2024 Sustaining Patrons
The American College of Bankruptcy would like to acknowledge and thank the following firms for their commitment of $5000 for 2024:
2024 Patrons and Sponsors
Jay Alix
Carrianne J.M. Basler
John Castellano
Lisa J. Donahue
Randall S. Eisenberg
Holly Felder Etlin
Albert A. Koch
James A. Mesterharm
Jonathan “Joff” Mitchell
Rebecca A. Roof
AlixPartners is a leading global restructuring and business advisory firm of results-oriented professionals who specialize in creating value and restoring performance at every stage of the business lifecycle. We have been retained as restructuring advisor and/or interim management in some of the most important multinational reorganizations in history, including the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), Kodak, Calpine, and General Motors to name only a few. With over 1,500 employees and 25+ offices globally, we thrive on our ability to make a difference in high-impact situations and deliver sustainable, bottom-line results. Our clients comprise large and middle market companies and their constituents, who retain us as restructuring advisor, interim management, or financial advisor to creditors or banks. Learn more at www.AlixPartners.com.
Julie M. Hertzberg
Lawrence R. Hirsh
Bryan P. Marsal
Jeff Stegenga
Privately-held since 1983, Alvarez & Marsal is a leading global professional services firm that delivers performance improvement, restructuring & turnaround and business advisory services to organizations seeking to transform operations, catapult growth and accelerate results through decisive action. We advise on every aspect of the process from strategic direction to liquidity management to business plan development, helping management, investors, or creditors seeking to accelerate performance, overcome challenges and maximize value across the corporate and investment lifecycles. We fill executive officer roles, on an interim basis, to help guide companies through crises and other challenging business or economic environments
Mark D. Bloom
Paul J. Keenan, Jr.
https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/
Founded in 1949, Baker & McKenzie advises many of the world's most dynamic and successful business organizations through our 4,000+ attorneys in 74 offices in 45 locations. The Firm is known for its global perspective, deep understanding of the local language and culture of business, uncompromising commitment to excellence, and world-class fluency in its client service. (www.bakermckenzie.com)
Jordi Guso
Christopher A. Jarvinen
Paul Steven Singerman
http://www.bergersingerman.com/
Berger Singerman LLP, Florida’s business law firm, has more than 90 attorneys working out of offices in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Tallahassee, and West Palm Beach. Members of the firm have expertise in commercial law, including business reorganization, corporate securities and M&A, dispute resolution, intellectual property, employment law, real estate, environmental and land use, government and regulatory, healthcare, insurance, internal investigations and white- collar criminal defense, tax, and wealth preservation. Berger Singerman is consistently and widely recognized by independent third parties for its excellence in client service, results obtained for clients and its culture; most recently, the firm was named by the Daily Business Review as the Midsize Litigation Department of the Year, to the “Midsize Hot List” by the National Law Journal for three years in a row, “2022 Florida Regional Powerhouse” by Law360 and as a top Florida law firm by U.S. News and World Report “Best Law Firms” as well as Chambers & Partners USA. For more information, please visit www.bergersingerman.com.
Stephen Coulombe
Robert J. Duffy
Mackenzie Shea
Paul N. Shields
R. Todd Neilson
BRG is a global consulting firm that helps leading organizations advance in the fields of corporate finance; economics, disputes, and investigations; and performance improvement. With offices around the world, we are an integrated group of experts, industry leaders, financial advisors, academics, data scientists, and professionals working across borders and disciplines. We harness our collective expertise to deliver the inspired insights and practical strategies our clients need to stay ahead of what’s next. Recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms, we have in-depth experience across a wide range of industries and markets, from retail and consumer to construction and energy to technology and healthcare. No matter what sector your business is in, we have experienced professionals who understand the challenges you face—making us better equipped to help solve them.
Robert J. Keach
Louis H. Kornreich
https://www.bernsteinshur.com/
Bernstein Shur is a New England-based law firm with more than 100 award-winning attorneys who provide practical and innovative counsel to the firm’s clients. Bernstein Shur’s Business Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group represents clients throughout the United States, including in the busy reorganization courts in Delaware and the Southern District of New York. Clients of the group include business debtors, liquidating trustees, creditors’ committees, parties acquiring distressed businesses, and other parties affected by insolvency proceedings. The group is regularly recognized by Chambers and Best Lawyers in America and includes two American College of Bankruptcy Fellows, as well as the former President of the American Bankruptcy Institute
Thomas E. Biron
Regina Stango Kelbon
Michael B. Schaedle
Raymond L. Shapiro
Blank Rome LLP is an Am Law 100 firm with more than 600 attorneys and 13 offices in the United States and in China. Secured and unsecured creditors, trustees, financial institutions, private equity and hedge funds, and officers, directors, managers and strategic investors look to us for insightful and forward-looking advice on funding and purchasing assets and businesses in distress as well as structuring, proposing and implementing plans under insolvency laws. Our attorneys aim to maximize successful outcomes for clients by taking a pragmatic approach in an efficient manner, combining experience and creative strategies that address the nuances of each situation, as well as providing risk assessment and counsel on alternatives to and structure of transactions, litigation and dispute resolution. Learn more about our firm’s exceptional skill in helping clients navigate complex business and financial challenges at www.blankrome.com
Norman L. Pernick
Michael D. Sirota
Warren A. Usatine
Irving E. Walker
At Cole Schotz, lawyering is our art. We are a coalition of over 180 attorneys – a curated collection of legal talent that works together to create a gallery of experience that we lend to the benefit of our clients. We work with businesses, large and small, as well as select individuals, many of whom continue to work with the firm for decades. Our clients turn to us to execute on their business goals with our distinct confidence and legal dexterity. As an AmLaw 200 firm with nationwide representations and a global reach, we represent clients in connection with an array of legal matter
M. Natasha Labovitz
Sidney P. Levinson
Debevoise & Plimpton is a premier law firm with market-leading practices, a global perspective and strong New York roots. More than 800 lawyers work in nine offices across three continents, within integrated global practices, serving clients around the world. Our Restructuring practice regularly plays a major role in high-profile out-of-court restructurings, strategic transactions and litigation involving troubled businesses, Chapter 11 cases and cross-border insolvencies. Drawing on an extensive and diverse network of resources, Debevoise lawyers work side by side with clients on their toughest and most critical restructuring challenges.
John P. Melko
Deirdre B. Ruckman
Foley & Lardner LLP looks beyond the law to focus on the constantly evolving demands facing our clients and their industries. With over 1,100 lawyers in 25 offices across the United States, Mexico, Europe, and Asia, Foley approaches client service by first understanding our clients' priorities, objectives, and challenges
Albert S. Conly
Guy A. Davis
Robert Del Genio
Dominic DiNapoli
Michael Eisenband
Ronald F. Greenspan
Cynthia Nelson
William J. Perlstein
David Rush
Carlyn R. Taylor
https://www.fticonsulting.com/
FTI Consulting, Inc. is an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes. With more than 1500 professionals located in 18 countries and 52 offices, our Corporate Finance & Restructuring professionals work closely with clients, partnering with them throughout the value creation lifecycle to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex restructuring, business transformation and transaction challenges and opportunities. Our experts with impact take an industry-first approach, delivering critical solutions in industries, including real estate; retail; automotive; energy, power and products; mining and metals; financial services; airlines and aviation; healthcare; and telecom, media and entertainment.
Daniel M. Glosband
Michael H. Goldstein
Michael J. Pappone
William P. Weintraub
Goodwin builds lasting relationships with our clients, including many of the world’s most successful and innovative leaders, entrepreneurs, companies, and investors within the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology, and financial services industries, and where they converge. Our immersive understanding of our clients’ industries — combined with our expertise across high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution, world-class regulatory compliance and advisory services, and complex transactions — sets us apart.
Julia Frost-Davies
Annette W. Jarvis
J. Gregory Milmoe
Nancy A. Peterman
Michael F. Thomson
Greenberg Traurig is an international law firm with more than 2,000 attorneys and governmental affairs professionals in 38 commercial and government centers across the United States and in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Greenberg Traurig provides integrated, business-focused legal services for clients ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to innovative start-ups. GT’s Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice provides clients with the insight and knowledge that come with decades of advisory and litigation experience. The team handles highly complex issues that arise in reorganizations, restructurings, workouts, liquidations, and distressed acquisitions and sales, both domestically and in cross-border proceedings. We offer clients a broad multidisciplinary approach, supported by an internationally recognized practice that has been engaged in many of the key complex restructurings of our time. For additional information, please visit www.gtlaw.com.
Charles A. Beckham, Jr.
Patrick L. Hughes
Kenric D. Kattner
Ian T. Peck
Stephen M. Pezanosky
Haynes and Boone, LLP is an international corporate law firm with offices in Texas, New York, California, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Washington, D.C., London, Mexico City and Shanghai, providing a full spectrum of legal services in energy, technology, financial services and private equity. With 600 lawyers, Haynes Boone is ranked among the largest U.S.-based firms by The National Law Journal, The American Lawyer and The Lawyer. It was recognized for excellence in the BTI Consulting Group’s 2021 “A-Team” report, which identifies the law firms that in-house counsel commend for providing superior client service.
Corinne Ball
Carl E. Black
Gregory M. Gordon
Carl M. Jenks
Heather Lennox
Kevyn D. Orr
https://www.jonesday.com/en/firm?tab=overview
Jones Day's Business Restructuring & Reorganization practice resolves complex restructuring issues and problems in jurisdictions throughout the world. Borrowers/debtors, creditors, and other parties involved in complex business restructurings, out-of-court workouts, chapter 11 cases, and other transactions with financially distressed entities receive a full range of services from more than 100 restructuring lawyers in financial centers worldwide. We are a global law firm with more than 2,500 lawyers in 42 offices on five continents. The Firm is distinguished by: a singular tradition of client service; the mutual commitment to, and the seamless collaboration of, a true partnership; formidable legal talent across multiple disciplines and jurisdictions; and shared professional values that focus on client needs.
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Chad J. Husnick
Todd F. Maynes
Patrick J. Nash
Anup Sathy
Joshua A. Sussberg
With a global platform of approximately 3,500 lawyers in 19 cities across the United States, Europe and Asia, Kirkland & Ellis provides elite legal advice and a relentless commitment to client service. Kirkland is a market-leader in each of its core practice areas, including private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory and internal investigations. To learn more, please visit www.kirkland.com
Amy Caton
Kenneth H. Eckstein
Thomas Moers Mayer
https://www.kramerlevin.com/en/
Kramer Levin provides proactive, creative and pragmatic solutions that address today’s most challenging legal issues. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Silicon Valley and Paris and fosters a strong culture of involvement in public and community service. For more than 30 years, creditors, debtor corporations, investors, lenders and acquirers have turned to Kramer Levin to solve complicated bankruptcy and restructuring problems, to structure and lead negotiations that harmonize divergent interests and achieve consensual solutions, and to win suits in bankruptcy court, courts of appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court. Representing clients throughout the United States, we typically take on cases that involve multiple debtors with competing secured and unsecured creditors, complex restructurings, and contested interdebtor and intercreditor issues.
Jeffrey E. Bjork
George A. Davis
Ted A. Dillman
David S. Heller
Richard A. Levy
Kimberly A. Posin
Caroline A. Reckler
Suzzanne Uhland
Latham & Watkins, one of the world’s largest restructuring and special situations practices, advises the full array of stakeholders involved with financially distressed businesses, including debtors and issuers of both public and private securities, all types of creditors, including institutional lenders, funds and direct lenders, equity holders, new investors, boards of directors, and senior management teams. Combining practical commercial insight and a nuanced understanding of today’s most innovative financial structures, we drive consensus and lay out a clear and confident vision for the best path forward. LW.com
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M3 is a leading, independent corporate advisory firm that provides operational, strategic, and financial solutions to a broad range of clients. M3's clients look to the firm for financial advisory services, performance improvement, and operational diligence during all stages and market cycles, and the firm is also called on to lead as interim management. M3 is well versed in navigating sensitive corporate situations and the firm has a demonstrated track record of achieving successful outcomes for clients, including in some of the most significant recent restructurings in the market. M3's engagement teams are led by senior turnaround veterans with decades of combined experience across key verticals. M3-partners.com
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Paul S. Aronzon
Gregory A. Bray
Dennis F. Dunne
Evan R. Fleck
Mark Shinderman
Milbank LLP is a leading international law firm providing innovative legal solutions to clients throughout the world for 150 years. Milbank is headquartered in New York and has offices in Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, São Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, DC.
The firm’s lawyers provide a full range of legal services to the world’s leading commercial, financial and industrial enterprises, as well as to institutions, individuals and governments. Milbank’s lawyers meet the needs of our clients by offering a highly integrated and collaborative range of services across key practice groups throughout our global network. Milbank’s integrated practice is underpinned by our attorneys’ acknowledged technical excellence, sectoral expertise and a strong tradition of innovation and client service
Milbank’s key areas of practice include: Corporate, Finance, Financial Restructuring, Litigation and Arbitration, Capital Markets, Tax, and Trusts, Estates and Exempt Organizations.
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Daniel S. Bleck
William W. Kannel
Mintz is a versatile am law 100 law firm with 600+ attorneys serving clients worldwide. We collaborate across disciplines to deliver exceptional legal strategies that help clients navigate shifting industry challenges. Our attorneys advise business leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors on pivotal deals, disputes, and regulatory matters. We work within four core practice areas — transactional, intellectual property, litigation & investigations, and regulatory & advisory — and serve industries including the life sciences; health care; technology; insurance & financial services; energy & sustainability; sports & entertainment; real estate, construction & infrastructure; retail & consumer products; and education & nonprofit sectors.
Robert M. Dombroff
Michael Luskin
Edwin E. Smith
Richard Stern
Morgan Lewis is recognized for exceptional client service, legal innovation, and commitment to its communities. Our global depth reaches across North
America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East with the collaboration of more than 2,200 lawyers and specialists who provide elite legal services across
Industry sectors for multinational corporations to startups around the world. Our international team of lawyers advises a wide-range of clients with respect
to comprehensive litigation, corporate, finance, bankruptcy and restructuring, labor and employment, and intellectual property services
Scott Atkins
Jason L. Boland
Toby L. Gerber
William R. Greendyke
Ryan E. Manns
Howard Seife
https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/
Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. With more than 50 offices in over 30 countries, our global financial restructuring and insolvency lawyers are at the forefront of many of the most significant cross-border restructuring and insolvency cases involving complex multi-jurisdictional issues and regional insolvency laws.
We use the wide range of legal disciplines of lawyers from our worldwide offices in the fields of banking and finance; corporate, M&A and securities; and employment and labor to meet the challenges throughout all stages of a restructuring matter.
Our team acts for a full range of clients delivering worldwide financial restructuring and insolvency services in all key industry sectors. Our client portfolio includes lenders, private equity and distressed debt funds, hedge funds, bondholders, public and private corporations, debtors, liquidators, examiners, office-holders, secured and unsecured creditors, committees, management and other relevant stakeholders
Jeffrey H. Davidson
Robert J. Feinstein
Debra Grassgreen
Laura Davis Jones
Henry C. Kevane
Jordan A. Kroop
Isaac M. Pachulski
Richard M. Pachulski
Jeffrey N. Pomerantz
James I. Stang
Since 1983, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP has maintained a commitment to excellence that has earned it recognition as one of the nation's top insolvency practices. We have become the largest law firm in the country devoted primarily to corporate restructurings, with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Delaware, and Houston. But our philosophy has not changed: The strength of our team of talented lawyers is expertise and experience, not numbers. As a result, we believe we offer a unique combination of top-quality representation and small-firm economics and commitment. We have depth and expertise in four distinct, but closely related areas: bankruptcy reorganizations and out-of-court workouts; bankruptcy litigation, including avoidance actions and claim litigation; business litigation in courts of all jurisdictions; and business transactions. Our goal is to provide exceptional and effective representation to a wide variety of clients, large public corporations and smaller businesses, debtors, creditors' committees and trustees, across many industries. We have a proven track record of success, and understand full well that we are judged by the results we achieve for our clients
Paul Basta
Alice B. Eaton
Brian S. Hermann
Stephen J. Shimshak
The Paul, Weiss Restructuring Department continues to build on its reputation as a critical advisor in almost every major, complex and headline-grabbing restructuring matter, as demonstrated by the sheer number of high-profile representations we handle every year. We possess a thorough knowledge of every aspect of bankruptcy law, coupled with perspectives earned from representing every type of client. Our domestic and cross-border representations include debtors, official and unofficial committees of creditors, secured and unsecured creditors and equity sponsors in chapter 11 cases, corporate reorganizations and workouts and transactions involving financially distressed companies. We also routinely represent purchasers of the assets, debt and securities of distressed companies. We act on all sides of cutting-edge restructuring transactions and this depth of experience informs our practical, action-oriented advice.
Mark D. Collins
Daniel J. DeFranceschi
Richards, Layton & Finger, Delaware’s largest firm and one of its oldest, has been committed from its founding to helping sophisticated clients navigate complex issues and the intricacies of Delaware law. Our lawyers have been involved in drafting many of the state’s influential business statutes, and we have helped shape the law through our work on landmark cases decided in the Delaware courts. From global law firms to prominent individuals, local businesses to Fortune 500 companies, our clients count on us when they face complex bankruptcies and restructurings, high-stakes litigation, high-value transactions, or novel issues of law. http://www.rlf.com/
Gregg M. Galardi
Steven T. Hoort
James M. Wilton
When clients come to Ropes & Gray, they find a global team of more than 1,500+ professionals, whose top-notch skills, varied backgrounds and unique perspectives can help them meet high-stakes challenges, solve complex problems and reach their goals. An international presence, the firm has offices in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Dublin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul.
Sidley’s Global Restructuring Group consists of over 55 full-time restructuring lawyers, located principally in our Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Munich and New York offices. Our role is typically one of the primary roles in a restructuring, ranging from lead debtor’s counsel, committee counsel or lead counsel to the senior debt syndicate, and our matters generally involve the restructuring of large and mid-size companies throughout North America, Europe and Asia. We have extensive experience in navigating our clients through some of the largest and most challenging restructurings and Chapter 11 bankruptcies in the U.S. and globally. Our capabilities extend to virtually every aspect of the reorganization practice, but we have practical experience in guiding our clients through comprehensive consensual restructurings and recapitalizations, both in and out of court.
James Eric Ivester
Lisa Laukitis
Paul Leake
Kayalyn A. Marafioti
Ron E. Meisler
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates, a leading international law firm, has 22 offices and more than 1,700 attorneys worldwide. Our diversified practices offer solutions to challenging legal issues in virtually every area of corporate and business law. Skadden provides comprehensive legal representation and advice to clients competing in transactions and controversies in a global business environment. Our Corporate Restructuring Group provides solutions to clients involved in distressed company situations, allowing them to minimize costs, enhance value and properly position themselves for the future. Skadden handles restructurings both in and out of court, financial recapitalizations, business reorganizations, acquisitions and liquidations. A significant focus of our practice is avoiding or mitigating adverse effects of liquidity and other crises with contingency planning and alternatives to bankruptcy. Skadden helps clients minimize the time and expense of Chapter 11, and pioneered the use of quick, cost-efficient out-of-court and prepackaged financial restructurings.
Squire Patton Boggs is a renowned global law firm with a multidisciplinary team of more than 1,500 lawyers in 46 offices across 21 countries providing a seamless service that operates on any scale – locally or globally. Whatever is needed, we are able to deliver the cross-practice, cross-border and industry-specific support that clients require for success in today’s competitive and fast changing market. Our Restructuring & Insolvency team has been one of the largest and most respected practices in the industry for decades, with more than 110 lawyers in 26 offices across the US, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America. We are experienced and trusted advisors to the gamut of parties involved in restructuring and insolvency matters. Our skill and diversity across the full range of debtor and creditor work has enabled us to play important roles in many of the most significant restructurings and reorganizations, in the US and abroad.
SSG Capital Advisors is an independent boutique investment bank that assists middle-market companies and their stakeholders in completing special situation transactions. We provide our clients with comprehensive investment banking services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private placements, financial restructurings, valuations, litigation and strategic advisory. SSG has a proven track record of closing over 350 transactions in North America and Europe and is a leader in the industry..
Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP (“TGF”) is a Canadian boutique law firm with an office located in the financial district of Toronto, Ontario, practicing exclusively in two areas: litigation and restructuring. Our practice is focused, our expertise deep and our approach efficient. TGF is widely recognized for its leading national and international commercial litigation and insolvency practice, which is reflected in the high profile retainers it has enjoyed over the years and its wide range of clients including financial institutions, regulatory agencies, publicly traded companies and officers and directors.
Scott K. Charles
Richard G. Mason
Wachtell Lipton was founded on a handshake in 1965 as a small group of lawyers dedicated to providing advice and expertise at the highest levels.
We have achieved extraordinary results following the distinctive vision of our founders — a cohesive team of lawyers intensely focused on solving our clients’ most important problems.
We have experience in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, takeovers and takeover defense, shareholder activism, corporate and securities law and corporate governance. We handle some of the largest, most complex and demanding transactions in the United States and around the world. We counsel both public and private acquirors and targets. We handle sensitive investigation and litigation matters and corporate restructurings, and counsel boards of directors and senior management in critical situations. We have a track record of original and groundbreaking solutions and innovations that have had a dramatic impact on business and law. We are thought leaders.
Our distinctive structure defines our approach. We maintain a ratio of associates to partners significantly below that of other firms. We focus on matters that require the attention, extensive experience and sophistication of our partners. We limit the number and type of matters we undertake. Our system of lock-step compensation promotes a careful selection of matters as well as the flexibility to bring the right expertise to bear without regard to factors extrinsic to providing the best service and advice. We work together on a task-force basis on all of our matters, bringing to bear the requisite mix of people and expertise across practice areas. Our structure and approach attracts talented and entrepreneurial lawyers, who enable us to achieve excellent results for our clients in complex and critical matters.
Matt Barr
Gary Holtzer
Stephen Karotkin
Alfredo R. Perez
Ray C. Schrock
Founded in 1931, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has been a preeminent provider of legal services for the past 90 years. With approximately 1,100 lawyers in offices on three continents, Weil has been a pioneer in establishing a geographic footprint that has allowed the Firm to partner with clients wherever they do business. The Firm's four departments, Corporate, Litigation, Restructuring, and Tax, Executive Compensation & Benefits, and more than two dozen practice groups are consistently recognized as leaders in their respective fields. Weil has become a highly visible leader among major law firms for its innovative diversity and pro bono initiatives, the product of a comprehensive and long-term commitment which has ingrained these values into our culture. Our proven, demonstrated experience allows the Firm to provide clients with unmatched legal services. Please see www.weil.com for more information, including awards and rankings.
