Mr. Darren S. Klein

Darren S. Klein, CFA is a partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP?s Corporate Department in NewYork, where he practices in the firm?s Restructuring Group. He is experienced in a wide range of restructurings and bankruptcies, both in and out of court. Among his representations, Mr. Klein was an agent and arranger in connection with an $800 million debtor-in-possession financing and agent for the approximately $2.8 billion pre-petition first lien credit facility in connection with Peabody Energy Corp.?s chapter 11 proceedings; represented several oil and gas companies and significant creditor groups in connection with the companies? out-of-court restructurings and chapter 11 cases; Delta Air Lines, Inc.in connection with a comprehensive and integrated global settlement to restructure Delta?s code share relationship with Republic Airways Holdings during Republic?s chapter 11 proceeding; the first-out debtor-in-possession financing lenders and pre-petition ABL lenders in connection with the chapter 11proceeding of RadioShack; and the ad hoc group of bondholders of Puerto Rico?s Government Develop-ment Bank in connection with Puerto Rico?s ongoing restructuring efforts. He has been recognized in theIFLR1000 as ?Highly Regarded? in U.S.: Restructuring and Insolvency for 2018, in the Legal 500 U.S.as a ?Next Generation Lawyer? in Finance: Restructuring (including Bankruptcy), Corporate, and in the Turnaround Atlas Awards for both ?Chapter 11 Restructuring Turnaround of the Year? (Verso Corp.reorganization) and ?Energy Deal of the Year (over $100 million to $500 million)? (chapter 11 reorganization of Venoco), both in 2017. Mr. Klein is a member of ABI and the New York Society of SecurityAnalysts. He previously was with NERA, Inc. before heading to law school. Mr. Klein received his A.B.in economics and philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1999, his M.A. from the University ofMichigan School of Business in 2000 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2007, where he served as a business editor of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review.