Louis T. DeLucia, Esq.

Louis T. DeLucia is a partner with Ice Miller LLP in New York and chairs its national Bankruptcy &Restructuring Practice, where he focuses on providing clients facing distressed situations with creative, strategic and cost-effective solutions that both minimize risk and maximize areas of potential opportunity and recovery. He has represented diverse groups of clients that include leading financial institutions, agents for bank syndicates, DIP lenders, indenture trustees, unsecured creditors’ committees, equity committees, asset-purchasers, lenders to franchisors and franchisees, hedge funds, private-equity funds, bondholders, governmental entities, corporations and shareholders, trustees, receivers and assignees,and debtors and creditors. Mr. DeLucia is also a founding member of Ice Miller’s Distressed InvestmentGroup (DIG), which focuses on distressed investment strategies and transactions, including bankruptcy and in-court restructurings, out-of-court restructurings, and other insolvency-related transactions. He has more than 30 years of experience advising clients on complex strategic investing in the distressed market, including advising on loan-to-own strategies, debt restructurings, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, claims trading, distressed real estate acquisitions, § 363 sales, rescue capital deployment and other investment situations. Mr. DeLucia received his B.S. in economics in 1982 from George Washing-ton University and his J.D. in 1985 from the University of Tulsa College of Law.