Martin Bienenstock

Partner, Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group
Proskauer Rose LLP

Martin Bienenstock is chair of the Firm’s Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group. Martin provides clients with multidisciplinary solutions that draw on his combined experience in restructuring, corporate governance, reorganization, litigation, Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley. Martin’s restructuring practice focuses on restructuring troubled situations including Puerto Rico to benefit all their stakeholders including their people, investors and creditors. Martin’s governance practice is targeted at keeping healthy companies healthy and growing, and saving distressed companies, while protecting directors and officers with cutting edge best practices.

Martin is repeatedly retained to solve momentous problems. Currently, Martin leads the Firm’s representation of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, charged with restoring fiscal responsibility and market access to the Commonwealth by developing fiscal reforms and restructuring its $74 billion of bond debt and $50 billion of unfunded pension obligations. In that connection Martin recently prevailed in an appeal to the First Circuit that resulted in Puerto Rico freeing up $5 billion of pension payments from liens. Martin also represents McKinsey and other large institutions.

For the last 12 years, the National Law Journal listed Martin as one of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.” Recently, he was named Litigator of the Week, although his practice involves more corporate reorganization and governance than litigation. He has been listed at the top of his field by other leading legal publications and organizations, including Turnarounds & Workouts, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, Chambers, and Euromoney Legal Media Group’s “The Best of the Best.”

Martin also teaches corporate reorganization at Harvard Law School, University of Michigan Law School, and University of Pennsylvania Law School.