J. Eric Wise, Sr. (Eric)

Eric Wise has extensive experience in complex liability management transactions, Chapter 11 matters, workouts, rights offerings, recapitalizations, restructuring, post-petition and exit financing, and distressed debt purchases and sales.

Clients often call upon Eric for his advice on structuring and restructuring matters while developing creative solutions to solve difficult problems in the restructuring and finance space. Eric is a frequent author and thought leader on many issues in the restructuring and finance spaces. Eric’s clients include first lien credit groups, junior lien credit groups, unsecured creditor groups, official committees of unsecured creditors, equity holders, post-petition lenders, and debtors, and Eric’s special situations finance clients include lenders, arrangers, and borrowers. His experience stretches across a variety of industries including cryptocurrency, e-commerce, shipping, telecommunications, health care, hospitality, real estate, steel, automotive, chemical, energy, transportation, financial institutions, and paper and forest products sectors. Eric has been involved in leading and market-moving restructuring cases and complex special situation finance matters for over two decades.