Ms. Lisa M. Schweitzer

Lisa M. Schweitzer is a senior bankruptcy and restructuring partner with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York, where her practice focuses on financial restructuring, bankruptcy and commercial litigation, including cross-border matters. She has experience advising corporate debtors, individual creditors, committees and strategic investors in both U.S. chapter 11 proceedings and restructurings in other jurisdictions in the Americas, as well as Europe and Asia. She also leads companies in multimillion- and billion-dollar buy- and sell-side distressed M&A transactions, and she litigates multibillion-dollar case-dispositive disputes in high-stakes bankruptcy proceedings. Ms. Schweitzer advises clients in some of the most high-profile bankruptcy matters, including the first-of-its-kind cross-border restructuring of LATAM Airlines Group, which recently received multiple deal of the year awards, including from the Turnaround Management Association, IFLR and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Her work repeatedly has been recognized by the business and legal press, including The American Lawyer, which previously named her a ?Dealmaker of the Year.? Ms. Schweitzer is lead U.S. restructuring counsel to Nortel Networks Inc. and affiliates in their U.S. chapter 11 proceedings, and she has experience advising corporate debtors, individual creditors and strategic investors in both U.S. chapter 11 proceedings and restructurings in other jurisdictions in North America, Europe and Asia. She also has represented several companies seeking to acquire distressed assets in bankruptcy proceedings. Ms. Schweitzer has advised clients in some of the most high-profile bankruptcy matters in North America, and her work repeatedly has been recognized by the business and legal press, including Chambers Global, Chambers USA, The Legal 500 U.S., IFLR 1000: The Guide to the World?s Leading Financial Law Firms, The International Who?s Who of Business Lawyers and The International Who?s Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers. She also was honored as one of the ?Top 250 Women in Litigation? by Benchmark Litigation and as a ?Dealmaker of the Year? and ?Dealmaker in the Spotlight? by The American Lawyer, and she was named an ?Outstanding Restructuring Lawyer? for 2023 by Turnarounds & Workouts. Ms. Schweitzer is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy. She received her B.A. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif.