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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 Global 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”.
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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.
Columbia University - 2006 Juris Doctor
University of California - Berkeley - 2002 Bachelor of Arts
California Bar