Susheel Kirpalani

Susheel Kirpalani is a partner and chairs the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in New York, where his practice concentrates on creditors’ rights, bankruptcy litigation and out-of-court restructurings. His notable representations include serving as the court-appointed examiner and mediator in Dynegy; representing the statutory creditors’ committees in RadioShack, SemGroup and Sentinel; serving as conflicts counsel to estate fiduciaries in Lehman Brothers, NII International, NewPage, Idearc, Washington Mutual and Solutia; representing boards of directors such as that of Lukoil Americas Corp.; and representing the equity sponsors in Sabine Oil & Gas, LyondellBasell and Sbarro. Mr. Kirpalani also has experience in international insolvencies, leading the firm’s engagements for the Hong Kong-based private equity owner of Fisker Automotive in connection with an auction and litigation relating to competitive bid for the debtors’ assets by U.S.- based affiliate of Chinese company Wanxiang; for OGX, OSX and OAS in the U.S. aspects of their Brazil judicial recovery proceedings; for Dubai World in drafting Dubai’s bankruptcy legislation for public decree companies and for the joint liquidators of Kingate Global and Euro Funds in the SIPC proceeding against Bernard L. Madoff ‘s defunct firm. In municipal restructurings, he represented Syncora Guarantee in Jefferson County, Ala.’s chapter 9 case and currently leads the firm’s engagement for an ad hoc group of COFINA bondholders stemming from Puerto Rico’s financial crisis. In connection with the Puerto Rico matter, Mr. Kirpalani testified before Congress regarding the fairness of the restructuring title of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA). He received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where he served as associate editor of the Fordham Law Review from 1993-94.