Howard S. Steel, IV

Howard S. Steel is a partner in Goodwin Procter LLP’s Financial Restructuring practice in New York, where he represents creditors’ committees, bondholders, lenders, indenture trustees, landlords, and individual secured and unsecured creditors in all aspects of corporate restructuring. He has extensive experience in Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA) proceedings, mass tort cases and distressed-debt trading, and has advised clients in a variety of industries, including automotive, coal, health care, pharmaceuticals, financial services, gaming, real estate and retail. Mr. Steel is a member of ABI, the Federal Bar Council and the Turnaround Management Association. He has dedicated significant time to pro bono matters, including representations relating to the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program, New York Bankruptcy Legal Aid& Pro Bono Services, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), and representing the American Association forJustice and the New Jersey Association for Justice in submitting an amici curiae brief to the U.S. SupremeCourt in connection with the Third Circuit’s decision in Diacetyl Plaintiffs v. Aaroma Holdings (In reEmoral), 740 F.3d 845 (3d Cir. 2014). Prior to joining Goodwin in 2019, Mr. Steel was a partner at Brown Rudnick LLP and began his legal career at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP. He has been listed in The Legal500 United States as a “Recommended Lawyer - Restructuring (including Bankruptcy) Corporate” for2020, and in Benchmark Litigation’s “Under 40 Hot List” from 2016-19, Global Restructuring Review’s“40 Under 40” for 2016, and as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star” from 2014-19. Mr. Steel received his B.A.from Duke University in 2001 and his J.D. from Columbia University in 2004.