Dennis C O'Donnell

Dennis C O’Donnell is of counsel in Milbank’s LLP’s financial restructuring group and is based in the firm’s New York office. Mr O’Donnell has extensive experience in corporate reorganisation and bankruptcy-related litigation matters, and has represented debtors, lenders, official and unofficial committees, significant creditors, equity holders, examiners and acquirors in Chapter 11 cases, loan restructurings and out-of-court workouts. Mr O’Donnell has also appeared in federal courts throughout the United States, including before the United States Supreme Court, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and numerous district and bankruptcy courts. Mr O’Donnell’s experience includes representing firm clients on a wide range of bankruptcy-related matters, including but not limited to as debtors in possession, ad hoc and official committees of unsecured and secured creditors, DIP lenders and asset purchasers in Chapter 11 cases. Prior to joining Milbank in 2001, Mr O’Donnell spent 10 years as a litigator at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. Mr O’Donnell received his juris doctor from Benjamin R Cardozo School of Law in 1991, where he was articles editor for the Cardozo Law Review. He received a BA, in classics and philosophy, from Haverford College in 1979.