Joseph Smolinsky is a partner in Weil Gotshal's Business Finance and Restructuring Department. His practice focuses on providing restructuring advice and strategy to borrowers, lenders, investors and creditors. He regularly represents corporations seeking to reorganize under chapter 11, UNOs Restaurants Corp., including General Motors in its historical chapter 11, Harvard Industries, Inc., Jazztel plc, Magnesium Corporation of America, Grupo Acerero del Norte, S.A. de C.V., Canfibre of Riverside, Inc., Custom Shops Corporation, Capital Gaming, Inc., General Rental, Inc., Orange County, California, Qualis Care LP, Days Inns of America, Inc. and Orion Pictures Corporation. Mr. Smolinsky also maintains a robust lender practice representing agents and lenders including Citigroup, Credit Suisse and a variety of other financial institutions in the recent cases of CIT Group, Inc., FGIC, Tousa, Inc., Calpine Corporation, New Century Mortgage Corp., MoneyGram, Tyco, Ciena Capital, Mirant Corporation, Environmental Systems Products and Androscoggin Energy.
Mr. Smolinsky was recognized In Chambers USA - America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2009. He is a widely published author and frequent speaker and is admitted to the bar in Connecticut, New York and before the United States District Courts in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. He is a member of the Bankruptcy Committee of the New York City Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Turnaround Management Association. Before joining the firm, Mr. Smolinsky was a partner at Chadbourne & Parke, LLP.