David A. Wender

• Represented southeast-based financial institution as administrative agent in connection with various credit facilities, including $300 million credit facility secured by complex real estate-backed debt securities, and $75 million credit facility to private equity sponsored borrower.
• Representing a media technology company with respect to purchase of intellectual property and related assets pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy code.
• Represents master and special services in connection with CMBS loan workouts, restructurings and remedy enforcement.
• Represents a public research university with respect to a workout involving private public partnership loan involving its student housing facilitates.
• Represented a well-known American insurance company with respect to a workout involving $135 million senior secured loan by a 1,100 room convention center hotel located in Washington DC.

• Advised financial institution in connection with secured loan collateralized by royalties associated with well-known music catalogue.
• Represented US-based financial institution in workout of $250 million loan to international consumer products company.
• Represented southeast-based financial institution as co-lead arranger and lender, in connection with $450 million senior secured syndicated credit facility for a broadcast entertainment company.
• Represented a pharmaceutical company in its sale of assets pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.
• Represented a national consumer products company in the acquisition of distressed assets.
• Represented a purchaser in the cross-board acquisition of manufacturing facilities pursuant to Section 363 and Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code.
• Served as counsel to a home healthcare operator in its acquisition of substantially all the assets of a debtor in bankruptcy.
• Represented a Georgia-based financial institution in its acquisition of assets from a bank spun off from a national retail operation.
• Advised national banks, regional banks and other parties in commercial transactions and bankruptcy implications.
• Represented agents, trustees, collateral and special servicers in secured and unsecured real estate transactions.
• Counsel to national and regional banks in secured and unsecured real estate transactions.
• Represented defendants in connection with claims arising out of an alleged Ponzi scheme.
• Represented suppliers in commercial fraud cases.
• Served as bankruptcy litigation counsel for companies and individuals dealing with director and officer claims and fraudulent conveyance litigation.
• Represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in connection with breach of fiduciary duties and the misappropriation of a corporate opportunity litigation.
• Represented an equity committee in a bankruptcy case in contested litigation concerning a multibillion-dollar valuation and potential recoveries.
• Represented national and regional banks in fraudulent conveyance litigation and related disputes.
• Served as primary litigation counsel for a Georgia-based company in collection and remedy enforcement matters.
• Represented a Chapter 11 trustee in the investigation and pursuit of litigation claims arising out of multiple breaches of fiduciary duties on behalf of a bankruptcy estate.
• Served as national bankruptcy counsel to a consumer products company.
• Represents numerous creditors in the bankruptcy case of a leading global supplier of mobile electronics and transportation systems, with claims arising out of the company’s failure to perform under existing supply agreement and pending patent litigation.
• Represented a Chapter 11 debtor airline as special counsel in pension plan and employee benefit issues.
• Counseled a Louisiana-based hospital in connection with its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and Section 363 sale of assets.
• Counseled a pharmaceutical company in furtherance of its Chapter 11 filing and wind down of operations.
• Counseled agents, trustees, collateral and special servicers in complex domestic and international bankruptcy cases and related litigation.
• Counseled national banks, regional banks and other financial institutions in contested bankruptcy filings, the enforcement of contractual remedies and related litigation matters.

• Advanced Fraudulent Transfers: A Baker’s Dozen of Helpful Tips and Insights, July 22, 2022, 27th Annual Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop Articles
• Loan to Own Transactions, January 1, 2022, Practical Guidance, LexisNexis
• Fifth Circuit Rules on Payment of a Make-Whole Premium and Post-Petition Default Interest, June 2019, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law
• With WARN Act And Bankruptcy, Better Think Inside The Box, March 13, 2019, Law360

• Recognized as a Top Author as part of JD Supra’s Readers’ Choice Awards for thought leadership in bankruptcy (2025)
• Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate (2025)
• Recognized by Chambers USA in the area of Bankruptcy/Restructuring (2016-2025)
• Recognized as "Lawyer of the Year" by The Best Lawyers in America in the area of bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights (2025)
• Board of Directors, American Bankruptcy Institute (2023)
• Recognized by Best Lawyers in the area of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights (2018–2026), Banking and Finance Law (2025-2026) and Litigation - Bankruptcy (2025-2026)
• Recognized by Lawdragon in the area of Bankruptcy/Restructuring (2022-2023)
• Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy (2022)
• Recognized as an Acritas Star for outstanding service and professional excellence (2021)
• Named “Client Service All-Star” by BTI Consulting Group (2019)

• Member, Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal board
• Homer W. Drake, Jr. Georgia Bankruptcy American Inn of Court, Barrister
• Hands on Atlanta, Board of Directors and Fundraising Chair
• Georgia Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section (Past Chair)
• American Bankruptcy Institute

Honorable Mary F. Walrath, US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware