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Dechert LLP Offices
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NEW YORK
United States
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Eric Hilmo
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Position
Associate
Career
Eric Hilmo’s practice focuses on representation of secured and unsecured creditors, bondholder groups, bank groups, and debtors in large-scale restructurings and reorganizations and in non-judicial workouts throughout the United States and internationally.
Prior to joining Dechert, Mr. Hilmo served as an associate in the restructuring and insolvency departments of other national and international law firms. Mr. Hilmo also served as an officer in the United States Air Force attaining the rank of Captain.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
Dechert LLP‘s New York-based financial restructuring practice handles domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters, alongside having attorneys with expertise who are able to represent a diverse range of parties, including ad hoc and official committees of creditors to investors of distressed assets and debt. The team integrates its global team to be able to handle bankruptcy proceedings across the globe. Allan Brilliant represents banking groups, unsecured creditors’ and bondholder committees. Stephen Zide is a key contact for advice Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. Stephen Wolpert and Eric Hilmo are names to watch. Douglas Mannal left the firm in March 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)