William P. Weintraub, the head of the firm's Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Department, represents both debtors and creditors in diverse industries in bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring, and reorganization matters. He has served as counsel to major creditors, official creditors' committees, official bondholders' committees, plan sponsors, and acquirers in the chapter 11 cases of Guy F. Atkinson Company of California, At Home Corporation (d/b/a Excite@Home), Agway Inc., Lone Star Industries, Inc., Worlds of Wonder Inc., Smith Corona Corporation, Catapult Entertainment, Inc., Sugar Bowl Corporation, Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc., Neostar Real Estate Group, Inc., Calpine Corporation, Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, Silicon Graphics, Inc., Pizza Time Theatre, Inc. (d/b/a Chuck E. Cheese's), and Scientific Micro Systems, Inc.

Among the chapter 11 debtors he has represented are G+G Retail, Inc., AgriBioTech, Inc., Tri Valley Growers, Landels Ripley & Diamond, LLP, Unisil Corporation, Daley Corporation, Everex Systems, Inc., and Star Graphic Arts Company. Mr. Weintraub served as special counsel to the chapter 11 debtor in the bankruptcies of Spiegel, Inc. and Global Crossing Limited. He also has represented PG&E Corporation, the parent company of chapter 11 debtor Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and has represented Wells Fargo Bank as indenture trustee in several chapter 11 cases.

Mr. Weintraub is a contributing editor of Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice, and frequently lectures and writes on advanced bankruptcy topics. He has spoken at programs of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the American Bar Association, California Continuing Education of the Bar, the Central California Bankruptcy Institute, the Insolvency Institute of Canada, CLE International, the Norton Bankruptcy Law Institutes, the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Symposium, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. His recent publications include Financing the Debtor in Possession, Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice ch. 87 (2d ed.); Fobian Rule Is a Casualty of Travelers: The Supreme Court's Decision Raises New Questions for Bankruptcy Attorneys, Business Law Today 61 (July/August 2007); and The Conundrum of New Bankruptcy Code Section 366: To "b" or Not to "b," That Is the Question, or By the "c," by the "c," by the Beautiful "c," 16 J. Bankr. L. & Prac. 1 (Feb. 2007).

Mr. Weintraub is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. In 2008, he was appointed Education Director of the Business Reorganization Committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), which has over 4,000 members. He is also a member of the ABI's Business Bankruptcy Committee and Uniform Commercial Code Committee, and a member of the Committee on Business Bankruptcy of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law. Mr. Weintraub, who is also admitted in California, is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California and a former chair, vice-chair, and secretary of that Section's Debtor-Creditor Relations and Bankruptcy Committee.

Mr. Weintraub has been selected for inclusion by Law & Politics in Super Lawyers® 2009 New York Edition for having attained the highest degree of peer recognition and professional achievement in the multiphase Super Lawyers selection process which includes, among other factors, peer evaluation. He also received this designation in 2007 and 2008. In addition, Mr. Weintraub was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2010 (Copyright 2009 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.), also a peer review publication, in the field of bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights; he has been included in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America since 1995.

Mr. Weintraub was formerly a partner in Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones & Weintraub LLP. He graduated magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany in 1975 and received his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1979.

Recent News Involving William P. Weintraub

• Ten FKSA Partners Selected as New York "Super Lawyers" for 2009
• Weintraub to Speak at ABI Annual Winter Leadership Conference
• William P. Weintraub Selected for "Best Lawyers" for 2010
• Ten FKSA Partners Selected as New York "Super Lawyers" for 2008
• Weintraub to Present at ABA Annual Meeting
• Weintraub to Speak at Western Mountains Bankruptcy Law Institute
• Weintraub Appointed Education Director of ABI Business Reorganization Committee
• Fishman and Weintraub Selected for The Best Lawyers in America 2008
• Twelve FKSA Partners Selected as New York "Super Lawyers" for 2007
• District Court Reverses Controversial Claims-Trading Rulings in Enron Bankruptcy
• William Weintraub Joins FKSA to Launch Financial Restructuring & Insolvency Department