Alex Xiao is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he currently practices with the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group.

Mr. Xiao’s practice includes domestic and cross-border corporate restructuring, distressed financing, and distressed M&A.  His practice includes advising debtors, creditors, strategic investors and various other stakeholders both domestically and abroad.

Mr. Xiao received his B.A. magna cum laude from Brandeis University and received his J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where he served as Senior Editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law and Duke Law & Technology Review.  During law school Mr. Xiao also served as a policy fellow at the Office of the Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives and as a judicial intern to the Honorable Judge Steven Tiscione of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Xiao was an associate in the Restructuring Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York.

Mr. Xiao is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Publications

• Co-author, “Confirming the Obvious: Why Antique Chinese Bonds Should Remain Antique,” 16 U. Pa. Asian L. Rev. 472 (2021).