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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices
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NEW YORK, NY 10153
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Ray Schrock
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. Focuses on complex, corporate international and domestic restructuring matters. Led and leading myriad high-profile out-of-court and in-court restructurings, including, the following significant public representations: Steward Health Care Systems, DIRECTV as a major commercial counterparty and creditor to Diamond Sports, Serta Simmons Bedding Company, Core Scientific, Air Methods, The Special Master for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware in connection CITGO Holding, Inc., Sunlight Financial Holdings Inc., AYR Wellness, Secured Noteholders of Nautical Solutions L.L.C., American Dream Mall, Phoenix Services, Ruby Pipeline, LLC, ATI Physical Therapy, Kabbage, Inc. (d/b/a Kservicing), Blackstone (several matters), Regis Corporation, MediaMath Holdings Inc., iFIT, Inc., MedMen Enterprises, Healogics, Inc., AMC Entertainment, Sears, Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation (PG&E), CBL & Associates Properties, NPC International, 24 Hour Fitness, Exide Holdings, J.Crew, Mortgage Contracting Services, Kingfisher Midstream, Fairway Markets, Ditech, A&P Supermarkets, LBI Media, Southeastern Grocers (Winn Dixie/Bi-Lo), Claire’s Stores, Tops Supermarkets, Fieldwood Energy, Aeropostale, Breitburn Energy Partners, Walter Investment Management, Tidewater, Vantage Drilling, and Basic Energy Services. Represents PE and institutional clients holding significant equity or fulcrum debt security positions in capital structures. Recent engagements include significant matters for Blackstone, TPG, Peak Rock Capital, AIG, Prudential, Advent International, American Securities, Providence Partners, and Leonard Green Partners. Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy.
Education
Western Michigan University (BBA, magna cum laude); IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law (JD, high honors, note and comment editor, Chicago-Kent Law Review).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
(Leading lawyers)Led by heads Matt Barr, Gary Holtzer and Ray Schrock, 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 and Alexander Welch 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. Candace Arthur is noted for her advisory services for a range of parties in out-of-court and in-court domestic and international corporate restructurings. 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.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers 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