Linda L. Curtis is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office and a member of the firm's Global Finance, Business Restructuring and Reorganization and Corporate Transactions practice groups. Her practice focuses on all aspects of corporate finance, including leveraged financings, with a specific focus in recent years on acquisition financings. She also represents clients in debt capital markets transactions, securitization transactions, other secured and unsecured senior, mezzanine and subordinated financings and preferred stock financings, and has experience in debt restructurings and workouts. Ms. Curtis' clients include public and private companies in a variety of industries, lenders and equity sponsors.
Representative recent transactions include:
ˇ Representation of a public consumer goods company in connection with a $2.7 billion senior secured term loan, a $750 million senior secured asset-based revolving facility and $1.5 billion in senior notes in connection with the financing of a leveraged buyout.
ˇ Representation of a private real estate joint venture in connection with a refinancing transaction involving a $500 million term loan facility and the issuance of $1.5 billion in senior first and second lien notes.
ˇ Representation of a public company in the technical and management support services business in connection with a $750 million unsecured term loan facility and a $1.05 billion unsecured revolving credit facility.
ˇ Representation of a public company in the telecommunications business in connection with a $700 million acquisition financing.
ˇ Representation of a lender in connection with a $290 million senior secured acquisition financing for a public company in the restaurant business.
ˇ Representation of a privately held supermarket chain in connection with an A/B exchange offer for $255 million in senior notes.
ˇ Representation of a lender in connection with a $150 million senior secured recapitalization financing for a private company in the aerosol packaging industry, and a subsequent increase in the facility in connection with an acquisition.
ˇ Representation of a privately held company in the analytics and testing business in connection with a $150 million refinancing transaction.
ˇ Representation of a public company in the restaurant business in connection with an $80 million franchisee financing securitization facility.
ˇ Representation of affiliated private real estate funds in connection with a $50 million subscription financing and a $40 million real estate secured revolving credit facility.
In October 2011, Ms. Curtis was named by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of Los Angeles' top corporate attorneys on its annual list of Who's Who in Law. Ms. Curtis has for a number of years been selected by Chambers and Partners as a leading lawyer in Banking and Finance for its Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business directories, and as one of Southern California's "Super Lawyers" by Law and Politics and Los Angeles magazines.
Ms. Curtis is the Vice President and a trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA). She has served as chair of LACBA's Business and Corporations Law Section Executive Committee and LACBA's Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section Executive Committee. Recent publications include Financing Provisions in Acquisition Agreements, California Business Law Practitioner, Summer 2011 (with Melissa Barshop).
Ms. Curtis received in 1987 her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School and her Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford Business School. At Stanford Law School, she was an Articles Editor of the Law Review. Prior to her graduate work at Stanford, Ms. Curtis received a Bachelor of Arts in jurisprudence from Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar, and an A.B. in public affairs/economics from Princeton University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. After graduating from Stanford, Ms. Curtis clerked for one year for the Honorable Robert F. Peckham, who was then Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Recent Publications
Financing Provisions in Acquisition Agreements
Financial Markets in Crisis: Critical Issues in the Current Environment