Andrew Goldman > WilmerHale > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

WilmerHale
7 WORLD TRADE CENTER
250 GREENWICH STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10007
NEW YORK
United States

Position

PARTNER

Co-Chair, Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Practice Group

Career

Andrew Goldman is co-chair of the firm’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Practice Group, resident in the New York office. He is comfortable handling bankruptcy-related litigation and corporate issues. Having practiced in the field for more than 25 years, Mr. Goldman is a seasoned bankruptcy litigator and counselor whose practical insights and analytical abilities enable him to fashion strategy and form consensus in the most complicated of restructuring environments.

Mr. Goldman’s practice is broad ranging, and includes representation of large public company debtors, creditors’ committees, DIP lenders, acquirers and individual institutional creditors, in both out-of-court workouts and formal restructuring processes (both domestic and of the cross-border type).

Professional Activities

Mr. Goldman was selected for the 2010 and 2011 Editorial Advisory Board for Bankruptcy Law360. He is a member of the Brooklyn Law School Zaretsky Roundtable, and guest lectures the advanced Business Reorganizations’ class at Brooklyn Law School as well. He is also a frequent lecturer on restructuring at The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Memberships

  • New York

Education

  • JD, Brooklyn Law School, 1992
  • BS, The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, 1989

Lawyer Rankings

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

Philip Anker and Andrew Goldman jointly lead the New York-based practice at WilmerHale, which is well known for its bankruptcy litigation expertise, especially in the energy and natural resources, retail, and media sectors, and has been involved in several of the major bankruptcy cases of the last few years. Anker has experience representing debtors, official committees of unsecured creditors, ad hoc groups, noteholders, indenture trustees, and equity holders, and has recently led a team representing Hartford Financial Services Group in connection with the high-profile Chapter 11 case of The Boy Scouts of America Goldman handles bankruptcy-related litigation for a wide range of clients, including debtors, creditors, debtor-in-possession lenders, and distressed asset acquirers, George Shuster specializes in restructuring matters in the life sciences sector, while Benjamin Loveland has a strong reputation for representing distressed debt investors.