Marcia Goldstein is chair of the Business, Finance & Restructuring department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and a member of the firm's Management Committee. She has practiced with the firm for over thirty years in all areas of domestic and international debt restructuring as well as crisis management and corporate governance. She has been a lecturer at Yale Law School, Columbia Law School and Cornell Law School and is a frequent speaker at restructuring seminars both domestically and internationally.
Ms. Goldstein is currently the lead restructuring lawyer assisting AIG in an overall restructuring of the company, including its obligation to the Federal Reserve and leads the firms restructuring for Kaupthing Bank, the largest Icelandic bank which is in insolvency proceedings in Iceland and chapter 15 in the US. She is also serving as lead counsel in the Chapter 11 cases of Washington Mutual, LandSource, a large land development company, and BearingPoint. She served as lead counsel in the restructuring of WorldCom, Inc., achieving confirmation of its plan of reorganization in fifteen months and continues to lead the firm's continuing representation of MCI, Inc. (successor to WorldCom, Inc.). Ms. Goldstein continues as lead counsel in the international restructuring of Parmalat S.p.A., and led the firm's representation of Eurotunnel. In Atkins Nutritionals, Ms. Goldstein represented the company in achieving its reorganization in Chapter 11 in only five months, including the resolution of potential fraudulent transfer litigation. She has also represented debtors, bank groups, secured and unsecured creditors, statutory creditors' committees, trustees, and other parties in other major debt restructurings and Chapter 11 cases. These include Alliance Mortgage, American Home Mortgage, Hollinger, Inc., Galvex Holdings, Inc., NABI Bus Industries Rt., Regal Cinemas, Inc., Washington Group International, Inc., AMF Bowling Worldwide, Inc., Exide, Inc., Oxford Automotive, Inc., United Companies Financial Corp., Marvel Entertainment Group, CRIIMI MAE, Storage Technology, Inc., Southland, Inc., and Warnaco, Inc.
Ms. Goldstein is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference, the American College of Bankruptcy and the International Insolvency Institute and has chaired the Business Reorganizations Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of NY.
In 2008, Ms. Goldstein was named one of the '50 Women to Watch' by the Wall Street Journal (Nov. 10 issue). She was named one of the two "Women of the Year in Restructuring" in 2008 by the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. She has been recognized as an "Outstanding Bankruptcy Lawyer" for the years 2002 through 2008 by Turnarounds and Workouts, and named Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyer of the Year for 2008 and 2007 by Who's Who Legal (for the International Bar Association). The American Lawyer also featured Ms. Goldstein as a "Dealmaker of the Year" in 2004 for leading the successful restructuring of WorldCom. In 2007, she was honored as one of the National Law Journal's "Most Influential Women." In 2008, Ms. Goldstein was ranked as a "Leading" Lawyer for Bankruptcy/Restructuring in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.
Ms. Goldstein is a certified mediator in the Southern District of New York and has served as a mediator in a number of Chapter 11 cases. She has also served as a Chapter 11 trustee.
Ms. Goldstein graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University with an A.B in 1973. She received her J.D., cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 1975, where she was articles editor of the Cornell Law Review. She is currently on the Law School Advisory Council, Visiting Committee and is the co-chair of Cornell Law School's Dean's Special Leadership Committee.