Practice Profile: A partner in the restructuring group, Joe Zujkowski represents debtors, ad hoc creditor groups, and individual creditors in in-court and out-of-court restructurings and in executing complicated financing transactions. He has extensive experience in restructurings across a variety of industries including energy, retail, gaming, health care and real estate. Joe is also an adjunct professor at Cardozo School of Law and a regular author on restructuring topics.

In the past year, Joe has led several high profile restructuring matters. He was lead counsel for the ad hoc group of Bruin Energy’s unsecured noteholders in Bruin’s recently completed prepackaged Chapter 11 cases, and guided the ad hoc group of term lenders of Belk Inc. in a rare deal to consensually restructure through a one-day prepackaged Chapter 11 filing. Joe also represented Isagenix in an out-of-court restructuring recently completed with its first lien lenders and continues to advise the Government of Puerto Rico in all respects of its ongoing restructuring efforts.