Lewis Kruger, co-chair of Stroock’s Financial Restructuring Practice, has over 40 years of experience as an insolvency lawyer. He has played a major role in many of the significant reorganization proceedings in the U.S. He has been lead counsel representing banks such as JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, HVB, Barclays, ABN Amro, National Westminster Bank, Deutsche Bank, and financial institutions including Bear Stearns and Salomon Smith Barney. He has represented debtors and creditors’ committees in cases including Leslie Fay, The Icing, Zale Corporation, Southmark Corporation, The McCall Pattern Company, Columbia Gas Systems, NuCorp Energy, Victor Technologies, Tosco, Penn-Dixie Steel, Phoenix Steel, Neisner Brothers, Hillsborough Holdings, Western Union, Forstmann, Edgecomb, Charter Medical, Cabot Cabot & Forbes, Daniel M Galbreath, Harvest Foods, Phar-Mor, Anchor Glass Container Corporation, Tiphook Finance Corporation, Pinnacle Brands, Planet Hollywood, U.S. Gypsum Corporation, WR Grace & Co., Armstrong World Industries and Owens Corning. He has represented the acquirors of Burlington Industries, Cone Mills and LTV Steel, among others.

A Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, he has acted as Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary with respect to reorganizations, and as Special Counsel to the Governor of New York and the Urban Development Corporation. Mr. Kruger is a frequent lecturer for The Practicing Law Institute and Bar Associations in the U.S. and overseas. From 1972 to 1988 he taught reorganization at Columbia Law School.

Mr. Kruger’s publications include Bankruptcy: Practice and Procedure in 1972 and annually thereafter; Creditor Representation in Bankruptcy and Insolvency Proceedings; Current Developments in Bankruptcy, Reorganization & Arrangement Proceedings, 1972-Present; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978; Business Reorganization and Rehabilitation: The New Chapter 11; and many other monographs for newspapers and journals.

Activities

Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Member, Committee on Banking, 1974-1975, 1980-1981; Member, Committee on Bankruptcy Law, 1975-1978; Secretary and Board Member, Museum of Arts & Design, 1990 - present; Member, Community Services Board, New York City Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services, 1981-1988; Consultant, Subcommittee to the U.S.

Senate on Anti-Trust and Monopoly, Corporate Reorganization, 1976; First Vice Chairman, Manhattan Community Planning Board #7, 1972-1974; Vice Chairman, Manhattan Community Planning Board #8, 1968-1970; President (1967-1970) and Chairman (1970-1977), Citizens for Clean Air, Inc.; Associate Counsel to Minority Leader, New York State Senate, 1966; Assistant Counsel to President pro tempore and Majority Leader of New York State Senate, 1965; Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Reserve, 1959-1965

Admitted to Practice

New York, 1959

Education

LL.B., Columbia University School of Law, 1959

A.B., Harvard University, 1956