Christopher Kiplok

Chris Kiplok is a Partner at the law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, where he chairs the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Department and is a member of the Executive Committee.

Chris has worked in financial insolvency his entire career, representing SIPC, SIPA Trustees, the FDIC, and FDIC Receivers.  Notably he served as the Trustee’s Deputy in the liquidations of Lehman Brothers Inc. and MF Global Inc., the largest broker dealer and futures commission merchant failures in history.

He currently serves as the court-appointed Administrator of the Lehman Brothers Creditors’ Trust, responsible for marshalling and distributing legacy assets.  Chris is the author of the legal treatise on SIPA liquidations, is a frequent speaker and author on topics associated with “Too Big Too Fail” insolvency and financial firm wind down, and has routinely briefed Congressional Committees and Regulators.

Chris’s legal practice includes judicial and out of court restructuring matters and financial litigation.   He is a Trustee of the Eagle Picher Personal Injury Settlement Trust, a Director of the Claims Processing Facility, Inc., and a past Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Committee.

Chris chairs the Board of Trustees of the Village Community School, and serves as a Director of the settlement house Greenwich House, Inc.  He lives in lower Manhattan with his wife and two children.