Andrew Goldman and Benjamin Loveland are joining Goodwin’s Financial Restructuring practice as partners in the New York and Boston offices, respectively. Goldman will also serve as co-chair of the firm’s global Financial Restructuring practice, the firm announced on Tuesday. Corporate restructuring activity has significantly increased in recent weeks thanks in part to the rise of artificial intelligence and stagnant interest rates. Chapter 11 bankruptcies have jumped 37% in the first quarter of 2026 compared with 2025. “We are seeing way more activity than I think we saw probably in the last three years combined,” Goldman said in an interview with Bloomberg Law. Goldman has advised clients for more than three decades on matters across the restructuring landscape, representing public company debtors, private company debtors, and boards of directors of distressed companies, among others, in both out-of-court workouts and formal restructuring processes. Goodwin has “a great platform,” Goldman said. “This was an opportunity that would’ve been incredibly difficult to pass up,” he said. Loveland works with companies, creditors, and debt investors in Chapter 11 proceedings and out-of-court restructurings. Goldman said he and Loveland hope to “build strength on strength” in their move, bringing “a lot of the relationships that my partner and I have developed over 25 years at Wilmer and really take what is there and see if we can’t have one and one make three.”
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