David H. Botter

Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

David H. Botter focuses on corporate restructurings, with an emphasis on creditors’ committees and bondholder committees in large, complex cases both out of court and in chapter 11.

Mr. Botter represents bondholders, noteholders, institutional investors, hedge funds and other interested parties. He also has represented debtors in possession, postpetition lenders and acquirers of distressed assets. His restructuring matters encompass a variety of industries, with a particular emphasis on multijurisdictional and cross-border matters.

Mr. Botter is the firm’s hiring partner and a member of the firm’s diversity committee.

Mr. Botter received his B.A. in political science from Syracuse University in 1986 and his J.D. cum laude in 1989 from the Boston University School of Law. While in law school, he was a Paul J. Liacos Distinguished Scholar and a G. Joseph Tauro Scholar, and the recipient of the Christopher A. and Alice Hazelhurst Barreca Labor Relations Law Scholarship. Mr. Botter is a member of the New York Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.