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Robert D. Drain

Robert D. Drain

Work Department

Corporate Restructuring

Position

Of Counsel

Career

Robert Drain served for 20 years as a U.S. bankruptcy judge for the Southern District of New York, presiding over many impactful business and consumer cases. In his current practice at Skadden, he advises on U.S. and cross-border Chapter 11 and 15 reorganizations and litigation, out-of-court restructurings, distressed M&A and investments in troubled companies, debtor-in-possession loans and exit financings, as well as potential examiner or trustee roles and mediations.

Education

J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1984 (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) B.A., Yale University, 1979 (with honors; cum laude)