Doug Horowitz

Douglas S. Horowitz is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn where he is the head of Leveraged and Acquisition Finance and Co-Chair of the firm’s Finance Practice Group. He is also an active member of the Capital Markets Practice Group .

Doug represents leading private equity firms, public and private corporations, investment banking firms and commercial banks with a focus on financing transactions involving private credit, syndicated institutional and asset-based loans, new issuance of secured and unsecured high-yield debt securities, equity and equity-linked securities, as well as out-of-court restructurings. He was involved in the financings for a number of significant acquisitions, including the $67 billion purchase by Dell of EMC, the $19 billion purchase by Western Digital of SanDisk, Stone Point's $8.2 billion buyout of CoreLogic, 40 North's $7.4 billion buyout of W.R. Grace and several of the landmark acquisitions of the LBO boom, including hospital-operator HCA, SunGard Data Systems, VNU / Nielsen, ARAMARK, U.S. Foodservice, Biomet, Avaya and TXU Corp. Doug also represents his clients in public and private equity issuances, high-yield bonds, bank side acquisitions and debt refinancing in a variety of industries including technology, media, telecommunications, industrials, healthcare, gaming, real estate, and natural resources.

Awards and Accolades:

• Chambers USA, “Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United States”, “Banking & Finance: New York” (2010 – 2025)
• The Best Lawyers in America, “Commercial Finance Law”, “Securities/Capital Markets Law” (2024 – 2026)
• Legal500, "Leading Partner: Commercial Lending and Capital Markets Debt Offerings” (2022 – 2025)
• New York Law Journal, “Dealmaker of the Year” (2021)
• IFLR1000, “Lawyer of the Year: Banking and Finance” (2020)
• Law360, “MVP: Capital Markets” (2020)

Representative Clients and Transactions:

• Representation of Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation, an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management L.P., and a private equity consortium in the bridge loans and subsequent $1.96 billion high yield bond offering in connection with the $16 billion acquisition of Nielsen Holdings plc, a marketing services company providing demand analysis, product development, sales measurement and promotion strategies.
• Representation of Veritas Capital in the $1.2 billion broadly syndicated senior secured credit facilities incurred in connection with their purchase of Candescent (formerly the digital banking business segment) from NCR Voyix.
• Representation of a Private Equity consortium including Elliott, Patient Square and Veritas in the $3.2 billion senior secured credit facility and $1.0 billion senior secured high yield notes, incurred in connection with the approximately $7.1 billion take private acquisition of Syneos Health.
• Representation of JPMorgan Chase Bank and various other lenders with respect to the approximately $4.6 billion broadly syndicated senior secured credit facilities and approximately $3.4 billion high yield bonds (including a landmark $2.2 billion unsecured PIK Toggle bond) in connection with the pending take private transaction for Skechers USA Inc. by affiliates of 3G Capital.
• Representation of Veritas Capital in the private credit loan financing for its acquisition of the Wood-Mackenzie business from Verisk and subsequent $1.465 billion broadly syndicated senior secured credit facilities.
• Representation of RedBird Capital in the private loan financing for its acquisition of AC Milan.
• Representation of Mauser Packaging (a Stone Canyon portfolio company) in connection with its $2.75 billion first lien high yield bond offering and contemporaneous offer to exchange previously issued unsecured bonds for up to $1.35 billion of new second lien high yield bonds.
• Representation of Primoris Services Corporation in connection with its $1.27 billion senior secured credit facilities, the proceeds of which were used to refinance existing debt and to finance the $470 million acquisition of PLH Group.
• Representation of Bank of America and other initial purchasers in connection with over $1.2 billion of senior secured high yield bonds and approximately $150 million of senior unsecured convertible notes and Bank of America as Lead Arranger and JPMorgan as Administrative Agent in connection with an amended $600 million senior secured credit agreement, in each case for AMC Networks.

Doug earned his Juris Doctor in 2001 from Cornell University Law School. He also earned his Master of Business Administration from Cornell University in 2001 and his B.A. from Columbia University in 1997.

Capabilities

• Finance
• Aerospace and Defense
• Capital Markets
• Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance

Credentials

Education:

• Cornell University - 2001 Juris Doctor
• Cornell University - 2001 MBA
• Columbia University - 1997 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• New York Bar