Bio

Barry Bazian is a partner in Goodwin’s Financial Restructuring group. Barry represents public and private companies, investors, secured and unsecured creditors, asset acquirers, landlords and other parties in out-of-court restructurings, chapter 11 bankruptcy and other insolvency proceedings, distressed transactions and insolvency-related litigation. Barry regularly advises public and private company management and boards regarding contingency planning, distressed situations and transactions, fiduciary duties and risk mitigation strategies. Barry also has extensive experience structuring, negotiating and documenting a wide variety of transactions, including distressed asset acquisitions, royalty monetization transactions, structured financings, and “bankruptcy remote” transactions. Barry writes frequently on bankruptcy and restructuring topics, and his articles have been published in the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, the Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Bloomberg’s Bankruptcy Law Reporter, among other publications. In addition to his financial restructuring practice, Barry is devoted to pro bono work on behalf of the New England Innocence Project, where he reviews case files of convicted individuals seeking post-conviction exoneration.