Author Profiles
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 1022-2524,
United States
Tel+1 212 872 1000 Fax +1 212 872 1002
Web www.akingump.com
Other Offices Austin, Beijing, Dallas, Houston, London,
Los Angeles, Moscow, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San
Francisco,Silicon Valley, Taipei, Washington DC
Fred S Hodara
Partner
Email fhodara@akingump.com
Fred S Hodara is the chairman of the financial restructuring practice of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Mr Hodara focuses on representing creditors’ committees in Chapter 11 cases and outof- court restructurings, and has represented first and second-lien lenders, hedge funds, insurance companies and other investment funds in such proceedings. Mr Hodara is a member of INSOL International and the American College of Investment Counsel, and is a former director of the Turnaround Management Association, New York Chapter. He has been frequently recognised as one of the country’s leading financial restructuring attorneys in publications including the K & A Restructuring Register: America’s Top 100 Restructuring Professionals, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers.
Lisa G Beckerman
Partner
Email lbeckerman@akingump.com
Lisa G Beckerman is a member of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Ms Beckerman has extensive experience representing debtors and creditors’ committees in Chapter 11 cases and outof- court restructurings. Ms Beckerman focuses on corporate restructuring and creditors’ rights in a variety of areas, including manufacturing, airlines, retail and healthcare. Recent representations include serving as lead counsel to the official committees of unsecured creditors of Kaiser Aluminum Corporation, ATA Holdings Corporation and Delta Air Lines. Ms Beckerman has been recognised in several leading publications, includingChambers USA:America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Practical Law Company’s (formerly Global 3000) list of top bankruptcy attorneys in the United States.
Brian D Geldert
Associate
Email bgeldert@akingump.com
Brian D Geldert is an associate in the financial restructuring practice of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Mr Geldert concentrates his practice on the representation of debtors, creditors and lenders in both Chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings of financially distressed companies. Mr Geldert received his BAcum laude in environmental studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1998. He received his JD magna cum laude in 2003 from the Hofstra University School of Law, where he received the Citation of Excellence Award in Bankruptcy Law and was the managing editor of the Hofstra Law Review. Mr Geldert is an associate editor of a two-volume treatise, Reorganising Failing Businesses (American Bar Association, Section of Business Law), as well as the co-author of a chapter relating to real estate considerations in reorganisations.
St Andrew’s Court, Frederick Street Steps,
PO Box N-4805, Nassau, Bahamas
Tel+242 322 1126 Fax +242 328 8395
Other Offices Abaco
Emerick A Knowles
Partner
Email eknowles@bahamaslaw.com
Emerick A Knowles is a partner whose practice includes corporate insolvency and personal bankruptcy. Mr Knowles has advised official liquidators appointed by the court in discharging of their duties as liquidators of companies ordered to be wound up by the court and receivers appointed to take charge of assets of a company or mortgaged by debenture, and has appeared on many applications before the courts dealing with the winding up of companies and personal bankruptcies and receiverships. Mr Knowles has also been engaged in cross-border insolvency proceedings between the Bahamas, United States, England, Cayman Islands and Anguilla.
In addition to his insolvency practice, Mr Knowles engages in commercial litigation, covering a wide range of law including banking, insolvency, financial services, contracts, torts, trusts and real estate. Mr Knowles is a graduate of Sir George Williams University (now called Concordia University), Montreal, Canada and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in June 1974 and to the Bahamas Bar in October 1974.
44 Canal Centre Plaza, Suite 400,Alexandria,
VA 22314, United States
Tel+1 703 739 0800 Fax +1 703 7391060
Web www.abiworld.org
Samuel J Gerdano
Executive director
Email sgerdano@abiworld.org
Samuel J Gerdano is the executive director of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), the nation’s largest multi-disciplinary organisation devoted to the advancement of jurisprudence related to the problems of insolvency. He joined the ABI in May 1991. From June 1985 until May 1991 he was the chief legal counsel to Senator Charles E Grassley on the Sub-committee on Courts and Administrative Practice of the Senate Judiciary Committee, serving as minority chief counsel and staff director from October 1987. He was responsible for a variety of legal policy areas, including administrative law, antitrust, judicial nominations, intellectual property, criminal and constitutional law.The subcommittee also has jurisdiction over the US Bankruptcy Code; Mr Gerdano has thus far been involved in all major bankruptcy policy changes since 1985. Prior to serving the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was an assistant chief counsel for advocacy of the US Small Business Administration in Washington, DC. Mr Gerdano graduated with honours from Syracuse University College of Law and received his BA in journalism magna cum laude from Syracuse University.He is the author and coauthor of numerous articles on the judicial nominations process, alternative dispute resolution and litigation with the federal government, and is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy and other legal issues.
PH Plaza 2000 Building, 50th Street,
PO Box 0816-01098, Panama
Tel+507 205 7000 Fax +507 205 7001
Web www.arifa.com
Other Offices Belize, British Virgin Islands, Geneva,
Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg
Mario Fabrega Llinas
Partner
Email mariolf@arifa.com
Mario Fabrega Llinas graduated from the Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia in 1988 with an LLB. He became licensed to practise law in Panama in 1989, and joined Arias Fabrega & Fabrega as an associate in the same year.In 1991 Mr Fabrega was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and in 1992 he obtained an LLM from the University of Houston. He published an edition of the Judicial Code of the Republic of Panama with titles, indexes and cross-references in 1999, and in 2002 published the second edition. In 2000 Mr Fabrega became partner of Arias Fabrega & Fabrega, where his practice concentrates on civil, commercial, labour, administrative and constitutional litigation. In 2004 Mr Fabrega was included in the list of arbitrators of the Panamanian Chamber of Commerce and since then he has been active as an arbitrator in commercial disputes.
Arcia Storace Fuentes Medina Abogados
Cerrito 532, piso 8, CP 11,000,
Montevideo, Uruguay
Tel+598 2 915 21 55
Web www.asfmabogados.com/asfm/index.html
Sebastián Arcia
Partner
Email sarcia@asfmabogados.com
Sebastián Arcia is a lawyer and obtained a PhD in law and social sciences in 1994. He also holds an LLM in tax law from the University of Montevideo. He has been a partner of Arcia Storace Fuentes Medina Abogados since October 2007. He was a senior manager responsible for the legal department of PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2000 to 2007. He is a professor of tax law at the law schools of the Republic University, the University of Montevideo and the Catholic University.He is a member of the International Fiscal Association and of the board of the Uruguayan Tax Studies Institute. He has written books and articles on his specialist areas.
His main areas of practice are tax law, commercial law, corporate law, contractual law, mergers and acquisitions and trusts.
Juan Andrés Fuentes
Partner
Email afuentes@asfmabogados.com
Juan Andrés Fuentes graduated as a lawyer from the University of Uruguay School of Law in December 1997 and obtained an LLM in commercial law from the University of Montevideo (1999-2000, graduated April 2001). He has been a partner of Arcia Storace Fuentes Medina Abogados since October 2007. He was previously a member of Shaw, Faget & Asoc (a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers) from 1997 to 2007. From 2001 to 2003 he was assistant professor of commercial law at the law school of the Republic University.
His main areas of practice are commercial law, corporate law, contract law, mergers and acquisitions and trusts.
Andrea Medina
Partner
Email amedina@asfmabogados.com
Andrea Medina graduated from the University of Uruguay School of Law in 1992. He obtained a PhD in law and social sciences in May 1999 and an LLM in commercial law from the University of Montevideo (2000–2001). He has been a partner of Arcia Storace Fuentes Medina Abogados since October 2007. He was previously a member of Shaw, Faget & Asoc (a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers) from 1997 to 2007. From 2002 to 2003 he was assistant professor of commercial law at the law school of the Republic University.
His main areas of practice are commercial law, corporate law, contract law, mergers and acquisitions and trusts.
Crawford House, 50 Cedar Avenue,
Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda
Tel+1 441 295 6500 Fax +1 441 295 6566
Web www.aswlaw.com
Kehinde AL George
Partner
Email kehinde.george@aswlaw.com
Kehinde AL George is a partner and head of insolvency and corporate rescue at Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki. She moved to Bermuda in 1995, having previously practised as a corporate/commercial lawyer in London for six years and having spent four years at the UK Department of Trade and Industry, advising on insolvency law and policy. In Bermuda, Ms George has acted for liquidators, provisional liquidators and creditors in numerous local and cross-border insolvencies and restructurings, including Bermuda Fireand Marine Insurance Company Ltd, Manhattan Investment Fund Ltd, Global Crossing Ltd and Loral Space and Communications Ltd.
Ms George received her LLB with honours from King’s College, University of London in 1982 and completed her UK solicitor finals in 1983. She was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1985 and was called to the Bermuda Bar in 1996. She is a member of the Bermuda Bar Association, IAIR, INSOL and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
One Logan Square, 130 North 18th Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19103-6998 United States
Tel+1 215 569 5500 Fax +1 215 569 5555
Web www.blankrome.com
Other Offices Boca Raton, Cherry Hill, Cincinnati,
Hong Kong, New York, Princeton,Washington DC, Wilmington
Bonnie Glantz Fatell
Partner
Email fatell@BlankRome.com
Bonnie Glantz Fatell chairs Blank Rome’s business restructuring and bankruptcy practice. She is also a member of the firm’s mortgage industry team and offers extensive experience related to the sub-prime market. For 25 years Ms Fatell has concentrated her practice on bankruptcy reorganisations, out-ofcourt restructurings and related litigation. She represents parties in all aspects of bankruptcy, including creditors’ committees, debtors, institutional lenders, trade creditors, landlords, real estate and equipment lessors and asset purchasers.
Ms Fatell is recognised by Chambers USAas a leading bankruptcy lawyer in both Delaware and Pennsylvania, and is frequently recognised in The Deal as a top bankruptcy attorney. Ms Fatell was only the second practising Delaware attorney to become a member of the prestigious American College of Bankruptcy. Ms Fatell frequently lectures and writes on issues involving corporate restructuring and bankruptcy.
Michael B Schaedle
Partner
Email schaedle@BlankRome.com
Michael B Schaedle is a partner in Blank Rome’s business restructuring and bankruptcy practice. He has been identified in The Deal as a nationally prominent bankruptcy practitioner. As primary engagement counsel to the creditors’ committee in the Nobex Chapter 11 in Delaware, Mr Schaedle led negotiations over the post-Bankruptcy Reform Act incentive programme in that case, which yielded up the first decision on Section 503(c) of the Bankruptcy Code after the passage of the act. He frequently represents creditors’ committees, purchasers, lenders, responsible persons and debtors in complex Chapter 11 cases, including TWA, Barney’s, Cajun Electric Power Cooperative, Mortgage Lenders Network, Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation. He sits on the advisory board for the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Mid-Atlantic Conference and is course instructor on bankruptcy topics at Villanova Law School.
Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP
Seven Times Square, New York, NY 10036,
United States
Tel+1 212 209 4800 Fax +1 212 209 4801
One Financial Centre, Boston, MA 02111,
United States
Tel+1 617 856 8200 Fax +1 617 856 8201
Web www.brownrudnick.com
Other Offices Boston, Dublin, Hartford, London,
Washington DC
Ronald S Borod
Partner, New York
Email rborod@brownrudnick.com
Ronald S Borod is chair of the firm’s structured finance group and oversees the firm’s securitisation and structured finance practice. Mr Borod is also a member of the firm’s structured resolution group and climate and energy group. Mr Borod has represented issuers and underwriters in a variety of asset-backed securities transactions and is a recognised leader in structuring innovative formats for securitising new asset classes. For example, Mr Borod developed the national programme to securitise $14 billion in legal fees resulting from the settlement of the multi-state litigation against the tobacco industry in the United States, and has been
a leading practitioner and thought leader in the securitisation of intellectual property and in whole business securitisation. Mr Borod is currently working with his colleagues at Brown Rudnick on structures for securitising wind power assets, ethanol facilities, outsourcing revenues and carbon emissions credits.
Steven B Levine
Partner
Email slevine@brownrudnick.com
Steven B Levine focuses on the representation of senior and Tranche B lenders, hedge funds and other creditors in the documentation, structuring and recovery of loans, leases, taxable and tax- exempt bond offerings, securitisations and other complex financings. During over 20 years’ experience in the bankruptcy area, he has represented secured and unsecured creditors, official and unofficial committees, debtors and trustees. He has developed particular expertise in issues confronting secured creditors and equipment lessors, including debtor-in-possession financing, cash collateral and stay litigation, and plan confirmation challenges.
In recent years, a significant portion of Mr Levine’s practice has involved specialty lending particularly to retailers, including the recovery of loans in or out of bankruptcy proceedings. As part of the firm’s structured resolution group, Mr Levine helps to analyse the issues surrounding the sub- prime market collapse in an effort to help clients identify and execute on arbitrage and repackaging strategies.
Madeleine ML Tan
Partner, New York
Email mtan@brownrudnick.com
Madeleine Tan is a partner in the structured finance group and a member of the climate and energy group. She has extensive financial expertise in the areas of project finance, equity investment, capital markets debt offerings, asset-backed, tax- advantaged and structured finance transactions including securitisation, derivatives and leveraged leasing. She has acted as adviser and counsel to equity investors, lenders, project developers, alternative investment funds, special situation funds, issuers and underwriters.
Most recently, Ms. Tan has advised corporations, financial institutions, specialised funds and the investment and trading communities on the financing of alternative energy projects, and derivatives and structured products relating to EU emissions allowances as well as certified emission reductions under the Kyoto Protocol’s CDM regime. She also practices in the area of whole business securitisation.
Eugene Solomonov
Associate
Email esolomonov@brownrudnick.com
Eugene Solomonov represents clients in a wide variety of general corporate and financial matters, including the domestic and offshore securitisation of various types of financial asset, company formation, secured and unsecured lending, credit facility formation and structuring of leasing agreements. Mr Solomonov has represented financial institutions and equity investors in public and private issuances of asset-backed securities, such as securities backed by aircraft equipment and leases, contract receivables and energy equipment. He also has significant experience representing sponsors, issuers, underwriters, servicers and other capital market participants in public offerings and private placements of mortgage pass-through and debt securities, involving various types of structure and credit support, and has assisted sellers, purchasers and servicers in connection with whole loan mortgage transactions.
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
One World Financial Centre, New York,
NY 10281, United States
Tel+1 212 504 6000 Fax +1 212 504 6666
Web www.cwt.com
Other Offices Beijing, Charlotte, London,
Washington DC
Deryck A Palmer
Partner
Email deryck.palmer@cwt.com
Deryck A Palmer concentrates his practice on the representation of debtors as well as creditors under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, and has handled a wide variety of work-out, corporate restructuring and bankruptcy matters. Recognised by Turnarounds and Workouts as one of the nation’s 12 Outstanding Bankruptcy Lawyers, Mr Palmer lectures at many of the major law schools nationwide and is an adjunct professor of law, teaching advanced topics in bankruptcy and corporate reorganisation at New York Law School. Mr Palmer is also a member of the Bureau of National Affairs Advisory Board for the Bankruptcy Law Reporter. Mr Palmer received his BA from Syracuse University and his JD from the University of Michigan. He recently received the Chancellor’s Citation for Exceptional Achievement from Syracuse University, which recognises outstanding contributions in scholarship, research, teaching and creative work.
Cole Schotz Meisel Forman & Leonard PA
1000 N West Street, Suite 1200,Wilmington,
DE 19801, United States
Tel+1 302 652 3131 Fax +1 302 652 3117
Web www.coleschotz.com
Other Offices Baltimore, Hackensack, New York
Norman L Pernick
Member
Email npernick@coleschotz.com
Norman Pernick has been lead counsel in major Chapter 11 cases, including Fedders Corporation and Owens Corning. Mr Pernick represents debtors, creditors’ committees, secured and unsecured creditors and trustees in many aspects of bankruptcy and work-outs. In March 2008 he became a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy as a member of its 19th class.
Mr Pernick has been named one of America’s leading lawyers in bankruptcy by Chambers USA inAmerica’s Leading Lawyers for Business every year since 2003. He is frequently asked to speak and write on issues affecting the bankruptcy community and is the author of the Bankruptcy Deadline Checklist, a primer of bankruptcy deadlines published by the American Bar Association Business Law Section. He graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University and received his JD with honours from George Washington University Law School.
Michael F Bonkowski
Member
Email mbonkowski@coleschotz.com
Michael Bonkowski has tried cases in all courts in Delaware and appeared in federal district courts across the mid-Atlantic region. Mr Bonkowski focuses his practice on complex corporate and business litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery. He has participated in some of the landmark corporate cases in Delaware history, including Smith v Van Gorkom and Weinberger v UOP. He has also appeared before the Delaware Supreme Court, with two recent successful appearances beforethe courten banc inBF Rich Co, Inc v Gray and Vandeleigh Industries, LLC v Storage Partners of Kirkwood, LLC. Mr Bonkowski also served as lead counsel for Cavalier Telephone Mid- Atlantic in related litigation in five states that arose under the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Mr Bonkowski received his BA from Columbia University and earned his JD from Temple University James E Beasley School of Law.
J Kate Stickles
Member
Email kstickles@coleschotz.com
J Kate Stickles represents debtors, unsecured creditors’ committees, equity committees, trustees, and secured and unsecured creditors in complex Chapter 11 reorganisation and liquidation cases. She also represents reorganised debtors, committees and plan administrators and trustees in bankruptcy-related litigation, including preference actions and fraudulent conveyance actions. Significant representations have included Owens Corning, Fruit of the Loom, Inc, Cambridge Industries Holdings, Inc and Devon Mobile Communications, LP.
Ms Stickles is secretary of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation Delaware Network, co-chair of the CLE/Publications Committee of the Delaware State Bar Association Bankruptcy Section and a member of the Delaware Bankruptcy Inn of Court. She also contributes to the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal. Ms Stickles received her BAcum laude from Western Maryland College and earned her JD from Temple University James E Beasley School of Law.
Patrick J Reilley
Associate
Email preilley@coleschotz.com
Patrick Reilley focuses his practice on corporate reorganisations, creditors’ rights issues and litigation arising in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. Mr Reilley has represented debtors, creditors’ committees, secured and unsecured creditors, landlords, plan administrators and trustees, and parties in adversary proceedings.
Mr Reilley is a member of the Delaware Bankruptcy Inn of Court and a contributing editor to the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal. He received his BA from Bucknell University and earned his JD from Boston University School of Law.
Worldwide Plaza, 825 Eighth Avenue, New York,
New York 10019, United States
Tel+1 212 474 1000 Fax +1 212 474 3700
Web www.cravath.com
Other Offices London
Richard Levin
Partner
Email rlevin@cravath.com
Richard Levin is a partner in Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP’s restructuring department. His practice spans all aspects of bankruptcy and reorganisation, including debtor, creditor, committee, acquirer and trustee representations, and both domestic and international matters. Mr Levin also served as counsel to a House Judiciary Committee sub-committee, where he was one of 1978 Bankruptcy Code’s primary authors.
Mr Levin is vice chairman of the National Bankruptcy Conference and a director and fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He was a Harvard Law School lecturer and is on the Federal Judicial Center’s Bankruptcy Judge Workshops Faculty. He has been recognised as a leading bankruptcy law practitioner in The Best Lawyers in America,Lawdragon magazine,Chambers USA 2007: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The International Who’s Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers and the K&A Restructuring Register. Mr Levin received a Massachusetts Institute of Technology SB in 1972 and a Yale Law School JD in 1975.
Robert Trust
Senior associate
Email rtrust@cravath.com
Robert Trust is a senior associate in Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP’s restructuring department. Mr Trust regularly advises clients in connection with out-ofcourt workouts, Chapter 11 cases and the structuring of corporate and credit transactions. His work has focused primarily on representing banks and other financial institutions in the restructuring of large syndicated credit facilities extended to borrowers in a wide variety of businesses and industries. His practice has also included representation of lenders in connection with the making of new loans under post-petition financing arrangements and Chapter 11 exit facilities. Mr Trust has represented acquirers of distressed companies, as well as companies in financial distress. Mr Trust joined Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP in 2007. He received his BAsumma cum laude from Duke University in 1995 and his JD from Duke University Law School in 1998.
450 Lexington Avenue, New York,
NY 10017, United States
Tel+1 212 450 4000 Fax +1 212 450 3800
Web www.davispolk.com
Other Offices Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London,
Madrid, Menlo Park, Paris,Tokyo,Washington
Marshall S Huebner
Partner
Email marshall.huebner@dpw.com
Marshall S Huebner is co-head of the insolvency and restructuring group at Davis Polk & Wardwell. He has worked on many domestic and international restructurings and bankruptcies, representing both financial institutions and corporate entities. He has represented agent banks in several of the largest and most complex US debtor-in-possession financings and recently acted as lead bankruptcy and restructuring counsel to Delta Air Lines in one of the largest and most successful restructurings in US history. Other recent major bankruptcy proceedings and restructurings in which Mr Huebner had a major role include Adelphia Communications, Citation, Collins & Aikman, Enron, Loral, Polaroid, Magellan Health Services, Ntelos and Crown Paper.
Mr Huebner chaired the Courts Sub-committee of the Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganisation of the New York City Bar Association and is the author of numerous articles on bankruptcy law. He has been a guest lecturer at Yale Law School and Columbia Law School and is on the faculty of the New York University Advanced Bankruptcy Workshop and the board of advisers of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. At present he is writing Restructuring the Troubled Company, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Mr Huebner attended Princeton University (where he was awarded Fulbright and Rotary scholarships) and Yale Law School (where he was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship).
Benjamin A Tisdell
Associate
Email benjamin.tisdell@dpw.com
Benjamin A Tisdell is an associate in the firm’s insolvency and restructuring group. He was a core member of the legal team representing Delta Air Lines during its Chapter 11 proceedings. He has also represented secured lenders and other parties in other major corporate restructurings and Chapter 11 cases. Mr Tisdell attended the University of Virginia and holds a law degree from the Northwestern University School of Law and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.
30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112-2200,
United States
Tel+1 212 698 3500 Fax +1 212 698 3599
Web www.dechert.com
Other Offices Boston, Brussels, Charlotte, Frankfurt,
Harrisburg, Hartford, London, Luxembourg, Munich,
Newport Beach, Palo Alto, Paris, Philadelphia, Princeton,
San Francisco, Washington, DC
Joel H Levitin
Partner
Email joel.levitin@dechert.com
Joel H Levitin chairs Dechert’s international bankruptcy/corporate recovery and insolvency group. He focuses primarily on representing troubled companies and acquirers of such companies. Mr Levitin is listed as a recommended lawyer byGlobal Counsel 3000 for restructuring and insolvency in New York and in 2001 was selected as one of Turnarounds & Workouts Magazine’s eight Outstanding Bankruptcy Lawyers 40 and Under.
Mr Levitin taught a law school Chapter 11 course and frequently writes and speaks on insolvency issues. He has also served as an arbitrator. In addition, he serves on the board and chairs a committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and is a member of the Commercial Law League and the Turnaround Management Association. He previously served on the board of the American Bankruptcy Board of Certification. Mr Levitin is an honours graduate of Duke University and the University of Chicago Law School. He served as a law clerk to a US district judge.
Stephen J Gordon
Counsel
Email stephen.gordon@dechert.com
Stephen Gordon is counsel in the corporate recovery and insolvency group. His practice concentrates on the representation of debtors and creditors in bankruptcy proceedings and other restructuring situations. He has extensive experience in corporate Chapter 11 cases, especially in the confirmation of reorganisation plans, and in advising on securitisations, real estate and related financial transactions. He has also represented acquirers of distressed companies, Chapter 11 trustees, indenture trustees and creditors’ committees in commercial Chapter 11 cases throughout the United States. Mr Gordon co-wrote “What Duty Is Owed in the Vicinity of Insolvency?”, published in theNew York Law Journal (February 19 2002).
Mr Gordon is a graduate of Swarthmore College (BA, 1990, with distinction in economics) and New York University School of Law (JD, 1993).
Richard A Stieglitz Jr
Associate
Email richard.stieglitz@dechert.com
Richard A Stieglitz Jr is an associate in the corporate recovery and insolvency group. He is a graduate of Hamilton College (BA, magna cum laude, mathematical department honours, 2000) and Washington University School of Law (JD, 2003).
203 North La Salle Street, Suite 1900,
Chicago IL 60601 1293, United States
Tel+1 312 368 4000 Fax +1 312 236 7516
Web www.dlapiper.com
DLA Piper has 64 offices in 25 countries, including
offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong
Kong, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Rome,
Tokyo and Washington DC
William Choslovsky
Partner
Email william.choslovsky@dlapiper.com
William Choslovsky is a partner in DLA Piper’s Chicago office, where he principally practises bankruptcy law, representing debtors, creditors and other interested parties in bankruptcy cases and complex out-of-court work-outs. He has experience
working on some of the largest bankruptcies in recent US history, including major steel companies and cases with asset sales totalling more than $1 billion. He is also a litigator and has experience representing developers on real estate matters. A Harvard Law School graduate who clerked for two judges, Mr Choslovsky is AV Peer Review Rated, which is Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer recognition for ethical standards and legal ability
Eric Walker
Associate
Email eric.walker@dlapiper.com
Eric Walker is an associate in DLA Piper’s Chicago office who concentrates his practice on financial restructuring and bankruptcy, with experience representing creditors, Chapter 7 trustees and debtors in bankruptcy, as well as emerging companies, real estate investment trusts and lenders in out-of-court restructurings. A graduate of the University of Connecticut’s College of Law, Mr Walker served as judicial extern for the Honourable Lorraine Murphy Weil of the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut. Mr Walker also has prior experience as a financial analyst with International Business Machines.
Estudio Alegria Buey Fernández Fissore & Montemerlo
Avenue Santa Fe 1621, 4th, 5th and 6th Floors,
Buenos Aires C1060ABC, Argentina
Tel+54 11 4811 6060 Fax +54 11 4812 6245
Web www.estudioabffm.com.ar
Gabriel H Fissore
Partner
Email gfissore@estudioabffm.com.ar
Gabriel Fissore joined the firm in 1984 and was made a partner in 2000. Between 1992 and 1994 he practised as a lawyer with the Inter-American Investment Corporation in Washington DC, where he was involved in several investment and loan projects for Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr Fissore graduated from the University of Buenos Aires Law School in 1984, where he was awarded the 1985 summa cum laude prize and an honours diploma. In 1992 he received his LLM from Harvard Law School. He is a full professor at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, where he teaches courses on bankruptcy and insolvency law and an introduction to legal systems. He is also assistant professor of property law at the Universidad del Salvador. His practice areas include litigation, insolvency, creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, commercial law, business law, real estate and secured transactions.
Rodrigo Alegria
Partner
Email ralegria@estudioabffm.com.ar
Rodrigo Alegria worked for the firm from 1998 to May 2001, and then became a partner in 2004. Between 2002 and 2004 he worked in the Chicago office of US firm Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP. In 1998 he worked at Buenos Aires Commercial Court No 13. Mr Alegria graduated from the Universidad Católica Argentina Law School in 1999. In 2002 he received an LLM with honours from Northwestern University, Chicago and a Certificate in Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He is a full professor of bankruptcy and insolvency law at the Universidad del CEMA and a teaching assistant at the University of Buenos Aires Law School, teaching systemic crises and corporate restructuring. His practice areas include financial restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and banking law, litigation, alternative dispute resolution and civil and business contracts.
402 West Broadway Suite 2100, San Diego,
CA 92101-3542, United States
Tel+1 619 234 6655 Fax +1 619 234 3510
Web www.foley.com
Other Offices Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Jacksonville,
Los Angeles, Madison, Miami, Milwaukee, New York,
Orlando, Palo Alto, San Francisco,Tampa,Washington DC
Victor A Vilaplana
Of counsel
Email vavilaplana@foley.com
Victor A Vilaplana is of counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP. A member of the firm’s business reorganisations practice and the international business industry team, Mr Vilaplana focuses his practice on handling insolvency matters, particularly complicated business bankruptcies and international transactions. Most recently, Mr Vilaplana represented the parishes in the Chapter 11 of the San Diego Catholic Diocese, the shareholders of Metabolife, Inc, a manufacturer of ephedra diet supplements in the company’s Chapter 11 case, and the creditors’ committee in the Chapter 11 case of TriNational Development, a real estate developer with its principal assets in Mexico.
Mr Vilaplana is a graduate of Stanford University (JD 1973), George Washington University (MA with highest honours 1970) and San Diego State University (BA with honours 1968). He is a frequent lecturer for the California Continuing Education of the Bar, Practicing Law Institute, and Law Education Institute on the topics of insolvency, the Uniform Commercial Code and various US/Mexico-related issues.
Mr Vilaplana is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Law Institute and the State Bar of California. He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a delegate to United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on various international insolvency projects, and has been listed inThe Best Lawyers in America.
250 Yonge Street, Suite 2400,Toronto,
Ontario, M5B 2M6, Canada
Tel+1 416 979 2211 Fax +1 416 979 1234
Web www.goodmans.ca
Other Offices Vancouver
David B Bish
Partner
Email dbish@goodmans.ca
David Bish is a partner with the corporate restructuring group and practises in the areas of bankruptcy, insolvency and reorganisation law. Mr Bish’s practice focuses on all aspects of bankruptcy, proposals, winding-ups, liquidations, reorganisations, restructurings and security enforcement. He also regularly participates in commercial financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions. He acts for a wide range of parties as bankruptcy and insolvency counsel, including leading financial institutions, accounting firms and corporations.
Mr Bish has been identified as a leading practitioner of insolvency and restructuring law in the Chambers Global Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers. He has authored numerous articles and contributed to publications by INSOL International and the World Bank, and he speaks regularly at conferences on insolvency and restructuring law. Since 2002 he has been a lecturer at the National Insolvency Qualification Programme, administered by the Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals.
77 West Wacker Drive, Suite 2500, Chicago,
IL 60601, United States
Tel+1 312 456 8400 Fax +1 312 456 8435
MetLife Building, 200 Park Avenue, New York,
NY 10166, United States
Tel+1 212 801 9200 Fax +1 212 801 6400
Web www.gtlaw.com
Other Offices Albany, Amsterdam, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Delaware, Denver, Fort Lauderdale,
Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New Jersey,
Orange County, Orlando, Palm Beach County North, Palm Beach County South, Philadelphia, Phoenix,
Sacramento, Shanghai, Silicon Valley,Tallahassee,Tampa,
Tysons Corner,Washington DC, Zurich
Keith J Shapiro
Partner, Chicago
Email shapirok@gtlaw.com
Keith J Shapiro is co-chair of Greenberg Traurig’s national business reorganisation and bankruptcy practice. Mr Shapiro appears in corporate bankruptcy matters and work-outs worldwide, representing troubled companies, financial institutions, creditors’ committees and asset purchasers. He has played central roles in the bankruptcies of Conseco Finance Corp, Kmart Corporation, ICO Global Communications, United Airlines, Fruit of the Loom and many others. Mr Shapiro assisted in drafting the healthcare bankruptcy provisions of the 2005 amendments to the Bankruptcy Code and testified before the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Sub-committee of Administrative Oversight and the Court concerning the amendments. He was chairman of the board and president of the American Bankruptcy Institute and a member of the board of directors of INSOL International. A fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, Mr Shapiro is listed in Chambers & Partners USA Guide, Best Lawyers in America and Crain’s Chicago Business Who’s Who in Law.
Nancy A Peterman
Partner, Chicago
Email petermann@gtlaw.com
Nancy A Peterman is chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Chicago business reorganisation and bankruptcy department and concentrates her practice on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights law.She has been involved in numerous workouts and bankruptcies
and has a wide range of experience representing secured creditors, committees, debtors and purchasers of assets. Ms Peterman assisted in drafting the healthcare bankruptcy provisions of the 2005 amendments to the Bankruptcy Code. She serves as a contributing editor for the “Intensive Care” column in the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal and was assistant editor and a contributing author for the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Healthcare Insolvency Manual. She is also a member of the board of directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute. A recognised leader in her field, Ms Peterman is listed inChambers & Partners USA Guide, Best Lawyers in America and is certified as a business bankruptcy lawyer by the American Board of Certification.
David Y Wolnerman
Associate, New York
Email wolnermand@gtlaw.com
David Y Wolnerman is an associate in Greenberg Traurig’s New York office. He focuses his practice on Chapter 11 debtors’ and creditors’ rights, workouts and restructurings. He represents debtors, debtors in possession, lenders, vendors and other creditors, fiduciaries, asset purchasers, investors and other parties in and out of court. Mr Wolnerman earned his law degree cum laude from Brooklyn Law School and his undergraduate degree cum laude from City University of New York at Brooklyn College.
Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC
3500 National City Tower, 101 South Fifth
Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202-3140,
United States
Tel+502 589 4200 Fax +1 502 5873695
Suite 1100, 300 West Vine Street, Lexington,
Kentucky 40507-1622, United States
Tel+1 859 231 8500 Fax +1 859 255 2742
Web www.gdm.com
Other Offices Cincinnati, Covington, Frankfort, Nashville
John Ames
President of the American Bankruptcy Institute and
member, Louisville
Email jwa@gdm.com
John Ames is president of the American Bankruptcy Institute. A member of Greenebaum Doll and McDonald PLLC in Louisville, Kentucky and co-chair of its bankruptcy and work-out group, Mr Ames is also certified in the first class as a business bankruptcy specialist and is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Louisville and attended Hebrew University and the University of Thessaloniki.
Chip Bowles
Member, Louisville
Email crb@gdm.com
Chip Bowles is a member of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC, practising primarily in the area of bankruptcy law. Mr Bowles is a director of the American Bankruptcy Institute and chair of its Chapter 11 Professional Fee Study, as well as coeditor of theABI Journal ethics column. Mr Bowles lectures and writes extensively on the topic of bankruptcy law.
Gregory R Schaaf
Member, Lexington
Email grs@gdm.com
Gregory R Schaaf is a member of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC in Lexington, Kentucky and is co-chair of the firm’s bankruptcy and work-out group. Mr Schaaf is certified as a business bankruptcy law specialist and concentrates his practice on commercial reorganizations and transactional matters. He received a BB degree in accounting and a BS degree in law enforcement administration from Western Illinois University.Mr Schaaf graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he was order of the coif.
488 Madison Ave, New York NY 10022,
United States
Tel+1 212 478 7320 Fax +1 212 478 7400
Web www.hahnhessen.com
Mark S Indelicato
Partner
Email mindelicato@hahnhessen.com
Mark S Indelicato is a cum laude graduate of the Stern School of Business of New York University. He received his JD degree from Fordham Law School and served as a law clerk to bankruptcy judge Prudence Carter Beatty of the Southern District of New York. Since joining Hahn & Hessen LLP upon his graduation from law school, he has
specialised in the practice of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. In addition to representing committees, he also represents trustees, purchasers of assets, secured lenders and the occasional debtor. He is currently vice president of chapter relations of the Turnaround Management Association and a member of the executive committee. He was also past chairman and president of the New York chapter of the Turnaround Management Association. He frequently lectures and writes on bankruptcy-related matters.
Mark T Power
Partner
Email mpower@hahnhessen.com
Mark T Power is a cum laude graduate of Boston College Law School. He received his undergraduate degree in business administration–finance from George Washington University. He has extensive experience in all aspects of financial restructuring and insolvency issues. In addition to representing creditors’ committees, he has represented debtors, noteholders, lenders and secured creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, as well as acquirers of and investors in troubled, distressed and bankrupt companies. His practice includes counselling management and creditors with respect to insolvency matters and crisis management. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He is also a member of the American Bar Association’s subcommittee on bankruptcy aspects of business transactions, and is a member of the bankruptcy committees of the Turnaround Management Association and the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring. Mr Power lectures and writes frequently on restructuring and bankruptcy issues.
PO Box 71, Road Town,Tortola,
British Virgin Islands
Tel+1 284 494 2233 Fax +1 284 494 3547
Web www.harneys.com
Other Offices Anguilla, Hong Kong, London
Christopher Young
Partner
Email christopher.young@harneys.com
Christopher Young is a partner in Harney Westwood & Riegels, the largest and longest established law firm in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). He specialises in insolvency and restructuring and international company and commercial litigation. Mr Young regularly appears as an advocate beforethe High Court of the British Virgin Islands. He is recommended in the Chambers and Partners Global Guide as a leading lawyer in his field. Mr Young wrote the BVI chapter of Cross-Border Insolvency: A Commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law (ed Look Chan Ho (Freshfields), Globe Business Publishing, 2006). Mr Young was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1988 and practised as a barrister for 10 years before moving to a leading firm in the Cayman Islands, where he practised for two years. Mr Young subsequently joined Harney Westwood & Riegels in the BVI. He has extensive experience of cross-border insolvency work, particularly in the offshore environment.
Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin
Three Embarcadero Centre, 7th Floor,
San Francisco CA 94111 4024, United States
Tel+1 415 434 1600 Fax +1 415 217 5910
Web www.howardrice.com
Jeffrey L Schaffer
Director
Email jschaffer@howardrice.com
Jeffrey L Schaffer is a director and member of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco. He specialises in bankruptcy and commercial finance, with a practice that encompasses both out-of-court and Chapter 11 restructurings. He also represents institutional lenders and corporate borrowers in a wide range of financing transactions, including acquisition financing, conventional revolving and term loan credit facilities, public and private senior and subordinated debt issuances, debtor-in-possession financing and structured finance transactions. Mr Schaffer has lectured and written materials on a variety of bankruptcy and commercial law topics. He is a former chair of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the California State Bar Business Law Section.
Gary M Kaplan
Director
Email gkaplan@howardrice.com
Gary M Kaplan is a director and member of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco. He has extensive experience
representing debtors, trustees, creditors’ committees and secured and unsecured creditors in Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings and creditors’ rights matters. Mr Kaplan’s recent representations include serving as co-lead counsel for the debtors in the Chapter 11 cases of The Pacific Lumber Company and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (including representation before the US Supreme Court in Travelers Cas & Sur Co v Pac Gas & Elec Co, 127 S Ct 1199 (2007)). Mr Kaplan is board certified in business bankruptcy law by the American Board of Certification and is recommended in the Global Counsel Restructuring & Insolvency Handbook. He is a frequent speaker and author on bankruptcy law issues.
2-3 Philpot Lane, London EC3M 8AQ,
United Kingdom
Tel+44 20 7929 6679 Fax +44 20 7929 6678
Robert O Sanderson
President of INSOL International
Senior partner, KPMG LLP
Email bsanderson@kpmg.ca
Robert O Sanderson is currently the president of INSOL International and a senior partner in KPMG LLP’s transactions advisory services group. His practice focuses on large multinational corporate transactions in the financial services sector, with particular emphasis on complex cross-border matters including deposit-taking institutions, life and property and casualty insurance, real estate development and a wide variety of funds. He is also a frequent adviser to boards of directors and prudential regulators on transaction and restructuring matters. Mr Sanderson has provided leadership in a number of significant matters having a value of over $10 billion, including structuring both acquisitions and divestitures. He has led the teams involved with Telesystem International Wireless Inc, Confederation Life Insurance Company, Sovereign Life Insurance Company,Reliance Insurance Company (Canadian branch), Canadian Millers’ Mutual Insurance Company, Central Capital Corporation, Coulter Financial Group of Companies, Challenger Drilling Ltd, Abacus Cities Ltd, Cattermole Timber Co, United Canso Oil & Gas Ltd and Sulpetro Limited.
330 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago IL
60611-7603, United States
Tel+1 312 222 9350 Fax +1 312 527 0484
Web www.jenner.com
Other Offices Dallas, New York,Washington DC
Ronald R Peterson
Partner
Email rpeterson@jenner.com
Ronald R Peterson is a partner in Jenner & Block’s Chicago office and is a member of the firm’s bankruptcy, work-out and corporate reorganisation practice. Mr Peterson has concentrated his practice in the areas of commercial, insolvency and bankruptcy law, focusing primarily on representing debtors, trustees, creditors’ committees, landlords and secured lenders in Chapter 11 cases. He has represented the creditors’ committees in the bankruptcies of major companies such as Anicom Inc and Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc. He has also represented the creditors’ committees in the Chapter 11 cases of major hardware store chains Handy Andy Home Centres, Pay N Pak and Payless Cashways Inc. Mr Peterson was the debtor attorney in the bankruptcy cases of Harrah’s Jazz Company, The Rath Packing Company and Armstrong’s, Inc. In addition, he has acted as both a Chapter 11 and a Chapter 7 trustee over the last 25 years.
Mr Peterson graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973 and is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.
425 Park Avenue, New York,
NY 10022-3598, United States
Tel+1 212 836 8000 Fax +1 212 836 8689
Web www.kayescholer.com
Other Offices Chicago, Frankfurt, London, Los
Angeles, Shanghai,Washington DC,West Palm Beach
Madlyn Gleich Primoff
Partner
Email mprimoff@kayescholer.com
Madlyn Gleich Primoff has more than 20 years’ experience in representing global financial institutions, such as institutional lenders and lending groups, creditors’ committees, private equity funds and hedge funds, in out-of-court work-outs and restructurings, pre-arranged Chapter 11 cases, contentious Chapter 11 cases and
related litigation matters. She has extensive knowledge of the structured products, financial services, retail, telecommunications, airline, energy, manufacturing, entertainment, mining and healthcare industries. Ms Primoff is currently leading several engagements on behalf of financial institution clients. Many of these engagements involve distressed structured products such as structured investment vehicles, collateralised debt obligations, collateralised loan obligations, hedge transactions such as complex swaps, and repurchase agreements.
David M Eskew
Associate
Email deskew@kayescholer.com
David M Eskew is an associate in the insolvency and restructuring group at Kaye Scholer LLP in New York, where he primarily represents secured creditors in bankruptcy cases and out-of-court restructurings. He has experience in cross-border insolvency cases, including cases under Chapter 15 of the US Bankruptcy Code, and has published on the conflict between provisions in the bankruptcy and securities laws. Mr Eskew served as a judicial law clerk to Chief Judge Stuart M Bernstein of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and is currently a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganisation. Mr Eskew holds a JD (cum laude) from St John’s University School of Law and a BA (cum laude) from the College of the Holy Cross.
2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1300, Chicago,
Illinois 60602, United States
Tel+1 312 346 8380 Fax +1 312 346 8434
Web www.lplegal.com
Other Offices Northbrook
Jonathan P Friedland
Partner
Email jfriedland@lplegal.com
Jonathan Friedland is a partner in the Chicago office of Levenfeld Pearlstein LLC. He concentrates his practice on representing financially distressed companies and their various constituents. He also advises healthy companies and their principals on a wide variety of issues as a member of the firm’s private client, trusts and estates and corporate and securities groups.
Mr Friedland represents debtors, committees, secured creditors, purchasers and other parties involved in troubled situations, both in and out of Chapter 11. He has acted as lead counsel to Chapter 11 debtors and committees on numerous occasions. Mr Friedland has litigated and negotiated preference, recharacterisation, fraudulent conveyance, equitable subordination, substantive consolidation and confirmation issues to successful conclusion.
Mr Friedland also regularly advises companies and their boards of directors and senior management with respect to a wide range of issues, including fiduciary duties, asset purchases and a wide array of litigation and structuring issues.
Mr Friedland serves as an adjunct professor of strategic management at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Prior to that, he served as a visiting professor at the Clayton School of Entrepreneurial Law at the University of Tennessee.
Mr Friedland has been repeatedly selected as an Illinois Super Lawyer by Chicago Magazine, is A/V rated and enjoys a 10 rating on the website AVVO. He is a director of the American Bankruptcy Institute and serves as executive editor of the ABI Journal.
Mr Friedland received his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his BS from State University of New York at Albany, magna cum laude, after three years of study.
Mr Friedland is consulting editor of The Americas Restructuring and Insolvency Guide 2008/2009.
Levick Strategic Communications
1900 M Street NW,Washington DC 20036,
United States
Tel+1 202 973 1300 Fax +1 202 973 1301
Web www.levick.com
Richard S Levick, Esq
President and chief executive officer
Email rlevick@levick.com
Richard S Levick, president and chief executive officer of Levick Strategic Communications, represents countries and companies in high-stakes global crises and litigation. His firm has directed the media on the spinach, pet food and toy recalls, Guantanamo Bay, the Catholic Church and major international regulatory matters and multinational mergers. The firm was honoured as crisis agency of the year in 2005. A regular commentator on
television, he was recently named to both the PR News Hall of Fame and the College of Law Practice Management for lifetime achievement. He is the coauthor of the acclaimed Stop the Presses: The Crisis and Litigation PR Desk Reference, which went into a second edition in 2008.
Michael W Robinson
Senior vice president
Email mrobinson@levick.com
Michael W Robinson, senior vice president of Levick Strategic Communications and leader of the firm’s corporate and finance practice, is a trusted counsellor and strategist to global executives, elected officials and financial market leaders. Mr Robinson has been directly involved with the highest-profile business, financial and policy issues of the last 25 years, from Wall Street to the White House to the highest levels of corporate America. One of the country’s leading financial communications experts, Mr Robinson drove the development and articulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) policies and actions across a wide array of issues, including Sarbanes- Oxley, Enron, Worldcom and other high-profile enforcement and policy matters. As the SEC’s public affairs and policy chief under Chairman Harvey Pitt, he personally advised the SEC chairman and the individual commissioners on all external communications.
Larry Smith
Senior vice president
Email lsmith@levick.com
Larry Smith, senior vice president of Levick Strategic Communications and co-manager of the firm’s legal services practice group, is one of the profession’s leading consultants on media strategy as it directly affects the marketing of legal services. Mr Smith is also a leading crisis and litigation communications consultant, working with executives throughout the world on reputation management and brand protection. His many high- profile engagements include the Catholic Church scandal, the Napster litigation and the Rosie O’Donnell Rosie magazine lawsuit. His articles have appeared in publications on three continents and his critically acclaimed books – including Inside/Outside: How Businesses Buy Legal Services and Stop the Presses: The Litigation PR Desk Reference – have been praised by top corporate counsel throughout the United States and the world.
The Courtyard Building, Hastings,
Christ Church, Barbados
Tel+1 246 430 3750
5-7 Sweet Briar Road, St Clair, Port of Spain,
Trinidad, West Indies
Tel+1 868 628 9255
Web www.lexcaribbean.com
Other Offices British Virgin Islands
Garth Patterson
Regional managing partner
Email garth.patterson@bb.lexcaribbean.com
Garth Patterson is the firm’s regional managing partner and is based in the Barbados office. He attended the University of the West Indies, graduating in 1985, and the Norman Manley Law School. Mr Patterson was called to the Bars of Jamaica and Barbados in 1987 and the New York Bar in 1990. He is a member of the Jamaica Bar Association, the Organisation of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations, the Barbados Bar Association, the New York Bar Association and the International Tax Planners Association. His practice areas include corporate and commercial law, property development and conveyancing, civil litigation, capital markets, project finance and insolvency and restructuring.
Stephen A Singh
Country managing partner
Email stephen.singh@tt.lexcaribbean.com
Stephen A Singh is the country managing partner in Trinidad. Mr Singh attended the University of the West Indies and the Hugh Wooding Law School and graduated in 1985 and 1987 respectively. He was called to the Bars of Trinidad and Tobago in 1987; of St Lucia and Guyana in 2002; of Antigua and Barbada in 2003; and of Grenada in 2004. Mr Singh is a member of the Caribbean Law Institute’s Advisory Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution and a member of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Department’s Roster of Experts in the field of crimes against the environment. His practice is largely in the commercial litigation arena (including arbitration), although he also specialises in corporate and commercial law, insolvency and restructuring.
71 South Wacker Drive, Suite 42112A,
South Chicago, IL 60606,
United States
Tel+1 312 782 0600 Fax +1 312 701 7711
Web www.mayerbrown.com
Other Offices Bangkok, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels,
Charlotte, Cologne, Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Hanoi,
Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston, London,
Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, Sao Paulo,
Shanghai, Washington DC
Thomas S Kiriakos
Partner
Email tkiriakos@mayerbrown.com
Thomas S Kiriakos is a partner in Mayer Brown LLP’s restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency practice, primarily representing senior debt parties, securitisation parties, and official and unofficial creditors’ committees in complex out-of-court restructurings and bankruptcy cases, syndicate arrangers and lenders in rescue financings, and acquirers of assets from financially distressed companies, with extensive litigation and appellate experience in bankruptcy matters. His significant representations include: the purchaser in the Section 363 acquisition of New Century’s mortgage loan servicing platform; the official committee of unsecured creditors of the holding company debtors (as co-counsel) in the Conseco, Inc Chapter 11 cases; and the senior lender in the bankruptcy case underlyingBank of America v 203 North LaSalle Street (526 US 434 (1999)). Mr Kiriakos was selected a Leading Lawyer in his field by Chambers USA 2004 to 2007. He is a principal author of Chapter 5: Bankruptcy of Securitization of Financial Assets, 2d ed, Jason HP Kravitt ed, Aspen Law & Bus (1996 and 2007 Supp).
David S Curry
Partner
Email dcurry@mayerbrown.com
David S Curry is a partner in Mayer Brown LLP’s financial restructuring and bankruptcy practice. He received his JD (summa cum laude) from Indiana University Indianapolis School of Law in 1979. He has been a partner with Mayer Brown since 1986. He has extensive experience representing lenders, debtors and other parties involved in all aspects of business insolvency matters, both inside and outside bankruptcy, and involving myriad industries such as airlines, telecommunications, warehouse lending, and real estate. Mr Curry’s significant representations include: aircraft lessors in the reorganisations of Delta, Northwest, and United Air Lines; a securitisation warehouse lender to an affiliate of New Century; and Metal Management, as debtor, in its successful bankruptcy reorganisation. He also advises on securitisation and structured finance matters and is a co-author of Chapter 5: Bankruptcy of Securitization of Financial Assets,Aspen Law & Bus. Mr Curry has also taught bankruptcy law at the DePaul University School of Law and in Macedonia for the American Bar Association’s Central and Eastern European Law Initiative.
Isidora Goyenechea 3477 – Piso 19, Las Condes,
Santiago, 755 0106, Chile
Tel+56 2 472 7000 Fax +56 2 472 7001
Web www.moralesybesa.com
Matías Langevin Correa
Associate
Email mlangevin@moralesybesa.cl
Matías Langevin was admitted to the Chilean Bar in 2004. He graduated magna cum laude from the Universidad de los Andes School of Law (2002) and is now an assistant professor of commercial law there. He is also a candidate for an LLM at Duke University School of Law for 2008 to 2009. He joined Morales & Besa in 2004 and his practice areas include banking, mergers and acquisitions, securities law and project finance. He speaks Spanish and English.
Guillermo Morales Errázuriz
Senior partner
Email gmorales@moralesybesa.cl
Guillermo Morales was admitted to the Chilean Bar in 1985. He graduated summa cum laude from the Universidad de Chile School of Law in 1985, was a Fulbright scholar in 1986 and obtained an LLM from the University of Chicago School of Law in 1987. From 1989 to 1998 he was a professor of economic law at the Universidad de Chile School of Law. He has published several articles in the International Financial Law Review. He has been the honorary legal adviser to the British Embassy, Santiago, Chile since 1997 and is a member of the American-Chilean Chamber of Commerce, the British-Chilean Chamber of Commerce and the Fundacion Probono.
His practice areas include international finance law, mergers and acquisitions, securities law and project finance. He speaks Spanish and English.
Morgan Stanley – Investment Banking Division
1585 Broadway, Floor 35 New York, NY 10036,
United States
Tel+1 212 761 0470 Fax +1 212 507 4430
Web www.morganstanley.com
Morgan Stanley has offices in 32 countries
worldwide, including Argentina, Australia, Canada,
China, Japan, Russia, South Africa,Thailand and the
United States
Motta, Fernandes Rocha Advogados
Avenue Almirante Barroso 52, 5th Floor,
Rio de Janeiro 20031 000, Brazil
Tel+55 21 2533 2200 Fax +55 21 2262 2459
Web www.mfra.com.br
Other Offices Sao Paulo
Otto Eduardo Fonseca Lobo
Partner
Email olobo@mfra.com.br
Otto Eduardo Fonseca Lobo is a partner at Motta, Fernandes Rocha Advogados. His main areas of expertise are corporate law and mergers and acquisitions, oil and gas, project finance, commercial and general litigation and bankruptcy and reorganization. Mr Lobo has acted as counsel to financially troubled businesses and to creditors and is co-handling the Varig Airlines recovery procedure, Brazil’s first major recovery procedure under the new Brazilian Bankruptcy Code. He is a frequent speaker and author of numerous articles, including the International Law Office Insolvency & Restructuring Newsletter, “The New Brazilian Bankruptcy Law and the Varig Case”, Latin Lawyer magazine, Summer 2006; and “The Brazil-Bolivia Dispute over a Gas Purchase Agreement and Morales’ Intentions to Gain Control of Petrobras’ Refineries –The Big Picture and the Possible Outcomes”, Latin Lawyer magazine, Autumn 2006. Mr Lobo is the adviser to the government of El Salvador on bankruptcy matters and has worked on the draft of the new El Salvadorian Bankruptcy Law. He is the Brazilian representative of the International Chamber of Commerce – Commercial Crime Services – Fraudnet, a leading network of law firms specialising in white collar crime. He graduated in 1995 from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Law School and holds an LLM degree from the University of Miami School of Law (1999) and an MBA in oil and gas from COPPE/ UFRJ (2003).
Paulo Penalva Santos
Partner
Email paulopenalva@mfra.com.br
Paulo Penalva Santos is a partner at Motta, Fernandes Rocha Advogados. His main areas of expertise are corporate law, bankruptcy law and civil and commercial litigation. Mr Santos is cohandling the Varig Airlines recovery procedure, Brazil’s first major recovery procedure under the new Brazilian Bankruptcy Code. He has been a Rio de Janeiro state attorney since 1985. He graduated in 1977 from the Faculty of Law of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Mr Santos has a postgraduate degree on corporate law at the Public Law and Political Science Institute of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (1979). He is a lecturer of the School of Magistracy of the State of Rio de Janeiro and the author of several published articles about legal matters. He is a member of the Commercial Law Permanent Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association and a member of the Brazilian Bar Association Council, Rio de Janeiro Section (19982000). Mr Santos is a professor of bankruptcy law for the postgraduate course in economics and corporate law at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation.
Luiz Leonardo Cantidiano
Partner
Email lcantidiano@mfra.com.br
Luiz Leonardo Cantidiano graduated in 1972 from the Faculty of Law of the University of Guanabara State. He was the highest placed candidate in the first public contest for lawyers to join the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) in 1978, but did not assume the post, instead choosing to work in the private sector. He was a member of the board of directors of the Rio de Janeiro Stock Exchange (1984-1987) and of the board of directors of BNDESPAR – BNDES Participações SA (19961998). He was a commissioner of the CVM (19901991) and a member of the Appeals Council of the Brazilian Financial System (1991-1993). He acted as an adviser to the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange during the establishment of the new market and was a member of the body of arbitrators of the New Market Arbitration Chamber (2000-2001). He was also chairman of the CVM from 2002 to 2004. Mr Cantidiano is a member of the superior council of the Brazilian Institute of the Securities Market and
of the council of the Institute Futuro Brasil. He has written many published articles and books on business and corporate law and has lectured on the area in Brazil and abroad. His main areas of expertise are corporate law and securities regulation.
Daniel Kalansky
Partner
Email dkalansky@mfra.com.br
Daniel Kalansky is a lawyer at Motta, Fernandes Rocha Advogados, where he focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, corporate law and debt restructuring. He is the founding member and vice-president of the Brazilian Institute of Business Law. He has assisted clients in projects and deals relating to business acquisition in Brazil, corporate restructuring and joint ventures. Mr Kalansky graduated from Sao Paulo Catholic University School of Law and was an assistant professor of commercial law at that university. His previous work experience includes working for Covington & Burling LLP (New York), Holland & Knight LLP (New York) and Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Attorneys at Law, associated with Baker & McKenzie (Sao Paulo). He has participated in several presentations and seminars on corporate law. Mr Kalansky is the author of several articles published in periodicals and law journals. He is also the author and coordinator of the book Direito Empresarial: Aspectos Atuais de Direito Empresarial Brasileiro e Comparado.
21 East Street, Kingston, Jamaica
Tel+876 922 5860 Fax +876 922 4811
Web www.myersfletcher.com
Peter Goldson
Partner
Email peter.goldson@mfg.com.jm
Peter Goldson holds an LLB (hons) degree from the University of the West Indies which he attended as a University (Open) Scholar and from which he graduated in 1984, and a BCL degree from St John’s College, University of Oxford, which he attended as the Rhodes Scholar for Jamaica for 1985. Mr Goldson’s practice includes corporate financing, pensions, aviation law, intellectual property, banking regulation and commercial litigation.
Mr Goldson is head of the firm’s commercial department and the pensions practice group. He is regarded as one of Jamaica’s leading pensions and IP experts.
Mr Goldson is a lecturer and course director for IP law on the LLM programme at the University of the West Indies, Mona and is the Jamaican and Caribbean secretary to the Rhodes Trust and secretary to the Rhodes Selection Committee.
Gina Phillipps-Black
Partner
Email gina.black@mfg.com.jm
Gina Phillipps-Black holds an LLB (hons) degree from the University of the West Indies and was admitted to practise in 1991. She is a partner and a member of the firm’s commercial department, and is also the partner with responsibility for the firm’s corporate and regulatory compliance department.
Ms Phillipps-Black’s practice involves a wide range of commercial matters, including corporate finance, banking and securities law, security and loan documentation, company law and taxation.
Ms Phillipps-Black sits on the boards of several companies in the manufacturing industry. She is actively involved in the firm’s social and educational outreach programmes, particularly those in inner city communities. She is a member of the Jamaican Bar Association’s Commercial Law Committee.
Shuana-Kaye A Hanson
Associate
Email shuana–kaye.hanson@mfg.com.jm
Shuana-Kaye A Hanson is a graduate of the Norman Manley Law School and holds an LLB (hons) from the University of the West Indies. She was admitted to practise in Jamaica in November 2007 and is a member of the corporate and regulatory compliance department in the firm’s commercial department.
Ms Hanson is a University of the West Indies Open Scholar. During her tenure at the Norman Manley Law School she was a member of the principal’s Honour Roll and the recipient of several awards, including the Norman Manley Memorial Prize for outstanding achievement in academic work, discipline, attitude to society, interest in the Legal Aid Clinic and the Norman Manley Law School (2007).
Ms Hanson is deeply committed to community development, particularly through the performing arts. She is a member of the Jamaican Bar Association’s Social Affairs Committee.
400 South Hope Street, Los Angeles,
CA 90071, United States
Tel+1 213 430 6000 Fax +1 213 430 6407
Web www.omm.com
Other Offices Beijing, Brussels, Century City,
Hong Kong, London, New York, Newport Beach,
San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley,Tokyo,
Washington DC
Evan Jones
Partner
Email ejones@omm.com
Evan Jones is a partner in O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s restructuring group. He has extensive experience with IP and entertainment matters, including representing creditors in several production company restructurings, buyers of technology and entertainment companies and assets out of bankruptcy, creditors committees in technology company restructurings, and film production and distribution companies in all contexts in restructuring cases. He lectures and writes extensively on IP and bankruptcy matters. He is often heavily involved in structuring transactions to minimise and plan for bankruptcy issues. In other matters, he has represented secured creditors in restructurings of large agribusiness companies, coal mining companies, real estate ventures and timber production companies. He has participated in restructuring failed securitisation vehicles, and numerous retail chains, restaurant chains and airlines. He has represented buyers in cases ranging from television studios, entertainment companies and state of the art scrap steel plants.
Ana Acevedo
Associate
Email aacevedo@omm.com
Ana Acevedo is an associate in O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s Los Angeles office and a member of the transactions department. She has experience in financing, securities and restructuring transactions and has been involved in analysing transactions for bankruptcy-related risks. She has participated in the Chapter 11 representations of a sub-prime mortgage lender and a distributor of books as debtors in possession and has been involved in the representation of a secured creditor in the restructuring of a timber company.
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10103-0001,
United States
Tel+1 212 506 5000 Fax +1 212 506 5151
Columbia Centre, 1152 15th Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20005-1706, United States
Tel+1 202 339 8400 Fax +1 202 339 8500
Web www.orrick.com
Other Offices Beijing, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan,
Moscow, Orange County, Pacific Northwest, Paris,
Rome, Sacramento, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon
Valley, Taipei, Tokyo
Roger Frankel
Partner, Washington, DC
Email rfrankel@orrick.com
Roger Frankel, chairman of the creditors’ rights and bankruptcy group, has practised in the areas of business reorganisation and creditors’ rights since 1972, with an emphasis on bringing business and common sense to complex legal transactions. He was recognised in Chambers USA – America’s Leading Business Lawyers (2003-2007). Mr Frankel represents major companies, fiduciaries and financial institutions in debt restructuring and reorganisation matters ranging from out-of-court work-outs to proceedings under state insolvency statutes and the Federal Bankruptcy Code.
Mr Frankel also represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors and committees in Chapter 11 cases, and has extensive experience representing public and private companies in connection with Chapter 11 cases, including clients in the healthcare, real estate, manufacturing, distribution, financial services, energy, telecommunications and service industries. Recently he has counselled clients regarding asbestos matters, including representing a debtor in a successful pre-packaged Chapter 11 case, as well as representing other parties in pending asbestos cases.
Lorraine McGowen
Partner, New York
Email lmcgowen@orrick.com
Lorraine McGowen is a member of the executive committee and a former co-chair of the creditors’ rights and bankruptcy group. She has practised in the areas of creditors’ rights and bankruptcy for more than 20 years, with a particular focus on the enforcement of creditors’ rights and remedies in
out-of-court work-outs and bankruptcy proceedings. Recently Ms McGowen has been involved in the restructuring or resolution of defaults arising under distressed structured investment vehicles, collateralised debt obligations, commercial mortgage-backed securities, residential mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities transactions.
Ms McGowen represents formal and ad hoc creditors’ committees and creditors in complex bankruptcy cases, corporate restructurings and other insolvency matters. She also provides innovative solutions to strategic and financial purchasers of distressed companies. Ms McGowen advises clients on the bankruptcy and commercial law implications of proposed transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, project and structured financings, leveraged leases, securitizations and other transactions.
11 Ave 517, Barrio Amón, PO Box 10246,
1000 San José, Costa Rica
Tel+506 2258 1619 Fax +506 2255 2783
Web www.pachecocoto.com
Humberto Pacheco
Senior partner
Email humberto.pacheco@pachecocoto.com
Humberto Pacheco is an international tax, corporate and estate-planning lawyer who studied at the universities of Oxford, Costa Rica, Miami and Harvard. In the summer of 1984 he was invited by the University of San Diego School of Law to lecture as a scholar in residence on transnational legal problems.
He has been a guest speaker for the International Bar Association, the International Tax Planning Association, the International Fiscal Association, the Practicing Law Institute of New York and the University of Miami, and has written articles for many US and English law journals.
In participating in the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, he has presided over committees at the Business Forums of the Americas.
In his professional practice Mr Pacheco advises prominent US expatriates, wealthy European families and multimillion-euro companies.
Andrea Hulbert
Senior associate
Email andrea.hulbert@pachecocoto.com
Andrea Hulbert is an accomplished litigator with vast experience in the resolution of legal conflicts and out-of-court settlements. Ms Hulbert has been a criminal judge (1995), a judge assistant at the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (1996-2001) and a member of the editorial council at Investigaciones Jurídicas Publishing House (19972003). She is a successful litigator in the areas of civil, commercial and constitutional law.
Ms Hulbert has a licentiate degree in law from theUniversidad de Costa Rica (1994) and has studied public law at the Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica (2000), as well as completing studies in civil process, civil liability, debt collection, consumer protection and unfair competition and arbitration (2001-2007). In 2005 she graduated as an international arbitrator from the Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional and Centro Latinoamericano de Arbitraje Empresarial.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Argentina
Edificio Bouchard Plaza, Bouchard 557,
C1106ABG Ciudad de Buenos Aires,Argentina
Tel+54 11 4850 0000 Fax +54 11 4850 1800
Jorge C Bacher
Partner
Email jorge.bacher@ar.pwc.com
Jorge C Bacher is a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)Argentina. He graduated as a certified public accountant and with an MBA from the University of Buenos Aires and completed his postgraduate studies at IDEA Wharton, University of Western Ontario Canada andFundación Getulio Vargas Brazil. Mr Bacher has over 30 years’ experience with PwC serving clients in a variety of industries, with a main focus on energy and utilities. He is the energy and utilities (E&U) leader and mining leader for South and Central America. He also serves on PwC’s global E&U Council and is responsible for PwC´s advisory practice in Argentina. He has been involved in major privatisation projects, advising both the Argentine government and investors, and in corporate restructuring cases in Argentina in the last 10 years.
Miguel A Eiranova
Director
Email miguel.a.eiranova@ar.pwc.com
Miguel A Eiranova has been director of the corporate finance and recovery practice since 1998. He joined PwC in 1996 and is based in Buenos Aires. He graduated as a certified public accountant from the University of Buenos Aires and carried out postgraduate studies in finance at IAE. He has extensive experience in financial and operational business restructuring working for both debtors and creditors, and provides advice in mergers and acquisitions and transaction services for multinational and Argentine corporations.
Providence House, East Hill Street, Nassau,
Bahamas
Tel+1 242 302 5300
Clifford A Johnson
Partner
Email clifford.a.johnson@bs.pwc.com
CliffordA Johnson, senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bahamas is a general practice partner, whose practice includes insolvency services, including his role as court- appointed liquidator for a number of companies, most of which were engaged in financial services. His most recent assignments include appointment as provisional liquidator of an investment company on the application of the Securities Commission of The Bahamas; and as joint official liquidator of two investment companies where cross-border proceedings were required in the US, Canadian, Cayman Islands and Anguilla courts. In addition to his work in the area of insolvency and also due diligence engagements in transaction services, he is involved in the delivery of audit and other attest services where his clients include, or have included, entities engaged in a wide range of sectors, including banking, investment management, government corporations, insurance, media, retailing, hotel, and real estate.
The Financial Services Centre, Bishop’s Court
Hill, St Michael BB1004, Barbados
Tel+1 246 436 7000 Fax +1 246 427 0676
Brian D Robinson
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers East Caribbean Firm
Email b.robinson@bb.pwc.com
Brian D Robinson is a partner in the advisory services division with specific responsibility for financial advisory assignments, including business recovery and insolvency engagements. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Barbados and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants through Nova Scotia, Canada. He has over 20 years’ experience providing financial advice to a broad range of clients through preparation of feasibility studies, business plans, financial models, business valuations, due diligence and has assisted with raising finance in the tourism, manufacturing, agriculture and real estate sectors.
Significant assignments in insolvency include acting as receiver/manager for a condominium/ hotel in Barbados. In addition, he is currently the court-appointed custodian and liquidator of an offshorebank with operations in Barbados and The Bahamas. Mr Robinson has also been involved in the liquidation of offshore banks in Grenada and recently assisted with a valuation of a conglomerate’s real estate in Antigua for purposes of reorganisation.
Christopher S Sambrano
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers East Caribbean Firm
Email christopher.sambrano@bb.pwc.com
Christopher S Sambrano is a partner in the Eastern Caribbean firm and is the line of service leader for the advisory practice. He is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, London, England and a member of the Society of Management Accountants of Ontario, Canada. He has extensive experience in corporate finance and has advised publicly listed and private corporations as well as governments in the region on significant financial transactions. These have included corporate and debt restructuring, workouts, structuring and raising debt and equity, valuations and due diligence reviews, mergers, acquisitions and divestments.
Significant assignments include leading the development and implementation of a restructuring plan for a large St Lucian
conglomerate; designing and brokering a bond issue for a publicly-listed company in Barbados; acting as lead partner for the relative valuations of an Eastern Caribbean Banking Group for the purposes of their merger; providing advice to a Dominican utility on its options for privatisation and conducting a valuation of the utility to assist its major shareholder, the government, in estimating its fair market value; and conducting a review of the public finance systems of the governments of Montserrat and Anguilla.
PO Box HM 1171, Hamilton, HM EX, Bermuda
Tel+1 441 295 2000 Fax +1 441 295 1242
Web www.pwc.com
Peter CB Mitchell
Senior partner
Email peter.c.mitchell@bm.pwc.com
Peter CB Mitchell is the senior partner responsible for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ financial advisory services at the Bermuda office.
Mr Mitchell is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a licensed UK insolvency practitioner and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Bermuda. He has specialised in insolvency and financial advisory work since 1984. His experience includes numerous insolvency assignments as liquidator and adviser for insurance and reinsurance companies within Bermuda and the global environment. In addition, assignments have included companies involved in all aspects of the financial services industry, shipping, telecommunications and property management.
Av Francisco Matarazzo, 1400 Torre Torino,
05001-903, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tel+55 11 3674 3340 Fax +55 11 36742075
Antonio Cardoso Toro
Partner
Email antonio.toro@br.pwc.com
Antonio Toro has been the partner responsible for business recovery services at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Brazil since 2001. In this role, he has advised debtors, creditors, shareholders and management on several in-court and out-of-court financial and operational restructurings, in industries such as media, telecoms, energy, wood and furniture, textile, food, chemicals and others. His 25-year professional experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers also include mergers and acquisitions, valuations, due diligence, feasibility studies and auditing.
Mr Toro has a degree in accounting from Universidade de São Paulo, and has participated in executive programmes on advanced restructuring at Harvard Business School and INSEAD. He is often invited to lecture at seminars, events and training sessions on corporate restructuring in Brazil.
Mr Toro has been appointed in 2004 as a member of Fórum de Líderes Gazeta Mercantil as a leader in the Brazilian services industry following a poll in the Gazeta Mercantil, one of the most prestigious business newspapers in Brazil.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (BVI) Limited
139 Main Street, Road Town,Tortola, British
Virgin Islands
Tel+1 284 494 4100 Fax +1 284 494 4480
Web www.pwc.com
Nicholas Carter
Managing director
Email nicholas.carter@vg.pwc.com
Nicholas Carter is a licensed insolvency practitioner for the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and a registered liquidator in Australia. He is resident in the BVI and his practice concentrates on insolvency and restructuring assignments concerning offshore companies and funds, as well as forensic investigations and solvent liquidations. Mr Carter has over 22 years of professional legal and accounting experience, 18 years of which has been in specialist insolvency and reconstruction-related matters, particularly receiverships, insolvent and solvent liquidations, general forensic investigations and workouts. Mr Carter is a member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants and CPAAustralia, and is a solicitor admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia. He is a member of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He holds bachelor degrees in law and commerce and an LLM from the University of Queensland, Australia. He has presented on various insolvency topics at national forums in Australia.
145 King Street West,Toronto, Ontario
M5H IV8, Canada
Tel+1 416 869 1130 Fax +1 416 814 3210
Web www.pwc.com/ca/brs
Paul Bishop
Senior vice president
Email paul.bishop@ca.pwc.com
Paul Bishop provides expertise in the formulation and implementation of reorganisation and creditor realisation strategies, administering and restructuring companies and business rescues and turnarounds. With over 20 years’ experience, Mr Bishop has directed major assignments in the capacities of adviser, trustee, monitor and receiver throughout a range of sectors including retail, automotive, construction, transportation, healthcare, manufacturing and hospitality. Having practised in the United Kingdom, Bermuda and Canada, and as a former member of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ International Asia Taskforce, Mr Bishop’s clients derive the unique benefits associated with his in-depth, international perspective on insolvency and restructuring issues.
Mr Bishop holds an honours degree in economics from the University of Sheffield. He is a member of the Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals, and a licensed trustee in bankruptcy and in 2005 was elected to the Insolvency Institute of Canada..
Nigel Meakin
Senior vice president
Email nigel.d.meakin@ca.pwc.com
Nigel Meakin specialises in the development and implementation of reorganisation strategies and provides advice and support to lending institutions, corporate clients and legal counsel. He has undertaken a significant number of assignments as monitor under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and in that role has provided oversight of the restructuring process and an independent assessment of reorganisation and divestiture alternatives, procedures and outcomes. In addition, he has been called on to provide expert testimony in restructuring proceedings. Mr Meakin has supervised many reorganisation, insolvency and investigation assignments in a wide variety of industries, including retail, real estate, manufacturing, healthcare, technology and natural resources.
Mr Meakin received his BSc (honours) degree in chemistry from the University of Nottingham. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, a chartered insolvency and restructuring professional and a trustee in bankruptcy.
Strathvale House, North Church Street,
George Town, Grand Cayman,
Cayman Islands, BWI
Tel+1 345 914 8710 Fax +1 345 945 4237
David Walker
Partner
Email david.walker@ky.pwc.com
David Walker has 18 years of corporate insolvency, restructuring and investigations experience gained in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific, predominately within the financial services industry. Mr Walker currently leads the PricewaterhouseCoopers advisory/ corporate finance and recovery practice in the Cayman Islands.
Over the past four years Mr Walker has been appointed by the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands as a provisional liquidator, liquidator, scheme administrator, controller and inspector to various Cayman companies. In addition, he has been appointed as a liquidator to numerous hedge funds and conducted numerous investigations and advised various stakeholders on complex cross- border investigations and insolvency matters.
Mr Walker has a bachelor of economics and bachelor of arts degree from the Australian National University, is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a registered Australian liquidator. He is also a member of the Cayman Islands Society of Professional Accountants insolvency committee.
Avenida Andres Bello 2711, Piso 5, Las Condes,
Santiago, Chile
Tel+56 2 940 0000 Fax +56 2 940 0504
Web www.pwc.com/cl
Francisco Selamé Marchant
Partner
Email francisco.selame@cl.pwc.com
Francisco Selamé Marchant has been a partner in the tax and legal department since January 2006. He has over 20 years’ professional experience in
advising domestic and multinational companies on national and international tax and legal matters. Mr Selamé holds a law degree from the Universidad de Chile and a master’s in public finance and tax law from the University of Paris. He is a professor of tax law at theUniversidad de Chile School of Law. He is president of the Chilean Institute of Tax Law and a member of the International Fiscal Association Chilean Branch and its academic committee.
Cristián Gamboa Guzmán
Manager
Email cristian.gamboa@cl.pwc.com
Cristián Gamboa Guzmán is manager of the litigation section of the tax and legal department. He has over 10 years’ professional experience in defending corporate taxpayers within tax audits and claims, as well as in civil and commercial litigation. Mr Gamboa holds a law degree from the Universidad de Chile. He has given several lectures on tax litigation.
Scotiabank Centre, Duke Street,
Kingston, Jamaica
Tel+1 876 922 6230 Fax +1 876 922 7581
Web www.pwc.com/jm
John Wesley Lee
Partner
Email john.lee@jm.pwc.com
John Wesley Lee is the partner in charge of the advisory practice in Jamaica. He is a graduate of Strathclyde University, Scotland with an MSc in finance and Liverpool Polytechnic with a BA (hons) in accounting. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (United Kingdom) and the Turnaround Management Association (United States).
He has over 25 years of accounting and business experience obtained through corporate finance, project finance, insolvency and business turnaround, litigation support and auditing assignments. He has assisted companies in the manufacturing, distribution, financial services and agriculture industries in their corporate and strategic planning, and financial and operational restructuring. He has been appointed receiver and manager of a number of entities in the IT manufacturing and agricultural industries. He has developed successful restructuring plans for entities leading to the implementation of business turnaround plans and new production processes and the sale of operations or businesses. He has also been appointed liquidator for manufacturing, agricultural and hardware retailing entities.
He is currently engaged in advising clients on access to the international capital market, project finance and securitization, as well as the development and implementation of optimised exit strategies.
Caydion E O’Neil Campbell
Senior manager
Email caydion.campbell@jm.pwc.com
Caydion E O’Neil Campbell is a senior manager in the advisory practice in Jamaica. He is a graduate of the University of Manchester with an MBA in finance and the University of the West Indies with a BSc (hons) in management studies. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (United Kingdom).
Mr Campbell has over 16 years of experience in optimised exit, corporate recovery and turnaround management. He has managed or assisted in operations in the following sectors pursuant to restructuring, winding-up or sale: telemarketing, finance, manufacturing, agriculture and retail and distribution.
He has also developed and implemented business turnaround strategies, prepared information memoranda and negotiated and concluded sales of assets, operations and businesses. He has undertaken financial and operational reviews on behalf of lenders and providers of capital.
Mariano Escobedo No 573, Col Rincón
del Bosque, Mexico, DF 11580
Tel+525 5263 60 84 Fax +525 5263 86 62
Web www.pwc.com
Luis Vite Zamora
Partner
Email luis.vite@mx.pwc.com
Luis Vite is the partner in charge of financial advisory services. He graduated as a public accountant from the Universidad Autónoma de México. Mr Vite has supported clients interested in entering the Mexican market as well as assisting a number of foreign investors interested in the
possible acquisition or disposal of companies. He has been involved in the business restructuring and sale and liquidation of distressed assets in the food, steel, automobile parts and mining industries. He has been a key participant in the liquidation of assets in Mexico of an investment fund domiciled in the Cayman Islands, the United Kingdom and the United States, reporting to bankruptcy courts in some of those countries. He was actively involved in the sale of the commercial portfolio for one of the most important banks in Mexico, with responsibility for coordinating the sale and the legal team in charge of the bidding process and contracts.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers Building,
11-13 Victoria Avenue, Port of Spain,
Trinidad & Tobago
Tel+1 868 623 1361 Fax +1 868 623 6025
Brian Hackett
Partner
Email brian.hackett@tt.pwc.com
Brian Hackett is the partner in the transactions and crisis management (TCM) group of PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited, Trinidad. He is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. In his role as partner in charge of the TCM group, Mr Hackett has been involved as engagement leader on a wide variety of corporate debt and equity restructurings, as well as valuation and financial due diligence projects. He has served as receiver for many of the local commercial banks operating within Trinidad. He has also served as judicial manager and subsequently liquidator for a Trinidad-based, middle-market, general insurance company.
300 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6204,
United States
Tel+1 646 471 4000 Fax +1 813 286 6000
Web www.pwc.com
Cyrus N Pardiwala
Partner
Email cyrus.pardiwala@us.pwc.com
Cyrus Pardiwala leads the US restructuring advisory and insolvency practice. Since joining the firm more than 16 years ago, he has worked in both a principal and an advisory capacity on complex global transactions and corporate restructurings.
Most of the work that Mr Pardiwala has undertaken has involved business analytics, options assessment and the implementation of business plans. He has specific expertise in dealing with cross-border business issues, and has worked in Europe, Asia and South America. Mr Pardiwala has extensive experience in business reorganisation and the management of financially distressed corporations under the protection of Chapter 11.
He is a member of the Turnaround Management Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute and the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals, and featured in the International Who’s Who of Professionals. Mr Pardiwala holds a master of science in Finance from Texas A&M University and a master of management studies in engineering management from BITS (Pilani) in India. He is a graduate of Stanford University’s Global Senior Executive Management Programme.
One Rodney Square,Wilmington,
DE 19801, United States
Tel+1 302 651 7700 Fax +1 302 651 7701
Web www.rlf.com
Daniel J DeFranceschi
Director
Email defranceschi@rlf.com
Daniel DeFranceschi is a director in the restructuring and bankruptcy group and practises in the areas of bankruptcy, insolvency and reorganisation law. Mr DeFranceschi’s practice focuses on all aspects of bankruptcy and restructuring, including reorganisation and liquidation. He represents a wide range of parties as bankruptcy and insolvency counsel, including large Chapter 11 debtors and various other parties such as lenders, purchasers, equity participants and creditors of all types.
Mr DeFranceschi has been identified as a leading Delaware lawyer recommended for bankruptcy in Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He has authored numerous articles and he speaks regularly at conferences on bankruptcy law. Mr DeFranceschi is also a former chair of the bankruptcy section of the Delaware Bar and is active in the American Bankruptcy Institute.
World Trade Centre I, Suite 305,
Colonia Escalón, San Salvador, El Salvador
Tel+503 505 5505 Fax +503 505 5500
Web www.romeropineda.com
José Roberto Romero
Managing partner
Email jose@romeropineda.com
José Roberto Romero has been managing partner of Romero Pineda & Asociados since 1995. He graduated from Universidad Dr José Matias Delgado (San Salvador, El Salvador) in 1990 and in 1993 obtained a LLM in intellectual property from Franklin Pierce Law Centre (Concord, NH, United States). He is engaged with protecting, enforcing and licensing IP rights and is very active in franchising, assisting over 30 franchise operations set up in El Salvador. His corporate law practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, distribution and representing foreign investors in manufacturing, real estate and tourism operations. He is a negotiator and mediator. In February 2005 he was selected by Law Business Research’s Central America 40 Under 40 as an up-and-coming young lawyer in the region.
Antonio Mendez
Partner
Email amendez@romeropineda.com
Antonio Mendez joined Romero Pineda & Asociados seven years ago and was appointed as partner in July 2007. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1995 with a degree in economics. He obtained his law degree from Dr Jose Matias Delgado University (San Salvador) in 1997 and is a professor of economics, constitutional law and philosophy of law at that university.He is one of El Salvador’s renowned experts in energy and telecommunications, having participated in the privatisation of both sectors as well as in drafting their regulations. His corporate practice focuses in advising clients on tax laws and strategies to achieve tax efficiencies; mergers and acquisitions; corporate securities; distribution and finance structuring.
Campos Eliseos 345, Floors 2 and 3,
Col Chapultepec Polanco, DF 11560, Mexico
Tel+52 55 5279 5400 Fax +52 55 5280 7614
Web www.s-s.com.mx
Other Offices Mexico City, Monterrey
Sergio Chagoya D
Senior associate
Email schagoya@s-s.com.mx
Sergio Chagoya D holds a JD from the Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City (1998) and a LLM in EU law from the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (2002). He has completed the first year of a PhD in law (commercial law programme) at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and is currently on a joint research programme between that university and theUniversidad Anáhuac, Mexico.
He joined Santamarina y Steta in 1998. His practice is focused in the general corporate area, including mergers and acquisitions, as well as securities and banking law (eg, syndicated lending, securitisations, initial public offerings, tender offers), business reorganisations, privatisations and public-private partnerships. Mr Chagoya is fluent in English.
One South Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60603,
United States
Tel+1 312 853 7000 Fax +1 312 853 7036
787 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019,
United States
Tel+1 212 839 5300 Fax +1 212 839 5599
Web www.sidley.com
Other Offices Beijing, Brussels, Dallas, Frankfurt,
Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney,
Tokyo, Washington DC
James F Conlan
Co-chairman, corporate reorganisation and bankruptcy
group, Chicago
Email jconlan@sidley.com
James F Conlan is co-chairman of Sidley’s firm- wide corporate reorganisation and bankruptcy group. Mr Conlan is a member of the firm’s executive committee and is chairman of the firm’s Chicago accounting and finance committee. He attended the University of Iowa (BS, 1985, with honours) and University of Iowa College of Law
(JD, 1988, with honours). He became a partner at Sidley in 1996. Mr Conlan specialises in cross- border corporate restructurings. He writes and lectures regularly and has been recognised in Chambers USAAmerica’s Leading Business Lawyers, Global Counsel Handbook Restructuring and Insolvency,Leading Lawyers Worldwide, ILFRGuide to the World’s Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers, Board Member Magazine andAmerica’s Best Corporate Lawyers.
Larry J Nyhan
Co-chairman, corporate reorganisation and bankruptcy
group, Chicago and New York
Email lnyhan@sidley.com
Larry J Nyhan is co-chairman of Sidley’s firm-wide corporate reorganisation and bankruptcy group and a member of the executive committee. He is located in both Chicago and New York offices. Mr Nyhan attended the University of Chicago (BA, 1977) and Loyola University Chicago School of Law (JD, 1980). Mr Nyhan served as an extern to the Honourable Robert Eisen, US Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Illinois in 1979 and 1980, joined the firm in 1980 and became a partner in 1988. He has been recognised in Chambers Global The World’s Leading Lawyers, Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The K&A Restructuring Register andAmerica’s Top 100.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago IL 60606,
United States
Tel+1 312 407 0700 Fax +1 312 407 0411
Four Times Square, New York NY 10036 6522,
United States
Tel+1 212 735 3000 Fax +1 212 735 2000
Web www.skadden.com
Other Offices Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Frankfurt,
Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Moscow,
Munich, Palo Alto, Paris, San Francisco, Shanghai,
Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto,Vienna, Washington
DC, Wilmington
DJ (Jan) Baker
Partner, New York
Email dj.baker@skadden.com
DJ (Jan) Baker is a partner in Skadden’s corporate restructuring group where he represents companies, lenders, committees, acquirors and other parties in connection with restructuring matters. He also regularly advises boards of directors of public companies on matters related to corporate governance and fiduciary duty. During his career Mr Baker has had primary responsibility in numerous restructuring matters, including American Pad & Paper Company, CIRCLE K Company, The Delaco Company, FiberMark, Inc, FoxMeyer Drug Company, GenTek, Inc, Global Marine Inc, HealthSouth Corporation, MCorp, Owens Corning, RCN Corporation, Safety-Kleen Corp, Sterling Chemicals, Inc, The Stroh Brewery Company and The Williams Companies. Recently Mr Baker led the team from Skadden that represented Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc, one of the largest grocery store chains in the United States, in its successful restructuring, which was recognised by the Turnaround Management Association with its 2007 Mega Company Turnaround of the Year Award.
John (Jack) Wm Butler, Jr
Co-leader, global corporate restructuring practice,
Chicago
Email jack.butler@skadden.com
John (Jack) Wm Butler, Jr is co-leader of Skadden’s global corporate restructuring practice and represents a variety of clients in complex business reorganisations, troubled company mergers and acquisitions, debt restructurings and financing matters. He has acted as lead counsel to companies experiencing financial difficulties, purchasers of and investors in distressed companies, and lenders to and creditors of such companies in hundreds of transactions across the Americas, as well as cross- border transactions in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. Mr Butler also advises officers and directors of public companies involved in debt restructuring on matters related to corporate governance and fiduciary duties. Representative company matters include the restructuring of Delphi Corporation, Friedman’s Inc, Haynes International, Inc, Kmart Corporation, Per-Se Technologies, Inc (formerly Medaphis Corporation), Rite Aid Corporation, Singer NV, US Airways Group, Inc, Venator Group, Inc and Xerox Corporation, and special counsel representations of 360/networks, Inc, Enron Corporation and The Warnaco Group, Inc.
Sally McDonald Henry
Partner, New York
Email sally.henry@skadden.com
Sally McDonald Henry is a partner in Skadden’s corporate restructuring group, where she
represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors and reorganisation trustees in out-of-court and Chapter 11 restructurings. Ms Henry also provides bankruptcy and creditors’ rights advice on complex corporate transactions and handles bankruptcy litigation. Her debtor clients have included pharmaceutical companies, oil and gas companies, telecommunications companies, real estate investors, wholesale manufacturers, housing manufacturers, large retail companies and major financial institutions. Her recent public representations as debtors’ counsel have included Aurora Foods, Inc in its fast-track 65-day Chapter 11 case, Genuity, Inc, Refco, Inc and its affiliates, Vlasic Foods International, Inc and Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. Ms Henry also represents buyers and sellers of distressed companies inside and outside of Chapter 11 reorganisation, including Verizon Wireless Inc in its $3 billion acquisition of spectrum licences from NextWave, Inc, a Chapter 11 debtor.
222 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois
60601, United States
Tel+1 312 609 7500 Fax +1 312 609 5005
Web www.vedderprice.com
Other Offices New Jersey, New York,Washington DC
Douglas J Lipke
Partner
Email dlipke@vedderprice.com
Douglas J Lipke is chair of the insolvency, bankruptcy and corporate reorganisation group of Vedder Price in Chicago. Mr Lipke concentrates in the areas of work-out, bankruptcy and reorganisation law. He represents a full range of national and international clients, including secured lenders, debtors, trustees and creditors’ committees. As a bankruptcy litigator,he has tried a wide range of large, sophisticated matters that arise in bankruptcy cases. Mr Lipke has represented financial institutions in restructurings, work-outs and foreclosures in domestic and international equipment and aircraft leasing and equipment financing transactions and has been involved in a number of significant airline insolvencies and bankruptcies. Mr Lipke served as an adjunct professor of bankruptcy law at Loyola University School of Law in Chicago from 1991 to 2001. He is a member of the Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations, and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Mr Lipke has been recognised by his peers as an Illinois Super Lawyer (2007 edition).
51 West 52nd Street, New York, New York
10019, United States
Tel+1 212 403 1000 Fax +1 212 403 2000
Web www.wlrk.com
Scott K Charles
Partner
Email skcharles@wlrk.com
Scott K Charles is a partner in the restructuring and finance department. Since joining the firm in 1984, he has acted as counsel for secured creditors, unsecured creditors and creditors’ committees in workouts, restructurings and Chapter 11 cases. Mr Charles has extensive experience representing investors in distressed corporations, both inside and outside the bankruptcy process. He also has extensive experience advising asset purchasers in an array of industries. In addition to his restructuring work, Mr Charles represents clients in connection with acquisition financing for corporate transactions. Mr Charles has been recognised as a leader in the corporate restructuring and insolvency field. He has authored or co-authored articles on topics such as distressed mergers and acquisitions, pre-packaged reorganisation plans and pre-payment clauses in bankruptcy. Mr Charles received a BSc in economics from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania and a JD from Harvard Law School.
Amy R Wolf
Of counsel
Email arwolf@wlrk.com
Amy R Wolf is of counsel in the restructuring and finance department, where she has concentrated on creditors’ rights and bankruptcy-related litigation for over 25 years. Ms Wolf regularly represents secured and unsecured creditors, claims and asset purchasers and other significant parties in restructurings, Chapter 11 cases and related litigation. She has defended numerous actions brought by debtors and trustees, including avoidance actions and actions related to the automatic stay. Ms Wolf received a BA from Kirkland College and a JD from New York University Law School,cum laude, and served as a law clerk for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Emil A Kleinhaus
Associate
Email eakleinhaus@wlrk.com
Emil A Kleinhaus is an associate in the restructuring and finance department, where he concentrates on bankruptcy-related and complex commercial litigation. Mr Kleinhaus received a BA from Yale College, summa cum laude, and a JD from Yale Law School, where he was articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. He served as a law clerk for Judge José A Cabranes of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Chief Judge Michael B Mukasey of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Walker House, 87 Mary Street, George Town,
Grand Cayman KY1-9001, Cayman Islands
Tel+1 345 949 0100 Fax +1 345 949 7886
Web www.walkers.com.ky
Other Offices British Virgin Islands, Dubai, Hong Kong,
Jersey, London
Sandie Corbett
Managing partner
Email sandie.corbett@walkersglobal.com
Sandie Corbett joined Walkers’ litigation department in 2001 after practising as a barrister in England for 13 years. She became a partner in May 2006 and is managing partner of the insolvency and corporate recovery group and a member of the trust disputes group. She also has a wide range of commercial litigation experience and has appeared before the Grand Court on numerous matters. Ms Corbett regularly advises liquidators of Cayman companies in connection with high-profile international corporate recovery and insolvency- related matters. Most recently, she advised the liquidators of a number of Enron entities and Parmalat subsidiaries incorporated in Cayman in connection with two of the biggest worldwide insolvencies of recent years.
767 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10153,
United States
Tel+1 212 310 8000 Fax +1 212 310 8007
Web www.weil.com
Other Offices Austin, Boston, Budapest, Dallas,
Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Miami,
Munich, Paris, Prague, Providence, Shanghai, Silicon
Valley, Warsaw, Washington DC, Wilmington
Marcia Goldstein
Partner
Email marcia.goldstein@weil.com
Marcia Goldstein is chair of the business finance and restructuring department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. She has practised with the firm for over 30 years in all areas of domestic and international debt restructuring, as well as crisis management and corporate governance. She has been a lecturer at Yale Law School, Columbia Law School and Cornell Law School and is a frequent speaker at restructuring seminars, both domestically and internationally.Ms Goldstein has represented debtors, bank groups, secured and unsecured creditors, statutory creditors’ committees, trustees and other parties in other major debt restructurings and Chapter 11 cases. The American Lawyer featured Ms Goldstein as a Dealmaker of the Year in 2004 for leading the successful restructuring of WorldCom. In 2007 she was honoured as one of the National Law Journal’s Most Influential Women.
Shai Y Waisman
Partner
Email shai.waisman@weil.com
Shai Waisman is a partner in the business finance and restructuring department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. His practice incorporates crisis management, financial restructuring and acquiring troubled companies. Mr Waisman has developed expertise in representing purchasers and sellers of assets in the context of Chapter 11, as well as complex, multinational restructurings. He has significant experience in a wide array of industries, including airline, apparel, biotechnology, leisure, medical device manufacturing, multimedia news, retail, supermarket and telecommunications. Mr Waisman has written on the subject of the acquisition and sale of assets of distressed companies, the development of American bankruptcy law and current issues in the
reorganisation practice. Mr Waisman was named an Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer by Turnarounds & Workouts in 2006. He graduated from The American University and holds a JD cum laude from the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law.
Sharon Youdelman
Of counsel
Email sharon.youdelman@weil.com
Sharon Youdelman is of counsel in the business finance and restructuring department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP where she concentrates her practice on representing debtors, creditors and lenders in restructurings of financially distressed companies in Chapter 11, as well as outside formal judicial proceedings. Ms Youdelman has extensive experience in all aspects of Chapter 11 cases. She has represented major debtors, including Atkins Nutritionals, WorldCom, PennCorp Financial Group, County Seat Stores, Just for Feet, Crystal Brands, RH Macy & Co and Eastern Air Lines and, in connection with debtor-in-possession financing, debtors such as Atkins Nutritionals, NextWave Telecommunications and Olympia & York. She has also represented lenders in the Chapter 11 cases of
Printing Arts America, Recycling Industries, Telesphere Communications and Elder-Beerman, the secured creditors’ committee in the Federated Department Stores Case, as well as major creditors in the Chapter 11 cases of Dow Corning andOrion Pictures.
John W Lucas
Associate
Email john.lucas@weil.com
John W Lucas is an associate in the business finance and restructuring department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York. Mr Lucas has worked on a broad range of complex commercial reorganisation and restructuring matters, including the representation of Silicon Graphics, Inc in its Chapter 11 cases and bondholder representations in the cases of Calpine Corporation and Portrait Corporation of America, Inc. In addition, he advises GE Money on bankruptcy issues arising in its consumer lending practice.
Sara Coehlo
Associate
Email sara.coehlo@weil.com
Sara Coelho is an associate in the business finance and restructuring department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. She has worked on a variety of bankruptcy and restructuring matters, including representations of debtors, lenders, bondholders and equity holders. She received a BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 and a JD from Cornell Law School in 2006.
1818 H Street,Washington, DC 20433,
United States
Tel+1 202 473 1000 Fax +1 202 477 6391
Web www.worldbank.org
Mahesh Uttamchandani
Senior counsel, insolvency and creditors’ rights
Email muttamchandani@worldbank.org
Mahesh Uttamchandani is senior counsel for insolvency and creditors rights at the World Bank and head of the World Bank’s global insolvency and creditor rights initiative – providing advisory services to governments around the world on the subject of insolvency and creditor rights. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr Uttamchandani was insolvency counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, United Kingdom, where he led the reform of insolvency systems throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Mr Uttamchandani is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on global insolvency systems.
Mr Uttamchandani is a Canadian lawyer who practised for several years exclusively in the area of insolvency and creditors’ rights at a leading Canadian law firm and began his legal career as a law clerk to the Commercial List of Toronto, Canada’s largest bankruptcy court.
Mr Uttamchandani has published and lectured extensively in North America, Europe and Asia and is a board member of International Corporate Rescue, as well as an adjunct professor of law for the St John’s University Law School LLM in insolvency.