Jessica Liou

Jessica Liou is a partner in the Restructuring Department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York, where she represents debtors, creditors, lenders, investors and asset-purchasers in all aspects of distressed situations. She has served as debtors’ counsel in several of the largest and most significant chapter 11 cases in history, including PG&E, Sears and Westinghouse. Ms. Liou has extensive experience advising private-equity funds, portfolio companies and Fortune 500 companies in out-of-court workouts, in-court proceedings and cross-border restructurings across various industries, including cryptocurrency, power, oil & gas, and retail. Her other recent debtor representations include Sears Holdings Corp., Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC, Catalina Marketing Corp., Claire’s Stores, Inc., Fieldwood Energy LLC, Basic Energy Services Inc. and Paragon Offshore plc. In 2019, Ms. Liou was recognized by The M&A Advisor as one of its “Emerging Leaders” and named among Turnarounds & Workouts’ Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyers in the same year. She is one of the editors of the Weil Bankruptcy Blog, has served on the firm’s task force focused on Dodd-Frank financial legislation, and practices pro bono in the areas of family law and criminal appeals, where she successfully argued before the New York State Appellate Division to uphold an order of protection and was part of a team that successfully overturned a death penalty conviction for a mentally impaired defendant after 19 years. She has been recognized for her pro bono contributions by Sanctuary for Families Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services as a recipient of its 2012 Pro Bono Achievement Award. Ms. Liou received her B.A. magna cum laude from New York University, where she was awarded the Albert Gallatin Scholarship and Founder’s Day Award, and her J.D. from Boston College Law School, where she served as a legal writing teaching assistant and articles editor of the Third World Law Journal and was awarded the inaugural Commitment to Change Award.