Yair Galil

Yair Y. Galil is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is a member of the firm's Global Finance Practice.  He has represented a variety of clients – including sponsors, issuers, financial institutions and investment funds – in complex financing transactions. The business contexts for these transactions have ranged from ordinary-course credit increases and refinancings to pivotal credit such as acquisition financings and debtor-in-possession and bankruptcy exit financings, as well as special-circumstances transactions such as debt buybacks and covenant relief amendments.

Aside from his transactional practice, Mr. Galil provides regulatory guidance on data protection and privacy laws, electronic contracting, and other e-business issues. His articles on data privacy law have been published in the World Data Protection Report, the Privacy and Security Law Report, and the New York Law Journal, among others.

Mr. Galil earned his Juris Doctor in 2004 from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar and an Alexander Hamilton Fellow, and served on the editorial board of the Columbia Business Law Review.  He received his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School in 2004 and was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma.  Before commencing his graduate studies, Mr. Galil served from 1996 to 2000 in the Israeli Defense Forces, in which he holds the rank of captain.  Mr. Galil graduated from Columbia College as Salutatorian of the class of 1996, with a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in Economics and Political Science, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Mr. Galil was an associate in the New York office of Jones Day.

Mr. Galil is admitted to the New York Bar.

Partial Bibliography:

Transactional:

Privacy / Information Security:

• Galil (co-author), A Privacy Primer for Corporate Counsel (Steven C. Bennett ed., 2009)
• Galil & Paez, Strict Requirements, Harsh Penalties Mark State's New Data Breach Act, New York Law Journal (Jan. 30, 2006).
• Paez & Galil, New York Enacts Data Security and Notification Law, Electronic Banking Law and Commerce Report (Dec. 2005).
• Galil, No Child's Play: Treatment of Contractually Protected Private Information in Bankruptcy Provisions, 2002 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 823 (2002).