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 real estate, manufacturing, power generation, healthcare, retail and service sectors, as well as the structuring of bankruptcy-remote entities in connection with complex securitization transactions. Ms. Dandeneau’s debtor representations include Daffy’s, Inc., Aleris International, LandSource Communities Development, Armstrong World Industries, Formica Corporation, Maidenform Corporation, Sun Healthcare Group, Okeelanta Power Corporation and Brothers Gourmet Coffee. She also has represented creditors and other parties in a number of high-profile chapter 11 cases, including representing Harbinger Capital Partners in the LightSquared chapter 11 case. On a pro bono basis, Ms. Dandeneau led the team that completed the successful out-of-court restructuring of The Legal Aid Society.
Ms. Dandeneau was ranked by The Best Lawyers in America 2012 in the practice areas of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and Litigation–Bankruptcy.
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 and is an editor of Weil’s bankruptcy blog: http://business-finance-restructuring.weil.com/.
Ms. Dandeneau received her JD from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She received her AB from the University of Miami, magna cum laude, where Ms. Dandeneau was a Henry King Stanford Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.