Steven A. Domanowski

Steven A. Domanowski is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Chair of the firm's Liability Management and Special Situations Practice Group and a member of the Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. His practice sits at the intersection of restructuring and corporate finance. He represents a diverse array of parties in liability management transactions, special situation strategies, distressed debt transactions, distressed debt exchanges, in-court and out-of-court restructurings and other distressed matters.

Steve focuses on representing ad hoc lender groups, strategic investors, private equity funds, asset management firms, hedge funds and other similar investment vehicles in creating and executing tailored solutions for the most complex liability management transactions. Steve has extensive experience advising distressed debt and special situations clients in structuring and implementing innovative and complex liability management and alternative capital solutions, including priming transactions and other uptiering structures, non-loan party/non-guarantor and unrestricted subsidiary drop-downs, “double dip” and “triple dip” structures, distressed exchange transactions, amend-and-extend transactions, recapitalizations, DIP financings, direct lending transactions, exit financings and out-of-court restructurings.

As Chair of the firm's market driving Liability Management and Special Situations practice and a member of our industry leading ad hoc creditor focused Business Restructuring and Reorganization practice, Steve delivers novel, creative and strategic liability management solutions to the most complex and unconventional event-driven and opportunistic situations, including both proactive and defensive liability management solutions and special situations strategies in the restructuring of:

• Serta
• Del Monte Foods Inc.
• AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.
• Envision Healthcare
• EyeCare Partners
• Rackspace Technology
• Global Medical Response
• Radiology Partners
• Aventiv Technologies
• AccentCare, Inc.
• City Brewing Company
• Lumen Technologies
• Diamond Sports Group
• Intrado
• The GEO Group
• Diebold Nixdorf
• Cumulus Media
• Elara Caring
• West Marine
• Robertshaw
• Vericast

Steve received his law degree from DePaul University College of Law in 2002, cum laude, where he was also a member of the law review and received the American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence. He graduated magna cum laude from University at Buffalo, State University of New York in 1999.Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Steve was at Jones Day in the firm’s Chicago office, where he had served as a partner since 2013. He previously practiced at Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP.

Steve has published numerous articles and participated in numerous seminars and presentations on liability management, distressed debt and restructuring related matters.

Steve is admitted to practice only in Illinois; he is not currently admitted to practice in New York.

Capabilities

• Business Restructuring and Reorganization
• Liability Management and Special Situations

Credentials

Education:

• DePaul University - 2002 Juris Doctor
• University at Buffalo (SUNY) - 1999 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• Illinois Bar