Vincent E. Lazar

Vincent E. Lazar co-chairs Jenner & Block’s Bankruptcy Litigation Practice in Chicago and has advised debtors, committees and trustees in high-profile restructuring matters, as well as represented litigants in bankruptcy-related lawsuits. He also is a member of the firm’s Markets and Trading Practice and regularly advises clearing organizations, brokers and other market participants on insolvency matters. Mr. Lazar is a contributing author to Colliers on Bankruptcy and is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He has played a leading role in a number of financial services-sector insolvency proceedings and is considered an expert in commodity broker liquidation cases. Mr. Lazar represents the trustee of Sentinel Management Group, a $1 billion+ fraud case involving the misuse of segregated commodity broker customer assets; CME Group in the MF Global case, including its management of the unprecedented transfer of under margined positions to other commodity brokers; the examiner in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy case; the National Futures Association in connection with PeregrineFinancial Group’s bankruptcy case; and trustees in commodity broker bankruptcy cases such as Stotler& Company and Refco, LLC, where he acted as the trustee’s special counsel in the first-ever successful bankruptcy sale of a commodity broker business. A frequent speaker on insolvency issues affecting the derivatives and securities industries, he is co-chair of the ABA subcommittee drafting proposed changes to the CFTC’s Part 190 rules, and contributes to industry symposiums and workshops addressing resolution scenarios for clearing organizations, commodity brokers and broker-dealers during financial crises.Mr. Lazar received his B.A./B.S. from Northwest University in 1987 and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1990, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.