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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices
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Gary Holtzer
Position
Co-Chair of Weil’s Restructuring Department
Career
Co-Chair of Weil’s Restructuring Department and a member of the Firm’s Global Management Committee. He focuses on domestic and international restructurings, crisis management, corporate governance, financings and acquisitions involving distressed situations. Lead restructuring representations include: WeWork Inc. (counsel to SoftBank Group Corp. and SoftBank Vision Fund II), Cano Health, Western Global Airlines, Cyxtera Technologies, Inc. (counsel to Digital Realty and Digital CR US REIT), Scandinavian Airlines, LATAM Airlines (counsel to Apollo Global Management), All Year Holdings, Katerra Inc. (counsel to the DIP lender and equity interest holder), Brooks Brothers, Skillsoft Corporation, Briggs and Stratton, Speedcast International, Ashford Trust, Halcón Resources, Johnson and Johnson, Insys Therapeutics, Fusion Connect, Catalina Marketing, Westinghouse Electric Company, Waypoint Holdings, General Growth Properties, CHC Group, GulfMark Offshore, Paragon Offshore PLC, Memorial Production Partners, Ambac Assurance, Endeavour International, and Financial Guaranty Insurance Company. Adjunct Professor, Cardozo School of Law; Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy.
Education
Cornell University; Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
(Leading partners)Led by heads Matt Barr and Gary Holtzer, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP handles complex restructuring matters alongside every type of consensual and litigated restructuring transactions. The firm has served as chief debtors’ counsel in a number of major bankruptcy filings, as well as representing clients in complicated international insolvencies. In the case of Talen Energy Supply, LLC and its direct and indirect wholly owned subsidiaries, New York based Matt Barr advised Talen Energy Supply in connection with their evaluation of strategic alternatives with respect to $5bn in funded indebtedness. The team is part of a global network, utilizing its offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai to assist on restructuring matters across the globe. Garrett Fail’s practice covers all aspects of domestic and international debt restructurings, including crisis management and corporate governance, while Ronit Berkovich represents a range of parties across the debtor and creditor landscape, including acting as debtors’ counsel in large chapter 11 cases. Jeffrey Saferstein practices in corporate restructurings and workouts, as well as bankruptcy and specialized financings.Kelly DiBlasi and Jessica Liou are names to watch, and Lauren Tauro was promoted to partner in January 2023. Unless otherwise stated, all lawyers included are based in New York. Ray Schrock, Candace Arthur, and Alexander Welch have left the firm.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Tax > Financial products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense