Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Richard Nevins, a Senior Counsel, practices in Cadwalader's Financial Restructuring Group. He focuses on complex financial restructurings, special situation and high yield financings and refinancings, and public and private company M&A transactions (in both solvent and distressed contexts). Richard has represented creditors, debtors and other stakeholders in closing restructurings and other transactions worldwide, involving corporates in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Poland, Norway, Ukraine, the Netherlands and Russia. Richard is very experienced in the issuance and restructuring of New York law high yield bonds, the application and interpretation of the U.S. Federal securities laws and Delaware corporate law, and the implementation of financial restructurings through both U.S. Chapter 11 proceedings and U.K. schemes of arrangement. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and is a registered foreign lawyer in England and Wales.