Wilbur Foster is a partner in the New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a member of the firm’s Financial Restructuring Group. He joined the firm in 1987 and has been a partner since 1994.
Primary Focus & Experience
Mr. Foster’s bankruptcy practice focuses primarily on representation of creditors and creditors’ committees in bankruptcy cases, most recently in the bankruptcy cases of Lehman Brothers, New Century, Refco, Enron, United Airlines, and US Airways. He also has extensive experience in structuring, and providing bankruptcy and insolvency advice on, complex financial transactions, including structured finance, derivatives, aircraft leasing and finance, and other financial market transactions involving US banks, non-US banks, insurance companies, broker-dealers, bankruptcy-remote entities, and other participants. In bankruptcy cases he also has litigated issues in connection with such transactions.
Recognition & Accomplishments
Mr. Foster has written articles and lectured on various aspects of bankruptcy practice. He served as an editor of the New York University Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif. From 1982 to 1986, he was an officer in the United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, serving first as a prosecutor and then as a defense counsel, in the First Armored Division, Bavaria, Germany. He is proficient in German and Spanish.