Thomas Moers Mayer

Thomas Moers Mayer is as partner and co-chair of the Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Department at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in New York. He has played a prominent role in many of the largest and most complex bankruptcy cases in history, including representations of official committees of unsecured creditors of General Motors and Chrysler, the Dutch Trustees of Lehman Brothers Treasury Co., B.V., and second-lien noteholders of Energy Future Income Holdings. He has also played major roles in the largest municipal insolvencies. Mr. Mayer is the senior partner on the Kramer Levin team led by Amy Caton in representing holders of more than $8 billion of bonds issued by Puerto Rico and its instrumentalities, including in litigation before the Supreme Court on behalf of the holders of $1.6 billion of bonds issued by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority. He also represented holders of $900 million in secured sewer warrants of Jefferson County, Ala., in that county's chapter 9 case and the hold- ers of $1 billion in certificates of participation in the Detroit bankruptcy. Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court appointed Mr. Mayer to the U.S. Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules for a three-year term starting Oct. 1, 2014. He is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. Mr. Mayers received his undergradu- ate degree summa cum laude in 1977 from Dartmouth College and his J.D. magna cum laude in 1981 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, he clerked for Hon. J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.