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Vincent Indelicato is the Global Co-Chair of the Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group and the Chair of the Firm’s Business Development Committee.

Vincent's practice focuses on corporate restructurings, with an emphasis on the representation of boards of directors of financially troubled companies, direct lenders, ad hoc groups, bondholders and creditors’ committees both out of court and in chapter 11.  He is frequently consulted by leading distressed hedge funds, BDCs, private credit lenders, private equity investors and creditors on complex domestic and international insolvency and restructuring issues, including intercreditor and interlender matters, across a variety of industries. 

Over the last decade, Vincent has played a lead role on some of the most significant corporate reorganization cases in the United States.  These include his representation of the Statutory Committee of Unsecured Claimholders in the chapter 11 cases of Caesars Entertainment Operating Company Inc., which filed for bankruptcy with more than $18 billion of funded debt; the Los Angeles Dodgers in their $2 billion acquisition by Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Partners; Brookfield Asset Management in the $2.5 billion debt restructuring of Kerzner International’s Atlantis Bahamas Resort; and J.P. Morgan and other substantial creditors in the chapter 11 cases of MF Global, a financial services company with $41 billion in assets.

He currently serves as lead restructuring counsel to the National Basketball Association and thirteen of its member teams in the high-profile chapter 11 cases of Diamond Sports, a multi-billion dollar subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, and actively represents some of the largest asset managers in the world.

Vincent has been recognized by the American Bankruptcy Institute for his “formidable courtroom presence with natural dealmaker instincts” as a recipient of the 40 Under 40 Award, and an Outstanding Restructuring Lawyer by Turnaround and Workouts.  Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business describes Vincent as “an incredibly talented strategic and tactical business-thinker,” and “a smart practitioner,” who “lobbies hard for his clients” and “is aggressive in his approach, but practical when it comes to dealmaking.”

The Chief Executive Officer of a client recently told Bloomberg Law that “his mind is automatically strategic. And in tough situations, he never goes on defense. He has the ability to manage multiple personalities and temperaments to get them focused on the end game.”  Reorg, one of the most widely-followed publications in the distressed investing community, also selected Vincent as the inaugural guest of its Professional Spotlight podcast, and he has been identified as a “leading lawyer” in The Legal 500 and named by Best Lawyers in America.

Vincent has been widely recognized as a thought leader in the restructuring community.  He writes extensively on restructuring topics, and his writing has been featured in The New York Times DealBook, The Wall Street Journal Bankruptcy Pro, The American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, Law360 and The Bond Buyer. He has assisted Martin Bienenstock as Adjunct Professor of Corporate Reorganization at both Harvard Law School and Michigan Law School.

He serves as a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Views from the Bench Advisory Board, the Co-Chair of the Federal Bar Council Bankruptcy Litigation Committee, a John C. Whitehead Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of The Bretton Woods Committee, The Economic Club of New York, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Leadership Council, and the Executive Committee of Young New Yorkers for the New York Philharmonic.

A Harry S. Truman Scholar, Vincent graduated from University of Michigan Law School as Commencement Speaker. Prior to law school, he served as the Special Assistant to United States Senator Charles E. Schumer and worked as a personal aide to John C. Whitehead, former chairman and senior partner of Goldman Sachs.  He also led a team of entrepreneurs to bring the world’s first hybrid taxicab to New York City.

Vincent graduated with an English degree from Haverford College, where he served as President of the Student Body and was one of sixteen college students from the United States to be selected as a Goldman Sachs Global Leader. He was a visiting student of English at Pembroke College, Oxford University.  A native New Yorker, Vincent attended Regis High School, the only tuition-free, private, all-scholarship school in the United States, where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees.