Barbara Becker, Linda Curtis, and Patricia Tan Openshaw Named IFLR1000 Women Leaders for 2022

April 1, 2022

Barbara Becker, Linda Curtis, and Patricia Tan Openshaw Named IFLR1000 Women Leaders for 2022

Gibson Dunn’s Managing Partner Barbara Becker, Hong Kong partner Patricia Tan Openshaw and Los Angeles partner Linda Curtis were named among the IFLR1000 Women Leaders for 2022 for their respective regions. IFLR 1000 Women Leaders is “an exclusive group of lawyers with outstanding reputations within their markets who either have expertise and experience of working on complex deals, or who have risen to hold leadership roles with their firms or their practices.” The guides were published in April 2022.

Barbara L. Becker is Chair and Managing Partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She advises companies on all significant business and legal issues, including mergers and acquisitions (including domestic and cross-border), spin-offs, joint ventures and general corporate matters also advises boards of directors and special committees of public companies.

Linda Curtis is Co-Chair of the Global Finance Practice Group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of corporate finance, including leveraged financings, with a specific focus on acquisition financings. She also represents clients in debt capital markets transactions and other secured and unsecured senior, mezzanine and subordinated financings, and has experience in real estate financings and debt restructurings. Her clients include private equity firms, commercial lending institutions and public and private companies in a variety of industries.

Patricia Tan Openshaw focuses her practice on project development and finance, mergers and acquisitions, as well as banking and finance transactions in the energy and infrastructure sector.