2025 Sustaining Patrons
The American College of Bankruptcy would like to acknowledge and thank the following firms for their commitment of $5000 for 2025:
The American College of Bankruptcy would like to acknowledge and thank the following firms for their commitment of $5000 for 2025:
Mark D. Bloom
Paul J. Keenan, Jr.
https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/
Founded in 1949, Baker & McKenzie advises many of the world's most dynamic and successful business organizations through our 4,000+ attorneys in 74 offices in 45 locations. The Firm is known for its global perspective, deep understanding of the local language and culture of business, uncompromising commitment to excellence, and world-class fluency in its client service. (www.bakermckenzie.com)
Thomas E. Biron
Regina Stango Kelbon
Michael B. Schaedle
Raymond L. Shapiro
Blank Rome LLP is an Am Law 100 firm with more than 600 attorneys and 13 offices in the United States and in China. Secured and unsecured creditors, trustees, financial institutions, private equity and hedge funds, and officers, directors, managers and strategic investors look to us for insightful and forward-looking advice on funding and purchasing assets and businesses in distress as well as structuring, proposing and implementing plans under insolvency laws. Our attorneys aim to maximize successful outcomes for clients by taking a pragmatic approach in an efficient manner, combining experience and creative strategies that address the nuances of each situation, as well as providing risk assessment and counsel on alternatives to and structure of transactions, litigation and dispute resolution. Learn more about our firm’s exceptional skill in helping clients navigate complex business and financial challenges at www.blankrome.com
Jay Bender
Robert B. Glenn
William L. Norton III
Bradley is a national law firm with a global perspective. Our firm has more than 500 attorneys serving established regional, national and international companies, emerging businesses and individuals. Our offices — strategically located in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the District of Columbia — provide an extensive geographic base from which to best accommodate our clients. Recognized across the country, our attorneys serve as national, regional, and statewide counsel for clients across many industries. Clients rely on us for innovative legal services that reflect a deep understanding of their business objectives.
M. Natasha Labovitz
Sidney P. Levinson
Debevoise & Plimpton is a premier law firm with market-leading practices, a global perspective and strong New York roots. More than 800 lawyers work in nine offices across three continents, within integrated global practices, serving clients around the world. Our Restructuring practice regularly plays a major role in high-profile out-of-court restructurings, strategic transactions and litigation involving troubled businesses, Chapter 11 cases and cross-border insolvencies. Drawing on an extensive and diverse network of resources, Debevoise lawyers work side by side with clients on their toughest and most critical restructuring challenges.
Kenneth L. Cannon II
Samuel R Maizel
James R. Irving
Dentons is designed to be different. The challenges that our clients are navigating and the opportunities they are advancing are changing at an accelerating pace. We are a law firm that embraces change and can help you grow, protect, operate and finance your organization. This is why Dentons is organized to offer more than legal insight; we help you find business solutions, in a seamless fashion, across the globe. Our award-winning Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy group is full-service and global, with broad experience on behalf of a wide range of clients. Our lawyers' experience covers every aspect of in-and out-of-court restructuring, bankruptcy, reorganization and creditors’ rights representation, and includes some of the largest and most complex cases. We advise clients as to their best option in a particular situation.
Daniel M. Glosband
Michael H. Goldstein
Michael J. Pappone
William P. Weintraub
Goodwin builds lasting relationships with our clients, including many of the world’s most successful and innovative leaders, entrepreneurs, companies, and investors within the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology, and financial services industries, and where they converge. Our immersive understanding of our clients’ industries — combined with our expertise across high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution, world-class regulatory compliance and advisory services, and complex transactions — sets us apart.
Corinne Ball
Carl E. Black
Gregory M. Gordon
Carl M. Jenks
Heather Lennox
Kevyn D. Orr
https://www.jonesday.com/en/firm?tab=overview
Jones Day's Business Restructuring & Reorganization practice resolves complex restructuring issues and problems in jurisdictions throughout the world. Borrowers/debtors, creditors, and other parties involved in complex business restructurings, out-of-court workouts, chapter 11 cases, and other transactions with financially distressed entities receive a full range of services from more than 100 restructuring lawyers in financial centers worldwide. We are a global law firm with more than 2,500 lawyers in 42 offices on five continents. The Firm is distinguished by: a singular tradition of client service; the mutual commitment to, and the seamless collaboration of, a true partnership; formidable legal talent across multiple disciplines and jurisdictions; and shared professional values that focus on client needs.
Elizabeth J. Futrell
Kristina Michelle Johnson
R. Patrick Vance
Jones Walker LLP is among the largest 120 law firms in the United States. With offices in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, and Texas, we serve local, regional, national, and international business interests. The firm provides legal services to major multinational, public, and private companies and individuals doing business in the United States and abroad.
Peter J. Benvenutti
Tobias S. Keller
Jane Kim
Berry D. Spears
Keller Benvenutti Kim is proud to be a Sustaining Patron of the College. KBK is a San Francisco-based corporate bankruptcy and restructuring boutique law firm, advising and representing clients in in-court and out-of-court insolvency and distressed situations and proceedings. Four of KBK's partners are Fellows of the College, including all three of the firm's name partners.
Amy Caton
Kenneth H. Eckstein
Thomas Moers Mayer
https://www.kramerlevin.com/en/
Kramer Levin provides proactive, creative and pragmatic solutions that address today’s most challenging legal issues. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Silicon Valley and Paris and fosters a strong culture of involvement in public and community service. For more than 30 years, creditors, debtor corporations, investors, lenders and acquirers have turned to Kramer Levin to solve complicated bankruptcy and restructuring problems, to structure and lead negotiations that harmonize divergent interests and achieve consensual solutions, and to win suits in bankruptcy court, courts of appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court. Representing clients throughout the United States, we typically take on cases that involve multiple debtors with competing secured and unsecured creditors, complex restructurings, and contested interdebtor and intercreditor issues.
Paul S. Aronzon
Gregory A. Bray
Dennis F. Dunne
Evan R. Fleck
Lisa Laukitis
Milbank LLP is a leading international law firm providing innovative legal solutions to clients throughout the world for 150 years. Milbank is headquartered in New York and has offices in Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, São Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, DC.
The firm’s lawyers provide a full range of legal services to the world’s leading commercial, financial and industrial enterprises, as well as to institutions, individuals and governments. Milbank’s lawyers meet the needs of our clients by offering a highly integrated and collaborative range of services across key practice groups throughout our global network. Milbank’s integrated practice is underpinned by our attorneys’ acknowledged technical excellence, sectoral expertise and a strong tradition of innovation and client service
Milbank’s key areas of practice include: Corporate, Finance, Financial Restructuring, Litigation and Arbitration, Capital Markets, Tax, and Trusts, Estates and Exempt Organizations.
Daniel S. Bleck
William W. Kannel
Mintz is a versatile am law 100 law firm with 600+ attorneys serving clients worldwide. We collaborate across disciplines to deliver exceptional legal strategies that help clients navigate shifting industry challenges. Our attorneys advise business leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors on pivotal deals, disputes, and regulatory matters. We work within four core practice areas — transactional, intellectual property, litigation & investigations, and regulatory & advisory — and serve industries including the life sciences; health care; technology; insurance & financial services; energy & sustainability; sports & entertainment; real estate, construction & infrastructure; retail & consumer products; and education & nonprofit sectors.
Scott Atkins
Jason L. Boland
Toby L. Gerber
William R. Greendyke
Ryan E. Manns
Howard Seife
https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/
Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. With more than 50 offices in over 30 countries, our global financial restructuring and insolvency lawyers are at the forefront of many of the most significant cross-border restructuring and insolvency cases involving complex multi-jurisdictional issues and regional insolvency laws.
We use the wide range of legal disciplines of lawyers from our worldwide offices in the fields of banking and finance; corporate, M&A and securities; and employment and labor to meet the challenges throughout all stages of a restructuring matter.
Our team acts for a full range of clients delivering worldwide financial restructuring and insolvency services in all key industry sectors. Our client portfolio includes lenders, private equity and distressed debt funds, hedge funds, bondholders, public and private corporations, debtors, liquidators, examiners, office-holders, secured and unsecured creditors, committees, management and other relevant stakeholders
Omar J. Alaniz
Keith M. Aurzada
Derek Baker
Kurt F. Gwynne
Paul M. Singer
Reed Smith is a global relationship law firm with more than 1,700 lawyers in 27 offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. We are an entity as diverse as the continents across which we practice and the clients that we serve. Founded in 1877, the firm represents leading international businesses, from Fortune 100 corporations to mid-market and emerging enterprises.
Reed Smith is a preeminent advisor to industries including financial services, life sciences & health, energy & natural resources, entertainment & media, and shipping. Our lawyers provide litigation and other dispute-resolution services in multi-jurisdictional and high-stakes matters, deliver regulatory counsel, and execute the full range of strategic domestic and cross-border transactions.
Mark D. Collins
Daniel J. DeFranceschi
Richards, Layton & Finger, Delaware’s largest firm and one of its oldest, has been committed from its founding to helping sophisticated clients navigate complex issues and the intricacies of Delaware law. Our lawyers have been involved in drafting many of the state’s influential business statutes, and we have helped shape the law through our work on landmark cases decided in the Delaware courts. From global law firms to prominent individuals, local businesses to Fortune 500 companies, our clients count on us when they face complex bankruptcies and restructurings, high-stakes litigation, high-value transactions, or novel issues of law. http://www.rlf.com/
Sidley’s global Restructuring group is regularly involved in the largest restructurings throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. The team consists of nearly 80 full-time restructuring lawyers, located principally in our Chicago, Dallas, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C. offices. We represent companies facing in-court or out-of-court restructurings, official and ad hoc committees of creditors, agent lenders, and participants in distressed M&A processes. Sidley’s extensive representations involve some of the largest Chapter 11 restructurings and are characterized by complex capital structures, numerous subsidiaries in the U.S. and globally, and a broad range of challenging legal issues. Companies place their trust in Sidley’s Restructuring group when faced with their starkest challenges. Our restructuring lawyers deploy a combination of decades of practical experience coupled with Sidley’s premier legal industrial knowledge base to achieve superlative outcomes.
We have effectively tailored our legal and commercial strategies to small and mid-sized companies in addition to leading some of the most challenging, complex, and contentious restructuring transactions in recent history. Our lawyers work tirelessly to find creative and commercial solutions with the paramount goal of preserving and maximizing value, protecting jobs, and driving consensus with stakeholders, oftentimes outside of the spotlight of in-court processes.
Squire Patton Boggs is a renowned global law firm with a multidisciplinary team of more than 1,500 lawyers in 46 offices across 21 countries providing a seamless service that operates on any scale – locally or globally. Whatever is needed, we are able to deliver the cross-practice, cross-border and industry-specific support that clients require for success in today’s competitive and fast changing market. Our Restructuring & Insolvency team has been one of the largest and most respected practices in the industry for decades, with more than 110 lawyers in 26 offices across the US, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America. We are experienced and trusted advisors to the gamut of parties involved in restructuring and insolvency matters. Our skill and diversity across the full range of debtor and creditor work has enabled us to play important roles in many of the most significant restructurings and reorganizations, in the US and abroad.
SSG Capital Advisors is an independent boutique investment bank that assists middle-market companies and their stakeholders in completing special situation transactions. We provide our clients with comprehensive investment banking services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private placements, financial restructurings, valuations, litigation and strategic advisory. SSG has a proven track record of closing over 350 transactions in North America and Europe and is a leader in the industry..
Venable is a network of trusted advisors serving businesses, organizations, and individuals in many of the most important aspects of their work. Our capabilities span virtually every industry and all areas of corporate and business law, regulatory and government affairs, intellectual property, and complex litigation. With more than 850 professionals delivering services across 10 offices in the United States, we help clients connect quickly and effectively to the experience and insights they need to achieve their most pressing objectives.