Donald A Workman

Career

Donald Workman is the head of the Washington, D.C., office’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice team. His practice includes business bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, debtor reorganizations, general insolvency, stockbroker liquidations and commercial litigation. He has experience representing every constituency involved in major reorganizations and workouts, including creditor committees, secured creditors, debtors, trustees, debtor-in-possession lenders, receivers, assignees for benefit of creditors, creditors in regulated industries, and asset purchasers. He has represented entities around the country in bankruptcy matters, including retail cases such as Toys R Us and Circuit City, as well as airline bankruptcies such as TWA, US Airways I and II, United, ATA, Aloha, Hawaiian Air, Delta, Northwest, Mesaba and Independence Air. His bankruptcy litigation experience includes motions for conversion and dismissal of chapter 7 and 11 cases, motions for the appointment of chapter 11 trustees, plan confirmation hearings, contested cash collateral hearings, bankruptcy trustee elections, claim objections, fraudulent transfer and preference actions, denial of discharge and dischargeability actions, and involuntary bankruptcy filings.

Don also served as special counsel in the Adelphia bankruptcies as part of a coordinated defense of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) matters. Don also counsels entities and individuals in the focused area of distressed debt arbitrage matters. His work on arbitrage matters has involved him in the largest bankruptcies ever filed. He has provided counsel to various constituencies in international insolvencies including Asian and German creditors in bankruptcy cases.