Mr. David Richard Seligman

David R. Seligman is a partner in the Restructuring Practice Group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, where he concentrates in all aspects of U.S. and worldwide corporate restructurings and insolvency proceedings. He has extensive experience advising large publicly and privately held U.S. and multinational corporations and their boards in complex domestic and international restructuring matters, both in and out of court. He also advises buyers and lenders in complex distressed situations and insolvency plan- ning matters, as well as trustees, administrators and creditors? committees in all types of bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings. Mr. Seligman focuses on transportation, energy, financial institutions, gaming, technology and real estate. He is a frequent lecturer and author on restructuring matters, having spoken at conferences sponsored by ABI, the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, the Turn- around Management Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and the Ontario Bar Association, among others. He also has taught several advanced restructuring courses at the University of Chicago?s Graham School, NYU Law School, and in association with the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto. Mr. Seligman has been recognized as a leading restructuring lawyer in Chambers USA every year since 2006. In addition, The Best Lawyers in America named him the 2018 Lawyer of the Year for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law in Chicago. Mr. Seligman received his A.B. cum laude in 1993 from Dartmouth College and his J.D. summa cum laude in 1996 from the University of Miami School of Law, where he was an editor for the University of Miami Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.