Don De Amicis is a partner at Ropes Gray LLP where he specializes in bankruptcy and business restructuring matters. He has extensive experience representing financial institutions, bondholder committees, purchasers, debtors, and boards of directors in domestic and cross-border work-outs and insolvencies, and in resolving complex business disputes. His practice also involves counseling clients on ways to protect business relationships and credit exposures from counterparty insolvency risk. Clients include corporations, banks, investment funds and investment advisers, other institutional investors, and official and unofficial bondholder committees

Don is active in the American Bar Association, where he currently serves as a member of the Board of Governors, and is a past Chair of the Section of International Law. He has had extensive involvement in international rule of law programs. Don is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and International Bar Association, and the International Insolvency Institute.

A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Don has written and spoken extensively in the area of insolvency. Recent publications include Creditors Rights and Bankruptcy, The International Lawyer Deskbook, 2nd Edition (2003); and, Bondholder Workouts In and Outside of Bankruptcy, 12 Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice 6 (2003).