Gregory F. Pesce, Esq.

Gregory F. Pesce is a partner in White & Case LLP’s Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice in the firm’s Chicago office. He focuses his practice on protecting and advancing the financial interests of corporate debtors and secured and unsecured creditors in the various transactional and litigation-related aspects of the debtor-creditor relationship. Mr. Pesce was recently recognized in the 2022 Global Re-structuring Review and is a member of the 2022 class of ABI’s 40 Under 40. He has played a principal role representing sophisticated corporate debtors, investors and other key parties in some of the most complex restructuring cases and transactions. In addition to his company-side representations, Mr. Pesce regularly counsels a number of private-equity and investment fund clients, both in and out of court, with respect to acquisitions of distressed assets and investments and corporate governance matters related to such clients’ portfolio companies. He also has experience advising companies, creditors, equity holders and other stakeholders in cross-border restructuring transactions, including situations in Hong Kong,Singapore, Peru, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. Mr. Pesce received his B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago and his J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago LawSchool.