Lucy F. Kweskin

Lucy F. Kweskin is a partner in Mayer Brown’s New York office and a member of its Global Restructuring practice. She advises clients, with a special focus on lenders, on all stages of corporate restructurings(both in and out of court) and has experience with forbearance agreements, foreclosures, restructuring support agreements, debtor-in-possession financing, §363 sales and chapter 11 plans. Ms. Kweskin frequently litigates bankruptcy-related disputes concerning valuations, make whole claims, intercreditor issues, fraudulent transfers, recharacterization, veil-piercing and breaches of fiduciary duty. In addition to lenders, she represents stakeholders across the capital structure, including debtors, distressed acquirers, official committees of unsecured creditors, litigation financiers and landlords. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Kweskin worked at Deutsche Bank in its Global CDO group. She is a 2022 ABI “40Under 40” honoree and a Lecturer of Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches a course titledAdvanced Bankruptcy: Deals and Issues in the Current Environment. Ms. Kweskin received her B.s. in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Columbia LawSchool, where she was a James Kent Scholar. During law school, she interned for Hon. Robert E. Gerber of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.