
Mr. Donald Scott Bernstein
Donald S. Bernstein is a partner with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York and chairs the firm?s Insolvency and Restructuring Practice Group. His practice includes representing debtors, creditors, liquidators, receivers and acquirers in major corporate restructurings and insolvency proceedings, as well as advising financial institutions regarding resolution planning and the credit risks involved in derivatives, securities transactions, and other domestic and international financialtransactions. Mr. Bernstein has served as president of the International Insolvency Institute, chair ofthe National Bankruptcy Conference, a commissioner on the ABI Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11, a director of the American College of Bankruptcy, treasurer and a member of theExecutive Committee of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and chair of City BarAssociation?s Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization and of the Tri Bar OpinionCommittee. He is also on the board of editors of Collier on Bankruptcy and serves as editor of theInsolvency Review. Mr. Bernstein has served as a member of the Official U.S. Delegation to theUnited Nations Commission on International Trade Law and has been a member of the Legal Advisory Panel of the Financial Stability Board. He graduated from Princeton University and received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.