Marshall S. Huebner

Marshall S. Huebner co-heads Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s Insolvency and Restructuring Group in New York, where he focuses his practice on corporate restructuring and insolvency law. He advises purchasers, companies and boards of directors in many non-public distressed matters, and has provided risk-management and bankruptcy advice on derivative products and other complex transactions. Mr. Huebner has authored numerous articles on bankruptcy law, including the bankruptcy chapter of the leading guide to broker-dealer regulation, and is a contributing editor for the Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide. He has played a key role in many of the most complex restructurings of the last 30 years. Mr. Huebner was lead counsel to the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve in the $182 billion rescue of AIG and lead counsel to companies including Delta, Ford, Purdue Pharma, Lehman Brothers Europe, Spirit Airlines and Arch Resources in their landmark restructurings. His dozens of lead lender and creditor roles include Hertz, Enron, Lyondell, American Airlines, Kodak, Polaroid and Toys “R” Us. Mr. Huebner testified by invitation before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law on how to restructure the Bankruptcy Code to strike a better balance between debtors’ needs for reorganization tools and the needs of and issues facing employees of companies in chapter 11. He also has lectured at many preeminent law schools and HBS. Mr. Huebner has received top rankings and awards from such publications as Chambers, Law360, The Deal and the American Lawyer. He is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and the American College of Bankruptcy. Mr. Huebner received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1988, where he was awarded Fulbright and Rotary Scholarships, and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship and was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal.