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

Celebrated in Chambers and Partners as “encyclopedic,” “analytic,” “brilliant,” and a “problem solver who thinks outside the box,” Doug has been recognized as a leading finance lawyer by Chambers USA, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 and Euromoney’s IFLR 1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms. He was recognized by Chambers USA in 2024 for his work in Capital Markets: Debt & Equity as well as Banking & Finance, Dealmaker of the Year in 2021 by New York Law Journal and was named MVP in Capital Markets by Law360 in 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 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 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.
• Represented Bank of America as Lead Arranger and JPMorgan as Administrative Agent in connection with AMC Network’s amended $600 million senior secured credit agreement.
• Advised an ad hoc group of first lien lenders in the debt restructuring of Envision Healthcare, a national medical group and KKR portfolio company.

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.