Mr. Richard B. Levin

Richard B. Levin is co-chair of Jenner & Block?s Restructuring and Bankruptcy Department in New York. He previously served on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee, during which time he co-authored the 1978 U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Mr. Levin is recognized internationally as one of the foremost restructuring, bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights lawyers handling complex bankruptcy litigation, transaction and special-situation matters. He has served as counsel to parties in nearly every position in a bankruptcy case in a wide range of industries, including auto and manufacturing, banking and finance, energy and electric utilities, hospitality, municipal and government finance, technology, electronics, tele-communications, gaming, retail, shipping, defense and agriculture, in both domestic and cross-border\nsituations. He also has acted as a chapter 11 trustee and as an examiner, and worked as a senior executive at a publicly traded company. Mr. Levin served as chair of the National Bankruptcy Conference and is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He was a consultant to the World Bank and the Central Bank of Brazil on Brazil?s 2005 bankruptcy legislation. Mr. Levin has served as a faculty member at the Federal Judicial Center?s Bankruptcy Judge Workshops for 18 years and was a lecturer in law at\nHarvard Law School. He has repeatedly been recognized as one of the country?s leading practitioners of\nbankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights law by, among others, Chambers USA and Chambers Global, The Best Lawyers in America and Benchmark Litigation. In addition, he was a member of the ABI Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. Mr. Levin received his S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.\n