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Advises clients in all areas of domestic and cross-border restructurings, crisis management, and corporate governance, including representing debtors, creditors, and equity interest holders in both in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Adept at identifying and quickly understanding clients’ unique business issues and goals, and providing clients with practical, actionable, and efficient solutions. Experienced in developing creative legal strategies, negotiating and drafting complex commercial documents, and arguing contested matters in bankruptcy court.Specialties: Business Finance & Restructuring Law

Listed skills include Restructuring, Bankruptcy, Distressed Debt, Debtor/Creditor Law, and 32 others.

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  Partner

  Weil, Gotshal, And Manges Llp

  Sep 2004 - Present

  Represented (among others): • Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), in connection with its global restructuring and chapter 11 reorganization;• Air Methods, the nation's leading air medical service provider, in its prepackaged chapter 11 cases;• An ad hoc group of secured lenders to Nordic Aviation Capital on bespoke restructuring transactions for multiple aviation financing structures implemented under pre-arranged U.S. chapter 11 proceedings;• Norwegian Air Shuttle and its affiliate in their U.S. chapter 15 cases to obtain recognition of their $5.9 billion restructuring;• Waypoint Holdings Ltd., a global helicopter leasing company, in its chapter 11 cases;• National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation (MBIA), in connection with the Title III cases of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and certain of its instrumentalities; • CHC Group, a global helicopter service provider operating on six continents with more than 220 aircraft, in its chapter 11 cases; • LEGO, as a significant creditor in the Toys R Us chapter 11 cases; and• FGIC in its New York State court rehabilitation proceeding, and as a creditor in the chapter 9 cases of the City of Detroit and Jefferson County.