Alex Xiao is an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization and Liability Management and Special Situations Practice Groups.
Alex represents ad hoc lender and noteholder groups, strategic investors, asset managers, hedge funds, private equity funds, and companies across a host of in court and out of court transactions. Alex has experience structuring and implementing liability management transactions, recapitalization transactions, distressed exchanges, amend-and-extend transactions, and various in court financings.
Alex has played a role on a number of teams advising:
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders in the liability management transactions of AMC Entertainment, the largest movie exhibition company in the United States and globally
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders and noteholders in the liability management transactions of Rackspace, a leading end-to-end hybrid, multicloud, and AI solutions company
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders in the liability management transactions and the subsequent chapter 11 proceedings of Envision Healthcare Corporation, a leading provider of physician staffing services and operator of ambulatory surgical centers
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders in the chapter 11 proceedings of Serta Simmons Bedding, one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of mattresses in North America
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders and noteholders in connection with an amend-and-extend transaction with Cumulus Media, a leading owner and operator of radio stations in the United States
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders in the prepackaged chapter 11 cases of Audacy, one of the country’s two scaled radio broadcasting groups as well as one of the country’s largest podcast studios
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders in connection with an amend-and-extend transaction with Invited (ClubCorp), one of the largest owners and operators of private golf and country clubs in the United States
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders in the prepackaged chapter 11 cases of C1 (ConvergeOne), an advanced technology and solutions company
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders and noteholders in connection with an amend-and-extend transaction with Global Medical Response, a leading provider of ground medical transportation and mobile healthcare services in the United States
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders in the chapter 11 proceedings of Endo International PLC, a multi-billion dollar global specialty biopharmaceutical business
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders in the prepackaged chapter 11 cases of Lumileds, a Dutch-based global leader in innovative lighting solutions
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders in the chapter 11 proceedings of Phoenix Services, a provider of steel mill services to leading, global steel producing companies in the United States and abroad
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders in the out-of-court restructuring of Service King, the third largest operator of auto body collision repair facilities in the United States
- National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation, in connection with the Title III cases of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and certain of its instrumentalities*
- Brooks Brothers, the oldest apparel company in the United States, in its chapter 11 cases, Canadian proceeding under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, and going-concern sale of their international businesses*
Alex received his B.A. magna cum laude from Brandeis University and received his J.D. from Duke University School of Law. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Alex served as a policy fellow at the Office of the Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives, a research fellow at Duke University School of Law on sovereign debt, and an associate in the Restructuring Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York.
Alex is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Publications:
- Co-author, Note, “Confirming the Obvious: Why Antique Chinese Bonds Should Remain Antique,” 16 U. Pa. Asian L. Rev. 472 (2021).
*Includes representations prior to Alex's association with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- Duke University - 2020 Juris Doctor
- Brandeis University - 2016 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- New York Bar