Mr. Ray C. Schrock

Ray C. Schrock is co-chair of the Business Finance & Restructuring Department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York and a member of the firm?s Management Committee. He has led complex corporate international and U.S. restructuring matters for public companies, financial institutions, private-equity funds, portfolio companies and creditors. His recent cutting-edge matters include Sears Holdings Corp., PG&E Corp., Ditech, Fieldwood Energy, J.Crew, Claire?s Stores Inc., Southeastern Grocers Inc., Aero- postale, Tidewater and many other ongoing public and non-public matters. Mr. Schrock is consistently recognized as one of the country?s leading restructuring lawyers. He led the team that advised J.Crew in its groundbreaking consensual restructuring, which recently won the Financial Times North America Innovative Lawyers Report 2017 award for ?Accessing New Markets and Capital.? He also was named among Turnarounds & Workouts? ?Outstanding Restructuring Lawyers? and Global M&A Network?s Top 100 Restructuring & Turnaround Professionals, and he has also been named a Bankruptcy MVP by Law360. Mr. Schrock is recognized as one of the nation?s leading restructuring lawyers by Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500 U.S., International Financial Law Review (IFLR1000) and Super Lawyers magazine, and he is an editor of The Law and Practice of Restructuring in the UK and US, published by Oxford University Press. He has served as lead restructuring partner in a number of the largest domestic and international cases on behalf of companies and fund-based clients. Mr. Schrock received his B.B.A. magna cum laude from Western Michigan University and his J.D. with high honors from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was a note and comment editor of its law review.