Mr Gregory Petrick > Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
100 Bishopsgate
LONDON
EC2N 4AG
England

Work Department

Financial Restructuring

Position

Gregory M. Petrick, chair of Cadwalader’s Financial Restructuring Group and Managing Partner of the London office, has represented debtors, official unsecured creditors’ committees, secured lenders, state regulators, and trustees in complex business reorganizations. His practice encompasses counseling secured and unsecured lenders, creditor committees, public bondholders, debtors, shareholders, and investors involved in many of the largest and most complex U.S. and international reorganizations and restructurings, financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation. Greg has played a major role in the restructuring, reorganization, sale, or acquisition of businesses in the life insurance, financial services, telecommunications, energy, real estate, shipping, and hospitality industries. He has also led cross-border restructurings across Europe, Indonesia and Australia. Greg is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. He is also a registered foreign lawyer in England and Wales.

Education

Fordham University, School of Law J.D.
Boston University B.A., summa cum laude

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Transport > Shipping: finance

In addition to its track record in successfully representing creditors and bondholders in distressed shipping restructurings, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP‘s New York-based maritime law and shipping industry practice advises on major corporate transactions, including M&A, joint ventures and securities offerings. The team has recently been particularly active in shipping industry deals involving restructurings, financing and M&A matters. Consistently mandated by public companies, hedge funds, private equity houses and investment banks, co-chair of the firm’s corporate practice Richard Brand maintains an active shipping transactions practice, and complex business reorganization specialist Gregory Petrick, who works across the London and New York offices, is the firm’s financial restructuring group chair. In July 2022, Joshua Apfelroth exited the firm for Proskauer Rose LLP.