Richard J. Cooper is one of the preeminent cross-border bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers in the United States and is recognized as a leader in cross-border and sovereign restructurings involving companies and countries in Latin America and other emerging markets. His practice focuses on domestic and international corporate, municipal, and sovereign restructurings, as well as liability management and capital solutions transactions. Rich is known for his work on behalf of institutional investors, creditors, corporate clients, governments, state-owned entities, ad hoc creditor committees, and other parties in connection with in and out-of-court insolvency proceedings and complex financings, including rescue and DIP financings. He has advised clients in some of the most prominent restructurings and liability management exercises in and outside the United States over the last two decades. Rich is regularly recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Chambers Latin America, Latinvex, Latin Lawyer, Financial Times, Global M&A Network, Legal 500 Latin America, Legal 500 U.S., IFLR1000, and Lawdragon, among others. Law360 has named him a Bankruptcy MVP, and Turnarounds & Workouts has named him four times one of the country's Outstanding Restructuring Lawyers, an honor given to just 15 lawyers nationwide each year.