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Scott A. Lewis is a partner and member of Chapman’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group. He represents investment banks, trustees, financial institutions, secured lenders, and other commercial clients in bankruptcy, workout, and commercial litigation matters involving a wide range of industries. Additionally, Lewis advises on bankruptcy safe harbors for derivative transactions, RMBS representation and warranty litigation, […]

Matthew C. Rodrigue is a managing director and co-head of Miller Buckfire & Co., a New York-based investment bank that advises on complex debt restructurings. In recent years, he and his team have advised the Senior COFINA Ad Hoc Group, the Lawful Constitutional Debtholders Coalition (LCDC), the Ad Hoc Group of FGIC-wrapped Noteholders, and National […]

Sean A. Gumbs is a senior managing director in FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance practice and co-leads the firm’s municipal finance offering. He routinely advises stakeholders in complex corporate and public sector restructurings. He has advised stakeholders on Puerto Rico matters over many years, including work for the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico (GDB) and […]

Jack Luze is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s restructuring group based in Chicago. Luze’s practice focuses on representing companies and investors in all aspects of in- and out-of-court restructurings, liability management transactions, and insolvency proceedings.

Robert D. Gordon is a partner and co-chair of the Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice in the New York office of Jenner & Block LLP. He represents distressed companies, significant creditor constituencies, and other parties in interest in complex and high-stakes corporate and public sector restructurings. He currently is counsel to the Official Committee of Retirees […]

Steven Serajeddini is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s restructuring group based in New York. Serajeddini advises companies and investors with respect to public, private, and portfolio companies in financial distress, including liability management transactions, in- and out-of-court restructurings, and bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings.

Russell Brooks is a senior director at FTI Consulting. He specializes in insolvency litigation and recovery actions, corporate restructuring, bankruptcy administration services, and non-bankruptcy forensic accounting and commercial litigation matters. With more than 12 years of consulting experience, Brooks has performed a variety of advisory and fiduciary services to bankrupt or troubled entities or their […]

James Lathrop is a restructuring associate in the New York office of Goodwin Procter LLP. He concentrates his practice on bankruptcy and corporate restructuring matters. This encompasses representations of companies, committees, and creditors in Chapter 11 reorganizations in bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court workouts. Lathrop previously served as a law clerk in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court […]

Rick Arrowsmith is a senior managing director at FTI Consulting. He specializes in turnaround and restructuring advisory work, concentrated in sub-acute care, laboratory, and healthcare real estate. Arrowsmith has more than 25 years of creditor workout experience and has participated in hundreds of mediations, in both bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy litigations. He has served as a […]

Michael Pluta, a managing partner of the law firm PLUTA Rechtsanwalts GmbH, is an attorney-at-law specializing in insolvency and a certified accountant. His activities are focused on restructuring and turning around companies that have been affected by a crisis or insolvency, on auditing accounts and financial reporting, and on buying and selling companies. Pluta’s restructuring […]