Mr. Darren S. Klein

Darren S. Klein, CFA is a partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s Restructuring Department in New York. He advises on a wide range of corporate restructurings, both in and out of court, and represents debtors, creditors and other strategic parties in bankruptcies, out-of-court workouts, financings, litigation and § 363 sales. Mr. Klein has had a leading role in several of the largest restructurings on both the debtor and creditor side. He has been recognized in the IFLR1000 as “Highly Regarded” in U.S.: Restructuring and Insolvency for 2018, in the Legal 500 U.S. as a “Next Generation Lawyer” in Finance: Restructuring (including Bankruptcy), Corporate, and in the Turnaround Atlas Awards for both “Chapter 11 Restructuring Turnaround of the Year” (Verso Corp. reorganization) and “Energy Deal of the Year (over $100 million to $500 million)” (chapter 11 reorganization of Venoco), both in 2017. Mr. Klein is a member of ABI and the New York Society of Security Analysts. He previously was with NERA, Inc. before heading to law school. Mr. Klein received his A.B. in economics and philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1999, his M.A. from the University of Michigan School of Business in 2000 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2007, where he served as a business editor of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review.