Melissa Barshop is a partner in the Century City office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm's Corporate Department and practices in its Finance and Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Groups. Melissa has experience in a broad range of financing transactions, including acquisition financings, secured and unsecured corporate credit facilities, Rule 144A transactions, private placements, convertible debt offerings, exchange offers, mezzanine transactions and work-outs and debt restructurings.
Melissa was ranked in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as “Up and Coming” in Banking and Finance in California. Chambers USA also ranked her from 2013-2019 as an “Associate to Watch”.
Melissa’s recent representations include:
- An ad hoc group of first lien lenders in the out-of-court restructuring deal with retail chain JoAnn Fabrics
- An ad hoc first lien term loan group in the chapter 11 cases of Mallinckrodt plc
- Fortress Investment Group LLC in the financing and debt restructuring of VICE Media Group
- An ad hoc group of first lien lenders in the debt restructuring of Envision Healthcare, a national medical group and KKR portfolio company
- Delta Air Lines, Inc. in their amended credit facility for the construction of Terminal 2 and 3 at Los Angeles International Airport
- Herbalife Ltd. In its issuance of senior secured notes and refinancing its credit facility
- Mauser Packaging in connection with its $2.75 billion first lien high yield bond offering and contemporaneous offer to exchange previously issued unsecured bonds for up to $1.35 billion of new second lien high yield bonds
Melissa earned her Juris Doctorate in 2006 from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the Executive Submissions Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts. She received a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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Credentials
Education:
- Columbia University - 2006 Juris Doctor
- University of California - Berkeley - 2002 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- California Bar