 Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law and to the 2022 Banking, Finance and Transactional Guide. The Recorder named Ms. McDowell as a “Women Leader in Tech Law” for four years in a row.
Her recent and ongoing experience includes:
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.
Ms. McDowell is on the board of UPWARD, a global networking organization accelerating the advancement of executive women, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Allegro Circle of the San Francisco Ballet.
University of Virginia - 1995 Juris Doctor
Princeton University - 1991 Bachelor of Arts
California Bar
New York Bar