David Meyer > Vinson & Elkins LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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David Meyer
Work Department
Restructuring & Reorganization
Position
Partner
Career
David is the co-head of Vinson & Elkins’ Restructuring and Reorganization group. His practice involves representing debtors, creditors, equity holders, and investors in all aspects of complex corporate restructurings including chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, and special situation investments and acquisitions. David also advises boards of directors and senior management of financially troubled companies regarding fiduciary duties, restructuring strategies and considerations, operating in chapter 11, and negotiating and structuring financings and other complex commercial transactions.
He was recently selected as one of six lawyers appointed nationally to join the reconstituted Complex Case Committee in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas – a popular forum for filing large and complex chapter 11 cases – to assist the Court in evaluating protocol for the in-court restructuring processes and other key elements of bankruptcy practice.
David is a member of the firm’s Partnership Admission Committee and Recruiting Committee, and is the Talent Management lead for the Restructuring and Reorganization group in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
David Meyer and Bill Wallander, in New York and Dallas respectively, head Vinson & Elkins LLP’s restructuring and reorganization practice, which is best known for its work in the energy sector, and also represents companies, institutional and alternative lenders, private equity sponsors, distressed purchasers, and other interested parties in relation to in- and out-of-court restructuring matters in a variety of industries. Meyer has recently led a team, alongside Paul Heath in Houston, advising Riverstone Holdings LLC and certain of its funds as equity owners of Talen Energy Corporation in connection with the Chapter 11 case Talen Energy Supply. Wallander has considerable experience representing creditors, syndicated bank groups, bondholder groups, non-bank lenders, private equity funds, and debtors.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Government > Government relations
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Government > Government contracts
- Finance > Project finance
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Real estate > Land use/zoning