Gail S. Greenwood

Gail Greenwood, resident in the firm’s San Francisco office, specializes in bankruptcy-related litigation. Gail has prosecuted multimillion-dollar breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims against directors and officers in connection with the firm’s representation of official committees of unsecured creditors in chapter 11 cases, including in Liberty Asset Management Corporation and Rochester Drug Cooperative. In addition to director and officer litigation, Gail regularly investigates and assists the firm’s litigation in diocesan bankruptcies on behalf of creditors who survived childhood sex abuse, typically in opposition to preliminary injunction demands and so-called religious-freedom defenses. Gail’s prosecution of derivative standing to bring fraudulent-transfer claims against related nondebtors was critical to reaching a favorable global settlement in the diocesan bankruptcy of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Her experience encompasses all phases of bankruptcy litigation from advice to trial and settlement. She was listed by Lawdragon as one of the 2023 and 2022 “500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers” and has been listed since 2019 in Best Lawyers in America for her work in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law. Gail has been a member and former co-chair (2021-2023) of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) since 2011. Gail is a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College and received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she was editor of the Environmental Law Journal.