Andrew P. DeNatale

In March 2009, Mr. DeNatale rejoined Stroock's Financial Restructuring Practice Group as Partner and Head of the Special Situations Lending Group. Mr. DeNatale was the former Co-Head of White & Case's Financial Restructuring & Insolvency Group.

Representative Matters

Mr. DeNatale's Chapter 11 representations include:

• Creditors' committees in a number of large bankruptcy cases throughout the United States, including Reliance Group Holdings, Fairfield Communities, Southmark Corporation and The Charter Company.
• Agent and/or lender groups in cases such as the Trenwick Group, Superior National Insurance, Barzel Industries, Tinnerman Palnut Engineered Products Inc., First Magnus Corporation and Fleming Companies, Inc.
• Major creditor interests in cases such as SemGroup L.P., Delta, Northwest, United Airlines, US Air, Enron and PG&E.

• The administrative agent for a $1 billion credit facility for YRC Worldwide in connection with the restructuring of the facility and YRC’s other obligations.
• The representation of Financial Guaranty Insurance Company in its restructuring efforts.

His participation in structuring and restructuring corporate and financial transactions includes counseling on lender liability, equitable subordination (a topic on which he has been quoted by the U.S. Supreme Court) and derivative transactions.

Honors and Rankings

Mr. DeNatale's accomplishments have been recognized by a number of publications, including Chambers USA, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, The International Who’s Who of Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, and New York Super Lawyers.

As noted by Chambers, Mr. DeNatale is "a smart and knowledgeable consensus builder" who "quickly recognizes the issues and goals of his clients and works hard to achieve them."

• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Business Bankruptcy Committee
• Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
• Member, INSOL International
  • Former Chair, Technical Research Committee

• Co-Chair, "Nuts and Bolts of Corporate Bankruptcy 2012," Practising Law Institute, San Francisco, CA November 5-6, 2012 and New York, NY, December 10-11, 2012
• Speaker, "The Other Insolvency Regime – Bankruptcy and Chapter 15," The International Association of Insurance Receivers, Technical Development Series III, Las Vegas, NV, June 23, 2012
• Speaker, "Insolvency – The Lender Perspective," Risk Management Association, New York, NY, June 19, 2012
• Co-Chair, "Nuts and Bolts of Corporate Bankruptcy 2011," Practising Law Institute, San Francisco, CA, November 17-18, 2011 and New York, NY, December 12-13, 2011
• Co-Chair, "Nuts and Bolts of Corporate Bankruptcy 2010," Practising Law Institute, San Francisco, CA, November 29-30, 2010 and New York, NY, December 13-14, 2010
• Speaker, "International Issues Arising out of the Subprime Crisis – Bankruptcy and Insurance," The Global Subprime Crisis: Issues You Need to Know Conference, Practising Law Institute, New York, NY, July 7, 2008
• Speaker, "How to Manage and Coordinate Cross-Border Insolvencies," Advanced Insolvency Law and Practice Conference, C5-EuroLegal, London, United Kingdom, October 25, 2005
• Speaker, Les Echos Insolvency Conference, Paris, France, March 9, 2005

• Co-author, "Shipping Companies Find a Safe Harbor in U.S. Bankruptcy Courts," New York Law Journal, March 4, 2013
• Co-author, "Cross Border Insolvencies under U.S. Law – a Further Update," Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law, September, October and November 2012
• Co-author, "Examiners in Bankruptcy Cases," The Review of Bankruptcy and Financial Services, August 2012
• Co-author, "Does the Presence of Guarantees Justify Separate Classification of a Lender's Deficiency Claim in a Chapter 11 Case," Platt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, July/August 2012
• Co-author, "Stern v. Marshall – Supreme Court Limits the Power of Bankruptcy Courts to Enter Final Judgment on a Debtor's Common Law Counterclaims," Stroock Special Bulletin, July 11, 2012
• Co-author, "Lender Liability," Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide, Matthew Bender, 1989, updated 2012
• Co-author, "A Guide to the Bankruptcy Law of the United States," Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, 2010
• Co-author, "International Issues Arising Out of the Subprime Crisis – Bankruptcy and Insurance," The Global Subprime Crisis: Issues You Need to Know, Practising Law Institute, 2008
• Editor and contributor, "Treatment of Secured Claims in Insolvency and Pre-Insolvency Proceedings," INSOL International, 2007
• Co-author, "Cross-Border Insolvencies Under United States Law – An Update," Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, October, November and December 2005
• Co-editor, "International Insolvency," Juris Publishing, Inc., 2003-2005
• Co-author, "The Doctrine of Equitable Subordination As Applied to Nonmanagement Creditors," The Business Lawyer, 1985 quoted by the United States Supreme Court in U.S. v. Nolan, 1966 WL 241657, U.S. May 13, 1996
• "The Creditors' Committee Under the Bankruptcy Code – A Primer," American Bankruptcy Law Journal, 1981