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Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Bankruptcy/Restructuring: Highly Regarded

USA Guide 2026 : USA - Nationwide


Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

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Provided by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Our bankruptcy, restructuring, and insolvency lawyers provide strategic, creative solutions to address issues arising from troubled investments and loans worldwide. We are a full-service bankruptcy and restructuring practice with teams dedicated to traditional restructurings, documentation throughout transactions, and, when necessary, insolvency litigation. With lawyers in offices across the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, we have handled bankruptcy, restructuring, and insolvency matters for clients in more than 90 countries.

Our elite services for clients cover a broad array of industries, including financial services, insurance, energy, retail, travel, automotive, telecommunications, infrastructure, technology, healthcare, aviation, real estate, shipping, manufacturing, sovereign debt, municipal finance, and tribal gaming. 

Spanning a wide range of assignments and client constituencies, our experience includes advising ad hoc noteholder groups, institutional investors, debtors, creditors’ committees, acquirers, high-yield and distressed debt investors, insurance companies, banks, trustees, administrators, liquidators, boards of directors, shareholders, senior and junior debt holders, governments, and international agencies.


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Bankruptcy/Restructuring: Highly Regarded - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For
Morgan Lewis provides significant experience in workouts, restructurings and in-court bankruptcy proceedings. Its impressive client base includes noteholders, trustees, lenders and creditors' committees active across a variety of industries, including the energy and retail sectors.
Notable practitioners

Andrew Budreika, Marjorie Crider, Grigory Manichev and Heather Lynn Wenzel are key contacts.

Work Highlights

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  • Morgan, Lewis & Bockius acted as bankruptcy counsel to three major record labels and their affiliates in the Chapter 11 case of Frontier Communications.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • Morgan Lewis provides wise counsel during very complicated bankruptcy proceedings.

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  • Morgan Lewis is very knowledgeable, responsive and strategically excellent.

    Bankruptcy/Restructuring: Highly Regarded respondentUSA
  • They are very easy to work with, have great credibility with the court and are strategic about how to deal with issues.

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