Debora Hoehne, Goodwin Procter LLP partner, is in the Financial Restructuring group. Based in New York City.

Debora Hoehne

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Debora Hoehne
New York
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Debora Hoehne is a partner in Goodwin’s Financial Restructuring group. She represents debtors, creditors, lenders, equity interest holders, and acquirers of assets in all aspects of distressed and insolvency situations, both in and out of court. Her experience includes a broad range of transactional and litigation matters across a variety of industries, including airlines, biotech, cannabis, financial services, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, media, oil & gas services, real estate, retail, technology, telecommunications, power generation, and professional services. Debora has significant experience with state court insurance proceedings and restructuring work for insurance companies.

Experience

Professional Activities

Debora is a member of the American Bar Association, American Bankruptcy Institute, International Association of Insurance Receivers, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), National Association of Women Lawyers, New York City Bar Association, and the Turnaround Management Association (TMA). She serves on the TMA Network of Women (NOW) committee and as a member of Clara’s Council of the American Red Cross, Greater New York Region. Debora also guest lectures on insurance rehabilitation for an insurance regulation course at the University of Connecticut Law School.

Professional Experience

Prior to joining Goodwin, Debora was counsel in the Restructuring Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and clerked for the Honorable Peter K. Leisure in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Credentials

Education

JD2007

Fordham University School of Law

(magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; senior articles editor, Fordham Law Review)

BA1998

Occidental College

(magna cum laude)
(Fulbright scholar)

Clerkships

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Honorable Peter K. Leisure

Admissions

Bars

  • New York

Courts

  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Recognition & Awards

Debora was awarded the Sanctuary for Families Above and Beyond Pro Bono Achievement Award for her trial court and appellate advocacy on behalf of a domestic violence victim.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Articles:

  • Outnumbered, Not Outplayed: Minority Lenders Successfully Challenge Exclusive Backstop Agreement on Equal Treatment Grounds in ConvergeOne, Goodwin Client Alert, October 2025 (re-published by the Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable, November 2025)
  • Incentivizing Executives to Stay Through a Chapter 11 Asset Sale (Part I): Key Employee Retention Programs for Insiders, Goodwin Client Insight, September 2025
  • Six Considerations for Directors Navigating Distressed M&A, Goodwin Client Insight, March 2025
  • N.Y. Bankruptcy Court Rejects Settlement “Lockup” – Pratt’s J. Bankr. Law, October 2024
  • Bankruptcy Court Rejects Settlement “Lockup” Provision, Goodwin Client Alert, July 2024
  • Top 10 Questions About Bankruptcy Sales – A Primer on Sales Under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, Goodwin Client Insight, May 2024
  • Uptier Transactions and Open Market Purchase Provisions, The Practical Law Journal, November 2023
  • Second Circuit Rules that Syndicated Loans Are Not “Securities” Under State and Federal Law, Goodwin Client Alert, September 2023
  • Till We Meet Again: Eighth Circuit Weighs in on Appropriate Interest Rate in a Cramdown, Goodwin Client Alert, September 2023
  • Sixth Circuit Does Not Permit Third-Party Releases in Equity Receiverships, Goodwin Client Alert, August 2023
  • A Vital Decision on Social Media Ownership, Goodwin Client Alert, August 2023
  • Exit Bankers, Enter Lawyers in Credit Suisse Saga, Bloomberg Newsletter, March 2023
  • Getting off on the Right Foot: Bankruptcy Court Rejects US Trustee’s Unconventional Position That Management Consultant Must be Retained Under Section 327 of the Bankruptcy Code, 14 Pratt’s J. Bankr. Law 404, November/December 2018
  • Seventh Circuit Discusses Inquiry Notice and Equitable Subordination of Non-Insider, The Real Estate Finance Journal, Winter/Spring 2016
  • Does Silence Mean Consent? Some Courts Have Found That It Does Not (at Least for Purposes of Sales Under Section 363(f)), Pratt’s J. Bankr. Law, November/December 2015
  • Has Bankruptcy Remoteness Become, Well, More Remote in the Seventh Circuit?, Weil Bankruptcy Blog, December 2010, cited in Paloian v. LaSalle Bank Nat’l Ass’n (In re Doctors Hosp. of Hyde Park Inc., 507 B.R. 558 (Bankr. N.D. Ill. 2013)
  • Setting Chapter 11 Cramdown Interest Rates: Is Prime Really the Prime Starting Point? with Ronit J. Berkovich, ABI Secured Credit Newsletter, September 2013
  • Assessing the Compatibility of Title IX and § 1983: A Post-Abrams Framework for Preemption, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 1389, 2006

Panels:

  • Panelist, Bankruptcy Financing Issues: LMEs and Non-Pro-Rata Transactions in Bankruptcy Cases, New York Institute of Credit, May 2026
  • Moderator, Better Together? Navigating Cooperation Agreements in Today’s LME Landscape, IWIRC New York’s Hot Topics Series, May 2026
  • Panelist, Distressed Credits: Hot Topics, Recent Decisions, Market Trends, Goodwin CLE Week 2026
  • Panelist, Cross Border Restructuring Through Ireland, Dublin International Disputes Week Conference, Ireland, June 2022
  • Panelist, The Prepackaged Rehabilitation, International Association of Insurance Receivers Technical Development Series Conference, University of Connecticut Law School, October 2018