Patrick J. Trostle — Partner at Jenner & Block

Mr. Patrick J. Trostle serves as Partner in Jenner & Block's New York office and Thompson & Knight, LLP. Mr. Trostle is a member of the Firm's Bankruptcy, Workout and Corporate Reorganization Practice. Mr. Trostle concentrates on representing institutional parties in complex chapter 11 reorganizations and international insolvency cases. Mr. Trostle has significant experience in representing creditors and debtors in restructurings both in and out of court. He has served as Counsel to numerous secured creditors, including the DIP lenders in the Levitz and Heating Oil Partners chapter 11 cases and the prepetition lenders in the Tweeter and Enesco chapter 11s. Mr. Trostle has also represented official unsecured creditors' committees, including those in the NRG Energy and Loewen chapter 11 cases. He has represented numerous ad hoc creditors' committees, including bondholders in the Cenargo and Teleglobe cross-border cases and aircraft creditors in the Independence Air, Northwest Airlines and Atlas Air chapter 11 cases. Among Mr. Trostle's debtor representations are NII Holdings in its chapter 11 case and Comdisco as special foreign counsel in its chapter 11. Mr. Trostle was appellate bankruptcy counsel in several cases before the United States Supreme Court, including NextWave and Hen House and he was a member of the appellate team that represented E. Pierce Marshall in the Anna Nicole Smith bankruptcy case. Mr. Trostle was most recently a Partner at Bingham McCutchen in its Financial Restructuring Group. He was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison prior to joining Bingham McCutchen. Mr. Trostle is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He currently serves as vice chairman of the Trust Indenture Subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Business Bankruptcy Committee. He has been named a Connecticut 'Super Lawyer' in the field of bankruptcy law. Mr. Trostle served as a law clerk to the Honorable Francis G. Conrad in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York from 1992 to 1994. He is a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court, the New York and Connecticut bars and the bars of several federal courts, including the bar of the Southern District of New York. Mr. Trostle is admitted to practice in Connecticut, New York and the District of Columbia (inactive). Mr. Trostle graduated with highest honors in 1989 from Trinity College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Trostle received a J.D. from Vermont Law School in 1992 and a B.A., with highest honors, from Trinity College in 1989. He also attended the University of Oxford and he served as a law clerk for the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.