Debra A. Dandeneau is a partner in the Business Finance & Restructuring department. Since joining the firm in 1986, she has concentrated in the area of business reorganizations and debtor and creditors’ rights.
Ms. Dandeneau’s practice focuses on the restructuring and liquidation of companies in various industries, including manufacturers, power producers, and service companies, as well as the structuring of bankruptcy-remote entities in connection with complex securitization transactions.
Ms. Dandeneau is a member of the New York and Florida Bars and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Sixth Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the Western District of Michigan. As a member of the Bankruptcy/UCC Committee of the Florida Bar, Ms. Dandeneau participated on the committees reporting on proposed revisions to Article 8 of Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code and on proposed revisions to Article 5 of Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code. Ms. Dandeneau has published and lectured on a variety of bankruptcy-related topics.
Ms. Dandeneau received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She received her A.B. from the University of Miami, magna cum laude, where Ms. Dandeneau was a Henry King Stanford Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.