Judith Elkin is a partner in the Bankruptcy and Business Restructuring section and served as chair of the section for five years. Ms. Elkin has more than 30 years of experience representing debtors, creditors, creditors' committees, lenders, trustees, acquirors and other parties in interest in reorganization proceedings and financial restructurings. She is also a bankruptcy litigator with particular experience in bankruptcy appeals. She speaks frequently on insolvency issues both in the U.S. and internationally, most recently in Buenos Aires and Dubai at meetings of the International Bar Association Section on Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors' Rights and in the Cayman Islands and Lake Tahoe at programs sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute. She recently moderated a panel discussion on the future of real estate distressed deals at the 2nd Global Distressed Debt Investing Summit in New York, and is a regular faculty member of the Practicing Law Institute on programs relating to domestic and cross-border insolvencies.