Mr. Robert J. Dehney

Robert J. Dehney is a partner with Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP's Business Reorganization and Restructuring Group in Wilmington, Del., and spearheaded the group's growth. He focuses his practice on corporate restructuring and counseling, including representing boards of directors and com- mittees, and his representations include such industries as health companies, retail, airline, housing, steel manufacturing, insurance, mortgage brokerage and consumer finance. Mr. Dehney represents debtors and creditors, secured and unsecured bondholders, and purchasers of distressed companies and/or assets in all facets of pre- and post-chapter 11 filings that include out-of-court reorganization and restructur- ing, acquisitions, complex lending arrangements and advice to executives and boards of directors. He regularly works with inside and outside counsel, turnaround professionals, crisis-management firms, investment and non-investment bank professionals, and DIP and exit financing lenders. Mr. Dehney has been recognized in the 2004-14 editions of Chambers USA's "Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business," regarded by The Daily Bankruptcy Review as one of the most prolific restructuring and reor- ganizing practices in the U.S., and 2012, 2010 and 2009 winner of Turnaround Atlas Awards and 2009 recipient of M&A Advisor U.S. Middle-Market Financing Award. He is also listed in Delaware Super Lawyers and the Lawdragon 500 â?? New Stars, New Worlds. Mr. Dehney is a frequent speaker before business and professional audiences and has also authored numerous articles that have been published in the ABI Journal, the Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, Global Restructuring Practice and The Journal of Private Equity. He is a member of ABI, the American Bar Association and the Delaware State Bar Association, and is admitted to practice in Connecticut, Delawre, Pennsylvania and New York. Mr. Dehney received his B.A. from Dickinson College in 1987 and his J.D. in 1990 from Pace University, where he was the managing editor for the Pace Environmental Law Review.