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Debra Dandeneau
Work Department
Banking and Finance
Position
Debra A. Dandeneau is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Global Restructuring & Insolvency Group based in the Firm’s New York office. Her practice focuses on distressed situations, including debtor and creditors’ rights. Debra served as Chair of the Global Restructuring & Insolvency Group from 2016 through 2022.
Debra has been ranked by Chambers & Partners in their 2024 guide in the area of Bankruptcy and Restructuring and was awarded “Highly Commended” in the Chambers 2024 awards for US Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year. Debra also has received a number of other recognitions in the field of Restructuring & Insolvency, including Restructuring & Insolvency Lawyer of the Year from the Women in Business Law Awards 2023/Americas (short-listed in 2024); Lawdragon’s 2024 list of the 500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers; one of the 2023 “Notable Women in Law” in Crain’s New York; “Lawyer of the Year” in “Litigation – Bankruptcy” in Best Lawyers in America, New York City in 2022; and the Top Women in Dealmaking award (Restructuring) from The Deal in 2021 and 2022.
Debra regularly speaks on restructuring issues and is frequently quoted in, and interviewed by, the media, including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and BBC Radio.
Career
- Debra’s debtor representations include Aleris International, Armstrong World Industries, Brothers Gourmet Coffee, Daffy’s, Eagle-Picher Industries, Formica Corporation, LandSource Communities Development (Newhall Land & Farming), Magellan Health Services, Maidenform Corporation, Okeelanta Power Corporation, Petite Concepts, Sun Healthcare Group, and Takata Corporation.
- In addition to her many out-of-court restructuring deals, Debra has represented creditors and other parties in a number of high-profile bankruptcy cases, including those of GOL Linhas, Highland Capital Management, Westinghouse, Essar Steel Minnesota, Mt Gox, MF Global, Empire Generating, Catalina Marketing, TerraVia, Caesars Entertainment, the Archdiocese of Portland, the Diocese of Spokane, the city of Stockton, the city of San Bernardino, Homer City Generating, and Montreal, Maine & Atlantic.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
Baker McKenzie has an established team that has an extensive background in domestic and cross-border out-of-court corporate restructurings and formal bankruptcy cases. The group is primarily located in New York and Miami and has experience in key bankruptcy courts, including New York and Delaware. It represents an array of debtors, creditors and liquidators. Former chair of the global restructuring and insolvency group, New York-based Debra Dandeneau continues to be a prominent figure in headline restructurings and bankruptcies, particularly cross-border matters. Mark Bloom is North America chair of the global restructuring and insolvency practice, with more than 40 years’ experience in the field. Paul Keenan is further recognised for cross-border restructurings, including landmark cases, particularly those involving Latin American debtors. Named individuals are based in Miami unless stated otherwise.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Finance > Fintech
- Finance > Project finance
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- International trade and national security > National Security
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense