Manny Grillo is a partner in the firm's Business Law Department and serves as co-chair of its Financial Restructuring Practice. Mr. Grillo has broad-based experience representing secured and unsecured creditors, debtors and court-appointed trustees, as well as both sellers and purchasers in distressed mergers and acquisitions conducted under the auspices of the Bankruptcy Code. His experience includes cross-border and prepackaged bankruptcy cases.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Grillo is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Federal Bar Association (bankruptcy co-chair, New York chapter) and the Turnaround Management Association.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Mr. Grillo is the author of “From First Dibs to the Last in Line” which appeared in the National Law Journal, and co-author of “Application of Bankruptcy Laws to Limited Liability Companies” which appeared in New York Limited Liability Companies and Partnerships (West’s New York Practice Series 2002). In addition, he is a frequent speaker and presenter for the Strategic Research Institute, Practicing Law Institute and Report on Business television network in Canada.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Grillo was a partner at Torys LLP in New York City. Before that, he was a partner at Salans/Christy & Viener. He began his career as an Honors Program Attorney in the Office of the United States Trustee for the Southern District of New York of the U.S. Department of Justice, from 1991 to 1993.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Grillo is admitted to the bar of the State of New York, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.