Geoffrey C. Williams

• Represent the liquidation trustee in the winding down of Hebrew Hospital Home of Westchester Inc., established under the confirmed Chapter 11 plan of liquidation.
• Represented a financial services holding company as creditor in a billion-dollar fraud involving a hedge fund and a scheme to defraud investors resulting in a Chapter 15 bankruptcy filing.
• Counsel to national banks and senior secured lenders in contested bankruptcy filing and the enforcement of contractual remedies.
• Represented the New York City Opera Inc. (NYCO) in its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and related matters.

Geoffrey Williams is an associate in Alston & Bird’s Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Group. He focuses on representing debtors, creditors, and other parties in Chapter 11 cases as well as bankruptcy litigation matters.

Geoffrey was a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Robert E. Grossman in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York. He received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where he was a staff member for the Fordham Environmental Law Review and an Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award recipient. Geoffrey earned a B.A. in American studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• Fordham University (J.D., 2017)
• University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 2011)

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