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Wilbur Foster is a partner in the Financial Restructuring Group of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He has been associated with Milbank since 1987, concentrating on creditor representation and handling a wide range of bankruptcy and transactional matters.
Mr. Foster’s bankruptcy experience includes representations of creditors’ committees, creditors, and lessors in the bankruptcy cases of New Century, Refco, Enron, United Airlines, US Airways, Trans World Airlines, STAR Telecommunications, United Companies, ATC Group Services, Cityscape Financial, Dow Corning, Rockefeller Center, Foundation for New Era Philanthropy, Orange County, Granite Partners, CIS, AroChem, New Hampshire Electric, Pan Am, Continental Airlines, Colorado-Ute Electric, Wabash Valley Power, Washington-St. Tammany Electric, and Coosa Valley Electric; representation of the chapter 11 trustee of AIOC Corp. and AIOC Resources AG in a cross-border bankruptcy proceeding; and representation of the foreign representative of Gandalf Technologies in a section 304 ancillary proceeding.
Mr. Foster also has extensive experience in structuring, and providing bankruptcy and insolvency advice on, complex financial transactions, including structured finance, derivatives, aircraft leasing and finance, and other financial market transactions involving U.S. banks, non-U.S. banks, insurance companies, broker-dealers, bankruptcy-remote entities, and other participants.
Mr. Foster has written and lectured on numerous bankruptcy topics.
Before joining Milbank, Mr. Foster was an officer in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, serving first as a prosecutor and then as a defense counsel, in the First Armored Division, Bavaria, Germany. Before that he was a law clerk for the Honorable Alvin B. Rubin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Mr. Foster received his Juris Doctor degree cum laude in 1981 from New York University School of Law, where he was Executive Editor of the Law Review, a John Norton Pomeroy Scholar, and a member of the Order of the Coif. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in Economics degrees magna cum laude in 1978 from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Foster is admitted to the New York and Louisiana bars. He is proficient in German and Spanish. | 