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Geoffrey S. Goodman

Partner

Geoffrey S. Goodman

Partner

Geoffrey S. Goodman is a partner and chair of Foley & Lardner LLP’s Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations Practice. Geoffrey’s practice covers broad areas of bankruptcy and insolvency law and has focused on commodities and securities bankruptcies, as well as health care and energy bankruptcies. He is also a member of the Firm’s Appellate Practice.

Geoffrey has represented chapter 11 debtors, official creditors’ committees, ad hoc committees, trustees, secured lenders, purchasers of assets and unsecured creditors in chapter 11 cases, including some of the largest chapter 11 cases in the country. In addition, Geoffrey counsels clients in liquidations, workouts, assignments for the benefit of creditors and transactions and handles bankruptcy and creditors’ rights litigation in both federal and state court.

Geoffrey has extensive experience in the area of commodities and securities bankruptcies, having represented a consortium of customers holding over $100 million in claims in the MF Global bankruptcy case and serving as special commodities counsel to the chapter 7 trustee in the Peregrine Financial Group, Inc. bankruptcy. Geoffrey also served as counsel to one of the largest creditors in the multi-billion dollar chapter 11 case of In re Refco, Inc. in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and as counsel to an Ad Hoc Committee of Customers in the billion dollar case of In re Sentinel Management Group, Inc. in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Geoffrey has counseled large mutual funds, hedge funds, futures commission merchants, exchanges and other entities in this area.

Geoffrey’s practice also covers the areas of healthcare and energy bankruptcies, having served as counsel to the debtor and large secured and unsecured creditors in significant healthcare cases and counsel to the creditors’ committee in the large chapter 11 cases of coal companies Horizon Natural Resources Company, Trinity Coal Corp., and Black Diamond Mining Company, LLC.

Prior to joining Foley, Geoffrey clerked for Judge Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Awards and Recognitions

  • Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the field of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law (2023-2024)
  • Recognized by The Legal 500 for his work in finance – corporate restructuring, including bankruptcy (2014 and 2015)
  • 2014 – 2016 Illinois Super Lawyers® lists and the 2009 Illinois Super Lawyers–Rising Stars® Edition.*
17 August 2023 Honors and Awards

Foley Attorneys Recognized in 2024 Best Lawyers in America

Foley & Lardner LLP proudly announced today that 236 of the firm’s attorneys across 20 U.S. offices have received recognition in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
06 July 2023 In the News

Geoffrey Goodman Comments on Fallout from Crypto Lender Cred’s Bankruptcy

Foley & Lardner LLP partner Geoffrey Goodman is quoted in the Fortune article, “Crypto lender Cred collapsed in 2020 after pulling in $135 million from customers. Its shady dealings foreshadowed FTX’s downfall—but regulators didn’t notice.”
06 June 2023 Deals and Wins

Foley Advises INX in Legal Segregation of Customer Funds

Foley & Lardner LLP announced today it advised The INX Digital Company, Inc., an SEC-registered FINRA member broker-dealer offering registered security tokens and a trading platform for digital assets, in its proactive self-regulatory measure to fully segregate customer funds.
24 January 2023 Honors and Awards

Foley Attorneys Named to 2023 Illinois Super Lawyers List

Foley & Lardner LLP is proud to announce that 23 of its Chicago attorneys have been named to the 2023 Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists.
18 August 2022 Press Releases

Foley Attorneys Recognized in 2023 Best Lawyers in America

Foley & Lardner LLP proudly announced that 250 of our attorneys across 20 offices have received recognition in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
28 January 2022 Honors and Awards

26 Foley Attorneys Named to 2022 Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists

Foley & Lardner LLP is pleased to announce that 26 of its attorneys have been named to the 2022 Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists.