Theodore E. Tsekerides

Theodore E. Tsekerides is a partner in Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP’s Litigation Department in NewYork, where he concentrates his practice in product liability/mass torts, complex commercial litigation and bankruptcy litigation matters, as well as risk avoidance counseling and strategy. He has more than25 years of litigation and trial experience representing companies in high-stakes matters that threaten their reputations and businesses, and regularly serves as litigation counsel to trustees, debtors and creditors in bankruptcy proceedings and related disputes. Among other notable engagements, Mr. Tsekerides handled all major bankruptcy ligation for the PG&E debtors in its chapter 11 case, including proceedings against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and matters involving hundreds of millions of dollars in claims, and he currently is lead bankruptcy litigation counsel for Johnson & Johnson in connection with the chapter 11 cases of its talc supplier, Imerys Talc America. Mr. Tsekerides’ prior experience includes serving as lead litigation counsel in the Takata Corp. litigation and for the unsecured creditors’ committees in the SunEdison, Enron, WorldCom and Loral Satellite bankruptcies, among many others.He also served as one of the lead attorneys representing Lend Lease in all aspects of the World TradeCenter debris-removal litigation, which involved more than 10,000 claims alleging respiratory and other injuries as a result of the Ground Zero site cleanup; in that case, he was extensively involved in efforts that resulted in the passage of the Zadroga Act by Congress addressing the various claims and providing legal protections for contractors such as Lend Lease that assisted in the cleanup. Mr. Tsekerides received his B.A. in 1990 from Columbia University and his J.D. in 1993 from Brooklyn Law School.