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Andrew Leblanc is a partner in the Financial Restructuring and Litigation Departments of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. His practice focuses on complex commercial restructurings and bankruptcy proceedings, commercial litigation, international commercial arbitration, investor-state disputes and client counseling. Mr. Leblanc has represented clients in in-court and out-of-court restructurings, in federal and state courts and before domestic and foreign arbitral tribunals in all manner of disputes.Mr. Leblanc’s practice has a particular focus on adversarial issues that arise in connection with Milbank’s financial restructuring practice. His substantial experience in bankruptcy matters includes representation of creditor committees, secured lenders, administrative agents, and individual creditors and equity holders in bankruptcy cases and adversary proceedings. Mr. Leblanc’s international arbitration practice includes representation of clients in arbitrations under AAA, ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and other rules. Some of the cases Mr. Leblanc has handled recently include the representation of: the Official Committee of the Unsecured Creditors in the LehmanBrothers bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history a consortium of lenders to a joint venture sponsored by TOUSA, Inc., a Florida homebuilder, in a $430 million fraudulent transfer litigationpending in the Southern District of Florida Bankruptcy Court an ad hoc committee of first lien lenders to Lyondell-Bassell, a debtor in possession in a bankruptcy pending in the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court, in disputes relating to the attempted provision by a consortium of lenders, including the 100% equity holder, of more than $8 billion of debtor in possession financing the debtor in possession financing lenders in Hayes-Lemmerz, a bankruptcy case pending in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court an ad hoc committee of convertible noteholders in the bankruptcy of DBSB, a satellite company formerly known as ICO NA, pending in the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court Intermet, a auto parts supplier, as a debtor-in-possession in the a case pending in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court, including in negotiating concessions on long-term supply contracts with its significant customers and on plan emergence issues the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Refco in litigation arising from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case and in related adversary proceedings, including a preference action brought against hedge fund company SPhinX Managed Futures Fund (including on appeals to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals) and an adversary proceeding brought against Austrian bank BAWAG the Refco Litigation Trust in multiple matters seeking more than $1 billion of damages in total for breaches of fiduciary duties, fraudulent transfer and other related actions Silver Point Finance, LLC, the senior secured lender to Granite Broadcasting Corporation, a national television broadcasting company, in a contested bankruptcy plan confirmation hearing and related adversary proceedings Hillside Capital, the largest secured and unsecured creditor of Ampex, a media components company that filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy Alper Holdings USA, Inc, the debtor-in-possession, in a series of contingent and unliquidated personal injury and property damage claims relating to alleged contamination in Dickson County, Tennessee by a former subsidiary of Alper the senior secured lender in the OCA, Inc. bankruptcy, in the Eastern District of Louisiana Bankruptcy Court Astoria Federal Savings Bank (formerly the Long Island Savings Bank) in a suit against the United States in the Court of Federal Claims in connection with a breach of contract suit arising from the government bailout of the savings and loan industry JPMorgan Chase, in its capacity as administrative agent for the senior secured lenders to Global Crossing, in litigation against the former directors and officers of Global Crossing a sovereign nation in a dispute before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Mr. Leblanc has written articles published in the Alternative Dispute Resolution Journal and the New York Law Journal; and he has authored a chapter for a forthcoming book on bankruptcy valuation practices. In 2009, he was recognized as a leading lawyer for bankruptcy/restructuring by Chambers USA. Mr. Leblanc received a bachelor of science degree, magna cum laude, in aeronautical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1995. He received his law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1998. He is admitted to practice in Maine and the District of Columbia and is admitted before various federal district and appellate courts. Prior to joining Milbank in 2002, Mr. Leblanc served as a Judge Advocate General in the United States Air Force.
Andrew Leblanc is a partner in the Financial Restructuring and Litigation Departments of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. His practice focuses on complex commercial restructurings and bankruptcy proceedings, commercial litigation, international commercial arbitration, investor-state disputes and client counseling. Mr. Leblanc has represented clients in in-court and out-of-court restructurings, in federal and state courts and before domestic and foreign arbitral tribunals in all manner of disputes.Mr. Leblanc’s practice has a particular focus on adversarial issues that arise in connection with Milbank’s financial restructuring practice. His substantial experience in bankruptcy matters includes representation of creditor committees, secured lenders, administrative agents, and individual creditors and equity holders in bankruptcy cases and adversary proceedings. Mr. Leblanc’s international arbitration practice includes representation of clients in arbitrations under AAA, ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and other rules.
Some of the cases Mr. Leblanc has handled recently include the representation of:
the Official Committee of the Unsecured Creditors in the LehmanBrothers bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history
a consortium of lenders to a joint venture sponsored by TOUSA, Inc., a Florida homebuilder, in a $430 million fraudulent transfer litigationpending in the Southern District of Florida Bankruptcy Court
an ad hoc committee of first lien lenders to Lyondell-Bassell, a debtor in possession in a bankruptcy pending in the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court, in disputes relating to the attempted provision by a consortium of lenders, including the 100% equity holder, of more than $8 billion of debtor in possession financing
the debtor in possession financing lenders in Hayes-Lemmerz, a bankruptcy case pending in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court
an ad hoc committee of convertible noteholders in the bankruptcy of DBSB, a satellite company formerly known as ICO NA, pending in the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court
Intermet, a auto parts supplier, as a debtor-in-possession in the a case pending in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court, including in negotiating concessions on long-term supply contracts with its significant customers and on plan emergence issues
the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Refco in litigation arising from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case and in related adversary proceedings, including a preference action brought against hedge fund company SPhinX Managed Futures Fund (including on appeals to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals) and an adversary proceeding brought against Austrian bank BAWAG
the Refco Litigation Trust in multiple matters seeking more than $1 billion of damages in total for breaches of fiduciary duties, fraudulent transfer and other related actions
Silver Point Finance, LLC, the senior secured lender to Granite Broadcasting Corporation, a national television broadcasting company, in a contested bankruptcy plan confirmation hearing and related adversary proceedings
Hillside Capital, the largest secured and unsecured creditor of Ampex, a media components company that filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy
Alper Holdings USA, Inc, the debtor-in-possession, in a series of contingent and unliquidated personal injury and property damage claims relating to alleged contamination in Dickson County, Tennessee by a former subsidiary of Alper
the senior secured lender in the OCA, Inc. bankruptcy, in the Eastern District of Louisiana Bankruptcy Court
Astoria Federal Savings Bank (formerly the Long Island Savings Bank) in a suit against the United States in the Court of Federal Claims in connection with a breach of contract suit arising from the government bailout of the savings and loan industry
JPMorgan Chase, in its capacity as administrative agent for the senior secured lenders to Global Crossing, in litigation against the former directors and officers of Global Crossing
a sovereign nation in a dispute before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
Mr. Leblanc has written articles published in the Alternative Dispute Resolution Journal and the New York Law Journal; and he has authored a chapter for a forthcoming book on bankruptcy valuation practices. In 2009, he was recognized as a leading lawyer for bankruptcy/restructuring by Chambers USA.
Mr. Leblanc received a bachelor of science degree, magna cum laude, in aeronautical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1995. He received his law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1998. He is admitted to practice in Maine and the District of Columbia and is admitted before various federal district and appellate courts. Prior to joining Milbank in 2002, Mr. Leblanc served as a Judge Advocate General in the United States Air Force.
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