Madlyn Gleich Primoff

Madlyn Gleich Primoff is a partner with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in New York and a member of its Restructuring and Insolvency team. She is regularly called upon by her clients to act as “first chair” trial counsel in contentious restructuring matters and insolvency related litigations. Ms. Primoff has deep expertise in metals and mining, energy and infrastructure, consumer products, financial services, agriculture, entertainment, media, communications, shipping and health care (including device manufacturing and distribution). Ms. Primoff has more than 25 years of experience representing companies, lending groups, syndicate agents, global financial institutions and private credit investors in complex U.S. domestic and cross-border out-of-court restructurings, prepackaged chapter 11 cases and contentious chapter 11 cases, as well as related litigation matters. She also has substantial cross-border insolvency experience (including chapter 15 cases and parallel proceedings). Ms. Primoff is ranked as a leading attorney in Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America and Expert Guides – Women in Business Law. She also has been named the “Best in Insolvency and Restructuring” – America’s Women in Business Law Awards (2016) by Euromoney. Ms. Primoff is a member of Freshfields’ Finance and Risk Committee. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, as well as the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third and Sixth Circuits. In addition, she is a member of ABI, the SDNY Register of Mediators and the New York Conference Advisory Board. Ms. Primoff received her B.A. magna cum laude from Cornell University and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.