Partner
Adam Goldberg advises creditors, secured creditors, acquirers, financing sources, and companies in all facets of the restructuring and reorganization process, with a particular focus on complex cross-border matters.
Adam combines creative financing structures and bespoke legal strategies to navigate clients’ largest and most complicated restructuring situations. His work encompasses financing structures for troubled businesses, acquisitions of distressed assets, chapter 11 reorganizations, debt-to-equity conversions, distressed exchanges, and sovereign restructurings. Adam's expansive transactional work has involved diverse industries, including the oil and gas, retail, shipping, aviation, power, manufacturing, and automotive sectors.
Adam brings particular experience in cross-border insolvencies, having steered a number of the world’s most notable international matters in recent years. He developed his focus on cutting-edge, multijurisdictional matters by working in the firm’s Dubai office for more than 15 months and working closely with Latham’s global team on a daily basis.
Adam regularly advises on diverse areas of public interest law and is a former member of Latham’s Pro Bono Committee. He is also a member of the firm’s Ethics Committee and Opinions Committee.
Ranked – Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Chambers USA 2021-2025
Recommended – Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy
Legal 500 US 2024
Up and Coming – Restructuring
Chambers USA 2022
Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer
Turnarounds & Workouts 2017
Adam's experience includes:
Chambers USA recognized the firm’s market leadership across three marquee, high-demand practices.
A Latham team, led by partners Chris Harris and Adam Goldberg and counsel Tiffany Ikeda Austin, won a bench trial in Delaware Bankruptcy Court that will enable the joint liquidators of Three Arrows Capital to amend its claim in the FTX bankruptcy from US$120 million to US$1.5 billion.
Firm advised on 13 matters selected among the most notable work of 2022 by Turnarounds & Workouts.