Mr. Deryck A. Palmer

Deryck A. Palmer is the firmwide leader of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's Insolvency & Restructuring practice in New York. He has extensive experience advising domestic and multinational clients on out-of-court workouts, corporate restructurings and bankruptcy cases in a broad range of in- dustries, including financial services, health care, construction, real estate, energy and manufacturing. Mr. Palmer has handled some of the largest and most significant matters in the country during the past three decades, including LyondellBasell Industries, Apollo Health Street and Citibank in the Lehman Brothers chapter 11 case. Recently, he led the team that helped engineering services firm Berger Group Holdings Inc. create a first-of-its kind reciprocal investment structure that enabled the restructuring and recapitalization of the privately held firm while also preserving senior managers' ownership and control. The work was recognized by Financial Times for "innovation in legal expertise" and by M&A Advisor as the "Restructuring Deal of the Year." He was also one of the lead counsel to the U.S. Trea- sury Department in the General Motors restructuring, and was the lead counsel for the Detroit School System, the sixth-largest school district in the country, where he guided one of the most successful out-of-court municipal restructurings. For more than 10 years, Mr. Palmer served as a foreign advisor on U.S. bankruptcy law to the Chinese government and was instrumental in the drafting of the PRC Enterprise Bankruptcy Law, and he also was an International Law Institute delegate to the UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency Law), advising on the development of an international model insolvency structure. Recognized by Turnarounds & Workouts as one of the nation's top "Outstanding Bankruptcy Lawyers," he is active in ABI and the Turnaround Management Association, as well as the American Bar Association's Business Bankruptcy Committee, and he is a member of both the New York State Bar As- sociation's Committee on Bankruptcy and Committee on Courts and the Community. In addition, he is a former member of the Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and former co-vice chair of the American Bar Association's Healthcare Working Group. Mr. Palmer lectures at many major law schools nationwide and has been an adjunct professor of law at New York Law School, where he taught advanced topics in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization. He is the author or co-author of multiple articles and three books, The PRC Enterprise Bankruptcy Law: The People's Work in Progress, History of Bankruptcy Law in the Second Circuit and Restructuring: The Search for Value in a Troubled Enterprise. He is also a member of the Bureau of National Affairs Advisory Board for the Bankruptcy Law Reporter and is also a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. Mr. Palmer received his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Deryck A. Palmer