Stephanie Wickouski counsels clients on all aspects of bankruptcy, insolvency and commercial transactions, including bond defaults, trust indentures, business acquisitions, real estate, health care and financial fraud. With more than 30 years of experience handling complex reorganization cases throughout the country, she has served as lead bankruptcy counsel to indenture trustees in multiple high-profile cases.

Before joining the firm, Ms. Wickouski was vice chair of the corporate restructuring group and regional partner in charge of the New York office at another firm. Prior to entering private practice, she was a trial attorney with the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she received awards for her handling of litigation in airline bankruptcies. She is a panel mediator for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Ms. Wickouski is the author of Bankruptcy Crimes, an authoritative resource on bankruptcy fraud, which is now in its third edition. She has a national reputation in health care insolvency and is a frequent lecturer, author and commentator on bankruptcy subjects. Ms. Wickouski taught creditors' rights at the Catholic University School of Law and served as a law clerk to the Hon. Roger M. Whelan, former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Columbia.