Mr. Huebner is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department and co-head of the firm’s Insolvency and Restructuring Group. He has worked on a wide range of domestic and international restructurings and bankruptcies, representing both financial institutions and corporate entities. Mr. Huebner has represented the agent banks in several of the largest and most complex U.S. DIP financings done to date.

He recently acted as lead bankruptcy and restructuring counsel to Delta Air Lines, in one of the largest and most successful restructurings in U.S. history. Davis Polk assisted Delta in, among other things, securing the then-largest DIP financing, successfully defending against a $10 billion hostile takeover attempt, and expeditiously emerging from Chapter 11 with one of the largest equity capitalizations on record.

Mr. Huebner is currently lead counsel to Frontier Airlines in its Chapter 11 proceedings, and to Tekni-Plex in a complex out-of-court restructuring and recapitalization. Other recent major U.S. bankruptcy proceedings and restructurings in which Mr. Huebner has had a major role (advising one of the primary parties) include Adelphia Communications, Citation, Collins & Aikman, Enron, Loral, Polaroid, Magellan Health Services, Ntelos and Crown Paper. He has also provided risk management and bankruptcy advice on derivatives products and other complex transactions to clients such as Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Credit Suisse and Bank of America Securities.

Mr. Huebner joined Davis Polk in 1999 and became a partner in 2002.

He graduated, magna cum laude, from Princeton University in 1988, where he was awarded Fulbright and Rotary Scholarships, and in 1993 received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship and was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for the Honorable Pierre N. Leval, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, from 1993 to 1994. He is admitted to the bar of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Mr. Huebner is the author of numerous articles on bankruptcy law, lectures frequently and is a contributing editor for the Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide. Two of his recently published articles are “The Fiduciary Duties of Directors of Troubled U.S. Companies: Emerging Clarity,” International Comparative Legal Guide to: Corporate Recovery and Insolvency, May 2008 and “As the Wheel Turns: New Dynamics in the Coming Restructuring Cycle,” The Americas Restructuring and Insolvency Guide, June 2008. He also chaired the Courts Subcommittee of the Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization of the New York City Bar Association, charged with preparing proposed guidelines governing multiple facets of Chapter 11 cases in the District. He has also been a guest lecturer at Yale Law School and Columbia Law School, is on the faculty of the NYU Advanced Bankruptcy Workshop, and is on the Board of Advisors of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law.

Mr. Huebner has repeatedly been recognized as a leader in his field, including being (1) named “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer in April 2007, (2) listed in the Chambers USA and Chambers Global: Leaders in Their Field guides to leading business lawyers, (3) named an Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer of 2005 by Turnarounds and Workouts, and (4) named a leading insolvency and restructuring lawyer by Euromoney’s Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers. He was also recently named as a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference.

Mr. Huebner is presently writing Restructuring the Troubled Company, a full-length book that will be published by the Oxford University Press in 2009.