James T. Bentley

James T. Bentley is special counsel at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York, where he focuses his practice on corporate restructuring and the enforcement of creditor remedies. He represents hedge funds, private-equity funds, alternative asset managers, and other stakeholders in chapter 11cases and out-of-court restructurings. Mr. Bentley regularly counsels a variety of clients about dis-tressed investing and litigates issues such issues as contested bankruptcy sales, plan confirmation, debtor-in-possession financing, fraudulent transfers, equitable subordination, recharacterisation, foreclosures and breach of fiduciary duty. Additionally, he works with various international and domestic clients on insolvency-related issues in securitization and CMBS transactions. Mr. Bentleyis currently representing several utility bondholders in the chapter 11 cases of PG&E Corp. andPacific Gas and Electric Co., several union benefit funds in the chapter 11 cases of Barneys NewYork, Inc., et al. and Panasonic in the chapter 11 cases of Dura Automotive Systems. Mr. Bentley has authored more than two dozen articles on restructuring-related topics that have appeared in theNew York Law Journal, Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Law 360, The BankruptcyStrategist and Bloomberg. He previously clerked for Hon. Carla E. Craig, Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York, was an associate in the finance department of Otterbourg P.C. and an assistant vice president in the Global Corporate Banking Group at Citi-group. Mr. Bentley received his B.A. in history in 1996 from Boston College and his J.D. cum laude in 2002 from Brooklyn Law School.