Paul Leake

Paul Leake is global head of Skadden’s corporate restructuring practice. He has led numerous large and complex U.S. and cross-border restructurings for debtors, bank groups, distressed investment funds and investors, noteholder committee and official creditors’ committees. Most recently, he led the restructuring of Endo International PLC in its transnational chapter 11 cases involving over $8 billion of debt and trillions of dollars of alleged mass tort claims. His areas of focus include chapter 11 reorganizations, out-of-court restructurings, secured financings, distressed acquisitions and investments in troubled companies in industries such as retail, shipping, mining, airlines, energy, healthcare, publishing, satellite communications and real estate.