Robert L. Eisenbach, III

Robert L. Eisenbach, III is Of Counsel with Cooley LLP in its Business Restructuring & Reorganization group in San Francisco. He focuses his practice on restructuring, bankruptcy, distressed M&A and related litigation. Mr. Eisenbach is regularly involved in cases throughout the country, including inCalifornia, Delaware and New York. He has been consistently listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law and has been recognized as a Northern California Su-per Lawyer. For more than 30 years, Mr. Eisenbach has guided companies and their boards of directors through chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings and recapitalizations, whether it is a billion-dollar company restructuring publicly held debt, a middle-market company or a technology startup. He is of-ten asked to bring his distressed M&A expertise to bear in helping companies and private-equity firms navigate the unique issues involved when buying or selling assets of financially troubled or bankrupt companies. On the creditor side, Mr. Eisenbach frequently represents unsecured creditors’ committees in chapter 11 cases in a range of industries, including retail, semiconductor and storage technology, biotechnology and health care. In addition, he has specific expertise in chapter 15 cross-border bankruptcy cases involving companies in Europe and Asia. Mr. Eisenbach has litigated a wide variety of bankruptcy-related disputes, director and officer liability litigation, complex commercial litigation and intellectual property cases. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1985, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif, and his B.A. summa cum laude in political science and economics from Louisiana State University in 1982. Upon graduation from LSU, he was awarded theUniversity Medal for Highest Academic Achievement and received a Phi Kappa Phi National GraduateFellowship.