Caith Kushner

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 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 €20 billion restructuring of Altice France, including the implementation of large-scale liability management transactions and cooperation agreements
• Ad hoc group of secured lenders in connection with the negotiation of a potential restructuring, amendment, or financing transaction involving the debt facilities of Ardagh Group S.A. and certain of its affiliates and subsidiaries
• Carnival Corporation & plc in multiple secured and unsecured high yield debt financing and repricing transactions
• An ad hoc group of lenders and noteholders to Cision in connection with the negotiation of a potential restructuring, amendment, or financing transaction involving its debt facilities
• Ad hoc group of first-lien lenders in connection with the negotiation of a potential restructuring, amendment, or financing transaction involving the debt facilities of EmployBridge Holding Company and certain of its affiliates and subsidiaries
• 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 first lien term loan lenders to Fortra, LLC in connection with the negotiation of a potential amend-and-extend, financing, refinancing, restructuring, recapitalization, liability management, or exchange transaction involving its debt facilities
• iQera in connection with restructuring and related financial matters, including advice on strategic and financial alternatives
• An affiliate of Apollo Global Management in the financing for the $5.6 billion acquisition of LifePoint Health, a network of hospitals, post-acute service providers and outpatient centers
• An ad hoc group of secured lenders to MultiPlan Corporation in connection with the negotiation of a potential restructuring, amendment, or financing transaction involving its debt facilities
• 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 in a liability management transaction involving the transfer of its One Identity business to a structurally senior entity, facilitating future M&A activity, new debt incurrence, and discount capture
• 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 senior lenders to Vibrantz Technologies Inc. in connection with the negotiation of a potential restructuring, amendment, or financing transaction involving its debt facilities
• An ad hoc group of lenders and noteholders to Zayo in an amend-and-extend transaction extending its debt maturities to 2030, and certain members in connection with a structured financing commitment to support Zayo’s acquisition of Crown Castle’s fiber solutions business

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.

Capabilities

• Business Restructuring and Reorganization
• Finance
• Liability Management and Special Situations

Credentials

Education:

• Columbia University - 2005 Juris Doctor
• University of Pennsylvania - 1999 Bachelor of Science
• University of Pennsylvania - 1999 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• New York Bar