Melissa Barshop is Of Counsel in the Century City office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department and its Global Finance and Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Groups.  Ms. Barshop’s practice includes acquisition financings, secured and unsecured corporate credit facilities, Rule 144A transactions, private placements, convertible debt offerings, exchange offers, mezzanine transactions and work-outs and debt restructurings.

Ms. Barshop is ranked as an “Associate to Watch” in Banking and Finance in California in the 2013-2019 editions of Chambers USA:  America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

Ms. Barshop earned a Juris Doctorate in 2006 from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the Executive Submissions Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts. She received a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Ms. Barshop is admitted to practice in the State of California.