Mr. Eric D. Winston

Eric D. Winston is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, where his practice includes all areas of corporate insolvency and reorganization and insolvency and valuation-related litigation. He has represented debtors, creditors' committees, secured lenders, bond- holders, hedge funds, intellectual property counterparties, trade creditors and asset acquirers across nu- merous industries, both out of court and in connection with chapter 9, chapter 11, chapter 15, SIPA and SEC receivership cases. Mr. Winston also routinely advises hedge funds and other investors in distressed companies with respect to indentures, credit agreements and other capital structure and corporate gov- ernance issues. His recent representative cases include Core Media (AOG Entertainment), SandRidge Exploration, Circuit City, Relativity Media, Gaming & Leisure Properties/Cannery Casino, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities/Fairfield Sentry, Residential Capital, Town of Mammoth Lakes, Eastman Kodak, Station Casinos, SemGroup, Fontainebleau Las Vegas and SK Foods. Previously, he as a shareholder with Stutman Treister & Glatt and a law clerk to Hon. William J. Holloway Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Mr. Winston is a frequent speaker and has guest lectured at Loyola and University of Southern California law schools. He has written several law review articles, is the LEXIS practice advisor on claims trading, and has been a member of the State Bar of California Insolvency Law Committee and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Attorney Discipline Committee. Mr. Winston has been listed in Chambers USA for Cali- fornia Bankruptcy/Restructuring Litigation for 2013-15, named in The Legal 500 as a "Recommended Lawyer" for 2013, recognized as a "Rising Star" by Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers from 2004-13 and in 2014-16 as a "Super Lawyer for Bankruptcy," and named by Turnarounds & Workouts as being an "Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer" in 2005 and 2012. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals, and served as co-vice chair of the State Bar of California's Insolvency Law Committee from 2008-09. He is also a member of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors and the Los Ange- les County Bar Association. Mr. Winston is admitted to the State Bar of California, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Ninth and Tenth Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California. He received his B.A. in political science with high honors from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995 and his J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law in 1998, where he was a managing editor of the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy and served as an extern to the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division.

Eric D. Winston