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James Gadsden
Partner
Chair, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Practice Group
2 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005
212-238-8607, Fax: 212-732-3232
gadsden@clm.comDownload Vcard
Practice Description
Mr. Gadsden has a corporate and litigation practice involving structured finance, restructuring and bankruptcy matters. In addition to representing borrowers on syndicated lending facilities, he frequently represents the corporate trustees for public and private corporate and municipal debt in connection with the issuance of the debt and defaults and restructurings, including chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. He is a past Chair of the Committee on Trust Indentures and Indenture Trustees of the American Bar Association’s Section of Business Law. He was a member of drafting committee for the ABA’s Revised Model Simplified Indenture published in The Business Lawyer in 1999 and has represented parties in litigation and acted as an expert witness in litigation involving indenture interpretation issues. He is also active in the ABA’s Working Group on Legal Opinions and a frequent author and speaker.
Admissions
- 1975 New York
- 1975 U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- 1975 U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
- 1999 U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- 2001 U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
Affiliations
- American Bar Association (2002-2006 Former Chair, Committee on Trust Indentures and Indenture Trustees of the Section of Business Law; Member, Business Bankruptcy, UCC and Legal Opinions Committees, Working Group on Legal Opinions)
- The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization; Former member, Committees on Uniform State Laws, Structured Finance, Banking Law and Admirality)
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Sustaining Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation
- International Bar Association (Member, Section of Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights)
- Member of the mediation panels of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York and U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and District of Delaware
Practice Areas
Education
- B.A., 1971 University of Rochester, with distinction in Political Science
- J.D., 1974 Columbia Law School (James Kent Scholarship; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)