Mr. William P. Weintraub

William P. Weintraub is co-head of Goodwin Procter LLP?s Financial Restructuring Practice in New York, where he focuses on business reorganizations, workouts, bankruptcy and related litigation, and routinely represents debtors and creditors? committees in diverse industries. His representative cases include FullBeauty Brands Holdings Corp.; The Rockport Company LLC; In re Millennium Lab Hold- ings II LLC, et al.; In re SunEdison, Inc., et al.; In re General Motors LLC Ignition Switch Litigation; In re Caesars Entertainment Operating Company, Inc., et al.; In re Texas Competitive Electric Hold- ings Company, LLC, et al.; In re Bernard L. Madoff Securities, Inc.; In re Tribune Corporation, et al.; In re Lyondell Chemical Co.; In re New England Compounding Pharmacy, Inc.; In re Quigley, Inc.; In re Blitz, Inc.; and In re Dewey LLP. Mr. Weintraub is a frequent lecturer on advanced chapter 11 topics for ABI, the Norton Institutes, California CEB, the American Bar Association and other organizations. In addition, has written widely on such varied topics as debtor-in-possession financing, third-party plan releases, indirect preferences, cross-default provisions in executory contracts, the assignability of intel- lectual property licenses in bankruptcy, the fiduciary duties of the board of directors of insolvent com- panies, the availability of first-day orders, equitable subordination of claims, reclamation, the Supreme Court?s decision in the Traveler?s case, and the credit bidding decisions in Philadelphia Newspapers and River Road Hotel Partners. He is also the author of a comprehensive chapter on financing the debtor-in- possession in the Norton treatise and wrote a chapter on stockbroker liquidations for a prior edition of the Collier treatise. Mr. Weintraub is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, and is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California and a former chair of the Debtor/Creditor Committee of the California State Bar. He graduated magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany in 1975 and received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1979.

William P. Weintraub