Douglas P. Bartner is a partner in Shearman & Sterling LLP’s Bankruptcy & Reorganization Group, where he regularly represents debtors and creditors and acquirors of assets in chapter 11 bankruptcies and out-of-court restructurings. He joined Shearman & Sterling in 1982 and became a partner in 1991.  Mr. Bartner spent two years in Mexico City engaged in private sector restructuring work during the height of the sovereign debt crisis and two years in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Mr. Bartner served as the global Practice Group Leader of the Bankruptcy & Reorganization Group for ten years. He is currently serving as Chair of the firm’s Audit Committee and is a member of the firm’s Practice Management Committee.

Mr. Bartner is consistently ranked as an industry leader. In 2011, Mr. Bartner was recognized by IFLR 1000 – The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms, Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook, Legal 500 US and The International Who’s Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers. In addition, Mr. Bartner was included in the 2012 edition of The New York Area’s Best Lawyers Guide and was selected as one of the Chambers USA 2012 – Leaders in their Field in the Bankruptcy/Restructuring arena.

• Media General in its sale of newspaper assets to and financing agreements with Berkshire Hathaway
• Provo Craft in its out-of-court recapitalization
• Cinram in its out-of-court recapitalization
• JBS, S.A. in its acquisition of Pilgrim’s Pride out of Chapter 11
• Nomura in the Lehman Chapter 11
• Fairfax Financial Holdings as DIP lender, rights offering backstop investor and successful fraudulent conveyance defendant
• Delphi Corporation, as special bankruptcy counsel, in its Chapter 11
• Remy International, Inc. in its prepackaged Chapter 11
• Stock Building Supply in its prepackaged Chapter 11
• Vedanta plc in its proposed $2.6 billion acquisition of ASARCO out of Chapter 11
• National Amusements in its out-of-court recapitalization
• Oneida Ltd. in its Chapter 11
• Tembec Industries, Inc. in its recapitalization and Chapter 15
• Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc. in its prepackaged Chapter 11
• Arrangers and agent in $1.4 billion DIP loan to Dana Corporation
• Lender and co-lead arranger in $2 billion DIP loan to Calpine Corporation
• Arrangers and agent in $1 billion cross-border DIP loan to Quebecor
• Lender group owed $1.7 billion in the Genuity Chapter 11
• Lender group owed $750 million in the Exide Technologies Chapter 11
• Lenders in the $1.2 billion debtor-in-possession financing for WorldCom, Inc.
• America Online Latin America, Inc. in its Chapter 11

• Member, Committee on Commercial Bankruptcy, New York County Lawyers' Association
• Member, INSOL International
• Member, American Bankruptcy Institute

• Under contract with PLI to author a book entitled “Companies in Financial Distress” due to be published in 2013
• Co-Author, “Comparing Notes: How Financial Advisors and Attorneys Approach the Plan of Reorganization,” ABI Journal, September 2011
• Co-Author, “The Response of the U.S. Congress to The Recent Financial Crisis: Creation of an ‘Orderly Liquidation Authority’ Under the Dodd-Frank Act,” 23 Commercial Insolvency Reporter 61 (2011)
• Co-Author, “Major Legal and Financial Factors Impacting Chapter 11 Restructurings in 2011,” Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Law 2011: Top Lawyers on Trends and Key Strategies for the Upcoming Year 5 (Aspatore 2011)
• Co-Author, “Credit Bidding – Recent Canadian and U.S. Themes,” Annual Review of Insolvency Law 1 (Janis P. Sarra ed., 2010)
• Co-Author, “If the Cap Fits: Landlord Claims for Breaches of Repair and Maintenance Covenants in Bankruptcy,” 4 Bloomberg Law Reports—Bankruptcy Law No. 51 (2010)
• Co-Author, “Asset Sales in Bankruptcy: After the Perfect Storm,” 27 The Bankruptcy Strategist 1 (September 2010)
• Co-Author, “Capping Landlords' Lease Rejection Damage Claims,” 243 New York Law Journal (June 28, 2010)
• Co-Author, “Evaluating executive compensation ‘best practices’ in the post-recession world,” Navigating in Today’s Environment: The Directors’ and Officers’ Guide to Restructuring (John Wm. ("Jack") Butler, Jr. ed., 2010)