Irena M. Goldstein

Irena M. Goldstein

Irena Goldstein has extensive experience in representing parties involved in Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings, including debtors, creditors' committees, indenture trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, and purchasers of assets of bankrupt or otherwise distressed companies. Ms. Goldstein has also represented lenders to debtors (including in connection with debtor-in-possession and exit financing facilities) and other interested parties in bankruptcy cases.

Ms. Goldstein's experience includes representing Trenwick America Corporation and its affiliates in connection with their Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in Delaware; the equity participant in a leveraged lease with Chapter 11 debtor Covanta Energy; CS First Boston and Lehman Brothers as the lenders and underwriters of an exit financing facility to NorthWestern Corporation; the purchaser of assets from a subsidiary of Chapter 11 debtor Mirant Corporation; Banco Cuscatlan de El Salvador as a significant creditor of Refco Capital Markets; PG&E Corp. in its defense of litigation commenced by National Energy Group in its bankruptcy proceedings; Pacific Gas and Electric Company in connection with the bankruptcy proceedings of Calpine Corporation and affiliated debtors; the purchaser of substantially all of the assets of a bankrupt insurance holding company; Wachovia Bank, N.A. (f/k/a First Union National Bank), as trustee of a trust containing $1 billion of securitized accounts receivable of a bankrupt furniture manufacturer; numerous indenture trustees in connection with bankruptcy cases across the country; the secured pre-petition lender to a bankrupt hospital; the official creditors' committee of MicroAge, Inc. and related debtors; Enron, as special counsel, in connection with, among other things, the sales of numerous retail energy contracts.

Speeches & Programs

· Treatment of Safe Harbor Contracts Under the 2005 Amendments to the United States Bankruptcy Code (2005 Edison Electric Institute Master Training Session).