Biography: Insolvency & Restructuring

Ms Wagner is a partner in Davis Polk's litigation department. She has represented Sterling Equities in the Madoff SIPA liquidation. She has obtained precedential victories in matters regarding derivative transactions. Much of her work is cross-border, and she often represents financial institutions and other clients in complex litigations relating to insolvency. In addition to Sterling Equities, her clients have included Citibank, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, the International Monetary Fund and the Bank for International Settlements.

Ms Wagner's international work highlights include a highly contested Chapter 15 case for BNP Paribas; Telecom Argentina in a prominent Section 304 case; and National Westminster Bank in the Maxwell Communications bankruptcy. Other representations include Sterling Equities in the Madoff SIPA liquidation; numerous clients involved in one or more Lehman matter; prominent global financial institutions in fast-paced matters relating to Argentine litigation; and financial institutions in Terrorism Risk Insurance Act litigation.

Ms Wagner is listed as a leading lawyer in several legal industry publications, including: IFLR1000: Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms; Law Business Research's Who's Who Legal – The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and Who's Who Legal – The International Who's Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers; and Legal Media Group's Expert Guide to the World's Leading Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers. She was also named a leading insolvency and restructuring lawyer in 2010 by Euromoney's Expert Guide to the World's Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers.

Ms Wagner is a speaker at national and regional gatherings of such groups as the American Bar Association, INSOL, the American Law Institute and the Practicing Law Institute concerning bankruptcy law and its complex intersection with other international proceedings, as well as pension, environmental, tax and labour law. She is the author or joint author of many papers on bankruptcy as well as chapters of two books, one concerning international insolvency and the other labour law.