2026 Sustaining Patrons
The American College of Bankruptcy would like to acknowledge and thank the following firms for their commitment of $5000 for 2026:
Mark D. Bloom
Paul J. Keenan, Jr.
We regularly act for corporate debtors and insolvency practitioners as well as other stakeholders in a debtor's capital structure, including banks, bondholders and financial sponsors, in addition to funds and companies looking to invest in or acquire a distressed business. Our group is made up of over 100 globally experienced, locally qualified specialists across North America, Asia Pacific, EMEA and Latin America. We routinely call on the expertise of colleagues from a number of legal disciplines including tax, corporate, and disputes, as well as our industry specialists, to deliver comprehensive, coordinated and urgently available cross-border solutions (www.bakermckenzie.com)
Elizabeth A. Green
Jimmy D. Parrish
BakerHostetler helps clients around the world address their most complex and critical business and regulatory issues. With six core national practice groups – Business, Digital Assets and Data Management, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Litigation, and Tax – the firm has more than 1,000 attorneys located in 17 offices nationwide. BakerHostetler is recognized for its role as court-appointed counsel to the Securities Investor Protection Act Trustee in the recovery of billions of dollars lost in the Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard L. Madoff. Additionally, BakerHostetler is widely regarded as having one of the country’s top 10 tax practices, a nationally recognized litigation practice, a data privacy practice and an industry-leading middle-market business practice. Our attorneys have broad knowledge and experience spanning many industries, including energy, media, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services and insurance, consumer products, and hospitality. We distinguish ourselves through our commitment to the highest standard of client care. By emphasizing an approach to service delivery as exacting as our legal work, we are determined to surpass our clients’ expectations.
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
James R. Irving
Samuel R Maizel
Tania Moyron
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.
Amy Caton
Kenneth H. Eckstein
Thomas Moers Mayer
HFS Kramer 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 HFS Kramer 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.
Corinne Ball
Carl E. Black
Gregory M. Gordon
Carl M. Jenks
Heather Lennox
Daniel T. Moss
Kevyn D. Orr
Jones Day’s lawyers collaborate to resolve complex restructuring issues and problems in jurisdictions throughout the world. Debtors, creditors, and other parties involved in business restructurings, liability management exercises, 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 represent debtors, creditors, trustees, and insolvency practitioners in complex multijurisdictional restructurings, out-of-court workouts, chapter 11 and chapter 9 cases, administrations and schemes of arrangement, as well as distressed investors and acquirors of financially troubled enterprises.
Elizabeth J. Futrell
Kristina Michelle Johnson
R. Patrick Vance
Jones Walker LLP's Bankruptcy & Restructuring Team combines national reach with deep regional insight to guide clients through complex financial challenges. Backed by industry recognition and decades of experience, we help navigate clients through Chapter 11 cases, in and out of court restructurings, and litigation — balancing strategic insight with practical solutions for creditors, debtors, lenders, and stakeholders across key sectors.
Peter J. Benvenutti
Tobias S. Keller
Jane Kim
Berry D. Spears
Keller Benvenutti Kim LLP is a nationally-recognized corporate bankruptcy, restructuring, and crisis management law firm based in San Francisco, California. KBK attorneys represent distressed companies, creditors’ committees, investors, purchasers, and others in restructurings, bankruptcies, and other risk-laden situations, including litigation. The firm’s experience spans a range of business sectors, including technology, biotech, construction, energy, real estate, hospitality, healthcare, municipal debt, retail, transportation, telecom, and professional services
Malek Capital Advisors is a multi-disciplinary firm providing transaction, strategic, engineering and expert witness services to its national and international clientele comprising major public and private companies and their legal counsels. The firm has a track record of significant value-added services for established and growth companies, as well as companies experiencing underperformance and restructuring
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M3 is a leading, independent corporate advisory firm that provides operational, strategic, and financial solutions to a broad range of clients. M3's clients look to the firm for financial advisory services, performance improvement, and operational diligence during all stages and market cycles, and the firm is also called on to lead as interim management. M3 is well versed in navigating sensitive corporate situations and the firm has a demonstrated track record of achieving successful outcomes for clients, including in some of the most significant recent restructurings in the market. M3's engagement teams are led by senior turnaround veterans with decades of combined experience across key verticals. M3-partners.com
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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.
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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.
Recognized as Delaware’s premier law firm, Morris Nichols handles bet-the-company, high-stakes matters in the four key areas of corporate litigation, alternative entities and corporate counseling, bankruptcy and restructuring, and intellectual property litigation. The firm is regularly involved as lead counsel or co-counsel in matters of national and international significance, as well as those affecting its immediate community.
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
Susheel Kirpalani
K. John Shaffer
Quinn Emanuel is the largest firm devoted to resolution of disputes and similarly focuses on the disputes that arise in the context of bankruptcy and restructuring. The firm launched its bankruptcy and restructuring practice in 2007 on the even of the 2008 financial crisis, and has represented debtors, committees, equity sponsors, examiners, and
other stakeholders involved in all aspects of bankruptcy litigation. Some of the largest matters include Puerto Rico, Lyondell Basell, Delphi, Lehman Brothers, ResCap, SemGroup, General Motors, Solutia, and Jefferson County, as well as Refco and Enron.
Omar J. Alaniz
Keith M. Aurzada
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.
Robinson+Cole is an Am Law 200 law firm established 180 years ago, with a deeply rooted culture of collaboration, civility, and inclusion. The firm has more than 260 lawyers in twelve main offices throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Florida, California, and Texas, serving regional, national, and international clients, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
Jennifer C. Hagle
Samuel A. Newman
Rakhee Patel
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.
