Mr. James L. Bromley

James L. Bromley is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Finance & Restructuring Group in New York and is co-head of the firm’s Global Restructuring practice, where he focuses on restructuring, bankruptcy and litigation advice to a wide spectrum of corporate clients, including creditors, debtors and investors, as well as government actors. For three decades, he has advised on the most prominent and noticeable matters across a large number of industries, including automobile, aviation, consumer & retail, energy, financial services, manufacturing, mining, telecommunications and shipping, among others. Mr. Bromley is representing FTX Trading Ltd. and over 100 affiliate debtors in the landmark chapter 11 proceedings arising out of the largest failure in the crypto space. He also is acting as chapter 11 debtor’s counsel to SVB Financial Group, the former parent of Silicon Valley Bank, and is representing Major League Baseball and certain baseball clubs in the chapter 11 proceedings of Diamond Sports Group, achieving a decisive trial victory in June 2023. Mr. Bromley has first-chair trial experience, including jury trials before state and federal courts. He has been named “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer, “Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year,” by Benchmark Litigation and “Outstanding Restructuring Lawyer” by Turnarounds & Workouts. A lecturer-in-law on cross-border insolvency law at Harvard Law School, he is also a Fellow at the American College of Bankruptcy and an instructor at the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL). In addition, he is a frequent speaker at International Insolvency Institute (III), INSOL, ABI and other industry-leading conferences. Mr. Bromley received his B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Boston University in 1986 and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1989, where he served as an editor of the Columbia Law Review.