Shira Weiner

Shira D. Weiner is the general counsel for C Street.  Shira has worked in the restructuring industry for over 20 years. 

 

Prior to joining C Street, Shira served as Chief Counsel for the Business Services division of Kroll, LLC, where she counseled executives and business leaders on strategic legal considerations and risk management related to the restructuring, class action, agency and trustee, and government services business lines. 

 

Shira began her career as an associate in the Business Finance & Restructuring department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and thereafter joined the restructuring groups at Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, representing debtors, creditors, private equity firms, hedge funds and other lenders in the context of complex Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. Some of her clients included American Airlines, Loral Space & Communications, Macquarie Investments US Inc. in Relativity Media, Harbinger Capital Partners in LightSquared, and the Ad Hoc Noteholder Group of Triangle USA Petroleum Corporation. From 2010 to 2012, Shira worked at Kurtzman Carson Consultants, a claims and noticing agent, as Director of Corporate Restructuring Services. 

 

Shira graduated from Emory University. She earned her J.D. (cum laude) from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she served as managing editor of the Cardozo Law Review.