Link to Firm Bio Heather Lennox has played a leading role in Jones Day’s representations of debtors and potential debtors, creditors’ committees, prepetition secured lenders, bank groups, DIP lenders, credit card processors, and other significant creditors in many of the nation’s largest in-court and out-of-court corporate restructurings. She has substantial experience counseling clients in fraudulent … Continued
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Prior to joining Willkie in 2022, Hon. Shelley C. Chapman (RET.) served as U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York since 2010. A widely-recognized leader of the bankruptcy bar, Judge Chapman oversaw the Lehman Brothers Holdings bankruptcy case—the largest bankruptcy case in history—and many other chapter 11 mega-cases and chapter 15 cross-border proceedings, … Continued
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Link to Firm Bio Brady Williamson is a constitutional and corporate litigator who has taught periodically at the University of Wisconsin Law School for more than 20 years. Brady is a member of the firm’s Business, Finance and Restructuring Practice Group. He has successfully represented clients in the U.S. Supreme Court, see, e.g., Farrey v. … Continued
Mr. White recently retired from O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he founded the Restructuring and Reorganization Department. During his tenure at O’Melveny, Mr. White represented debtors, bank financiers, secured and unsecured creditors, creditor committees, bank committees, equity holders and acquirers in connection with workouts and restructurings across a broad range of industries. He was involved … Continued
Link to Academic Bio One of the nation’s most distinguished scholars in the field of bankruptcy, and a pioneer in empirical studies in this area, Professor Westbrook also teaches and writes in commercial law and international business transactions. He practiced in all these areas for more than a decade with Surrey & Morse (now part … Continued
Jane Lee Vris most recently worked at Millstein & Co., until its sale to Guggenheim Securities in 2018. Previously, she was a a founding partner of Cronin & Vris, LLP and also a partner in the creditors’ rights department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. She specializes in representations involving out of court restructurings and reorganizations under … Continued