With lawyers across numerous major cities, the practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP handles complex creditors’ rights work for domestic and international financial institutions as well as representing debtors hailing from a wide sector spread. The team has experienced with Chapter 11 cases, pre-arranged and pre-packaged bankruptcies, out-of-court restructurings, distressed M&As, capital raising and refinancings, recapitalizations and asset sales. New York-based Andrew Troop leads the operation and advises an international client base of creditors, debtors and other stakeholders. In Houston, Hugh Ray acts for public companies, major creditors and committees facing various bankruptcy, reorganization and litigation issues. In New York, Patrick Potter works with clients in real estate, healthcare and hospitality, as well as advising the Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program, USAID, the World Bank and foreign governments on insolvency-related matters. Also in New York, Michael Burke represents parties on all sides of bankruptices, out-of-court-restructuring matters, distressed acquisitions and other related matters.
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Key clients

  • Joint Liquidators of Genting Hong Kong Limited
  • Attorney General for the State of Rhode Island
  • Biolase, Inc.
  • Amerijet International Airlines
  • AerCap Ireland Limited
  • Scott Seidel, chapter 7 Trustee of EFO Holdings, L.P. and Joe Samuel Bailey, Laserscopic Spinal Centers of America, Inc., Laserscopic Spine Centers of America, Inc., and Laserscopic Medical Clinic, LLC
  • Twinwood Cattle Company, Inc. (U.S.)
  • Chevron USA
  • AMG National Trust Bank
  • Hyundai Steel Company
  • Nikola Corporation
  • Puerto Rico Pension Reserve Board
  • Multi State Executive Committee in Endo Pharma
  • Joint Official Liquidators of IIG Global Trade Finance Fund Ltd. & IIG Structured Trade Finance Fund Ltd. – Chapter 15 - U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
  • National Bank of Kuwait, S.A.K.P., New York Branch
  • Joint Official Liquidators of ECM Straits Fund I, LP et al.
  • Executive Office of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Practice head

Andrew Troop

Other key lawyers

Hugh Ray; Patrick Potter; Michael Burke; John Pintarelli; Patrick Fitzmaurice; Dania Slim; Andrew Alfano; James Dickinson