Erin Rothfuss

Erin L. Rothfuss is a partner, currently resident in the Singapore office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  She is a member of the firm's Real Estate Department.

Ms. Rothfuss' practice encompasses a variety of transactional matters involving lending and structured finance, private equity, workouts and restructurings, loan sales, syndications and participations, and acquisitions and dispositions, with a particular emphasis on real estate.  She represents a wide range of clients, including lenders, developers, opportunity funds, joint ventures and a variety of institutional and non-institutional investors.  Her experience includes advising clients in connection with property, equity and loan transfers, construction, securitized, mezzanine and permanent financings, conduit lending, exchanges, partnership and joint venture structuring, leasing and workouts. 

Ms. Rothfuss advises on transactions involving all types of commercial and residential real property, including development property, office buildings, hotels, resorts, shopping centers, multi-family projects and other commercial properties.  She also has significant experience with fund formation and private equity work. 

Ms. Rothfuss is listed as one of the leading real estate practitioners worldwide in the International Who’s Who of Real Estate Lawyers 2011.  She was awarded the Outstanding Volunteer in Public Service Award in 2007 by the Volunteer Legal Services Program of the Bar Association of San Francisco for, among other things, her commitment to providing limited-scope legal representation to low-income individuals and families facing eviction.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Rothfuss was an associate in the Real Estate Group of Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett.  She received her law degree, cum laude, in 1996 from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Harvard Environmental Law Review and the Harvard International Law Journal.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, with high honors, in Economics and Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993.

Ms. Rothfuss is admitted to practice in New York and California, and is currently a member of Gibson Dunn's Associate Compensation and Pro Bono Committees.