Paul H. Zumbro

Paul H. Zumbro is a partner in Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP’s Corporate Department in New York and heads the firm’s Financial Restructuring & Reorganization practice. His practice focuses on restructuring transactions and related financings, both in and out of court, as well as on bankruptcy M&A transactions. Mr. Zumbro’s practice includes advising the firm’s corporate and financial institution clients on bankruptcy issues and advising on debtor/creditor rights in a variety of contexts. His restructuring experience includes both debtor- and creditor-side representations, and also includes work in the fields of municipal and sovereign debt restructuring, as well as insolvency-related litigation matters. Mr. Zumbro is a member of ABI, the International Bar Association (IBA) and the IBA’s Banking Law and Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights Committees, and he was elected to serve on the Thomson Reuters Practical Law Bankruptcy Advisory Board. He is a frequent participant at bankruptcy and restructuring conferences, speaking on a broad range of complex topics from stalking-horse buyers to DIP best practices. Mr. Zumbro also recently testified on divisional merger bankruptcies (also known as the “Texas Two-Step” bankruptcy practice) before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights, and he recently authored a viewpoint piece for the Wall Stree Journal, “How Congress Can Minimize the Cryptopocalypse.” Mr. Zumbro chairs the New York City Bar Association’s Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Committee. He received his B.A. cum laude and with distinction from Yale College in 1992 and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1997, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.