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Caith Kushner is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization, Liability Management, and Special Situations Practice Groups.
Caith’s practice focuses on liability management and distressed financing transactions, including out-of-court debt exchanges and other restructurings, DIP financings, exit financings, and direct lending transactions. He also has experience in a wide range of leveraged finance and investment grade transactions, representing both private equity clients and public companies. Caith was listed in Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers” (2025 – 2026) and “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” (2024).
His representative experience includes: *
- An ad hoc group of secured debtholders in connection with the restructuring of Altice France
- An ad hoc group of first lien lenders to AMC Entertainment Holdings in a series of liability management transactions
- An ad hoc group of senior secured noteholders in the consensual recapitalization of Ardagh Group S.A., which included a $2.7 billion note exchange, a $4.3 billion debt-for-equity swap, and a $1.5 billion new capital injection
- Carnival Corporation & plc in multiple secured and unsecured high yield debt financing and repricing transactions
- An ad hoc group of lenders and noteholders in a liability management transaction restructuring approximately $655 million of debt of Cision’s and providing $250 million of additional liquidity
- An ad hoc group of lenders in EmployBridge’s liability management transaction which included a $325 million super-priority new money term loan and an exchange with extended maturities
- An ad hoc group of first lien term lenders to Del Monte Foods in a $240 million super-priority new money financing and drop-down transaction, including up to $500 million 2nd-out and $214.4 million 3rd-out tranches, and amendments to the company’s ABL facility
- An ad hoc group of lenders of Fortra, LLC (f/k/a HelpSystems) in connection with its amend and extend transaction
- An ad hoc group of bondholders of iQera in connection with iQera’s restructuring
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders in MultiPlan Corporation’s debt restructuring, which extended all maturities and included a new $350 million first-lien revolver and up to $1.14 billion in first-lien term loans
- An ad hoc committee of unsecured noteholders of Neiman Marcus in connection with a recapitalization transaction involving the exchange of unsecured notes into a new series of third-lien notes and preferred equity in MyTheresa, a German luxury online retailer, and the issuance of second lien notes
- An ad hoc group of lenders to Quest Software Inc. (Quest) in a cutting-edge liability management transaction
- A group of lenders to Radiate HoldCo, LLC in connection with the formulation, negotiation, and implementation of a restructuring of its term loans and notes
- Verizon in the $61 billion bridge financing commitment for its $130 billion acquisition of Vodafone’s 45% interest in Verizon Wireless
- An ad hoc group of lenders and noteholders in Vibrantz Technologies’ comprehensive financing and exchange transactions, which secured support from over 90% of stakeholders and included new debt financing and extended maturities
- A majority of secured lenders to Xplore, Inc in a CAD 1.7 billion comprehensive recapitalization transaction
- An ad hoc group of lenders and noteholders to Zayo in an amend-and-extend transaction
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Caith was a partner at another prominent international law firm. Caith received his law degree from Columbia University where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, a James Kent Scholar, and a member of the Columbia Law Review.
*Includes representations prior to Caith’s association with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
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