Mr. Peter L. Borowitz

Peter L. Borowitz is a mediator with Mangrove Mediation in Bonita Springs, Fla. After three decades at Debevoise & Plimpton, he retired from the partnership in 2007 so that he could focus exclusively on acting as mediator in all types of commercial disputes, with particular emphasis on disputes arising in domestic and cross-border bankruptcies and out-of-court restructurings. In recent years, Mr. Borowitz has served as mediator in connection with a number of chapter 11 cases, including mediation of chapter 11 plan issues in the Energy Future Holdings, Tousa and US Capital cases and the mediation of adversary proceedings in connection with the Madoff, Lehman, Adelphia, BearingPoint, Polaroid, Refco, Rhodes Companies, SemCrude and 360networks cases. He joined Debevoise & Plimpton in 1978 and became a partner in 1986. While his career initially focused on the representation of debtors in bankruptcies and workouts (such as Chrysler, Western Union and Baldwin United), in later years he primarily represented creditors in restructurings in and out of court (including such domestic cases as Orion Pictures, TWA, Enron, USGen, Calp- ine, Kmart, Oregon Arena and Dulles Greenway, and such cross-border cases as Sea Containers, Parmalat Canada, LJ Hooker, AeroMexico, Mexicana, Kvaerner, and Burmeister and Wain). Mr. Borowitz received his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1974 and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1978, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review and a recipient of the Sears Prize.