Ms. Wagner is member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Litigation Department. Clients have included Bank of America, Credit Suisse, JP MorganChase, Telecom Argentina, DLJ and The LTV Corporation. She has worked on bankruptcies, workouts and acquisitions involving clients dealing with the credit crunch and subprime mortgage crisis, and has litigated cross-border transactions. She has been involved in matters relating to distressed broker-dealers and other financial institutions. Internationally, she is litigating a highly contested Chapter 15 case for BNP Paribas, and has represented Telecom Argentina in a prominent Section 304 case and National Westminster Bank in the Maxwell Communications bankruptcy.  She represented the group that acquired Rockefeller Center out of bankruptcy. As counsel to LTV in its Chapter 11 reorganization, she litigated a wide array of matters, including the trial and appeal of numerous pension, tax and environmental issues.

Ms. Wagner joined Davis Polk in 1979 and became a partner in 1988. She was associated with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan from 1976 to 1979. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and in 1976 received her J.D. from the New York University School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Fellow.

As a member of Committee J of the International Bar Association, Ms. Wagner was chiefly responsible for drafting an international insolvency concordat that was adopted by the International Bar Association. She has spoken at national and regional gatherings of such groups as the American Bar Association, the American Law Institute/American Bar Association Institute on Employee Benefits in Bankruptcy, and the Practicing Law Institute concerning bankruptcy law and its complex intersection with other international proceedings, as well as pension, environmental, tax and labor 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 labor law. She served as chair of the Fraudulent Conveyance Task Force of the American Bar Association and wrote papers concerning the fraudulent conveyance aspects of leveraged buyout transactions.

She is listed as a leading lawyer in several legal industry publications, including Law Business Research’s Who’s Who Legal – International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (2008, Compendium Volume) and Who’s Who Legal – International Who’s Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers (2007); Legal Media Group’s Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers (2007); and IFLR1000: Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms (2007).