Howard S. Beltzer

Partner

Howard S. Beltzer is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice and co-chair of the firmwide Restructuring Group. He focuses his practice on major Chapter 11 proceedings and multinational bankruptcy cases.

Mr. Beltzer has participated in recent significant Chapter 11 proceedings and multinational bankruptcies and restructurings, including the representation as co-counsel of Linens 'n Things, Inc., the largest retailer to file thus far in 2008. He also represented a leading European cable and telecommunications company in connection with its debt restructuring. The restructuring was effected through concurrent U.S. Chapter 11 and Dutch moratorium proceedings involving the complex interaction of common and civil law insolvency regimes. Mr. Beltzer was also co-counsel to a leading U.S. bank as agent to the Century Cable Holdings lenders in the Adelphia bankruptcy. Furthermore, he assisted in the representation of one of the world's largest generators and marketers of electricity and its affiliated debtors in their recent Chapter 11 proceedings.

Mr. Beltzer has advised numerous financial institutions in connection with structuring transactions involving insolvency-related concerns. He has developed particular experience in regard to the evolution of derivative products, as well as issues arising under the Uniform Commercial Code. He recently represented a leading international bank in reviewing its miscellaneous relationships with the various Wall Street investment banks, including Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., in connection with the ongoing credit crisis.

Mr. Beltzer is listed as one of the world's leading bankruptcy and insolvency lawyers in the 2004 and 2006 editions of IFLR 1000. He is also listed in Chambers USA and other leading guides and peer review publications. He is currently a member of the American Bar Association, Section of Business Law and Business Bankruptcy Committee, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he was a past member of the Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization.

Mr. Beltzer received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1982 and his B.A., magna cum laude, in government from Harvard College in 1979.

Mr. Beltzer is admitted to practice in New York and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.