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Proskauer Rose LLP
11 TIMES SQUARE
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10036-8299
NEW YORK
United States
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Work Department

Restructuring & Bankruptcy

Position

David M. Hillman is Proskauer’s Global Co-Chair of the Restructuring Group and co-head of the Private Credit Restructuring Group.

David has 30 years of experience with an emphasis on representing private credit lenders, private funds, sovereign wealth funds and other alternative lenders and distressed investors in special situations and restructurings both in and out of court. He has substantial experience in every phase of restructuring and distressed investing, including credit bid sales under section 363, debt-for-equity swaps, chapter 11 plans, out-of-court restructurings and foreclosures, as well as navigating inter-creditor issues involving liability management transactions the relative rights of majority and minority lenders. David also litigates the issues facing private credit lenders, including issues involving plan confirmation, solvency, valuation, inter-creditor disputes, financing and cash collateral disputes, fraudulent transfers, equitable subordination, recharacterization, breach of fiduciary duty and similar disputes.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate

Proskauer Rose LLP‘s bankruptcy and restructuring practice is fuelled to a large degree by the firm’s strength in private credit, resulting in a slew of private credit restructurings for the team. As a creditor-focused group, it has handled a series of high-value and large-scale restructurings, including representing the term loan lenders (KKR Capital, AresCapital and BlackRock Capital) in the restructuring of over $1.5bn of Kellermeyer Bergensons Services’ debt. It also represents borrowers, debtors, unsecured creditors, boards of directors and other constituencies. David Hillman and Vincent Indelicato are global Co-chairs of the business solutions, governance, restructuring and bankruptcy group, with the former also co-heading the private credit restructuring group. Both are based in New York.