
James Savin
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Health Care & Life Sciences
- Oil & Gas
- Real Estate
- Solar
- Infrastructure & Transportation
- Special Situations
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
- Geothermal
- Private Capital
- Practice focuses on corporate restructurings and bankruptcy law with an emphasis on official and informal creditor groups.
- More than 20 years of experience advising on contentious and non-contentious restructuring matters in a range of industries.
James represents official and informal committees of creditors (secured and unsecured), debtors, debtor in possession lenders and acquirers of businesses and assets in large, complex chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. His restructuring matters encompass a wide variety of industries and often involve multijurisdictional and cross-border issues.
- SVB: Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 case of SVB Financial Group, the former parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, involving $3.4 billion in liabilities. Successful Restructurings of the Year (Turnarounds & Workouts)
- Revlon: Counsel to an ad hoc group of secured term loan lenders in the chapter 11 cases of Revlon and its affiliates, a personal care and cosmetics company that sells its products in approximately 150 countries, involving $3.5 billion in liabilities.
- Ardagh Group: Counsel to an ad hoc group of noteholders of Ardagh Group, a Luxembourg-based producer of glass and metal products.
- Hertz: Counsel to an ad hoc group of second lien noteholders in the chapter 11 cases of Hertz and its affiliates, an international car rental company, involving $19 billion in liabilities. Successful Restructurings of the Year (Turnarounds & Workouts)
- MultiPlan Corporation: Counsel to an ad hoc group of cross holders in connection of a debt exchange offer of MultiPlan, a health care cost-management solutions company.
- Crédito Real: Counsel to an ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders and lenders in the restructuring of Crédito Real and its affiliates, a Mexican nonbank financial institution, involving more than $2 billion in liabilities.
- Pacific Drilling: Counsel to an ad hoc group of secured noteholders in the second chapter 11 restructuring of Pacific Drilling and its affiliates, an offshore ultra-deepwater drilling company, involving $1.1 billion in liabilities. Energy Deal of the Year (The M&A Advisor)
“James is a superb lawyer. He’s savvy, commercially reasonable and knows what’s truly important to his clients.”
Chambers USA
EducationJ.D., Emory University School of Law, 1997
B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1994
J.D., Emory University School of Law, 1997
B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1994
Bar AdmissionsDistrict of Columbia
New York
District of Columbia
New York
- Chambers USA, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, 2009-2025.
- Washingtonian, Top Lawyer for Bankruptcy, 2018 and 2020.
- The Legal 500 US, Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy), 2017-2018.
- Turnaround & Workouts, Outstanding Young Bankruptcy Lawyer, 2010.
- Law360, Rising Star, 2010.
- Washington Business Journal, Top Washington Lawyer for Bankrutpcy, 2009.