​Amy Carper Mena is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  She is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Ms. Mena has extensive experience in a wide variety of sophisticated transactions, including developments, financings (including construction, mortgage, mezzanine, and preferred-equity structures), leasing, joint ventures, sale-leasebacks, acquisitions (including by consensual deeds-in-lieu following workouts), dispositions, and loan workouts, relating to commercial office, retail, hotel, residential and mixed-use property types, on a single-asset and portfolio basis.  Ms. Mena also commits time to pro bono legal work, and, in collaboration with the City Bar Justice Center of the New York City Bar Association, successfully represented a refugee in gaining asylum.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Mena was an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, and she served as a Law Clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor from 2003-2004, when Justice Sotomayor was a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Ms. Mena has been recognized as a “Rising Star” and a “Super Lawyer” over numerous years in the Real Estate section of the New York Metro edition of Super Lawyers.

Ms. Mena served as a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Real Property Law Committee from 2008-2011.

Ms. Mena received her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, in 2002 from Duke University School of Law where she was an editor of the Duke Law Journal, a member of the Moot Court Board, and a semi-finalist in the Dean’s Cup Intramural Competition.  Ms. Mena received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Duke University in 1997.

Ms. Mena is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Publications:

• Author, “Protecting a Commercial Sublandlord from Its Subtenant’s Holdover,” N.Y. Real Property Law Journal, Spring 2009
• Co-Author, “Notices of Pendency:  Protecting Sellers in Contracts for the Sale and Purchase of Real Property,” N.Y. Real Property Law Journal, Fall 2009