Linda Curtis

Linda L. Curtis is a partner in Gibson Dunn's Los Angeles office and a member of the firm's Finance Practice Group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of corporate finance, including leveraged financings -- with a specific focus in recent years on acquisition financings, real estate financings and investment fund financings (including subscription lines of credit). She also represents clients in debt capital markets transactions and has experience in debt restructurings. Linda's clients include public and private companies in a variety of industries, private equity funds and commercial lenders.

Selected matters include the representation of:

• a public apparel company with respect to the issuance in a 144A transaction of $550 million in high yield notes and a $1.1 billion senior secured term loan and revolving credit facility;
• a real estate investment fund with respect to the issuance of $450 million in fixed rate private placement notes;
• numerous investment funds with respect to subscription and net asset value lines of credit;
• a real estate investment fund with respect to a workout of senior mezzanine debt on a trophy office building
• a public company in connection with the $1.1 billion financing of upgrades to facilities at Los Angeles International Airport;
• a public transportation and logistics company with respect to the acquisition financing for a $610 million purchase of a highly leveraged company pursuant to a complex carveout transaction;
• ad hoc lender groups in connection with DIP and exit financings to companies in the manufacturing and technology industries.

For a number of years, including in 2025, Linda has been ranked by Chambers and Partners as a Tier 1 Banking and Finance lawyer in California, named in The Best Lawyers in America® in the category of Banking and Finance Law, and included in Law and Politics and Los Angeles magazines as one of Southern California’s “Super Lawyers.” Since its inception in 2018, Linda has been named to every annual IFLR1000 "Women Leaders" list which recognizes 750 female lawyers in the world considered to be among the best transactional specialists in their markets and practice areas. Chambers describes her as having “incredible knowledge on the state of the debt financing market” and notes that market sources commend her “exceptional” representation of borrowers in sophisticated transactions.

Linda was the 2014 – 2015 President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), which is one of the nation’s largest local bar associations. She served previously as chair of LACBA’s Business and Corporations Law Section Executive Committee and LACBA’s Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section Executive Committee. Publications include Financing Provisions in Acquisition Agreements, California Business Law Practitioner, Summer 2011 (with Melissa Barshop).

Linda received her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School and her Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford Business School in 1987. At Stanford Law School, she was an Articles Editor of the Law Review. Prior to her graduate work at Stanford, Linda received a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar, and an A.B. in public affairs/economics from Princeton University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. After graduating from Stanford, Linda clerked for one year for the Honorable Robert F. Peckham, who was then Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Capabilities

• Finance
• Private Equity
• Real Estate

Credentials

Education:

• Stanford University - 1987 MBA
• Stanford University - 1987 Juris Doctor
• University of Oxford - 1984 Bachelor of Arts
• Princeton University - 1982 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• California Bar

Clerkships:

• USDC, Northern District of California, Hon. Robert F. Peckham, 1987 - 1988