Robert Gayda

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Robert J. (Bob) Gayda is a partner in Seward & Kissel’s Corporate Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group. Bob represents creditors’ committees, special committees, directors and officers, lenders, distressed asset purchasers and investors in restructurings, whether in or out of court. Bob has experience across a number of industries including retail, hospitality, pharma, crypto, financial services, energy, maritime/offshore, real estate, fintech and mass tort.

Bob has recently represented unsecured creditors’ committees in ABC Carpet & Home, Fairmont San Jose, Furniture Factory, Papyrus and Le Pain Quotidien, and currently represents the liquidating trustee in both ABC and Furniture Factory, where he is prosecuting fiduciary duty claims. Bob also represents an independent director tasked with restructuring a hospitality business in New York, Ascent Pharmaceuticals in a dispute in Purdue, and US Bank as indenture trustee in Endo. Bob represented the independent managers/special committee of the board in Payless ShoeSource, Fairholme Capital, the second largest unsecured creditor and investigation target in the Sears bankruptcy, US Bank in the Mallinckrodt cases, Merritt7 Ventures, one of the debtors’ largest landlords in Frontier Communications, and Borr Drilling in its acquisition of Paragon Offshore.