Joshua A. Feltman
Education
- Harvard University, B.A. 1995, magna cum laude
- Cambridge University, M.Phil. 1996 (with honors)
- Harvard Law School, J.D. 2002, magna cum laude (Editor, Harvard Law Review)
Joshua A. Feltman
Joshua A. Feltman is the Chair of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Restructuring and Finance Department. He joined Wachtell Lipton as an associate in in 2002 and became partner in 2010. In his cross-disciplinary practice, Mr. Feltman focuses both on acquisitions of leveraged entities in connection with in-court and out-of-court workouts and on liability management transactions other than for control.
In 2020, Mr. Feltman was recognized as a Law360 MVP in the bankruptcy area.
His recent engagements include advising:
- Travelport Ltd. in connection with its 2023 financial restructuring, including a $570 million equity raise and over $2 billion in deleveraging
- Angelo Gordon and Centerbridge in connection with unrestricted subsidiary financing to and restructuring of Envision Healthcare
- Centerbridge and King Street Capital in connection with the liability management transactions of U.S. Renal
- King Street and others in connection with a “pari-+” financing of Team Health
- Ares, Oaktree and others in connection with obtaining a controlling interest in TriMark through a financial restructuring and capital raise
- An ad hoc group of lenders in connection with the bankruptcy of Washington Prime Group and the largest lenders to Neiman Marcus in connection with their acquisition of a controlling interest of the company through chapter 11
- Expedia Inc. in connection with various financing transactions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
Mr. Feltman received a B.A. in Social Studies magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1995, and an M.Phil. in Development Economics from Cambridge University in 1996. He completed a J.D. in 2002 magna cum laude at Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a recipient of Harvard Law School’s Sears Prize. Mr. Feltman is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Prior to joining Wachtell Lipton, Mr. Feltman worked as a consultant and economist on regulatory and antitrust matters for Price Waterhouse and National Economic Research Associates.
Select Publications
- Financing Year in Review: Evolving Markets and New Trends,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, February 8, 2024.
- Second Circuit Holds that Term Loan Is Not a Security,
in NYU Law School’s Blog on Compliance and Enforcement, September 27, 2023.
- Corporate Bankruptcy & Restructuring: 2022-2023,
in The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Restructuring & Insolvency, Global Legal Group Ltd., Seventeenth ed. 2023.
- Financing Year in Review: The Tide Turns,
in The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum, January 24, 2023.
- Corporate Bankruptcy and Restructuring: 2021-2022,
in Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets, February 15, 2022.
- Private Equity – 2021 Year in Review and 2022 Outlook,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, February 9, 2022.
- Financing Year in Review: A Robust Recovery,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, January 13, 2022.
- Recent Trends in U.S. Corporate Bankruptcy and Restructuring,
in The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Restructuring & Insolvency, 2021.
- Private Equity – Year in Review and 2021 Outlook,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, February 6, 2021.
- Financing Year in Review: From Crisis to Comeback,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, January 19, 2021.
- REITs in 2021,
January 11, 2021; also available at Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
- ESG Performance and the Credit Markets,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, March 1, 2020.
- Private Equity - Year in Review and 2020 Outlook,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, February 8, 2020.
- Acquisition Financing Year in Review: The Decade of Debt,
in Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets, January 17, 2020.
- Debt Default Activism: After Windstream, the Winds of Change,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, June 18, 2019.
- Corporate Bankruptcy and Restructuring: 2018-2019,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, February 17, 2019.
- 2018 Private Equity Year In Review,
in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, January 17, 2019.
- Default Activism in the Debt Markets,
in Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets, November 26, 2018.