Alex Xiao

Alex Xiao is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization and Liability Management and Special Situations Practice Groups.

Alex represents ad hoc lender and noteholder groups, strategic investors, asset managers, hedge funds, private equity funds, and companies across a host of in court and out of court transactions. Alex has experience structuring and implementing liability management transactions, recapitalization transactions, distressed exchanges, amend-and-extend transactions, and various in court financings.

Alex has played a role on a number of teams advising:

• Altice France: Represented the secured lender and noteholder group in connection with its global restructuring, addressing approximately €25 billion of secured debt and representing the first large-scale liability management exercise in Europe
• Ardagh Group: Represented the Secured Notes group in connection with the company’s comprehensive $6 billion debt and equity recapitalization transactions; Ardagh is a leading global manufacturer of metal and glass packaging products
• Cision: Represented an ad hoc group of first lien lenders and unsecured noteholders of Cision, a leading global provider of earned media software and services to public relations and marketing communications professionals, in a liability management exercise
• EmployBridge: Represented an ad hoc group of first lien lenders in connection with the company’s liability management transaction; EmployBridge is a leading provider of technology-enabled, light industrial workforce solutions
• AMC Entertainment: Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders in the company’s liability management transactions; AMC is the largest movie exhibition company in the United States and globally
• CommScope: Represented an ad hoc group of first lien lenders and noteholders in a transaction that secured commitments of over $3.15 billion in new first lien term loans and $1 billion in first lien notes; CommScope a global leader in network connectivity solutions
• Global Medical Response : Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders and noteholders in connection with an amend-and-extend transaction; Global Medical Response is a leading provider of ground medical transportation and mobile healthcare services in the United States
• Cumulus Media: Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders and noteholders in connection with a liability management transaction; Cumulus is the second-largest owner and operator of radio stations in the United States
• Audacy: Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders in the company’s prepackaged chapter 11 cases; Audacy is one of the country’s two scaled radio broadcasting groups and one of the country’s largest podcast studios
• Invited (ClubCorp): Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders in connection with an amend-and-extend transaction; Invited is one of the largest owners and operators of private golf and country clubs in the United States
• Endo International plc: Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders in the company’s chapter 11 proceedings; Endo is a multi-billion-dollar global specialty biopharmaceutical business
• Rackspace: Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders and noteholders in the company’s liability management transactions; Rackspace is a leading end-to-end hybrid, multicloud, and AI solutions company
• Envision Healthcare Corporation: Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders in the company’s liability management transactions and subsequent chapter 11 proceedings; Envision is a leading national medical group
• Serta Simmons Bedding: Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders in the company’s chapter 11 proceedings; Serta is one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of mattresses in North America
• Lumileds: Represented an ad hoc group of secured lenders in the company’s prepackaged chapter 11 cases; Lumileds is a Dutch-based global leader in innovative lighting solutions
• National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation: Represented the company in connection with the Title III cases of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and certain of its instrumentalities*
• Brooks Brothers: Represented the company in its chapter 11 cases, Canadian proceeding under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, and going-concern sale of its international businesses*

Alex received his B.A. magna cum laude from Brandeis University and received his J.D. from Duke University School of Law. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Alex served as a policy fellow at the Office of the Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives and an associate in the Restructuring Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York. 
 
Alex is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Publications:

• No Time Runs Against the King (IRS): The Golden Creditor Rule and Its Discontents, REAL EST. FIN. J. (Oct. 25, 2021).
• Confirming the Obvious: Why Antique Chinese Bonds Should Remain Antique, 16 U. PA. ASIAN L. REV. 472 (2021).
• How to Respond to Election Meddling in the Cyber Space: An International Law Case Study on the Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, 30 DUKE J. COMP. & INT’L L. 349 (2020).

*Includes representations prior to Alex's association with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Capabilities

• Business Restructuring and Reorganization
• Liability Management and Special Situations

Credentials

Education:

• Duke University - 2020 Juris Doctor
• Brandeis University - 2016 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• New York Bar