The team at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP works closely with US, UK and European funds and creditors on US bankruptcy matters, including Chapter 11 bankruptcies, litigation and various other restructuring issues. New York-based co-head Gregory Petrick counsels syndicates, distressed investors, private credit funds and regulators in relation to various cross-border transactions, and other co-head Douglas Mintz, who joined from McDermott Will & Schulte in March 2025, focuses on acting for creditors in liability management transactions and special situations, splitting time between Washington DC and New York. New York-based bankruptcy litigation specialist Casey Servais also handles distressed municipal finance and financial restructuring, as does Thomas Curtin.
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Testimonials
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‘Great team. Very experienced in multiple areas. Commercial.’
‘Casey Servais was super responsive, had tonnes of past experience in what we were looking at and was able to turn around complicated documents quickly and efficiently. He was also useful in getting the counterparty to understand the need for key commercial teams.’
‘I have known Gregory Petrick for many years. He is a first-class lawyer who is extremely client-centric and looks to solve problems in a commercial manner.’
Key clients
- Assured Guaranty Inc.
- Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.
- Canyon Partners, LLC
- Farallon Capital Management, LLC
- Ellington Management Group on behalf of certain funds and Ankura Trust Co, LLC
- Advantage Capital Holdings LLC
- Ankura Trust Co, LLC
- OWS CRE Funding I LLC
- Wilmington Savings Fund Society
- Soros Capital Management
Work highlights
Advising Assured Guaranty Inc. in connection with the restructuring proceedings for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its instrumentalities.
Advising an ad hoc group of preferred equity holders who held preferred equity in the prominent cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
Advising Ellington Management Group as the holder of nearly two-thirds of the debt outstanding under Lifescan Global Corporation ’s 2018 First Lien Credit Agreement.
Practice head
Gregory Petrick; Douglas Mintz; Bevis Metcalfe
Other key lawyers
Casey Servais; Kathryn Borgeson; Thomas Curtin