Summary: Weil Gotshal & Manges announced this week that noted bankruptcy attorney Ray Schrock has left Kirkland & Ellis to join Weil’s New York office as a partner. The news release by the firm noted that Shrock is expected to “play a leadership role,” in the firm’s global Business Finance & Restructuring Practice.
Ray Schrock left Kirkland & Ellis to join Weil Gotshal & Manges earlier this week. He is well-recognized as a bankruptcy attorney and was a share partner in Kirkland. He has been recognized and mentioned as a top bankruptcy practitioner in legal publications like Law360, Turnarounds & Workouts, The Legal 500, IFLR 1000, and Super Lawyers.
Speaking on Schrock joining the firm, Weil’s Executive Partner Barry Wolf said, “Ray’s broad experience will further strengthen the Firm’s world-renowned bankruptcy practice that is continually at the forefront of the most innovative and complex restructurings.”
Schrock has substantial experience leading complex, corporate restructuring matters. He has extensive experience representing debtors, non-debtor parent companies and affiliates, secured and unsecured creditors, private equity funds, portfolio companies, and other major stakeholders in in-court and out-of-court restructuring matters.
Schrock has a big portfolio of high profile clients and has served as lead restructuring partner for Essar Steel Algoma, Inc, Longview Power, LLC, Mepco Holdings, Ally Financial, Ally Bank, Residential Capital, Peak Rock Capital, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Neff Rental, Charter Communications and others. He has handled matters worth billions in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and has a track-record of winning heavily contested matters.
Schrock is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, INSOL International and Turnaround Management Association. He served on Law360’s 2010 Editorial Advisory Board for bankruptcy.
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