ArentFox Schiff

ArentFox Schiff‘s team represents a premier restructuring practice with experience in bond workouts, municipal bankruptcy, municipal finance and public pensions. Attorneys’ expertise extends to remedies outside of bankruptcy, including a range of services from negotiating workouts to restructuring advice. The firm has specialists with dedicated Chapter 9 skills and municipal bond default workout expertise, having represented clients in a wide array of the most impactful municipal bankruptcy and Chapter 9 proceedings of the past several years. New York-based Les Jacobowitz primarily handles work-outs of multifamily housing and not-for-profit loans and recently led the firm’s efforts in the restructuring of a $27bn of existing COFINA bonds to $18bn of COFINA bonds. David Dubrow represents clients in structuring and evaluating high-yield below-investment grade credits, whereas Mark Angelov represents a range of parties in connection with a broad variety of municipal and corporate workouts and bankruptcies. Situated in Washington DC, Randall Brater handles litigation for public finance clients, including representing trustees in civil litigation and bankruptcy proceedings. Mike Guippone focuses on distressed municipal bonds, the proceeds of which are used to finance public sector projects, including for healthcare and housing. San Francisco-based Jena Watson joined the team in September 2023 and advises financial institutions as well as private and public companies in a wide variety of commercial finance transactions. Unless otherwise stated, all lawyers mentioned are based in New York.