Lisa Schweitzer is a senior bankruptcy and restructuring partner in Cleary Gottlieb’s New York office. Lisa Schweitzer’s practice focuses on financial restructuring, bankruptcy, and commercial litigation, including cross-border matters. She has extensive experience advising corporate debtors, individual creditors and strategic investors in both U.S. Chapter 11 proceedings and restructurings in other jurisdictions in North America, Europe and Asia.

Lisa has served as lead counsel in some of the world’s most high-profile bankruptcy matters across North America, Europe and Asia, advising corporate debtors, creditors and counterparties in U.S. Chapter 11 proceedings as well as in restructurings and risk mitigation advice. Lisa has advised many companies and creditors in various bankruptcy cases, including LATAM Airlines in its voluntary reorganization and restructuring of over $7B of debt under Chapter 11; Vale in its heavily contested litigation of recognition of BSGR’s Guernsey administration through a chapter 15 proceeding, which relates to Vale’s enforcement of a $2B judgment obtained against BSGR; Total S.A. as a major contract counterparty in the McDermott bankruptcy; Grupo Inbursa, a financial services company in Mexico and secured lender to multiple entities in the Mossi & Ghisolfi S.p.A. corporate group (M&G), in the M&G Chapter 11 cases; a shareholder in the PG&E case; Nortel Networks and its U.S. affiliates in their chapter 11 cases and affiliated cross-border cases; and strategic lenders and acquirers in various retail cases. Lisa also has been providing strategic advice to several Fortune 100 U.S. and multi-national companies on liquidity and restructuring advice arising from the COVID pandemic, and continues to advise several leading financing institutions, including UBS and Credit Suisse in matters relating to their resolution plans.

Lisa has advised clients in some of the most high-profile bankruptcy matters in North America, and her work repeatedly has been recognized by the business and legal press, including Chambers Global, Chambers USA, The Legal 500 U.S., IFLR 1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers and The International Who’s Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers. Lisa was honored as one of the “Top 250 Women in Litigation” by Benchmark Litigation and as a “Dealmaker of the Year” and “Dealmaker in the Spotlight” by The American Lawyer.

Lisa received a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Lisa joined the firm in 1996 and became a partner in 2006.