Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP‘s corporate restructuring practice provides services to clients involved in distressed company situations, alongside representing a diverse range of parties including managers, owners, creditors and investors both in- and out-of-court restructuring transactions and liquidations. New York’s Robert Drain joined the group after retiring from the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and has overseen the chapter 11 bankruptcies of Purdue Pharmacy, Sears Holding Crop and Windstream Holdings Inc. Paul Leake is the global head of the practice, and is supported by Joseph Larkin, head of the Wilmington practice and Ron Meisler, head of the Chicago group. Van Durrer departed the team to Dentons in January 2025.