Marcia Goldstein retired from the partnership at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in 2020. She was a senior partner in the Restructuring Department, served on the Firm’s Management Committee and as chair of the Department. Her experience covers all areas of domestic and international debt restructuring, corporate governance and crisis management. She has been a lecturer at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Cornell and Cardozo Law Schools and is a frequent speaker on restructuring and corporate governance topics both domestically and internationally. Marcia has represented a wide range of interests and parties, including debtors, lenders and purchasers, and has advised the board of directors of every debtor company she has represented, including public and privately held companies.
Marcia has been a co-chair of UJA’s Bankruptcy and Reorganization Committee and has served on the Board of SCAN (formerly Boys and Girls Harbor). She currently serves on the Leadership Council for Tina’s Wish, the Cornell Law School Advisory Council, the Executive Committee, AJC Financial Services Division and the Senior Advisory Board of Her Justice.
Marcia was named “Highly Regarded” for Restructuring and Insolvency in the U.S. by IFLR1000 in 2020; named among the Notable Women in Law by Crain’s New York Business in 2019; was awarded Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer for her work as counsel to Takata in its global restructuring and $1.6 billion asset sale to Key Safety; and was awarded Best in Insolvency & Restructuring by Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law all in 2019.
Marcia was named, among a very select few, to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Law Journal in 2018. Also, in 2018, she was recognized among IFLR1000’s “Women Leaders”. She was selected by The National Law Journal as one of its “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America”, is the 2012 recipient of Euromoney Legal Media Group’s award for America’s Women in Business Law and is named among the Top 10 New York Super Lawyers. In 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015 Marcia was named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in New York” by Crain’s New York Business. She has been recognized as an “Outstanding Bankruptcy Lawyer” seven times by Turnarounds and Workouts, and as “Global Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyer of the Year” – seven years running – by Who’s Who Legal. She was named among 50 “Legends” by Lawdragon for making its 500 Leading Lawyers in America list for the 10th consecutive year.
Marcia is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference, where she has served on the Executive Committee, the American College of Bankruptcy and the International Insolvency Institute.