Education:
Stanford University, BA. 1965
University of Chicago, J.D. 1968
Admission to Practice:
Called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn)
Other rights of audience
- Supreme Court Of New York
- United States District Court, Southern District
of New York - United States Court of Appeals for the Second Cicuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Supreme Court of Illinois
- United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Professional career:
- Member, Lincoln’s Inn
- Ad Eundum member, Gray’s Inn
- National Bankruptcy Conference, Conferee Emeritus
- American College of Bankruptcy, International Fellow
- American Law Institute, Life Member
- Permanent Editorial Board for the UCC, Former Trustee
- Reporter for Article 2A, Leases of Goods,
Uniform Commercial Code - Reporter for UNIDROIT Model Law on Leasing
- Department of State: Delegate to UNIDROIT
- UNIDROIT: Rapporteur
- US District Court, Southern District of N.Y.,Bankruptcy Division: Qualified Mediator
Areas of practice:
Commercial Law, Arbitration, Leasing and Insolvency
Cases Include:
- Trimast Holding Sarl V Tele Columbus Gmbh,
[2010] All ER (D) 51 (Aug) - Lehman Brothers
- Brunei Investment Agency
- My Travel Plc
- HIH Insurance
- Administrators of Federal-Mogul
- Administrators of TXU Europe
- Liquidators of BCCI
- Administrators of Barings
- Society of Lloyds of London
- Olympia and York
- Emlico
- Metallgessellshaft
- BAESA
- Alpargates, S.A.
Charitable activities:
- American Cancer Society Foundation,
Former Trustee and Audit Committee Member - Oxford University Law Foundation, Development Council
- University of Chicago Law School,
Former Member of Visiting Committee - UK Foundation for International Uniform Law, Chairman