Geoffrey S. Goodman
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Geoffrey S. Goodman</strong> is a partner and chair of Foley & Lardner LLP’s Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations Practice in Chicago. His practice covers broad areas of bankruptcy and insolvency law and has focused on commodities and securities bankruptcies, as well as health care and energy bankruptcies. He is also a member of the firm’s Appellate Practice. Mr. Goodman has represented chapter 11 debtors, official creditors’ committees, ad hoc committees, trustees, secured lenders, purchasers of assets and unsecured creditors in chapter 11 cases, including some of the largest chapter 11 cases in the country. In addition, he counsels clients in liquidations, workouts, assignments for the benefit of creditors and transactions, and he handles bankruptcy and creditors’ rights litigation in both federal and state court. Mr. Goodman has extensive experience in the area of commodities and securities bankruptcies, having represented a consortium of customers holding over $100 million in claims in the <em>MF Global </em>bankruptcy case and serving as special commodities counsel to the chapter 7 trustee in the <em>Peregrine Financial Group, Inc.</em> bankruptcy. He also served as counsel to one of the largest creditors in the multi-billion dollar chapter 11 case of <em>In re Refco Inc.</em> in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and as counsel to an ad hoc committee of customers in the billion-dollar case of <em>In re Sentinel Management Group Inc.</em> in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Goodman has counseled large mutual funds, hedge funds, futures commission merchants, exchanges and other entities in this area. His practice also covers the areas of health care and energy bankruptcies, having served as counsel to the debtor and large secured and unsecured creditors in significant health care cases, and as counsel to the creditors’ committee in the large chapter 11 cases of coal companies Horizon Natural Resources Company, Trinity Coal Corp. and Black Diamond Mining Company LLC. Prior to joining Foley, Mr. Goodman clerked for Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He received his B.A. in political science with honors in 1996 from Illinois Wesleyan University and his J.D. <em>summa cum laude</em> in 1999 from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was notes editor of the <em>Law Review</em> and elected to the Order of the Coif.</p>