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Elliot R. Stevens is an experienced bankruptcy and commercial litigator.  He has successfully represented debtors and their stakeholders in complex litigation covering all aspects of U.S. bankruptcy law and commercial law.

Among other things, he has been part of the core team of attorneys representing the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico in its successful restructuring of Puerto Rico’s unsustainable debt burden.  He has successfully briefed and argued a variety of disputes before the court overseeing Puerto Rico’s restructuring and taken a leading role in challenges to billions of dollars in bond debt.  Those challenges resulted in major victories for the debtor entities. 

Elliot earned his first law degree at the University of Cambridge, England, where he received over 15 awards for academic excellence and achieved the first-place rank in university-wide exams two years running.  After graduating from Cambridge, Elliot also earned a Masters in Law from Harvard Law School.