Edward H. H. Tillinghast, III

Edward H. Tillinghast, III is a partner and Practice Group Leader of Sheppard Mullin’s Finance and Bankruptcy Practice Group in New York. He specializes in U.S. and cross-border insolvencies, particularly involving Asia and Latin America, and related creditors’ rights and bankruptcy-related litigation. Mr. Tillinghast’s broad bankruptcy and creditors’ rights litigation and appellate experience, and his understanding of business realities, is helpful in creating and implementing business solutions to complex financially driven problems and resulting opportunities, regardless of whether they involve structuring a business deal or litigating related issues. He has been involved in many real estate-related bankruptcies representing commercial real estate developers, lenders, lessors and lessees. Mr. Tillinghast has represented ad hoc and official committees, debtors, distressed assetpurchasers, equityholders, funds, indenture trustees and institutional lenders. He also has litigated creditors’ rights-related cases in many courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, various U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, and various district and bankruptcy courts, and he has led cases in courts in Australia, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, China, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Japan. Mr. Tillinghast received his undergraduate degree with honors from Lake Forest College and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he served on the editorial board of the Chicago-Kent Law Review.