Stewart McDowell

Stewart L. McDowell is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  She is a Co-Chair of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group and a member of the firm's Corporate Department.

Ms. McDowell represents companies, investors and underwriters in a variety of complex capital markets transactions, including IPOs, convertible and non-convertible debt and preferred equity offerings, PIPEs and liability management transactions.   She also represents companies in connection with U.S. and cross-border M&A and strategic investments, SEC reporting, corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Ms. McDowell is ranked by Chambers USA for Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (California and Western United States). She is frequently ranked by The Best Lawyers in America® as a “Lawyer of the Year,” most recently for 2023 Banking and Finance Law in San Francisco.  Expert Guides named her to its 2021 and 2022 Guide to the World's Leading Women in Business Law and to the 2022 Banking, Finance and Transactional Guide.  The Recorder named Ms. McDowell as a “Women Leader in Tech Law” for four years in a row.

Her recent and ongoing experience includes:

• Advising Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. in the issuance of $575 million aggregate principal amount of 2.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2028
• Advising Wells Fargo Securities in over $100 billion of offerings by Wells Fargo & Company and Wells Fargo Bank
• Advising Intuit Inc. in the issuance of $4.0 billion of Senior Notes
• Advising companies or lenders in debt restructurings for issuers such as Accelerate Therapeutics and Biora Therapeutics
• Advising Welltower Inc., a health care infrastructure REIT, and its operating company Welltower OP, on the $1.035 billion private offering of 2.750% exchangeable Senior Notes due 2028 by Welltower OP
• Advising Elliott Management in its convertible preferred stock investments in Western Digital and Travelport
• Advising Glassdoor, Inc. in its sale to Recruit Holdings, Ltd.
• Advising Uber Technologies, Inc. in the sale of its South East Asia business to Grab Taxi
• Advising HTC Corporation in its business cooperation arrangement involving sale of a portion of HTC’s smart phone business to Google
• Advising Marvell Technology in the sale of its wi-fi and connectivity business to NXP

Ms. McDowell received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1995 and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1991.

Ms. McDowell is a member of the California State Bar and the New York Bar Association.

Ms. McDowell is on the board of UPWARD, a global networking organization accelerating the advancement of executive women, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Allegro Circle of the San Francisco Ballet.

Capabilities

• Capital Markets
• Emerging Companies / Venture Capital
• Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
• Fashion, Retail, and Consumer Products
• Finance
• Financial Institutions
• Fintech and Digital Assets
• Media, Entertainment, and Technology
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance

Credentials

Education:

• University of Virginia - 1995 Juris Doctor
• Princeton University - 1991 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• California Bar
• New York Bar