Nicholas R. Lombardi
Counsel
Areas of Focus
- Restructuring Litigation
- Complex Commercial Litigation
- Financial Restructuring
- Disputes & Investigations
- Product Liability
- State Attorneys General
- Financial restructuring trial attorney and litigator with significant experience in bankruptcy court, federal district court and state courts throughout the country.
- Advises debtors, creditors, official committees, and other stakeholders in complex chapter 11 cases and in out-of-court reorganizations.
- Investigates and resolves cryptocurrency disputes.
Nick is an experienced trial attorney and litigator who has advised debtors, creditors and committees through all the stages of financial restructuring litigation in some of the country’s largest corporate restructurings both in and out of court. He has significant experience in a variety of industries, including tech, health care, e-commerce, financial services, transportation and energy (both traditional and renewable). He has also litigated matters of first impression concerning cryptocurrency and is a pioneer in crafting legal solutions for his clients in this field, having led internal investigations with leading forensic investigators to identify and recover cryptocurrency for his clients. He was recently recognized in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
Nick received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Public Interest Law Foundation honoree. After graduating, he clerked for Chief Judge Martin Glenn of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to joining Akin, he worked at the New York and Washington, D.C. offices of another global law firm.
- Advising numerous clients on complex commercial disputes.
- Litigating contested matters on behalf of debtors, official committees, creditors and other stakeholders in chapter 11 cases.
- Investigating and litigating cryptocurrency disputes.
- Representing the Official Committee of Tort Claimants in Rite Aid’s chapter 11 proceeding.
- Representing Celsius Network Limited as special litigation counsel in its chapter 11 proceeding.
EducationJ.D., Columbia Law School, with honors, 2016
B.M., Queens College, City University of New York, 2013
J.D., Columbia Law School, with honors, 2016
B.M., Queens College, City University of New York, 2013
ClerkshipsU.S.B.C., Southern District of New York
U.S.B.C., Southern District of New York
Bar AdmissionsDistrict of Columbia
New York
Texas
District of Columbia
New York
Texas
