Robert Jay Moore
Retired Partner – Milbank LLP
Mr. Moore was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina, majoring with Honors in International Urban and Regional Studies with a minor in International Developmental Economics, and received his JD degree from UCLA where he founded the Society of International and Comparative Law and captained UCLA’s Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Team. Mr. Moore recently resigned as a member of the Board and Program Committee of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall and seeks an alternative approach to foreign affairs programming. During his 36-year legal career, Mr. Moore served as Senior Partner in the Global Financial Restructuring Group of international law firm Milbank, LLP. Mr. Moore handled complex restructurings of national and international importance involving billions of dollars in debt. Among them were lead counsel to Creditors Committee in the Chapter 11 restructuring of PG&E, the largest public utility case filed, Creditors Committee in Orange County’s Chapter 9, the then largest municipal debt adjustment case filed, oil and gas conglomerate Apex Oil Company in the then largest filing for a privately held company, Grupo Mexico in retaining ownership of Chapter 11 Debtor ASARCO involving multi-billion dollar settlements of asbestos and environmental claims, the latter the largest such claims ever resolved, Bond Committee and multi-billion dollar Litigation Trust for National Century Financial Enterprises, the nation’s largest health care receivables financier, Bond Counsel in the first ever restructuring of Native American gaming operations for Buffalo Thunder Resort Casino, insolvency advisor to Long Term Capital, the world’s then largest hedge fund, and member of Milbank’s team representing the Creditors Committee for Lehman Brothers in the largest Chapter 11 ever filed. Mr. Moore was named an American Lawyer a national “Dealmaker of the Year” in 2010 and 2012.