NEW YORK, DECEMBER 13, 2024: International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that Sunny Singh has returned to the Firm as Co-Chair of Weil’s market-leading Restructuring Department, based in the New York office. 

Sunny, who joined Weil in 2008 and was a partner in the Restructuring Department from 2017 to 2023, arrives from another international law firm where he was Head of their U.S. Company-Side Restructuring team. At Weil, he will serve alongside Matt Barr, Gary Holtzer and Jeffrey Saferstein as Co-Chair of the global Restructuring Department, comprising 140 lawyers around the world. 

“We’re delighted to welcome Sunny back to the Firm,” said Weil Executive Partner Barry Wolf. “Throughout his years of practice, he has distinguished himself as an exceptional restructuring lawyer, client advisor and colleague. We are excited to open a new chapter with Sunny as he takes on this important leadership role.”

“We’ve worked side by side with Sunny on some of the most complex corporate restructurings and turnaround situations of the past decade, and we know our clients will benefit enormously from his keen judgment and wealth of experience,” said Matt Barr, Co-Chair of Weil’s Restructuring Department. “We are thrilled to have Sunny back on our team.”

“We have known Sunny for well over a decade and have always admired the results he achieves for clients, be they debtors, creditors, boards, sponsors, investors or other parties,” said Gary Holtzer, Co-Chair of Weil’s Restructuring Department. “His extensive experience guiding clients in highly complex, distressed situations will be of tremendous value to our clients around the world.”

Sunny brings deep experience leading all aspects of highly complex domestic and international restructuring matters. He advises debtors, boards of directors, sponsors, investors and other interested parties on some of the world’s most significant chapter 11 cases, pre-packaged bankruptcies and out-of-court restructurings. Sunny routinely advises on matters spanning a wide range of industries, such as energy, technology, retail, infrastructure, telecommunications, real estate and financial services.

Sunny has worked on some of the largest and most complex restructuring matters, including representing the chapter 11 debtors in Exide, a global restructuring which resulted in a first-of-its-kind global settlement with more than a dozen regulators to resolve hundreds of millions of dollars of Exide’s historical environmental liabilities; the Sears debtors in their chapter 11 cases, which were some of the largest retail chapter 11 filings ever; and J.Crew, one of the nation’s premier clothing retailers, in its groundbreaking out-of-court exchange.

“Returning to Weil is a wonderful opportunity to leverage my diverse experience to help guide and lead the Restructuring Department,” said Sunny Singh. “I am honored to step into this role at a firm that has been so integral in the history of restructuring practice, and look forward to collaborating with my Weil colleagues as we forge its future together.”

About Weil’s Restructuring Department

Weil invented much of what has become standard practice in the restructuring field. For more than 50 years, Weil has played a pivotal role in defining this field by offering creative, practical and thoughtful solutions for its clients. The Firm has served as chief debtors’ counsel in six of the seven largest U.S. bankruptcy filings in history and has represented clients in numerous complicated cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters. Weil’s global Restructuring group of 140 dedicated lawyers coordinate across the United States, Europe, Middle East and Asia to provide clients with innovative, bespoke solutions to complex cross-border restructurings. Weil’s broad-based experience also includes numerous significant creditor representations, representations of purchasers and sellers of distressed assets, and substantial litigation.

About Weil

Founded in 1931, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has been a preeminent provider of legal services for more than 90 years. With approximately 1,200 lawyers in offices on three continents, Weil has been a pioneer in the marketplace and a first-mover in the establishment of many significant practice areas.  The Firm’s four departments, Corporate, Litigation, Restructuring, and Tax, Executive Compensation & Benefits, and more than two dozen practice groups are consistently recognized as leaders in their respective fields.