Mr. Andrew M. Leblanc

Andrew M. Leblanc is a managing partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Milbank, Tweed, Had- ley & McCloy LLP and is a member of the firm's financial restructuring and litigation and arbitration groups. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, financial restructuring and international arbitration, with a particular focus on contested issues arising in bankruptcy cases. Mr. Leblanc regularly represents official committees, secured and unsecured creditors, debtors and bidders in bankruptcy cas- es, as well as financial institutions as defendants in adversary proceedings brought as part of bankruptcy cases in courts throughout the country. His significant recent representations include lead trial counsel for the ad hoc group of noteholders in the In re Nortel Networks bankruptcy, Lightsquared Inc. in its bankruptcy and related litigation, the Refco litigation trustee in claims arising from the bankruptcy of Refco, LLC, the Transeastern defendants in a $500 million fraudulent transfer case in In re TOUSA, the lead lenders in the Texas Rangers bankruptcy, the lead second-lien noteholders in the In re DBSD bank- ruptcy, and Vitro SAB, a Mexican glassmaker that filed a chapter 15 petition in the U.S. Mr. Leblanc has been recognized as one of the leading lawyers in America for bankruptcy litigation by Chambers USA, Lawdragon and Benchmark Litigation, which recognized him as one of the "Top 10 Bankruptcy Practi- tioners in America" and as the 2017 and 2018 "Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year." Mr. Leblanc received his B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.