Full Name
Erica Weisgerber
Job Title
Partner
Company
Debevoise & Plimpton
Speaker Bio
Ms. Weisgerber’s practice focuses on restructuring and distressed investment litigation. She has extensive experience advising clients on restructuring- and litigation-related issues arising in bankruptcy cases, out-of-court restructurings, intercreditor and lender disputes, and other distressed situations across a diverse range of industries. Most notably, Ms. Weisgerber is well-known for her successful defense of sponsors in high-profile LME actions, including TriMark and Robertshaw. She is an active speaker and author on issues relating to restructuring and bankruptcy litigation, with recent speaking engagements including “Serta Simmons Fifth Circuit Liability Management Decision” (9fin) and “LMEs Revisited: Incora and Its Aftermath” (Creditor Rights Coalition). Ms. Weisgerber is recognized as one of the nation’s leading bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys by Chambers USA (2025) and The Legal 500 US (2025). She was named Law360’s Rising Star for Bankruptcy (2023) and included in Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Litigators in America” (2024), Benchmark Litigation’s “40 & Under List” (2024), Bloomberg Law’s “The Top 40 Under 40” (2024), Law360’s” Top Attorneys Under 40 for Bankruptcy” (2023) and the American Bankruptcy Institute’s “40 Under 40” (2020).
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