Mr. James M. Peck

Hon. James M. Peck (ret.) is a senior Of Counsel with Morrison & Foerster LLP in New York and heads its Cross-Border Restructuring practice. Previously, he served as a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York in New York from 2006-14. During this time, Judge Peck presided over the chapter 11 and SIPA cases of Lehman Brothers and its affiliates, as well as a number of other major chapter 11 and chapter 15 cases. He also served as mediator in a number of major cases, including American Airlines, MF Global, Residential Capital and General Motors, and wrote multiple legal decisions that have helped to define the impact of the safe harbors on qualified financial contracts. Priorto his appointment, Judge Peck was in private practice in Philadelphia and New York City for 35 years, concentrating in insolvency law and creditors? rights. He was a partner at the law firm of Duane Morris LLP for 10 years and moved to New York in 1990 to join Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP as co-head of its Business Reorganization department. Judge Peck has written and lectured extensively on business bankruptcy topics and has frequently served as both moderator and panelist at regional, national and international conferences. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of thePanel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance. In addition, he is a past president of theInternational Insolvency Institute, served on the board of governors of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, and was judicial chair of ABI?s annual New York City Bankruptcy Conference. Judge Peck co-chaired ABI?s Advisory Committee on the Safe Harbors, and he is a member of the AdvisoryCommittee of the Asian Business Law Institute. He also is listed as a qualified member of mediation panels maintained by INSOL International, the Singapore Mediation Center and the Singapore Inter-national Mediation Center, and he has been named to the Panel of Arbitrators for Financial ServicesDisputes of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center. Judge Peck has been retained on a number of occasions to furnish expert witness statements for submission to the High Court in London regard-ing issues of New York law, comity, and the recognition of main and non-main insolvency proceedings. He is also a frequent speaker worldwide on insolvency issues and has participated as keynote speaker and panel chair across the globe in conferences presented by numerous international organizations and law schools, including INSOL International, the International Bar Association, INSOL Europe and theNational Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. He has authored articles published in the ABI Journal and the International Insolvency & Restructuring Report, and he is an editor of a recently published book,The Art of the Ad Hoc. Judge Peck received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and his J.D. from NewYork University School of Law.

Hon. James M. Peck