Partner, Restructuring Group
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
(Moderator)
Eli Vonnegut is a partner in the Restructuring Group at Davis Polk, where he advises clients on complex corporate restructurings and bankruptcies, liability management and financing transactions, bankruptcy litigation, and distressed asset sales and acquisitions. He also counsels investors and financial institutions on structuring and managing investments in complex or distressed businesses, with a growing focus on opportunities across the expanding private credit market.
Eli has played a leading role in a number of the most significant and complex restructurings in recent years, representing debtors, creditors, and investors across a broad range of industries and cross-border situations. His work spans large chapter 11 proceedings, multinational restructurings, and innovative financing and liability management transactions, as well as advising major financial institutions on Dodd-Frank resolution planning and other critical regulatory and strategic matters.
Outside the firm, Eli is a regular contributor to leading industry publications and served as Secretary of the Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization at the New York City Bar Association. He is consistently recognized as a leading restructuring lawyer, having been named an “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer” three times by Turnarounds & Workouts, a Law360 “Rising Star: Bankruptcy,” and listed as “Highly Regarded” by IFLR1000 – Restructuring & Insolvency. He was also previously recognized in the American Bankruptcy Institute’s “40 Under 40.”
