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Email: pdleake@jonesday.com

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Related Services

• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
  • Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
  • Official Unsecured Creditors' Committees
  • Secured Lender Groups
  • Bondholder Committees
  • Other Significant Creditor Representations
  • Out-of-Court Restructurings
  • Distressed Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Global Restructuring Matters
  • Distressed Company Litigation
  • Restructuring-Related Lending & Finance
• Financial Services
• Airlines & Aviation

Paul Leake is head of Jones Day's firmwide business restructuring & reorganization practice and head of the Firm's New York corporate practice. Paul focuses his practice on U.S. and transnational business reorganizations, including chapter 11 reorganizations and liquidations, out-of-court restructurings, secured financings, distressed acquisitions, and investments in troubled companies. He has represented all of the major constituencies in restructurings, including debtors, commercial banks and bank groups, bondholder committees, official creditors' committees, unsecured creditors, and distressed investors in the airline, automotive, chemical, energy, telecommunications, maritime, health care, real estate, satellite, publishing, and investment banking industries.

Paul has represented debtors in the high-profile chapter 11 cases of Independence Air, Globalstar, Olympia & York, Sun Healthcare, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Marvel Entertainment, Williams Communications, and NextWave Telecom and debtors in a number of out-of-court restructurings. He has also represented bondholder committees in the Enron, Cone Mills, Iridium, Orbital Imaging, and Kirker Enterprises restructurings; senior secured lenders in the Calpine Corporation, Meridian Automotive Systems, Trico Marine, and Memorex Telex restructurings; and institutional lenders, distressed investors, and other major creditors, including Citibank, Goldman Sachs, General Electric Capital Corporation, Trilon Financial Corp., NuCoastal, and Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, in a number of restructurings, including Enron, WorldCom, GST Telecom, ASM, and Royal Oak Mines.

Paul is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association and serves on the Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization Committee of the New York City Bar. He has published and lectured on U.S. and transnational insolvency matters. Paul was recognized by the Global Insolvency Restructuring Review in its 2000 "40 Under 40" compilation of leading insolvency and restructuring professionals and is regularly listed as a leading restructuring professional in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, the K&A Restructuring Register, IFLR1000, Who's Who Legal USA: Insolvency & Restructuring, New York Super Lawyers, and other publications.

New York

Amherst College (B.A. 1985); Columbia University (J.D. 1988)