Bankruptcy and restructuring covers legal help for people and businesses facing debts they cannot pay on schedule. For individuals, this often involves understanding options such as liquidating certain assets or setting up a repayment plan under court supervision. For businesses, it can include reorganizing operations and obligations so the company can keep running, or winding down in an orderly way. Related work includes negotiating with creditors, addressing foreclosure or collection actions, and advising on how debt may affect property, income, and credit.
The organizations listing this practice area in the directory typically include solo practitioners, small and mid-sized law firms, and larger firms that handle commercial matters. Some nonprofit legal service providers may also appear. When choosing counsel, ask about experience with matters similar to yours, such as individual consumer cases versus business reorganizations. Ask how fees are structured and what is included. You can also confirm an attorney's registration status through the New York Attorney Search before moving forward.
Firms and organizations listing Bankruptcy & Restructuring
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 1,028 attorneys Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP 1,023 attorneys Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 982 attorneys Kirkland & Ellis LLP 930 attorneys Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 687 attorneys Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 621 attorneys New York City Law Department 614 attorneys Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 604 attorneys Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 582 attorneys Milbank LLP 557 attorneys Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 553 attorneys Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP 549 attorneys Sidley Austin LLP 544 attorneys Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP 518 attorneys Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP 507 attorneys Ropes & Gray LLP 469 attorneys Proskauer Rose LLP 447 attorneys Paul Hastings LLP 430 attorneys Greenberg Traurig, LLP 381 attorneys Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP 364 attorneys Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC 317 attorneys DLA Piper LLP (US) 314 attorneys Mayer Brown LLP 309 attorneys Freshfields US LLP 302 attorneys Arnold & Porter 301 attorneys Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (US) LLP 301 attorneys Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP 299 attorneys A&O Shearman 298 attorneys Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP 298 attorneys Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 279 attorneys Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 266 attorneys Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP 264 attorneys Jones Day 262 attorneys King & Spalding LLP 260 attorneys WilmerHale 235 attorneys Barclay Damon LLP 234 attorneys Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP 232 attorneys Pryor Cashman LLP 215 attorneys Holland & Knight LLP 213 attorneys Rivkin Radler LLP 212 attorneys Hodgson Russ LLP 208 attorneys Nixon Peabody LLP 206 attorneys Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC 204 attorneys Goldberg Segalla 203 attorneys Reed Smith LLP 189 attorneys Morrison & Foerster LLP 182 attorneys Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP 182 attorneys Loeb & Loeb LLP 176 attorneys BakerHostetler (Baker & Hostetler LLP) 169 attorneys Alston & Bird LLP 167 attorneys Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 164 attorneys Kelley Drye & Warren LLP 163 attorneys Phillips Lytle LLP 159 attorneys Venable LLP 159 attorneys Cullen and Dykman LLP 158 attorneys Seyfarth Shaw LLP 155 attorneys Seward & Kissel LLP 154 attorneys Troutman Pepper Locke LLP 153 attorneys O'Melveny & Myers LLP 150 attorneys Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP 147 attorneys Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP 143 attorneys Cozen O'Connor 143 attorneys Lowenstein Sandler LLP 138 attorneys Davis+Gilbert LLP 138 attorneys Kasowitz LLP 136 attorneys Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP 136 attorneys Herrick, Feinstein LLP 134 attorneys Harter Secrest & Emery LLP 129 attorneys Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 127 attorneys Fox Rothschild LLP 126 attorneys Winston & Strawn LLP 126 attorneys ArentFox Schiff LLP 124 attorneys Vinson & Elkins LLP 120 attorneys Akerman LLP 119 attorneys Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP 118 attorneys Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP 113 attorneys Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP 113 attorneys Morrison Cohen LLP 112 attorneys Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP 109 attorneys Haynes Boone 106 attorneys Windels Marx 106 attorneys Abrams Fensterman, LLP 104 attorneys Ashurst Perkins Coie 103 attorneys Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP 98 attorneys Selendy Gay PLLC 97 attorneys Mobilization for Justice, Inc. 94 attorneys Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP 93 attorneys Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP 93 attorneys Boies Schiller Flexner LLP 90 attorneys Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP 87 attorneys Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP 87 attorneys McLaughlin & Stern, LLP 85 attorneys Jenner & Block LLP 84 attorneys Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP 84 attorneys Farrell Fritz, P.C. 83 attorneys Steptoe LLP 83 attorneys The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc. 81 attorneys Kim & Chang 79 attorneys Foley Hoag LLP 76 attorneys Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP 75 attorneys Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP 75 attorneys Winston Taylor 71 attorneys Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP (BCLP) 71 attorneys Offit Kurman 70 attorneys Dorsey & Whitney LLP 70 attorneys Brown Rudnick LLP 69 attorneys Moses & Singer LLP 69 attorneys Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP 68 attorneys Garfunkel Wild, P.C. 68 attorneys Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP 66 attorneys McGuireWoods LLP 66 attorneys Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP 66 attorneys Foley & Lardner LLP 65 attorneys Anderson Kill P.C. 65 attorneys Rupp Pfalzgraf LLC 65 attorneys Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C. 64 attorneys Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP 63 attorneys Polsinelli PC 63 attorneys K&L Gates LLP 62 attorneys Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP 60 attorneys Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP 59 attorneys Belkin · Burden · Goldman, LLP 58 attorneys Vedder Price P.C. 58 attorneys Susman Godfrey L.L.P. 57 attorneys Sichenzia Ross Ference Carmel LLP 57 attorneys Kobre & Kim LLP 56 attorneys Otterbourg P.C. 56 attorneys Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP 56 attorneys Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP 55 attorneys Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP 55 attorneys Cole Schotz P.C. 55 attorneys Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C. 55 attorneys Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP 54 attorneys James F. Butler & Associates 52 attorneys Pierson Ferdinand LLP 52 attorneys Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP 51 attorneys Sullivan & Worcester LLP 51 attorneys Warshaw Burstein, LLP 51 attorneys Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP 49 attorneys Robinson+Cole 49 attorneys The Chartwell Law Offices, LLP 49 attorneys Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. 48 attorneys The Legal Aid Society of Rochester, New York 47 attorneys Friedman Vartolo LLP 47 attorneys Wiggin and Dana LLP 46 attorneys Epiq 46 attorneys Thompson Coburn LLP 46 attorneys Squire Patton Boggs 45 attorneys Goulston & Storrs 44 attorneys Bracewell LLP 44 attorneys Emmet, Marvin & Martin, LLP 43 attorneys Westerman Ball Ederer Miller Zucker & Sharfstein, LLP 42 attorneys Mintz & Gold LLP 42 attorneys Norris McLaughlin, P.A. 42 attorneys McCarter & English, LLP 41 attorneys Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP 41 attorneys Adler & Stachenfeld LLP 41 attorneys Kucker Marino Winiarsky & Bittens, LLP 41 attorneys Ashurst Perkins Coie 40 attorneys Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP 40 attorneys Build Up Justice NYC 40 attorneys Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP 39 attorneys FBT Gibbons LLP 39 attorneys Barnes & Thornburg LLP 39 attorneys Wilk Auslander LLP 39 attorneys Kane Kessler, P.C. 39 attorneys Katsky Korins LLP 39 attorneys Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP 39 attorneys Borah, Goldstein, Nahins & Goidel, P.C. 39 attorneys DC 37 Municipal Employees Legal Services (MELS) 38 attorneys Ropers Majeski 37 attorneys Levene Gouldin & Thompson, LLP 35 attorneys Ballard Spahr LLP 35 attorneys Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP 34 attorneys Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP 34 attorneys McKool Smith 34 attorneys Kroll, LLC 33 attorneys Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP 33 attorneys Alvarez & Marsal 33 attorneys Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP 32 attorneys Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP 32 attorneys Goldberg Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP 31 attorneys Feldman, Kramer & Monaco, P.C. 31 attorneys Leech Tishman Robinson Brog 30 attorneys Goetz Platzer LLP 30 attorneys Roberts & Holland LLP 30 attorneys Carlton Fields, P.A. 30 attorneys Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu 30 attorneys Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C. 30 attorneys Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 29 attorneys Ice Miller LLP 29 attorneys Becker, Glynn, Muffly, Chassin & Hosinski LLP 28 attorneys Elsberg Baker & Maruri PLLC 28 attorneys Kenney Shelton Liptak Nowak LLP 28 attorneys Saul Ewing LLP 28 attorneys Barton LLP 28 attorneys Chaffetz Lindsey LLP 27 attorneys Gutman, Mintz, Baker & Sonnenfeldt LLP 27 attorneys O’Connell & Aronowitz 27 attorneys Riemer & Braunstein LLP 27 attorneys Lowey Dannenberg, P.C. 27 attorneys Gross Shuman P.C. 27 attorneys Zukerman Gore Brandeis & Crossman, LLP 27 attorneys Sterlington PLLC 27 attorneys City Bar Justice Center 26 attorneys Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP 26 attorneys Kriss & Feuerstein LLP 26 attorneys Cassin & Cassin LLP 26 attorneys Skarzynski Marick & Black LLP 26 attorneys Wachtel Missry LLP 26 attorneys Gross Polowy, LLC 26 attorneys JunHe LLP 25 attorneys White and Williams LLP 25 attorneys Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP 25 attorneys Rimon, P.C. 25 attorneys Allegaert Berger & Vogel LLP 24 attorneys Landman Corsi Ballaine & Ford P.C. 24 attorneys Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC 23 attorneys Rubin & Rothman, LLC 23 attorneys Tiveron Law PLLC 22 attorneys O'Connor, O'Connor, Bresee & First, P.C. 22 attorneys Grant & Eisenhofer P.A. 22 attorneys Practical Law (Thomson Reuters) 22 attorneys McCarthy Fingar, LLP 22 attorneys Lacy Katzen LLP 22 attorneys Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP 21 attorneys Lee & Ko 21 attorneys BraunHagey & Borden LLP 21 attorneys MoloLamken LLP 21 attorneys Burford Capital 21 attorneys Novick Edelstein Pomerantz, P.C. 21 attorneys Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C. 20 attorneys Watson Farley & Williams LLP 20 attorneys Pitta LLP 20 attorneys Samaan Sheehy & Gillespie, LLP 19 attorneys Mavrides, Moyal, Packman & Sadkin, LLP 19 attorneys Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc. 19 attorneys Togut, Segal & Segal LLP 19 attorneys Mori Hamada & Matsumoto 18 attorneys Lazard Frères & Co. LLC 18 attorneys McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLP 18 attorneys Clarick Gueron Reisbaum LLP 18 attorneys Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP 18 attorneys Kelley Kronenberg 17 attorneys McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP 17 attorneys Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP 17 attorneys Colligan Law, LLP 17 attorneys Connell Foley LLP 17 attorneys Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC 17 attorneys Weiss Zarett Brofman Sonnenklar & Levy, P.C. 17 attorneys Winget, Spadafora & Schwartzberg, LLP 17 attorneys Marks, O’Neill, O’Brien, Doherty & Kelly, P.C. 17 attorneys Norm Law LLP 17 attorneys Helbraun & Levey LLP 16 attorneys PJT Partners Inc. 16 attorneys Safeguard Law Group, PLLC 16 attorneys Feuerstein Kulick LLP 16 attorneys Mandelbaum Barrett PC 16 attorneys Lemery Greisler LLC 16 attorneys Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon, LLP 16 attorneys Guggenheim Securities, LLC 16 attorneys Kellner Herlihy Getty & Friedman, LLP 16 attorneys Cohen Tauber Spievack & Wagner P.C. 16 attorneys Chelus Herdzik Speyer & Monte PC 16 attorneys Ritholz Levy Fields LLP 15 attorneys Drake Loeb PLLC 15 attorneys Bae, Kim & Lee LLC (BKL) 15 attorneys Melvin & Melvin, PLLC 15 attorneys Michelman & Robinson, LLP 15 attorneys Ballon Stoll P.C. 14 attorneys Jaffe & Asher LLP 14 attorneys Riker Danzig LLP 14 attorneys Siben & Siben LLP 14 attorneys Potomac Law Group, PLLC 14 attorneys Fangda Partners 14 attorneys Yankwitt LLP 14 attorneys Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP 14 attorneys Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky LLP 14 attorneys Cooper Erving & Savage LLP 14 attorneys Aldridge Pite, LLP 13 attorneys Legal Aid Society of Rockland County, Inc. 13 attorneys Tromberg, Miller, Morris & Partners, PLLC 13 attorneys Maidenbaum & Sternberg, LLP 13 attorneys Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A. 13 attorneys Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP 13 attorneys Hill, Betts & Nash LLP 13 attorneys Hecht Partners LLP 13 attorneys Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP 13 attorneys United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York 13 attorneys Raines Feldman Littrell LLP 13 attorneys McConville, Considine, Cooman & Morin, P.C. 13 attorneys Trevett Cristo, P.C. 13 attorneys Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C. 13 attorneys Mandel, Katz & Brosnan LLP 13 attorneys Western New York Law Center (WNYLC), Inc. 13 attorneys Zhong Lun Law Firm 12 attorneys Stevens & Lee 12 attorneys Gorlick, Kravitz & Listhaus, P.C. 12 attorneys BFSNG Law Group, LLP 12 attorneys McGrail & Bensinger LLP 12 attorneys 법무법인(유한) 율촌 | Yulchon LLC 12 attorneys Stagg Wabnik Law Group 12 attorneys Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss PLLC 12 attorneys Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP 12 attorneys Long Tuminello, LLP 12 attorneys Mantel McDonough Riso, LLP 12 attorneys Jacobowitz Newman Tversky LLP 12 attorneys Simmons Jannace DeLuca, LLP 12 attorneys Binder & Schwartz LLP 12 attorneys Kirschenbaum & Kirschenbaum, P.C. 12 attorneys Halperin Battaglia Benzija, LLP 11 attorneys Newman & Lickstein, LLP 11 attorneys Cohen, LaBarbera & Landrigan, LLP 11 attorneys Hinckley Allen 11 attorneys Cabanillas & Associates, P.C. 11 attorneys Schindler Cohen & Hochman LLP 11 attorneys Margolin, Weinreb & Nierer, LLP 11 attorneys The Legal Project 11 attorneys Stinson LLP 11 attorneys FisherBroyles, LLP 11 attorneys Entwistle & Cappucci LLP 11 attorneys Mirkin & Gordon, P.C. 10 attorneys Albanese & Albanese LLP 10 attorneys Jacoby & Meyers Law Offices 10 attorneys Rusk, Wadlin, Heppner & Martuscello, LLP 10 attorneys Amini LLC 10 attorneys Berkman, Henoch, Peterson & Peddy, P.C. 10 attorneys Davidson Fink LLP 10 attorneys Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP 10 attorneys Konner Gershburg Melnick Darouvar 10 attorneys Lax, Neville & Intelisano, LLP 10 attorneys Klestadt Winters Jureller Southard & Stevens, LLP 10 attorneys Clark Hill PLC 9 attorneys Kudman Trachten Aloe Posner LLP 9 attorneys Foran Glennon Palandech Ponzi & Rudloff PC 9 attorneys Knuckles and Manfro, LLP 9 attorneys Zdarsky, Sawicki & Agostinelli LLP 9 attorneys Zwicker & Associates, P.C. 9 attorneys Eiseman Levine Lehrhaupt & Kakoyiannis, P.C. 9 attorneys Pallas Partners (US) LLP 9 attorneys McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC 9 attorneys Omni Bridgeway 9 attorneys Mullooly, Jeffrey, Rooney & Flynn, LLP 8 attorneys Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP 8 attorneys Littleton Joyce Ughetta & Kelly LLP 8 attorneys Office of the United States Trustee (U.S. Trustee Program) 8 attorneys Coviello Weber & Dahill LLP 8 attorneys Nishimura & Asahi NY LLP 8 attorneys Anderson Mori & Tomotsune 8 attorneys BurgherGray LLP 8 attorneys United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York 8 attorneys Genova Burns LLC 8 attorneys Houlihan Lokey 8 attorneys Scarinci Hollenbeck, LLC 8 attorneys Feder Kaszovitz, LLP 8 attorneys Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C. 8 attorneys Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP 8 attorneys McCarthy Tétrault LLP 8 attorneys Rosenberg Calica Birney Liebman & Ross LLP 8 attorneys Huth Reynolds LLP 8 attorneys Broadfield US 8 attorneys Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors 8 attorneys LaMonica Herbst & Maniscalco, LLP 7 attorneys Haiwen & Partners 7 attorneys Jacobs P.C. 7 attorneys Gary Tsirelman P.C. 7 attorneys Weinberg Zareh Malkin Price LLP 7 attorneys Relin, Goldstein & Crane LLP 7 attorneys Kirby Aisner & Curley LLP 7 attorneys Roach, Lennon & Brown, PLLC 7 attorneys Lasser Law Group, PLLC 7 attorneys A.Y. Strauss LLC 7 attorneys Goldberg & Lindenberg, P.C. 7 attorneys Cole, Sorrentino, Hurley, Hewner & Gambino, P.C. 7 attorneys Harold, Salant, Strassfield & Rotbard, LLP 7 attorneys The Basile Law Firm P.C. 7 attorneys New York City Bar Association 7 attorneys Torre, Lentz, Gamell, Gary & Rittmaster, LLP 7 attorneys Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP 7 attorneys Nardello & Co. 7 attorneys Access Justice Brooklyn 6 attorneys Archer & Greiner, P.C. 6 attorneys United States Attorney's Office, Western District of New York 6 attorneys Rick Steiner Fell & Benowitz LLP 6 attorneys Kim & Serritella LLP 6 attorneys Reid Collins & Tsai LLP 6 attorneys Corbally, Gartland and Rappleyea, LLP 6 attorneys Zuber Lawler LLP 6 attorneys The Law Office of Ralph C. Lorigo 6 attorneys Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 6 attorneys Pappas, Cox, Kimpel, Dodd & Levine, P.C. 6 attorneys Vallely Mitola Ryan PLLC 6 attorneys United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York 6 attorneys The Law Office of Usman B. Ahmad, P.C. 6 attorneys Teamsters Local 237 Legal Services Plan 6 attorneys Scoolidge, Peters, Russotti & Fox, LLP 6 attorneys Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. 6 attorneys Dynamis LLP 6 attorneys Bingham McCutchen LLP 6 attorneys Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. 6 attorneys Pardalis & Nohavicka, LLP 6 attorneys DarrowEverett LLP 5 attorneys CM Law PLLC 5 attorneys Terenzi & Confusione, P.C. 5 attorneys Kagen, Caspersen & Bogart PLLC 5 attorneys Vedder 5 attorneys Phillips & Millman LLP 5 attorneys MASONE, WHITE, PENKAVA & CRISTOFARI ATTORNEYS AT LAW 5 attorneys Petroff Amshen LLP 5 attorneys Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC 5 attorneys Rural Law Center of New York, Inc. 5 attorneys Klafter Lesser LLP 5 attorneys Coudert Brothers LLP 5 attorneys Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP 5 attorneys DGW KRAMER LLP 5 attorneys Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP 5 attorneys Alpha Law LLP 5 attorneys Weinberg, Gross & Pergament LLP 5 attorneys Menz Bonner Komar & Koenigsberg LLP 5 attorneys Blodnick, Fazio & Clark 5 attorneys Litt Law Group, LLC 5 attorneys Bogal & Kahn LLP 5 attorneys Trainor, Pezzulo & DeSanto PLLC 5 attorneys Pincus Law Group, PLLC. 5 attorneys Dentino, Cammarata & Fazio, LLP 5 attorneys Rha Kim Grossman & McIlwain, LLP 5 attorneys Maynard Nexsen PC 5 attorneys Leopold & Associates, PLLC 5 attorneys ASK LLP 5 attorneys Lester Korinman Kamran & Masini, P.C. 5 attorneys Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. 5 attorneys Anderson Bowman PLLC 5 attorneys Clair Gjertsen & Weathers PLLC 5 attorneys PKF O'Connor Davies, LLP 4 attorneys Rosenfeld & Kaplan, LLP 4 attorneys Commerce & Finance Law Offices 4 attorneys Winstead PC 4 attorneys Vaughan McLean 4 attorneys Handel & Carlini LLP 3 attorneys Phillips, Artura & Cox, Attorneys at Law 2 attorneys Pryor & Mandelup, L.L.P. 1 attorneysBefore you hire
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