Ms. Claudia R. Tobler

Claudia R. Tobler is special counsel with Selendy Gay PLLC in New York and has experience in all aspects of bankruptcy, restructuring and bankruptcy-adjacent mandates, including debtor, creditor, ad hoc committee, litigation and transactional representations. Her practice includes company-side representations in some of the largest bankruptcy cases and restructuring proceedings in the U.S. and Canada. She has also represented creditors in matters involving billions of dollars of debt. Prior to joining Selendy Gay, Ms. Tobler was a leader in the Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy practice at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP, where her clients included Fortune 500 companies, private-equity firms, and multinational corporations. Her notable matters include Mallinckrodt, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Bumble Bee Foods, Checkers Restaurants, Cumulus Media, Neiman Marcus, Enron, and WorldCom. Ms. Tobler assisted ABI and INSOL International with the launch of a new database focused on developments under chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code, www.Globalinsolvency.com/chapter15. She has also authored numerous articles on a variety of restructuring topics, and co-authored the U.S. chapter in the 2013 edition of Getting the Deal Through: Restructuring and Insolvency 2013. In addition, she was a panelist at the International Insolvency Conference hosted by the Instituto Argentino de Derecho Comercial, discussing claim subordination in Argentina and the U.S., and has spoken at ABI’s International Caribbean Insolvency Symposium, where she discussed the foreign implications of resolution planning under Dodd-Frank and the laws governing individual chapter 11 cases. A member of the International Insolvency Institute NextGen, Ms. Tobler’s practice also includes important pro bono and public policy litigation. In District of Columbia v. Proud Boys Int’l, LLC, she advised a litigation team representing the District of Columbia in its civil case prosecuting the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, and certain individual members and affiliates for conspiring to commit acts of violence and attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in connection with a defendant’s individual bankruptcy filing. She also partnered with the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program in the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans to successfully represent veterans who received denials from the Board of Veterans Appeals on benefit claims. Ms. Tobler received her B.A. magna cum laude from Boston University in 1992 and her J.D. magna cum laude from Boston College Law School in 1999.