Visiting Faculty
Vincent Buccola
Visiting Associate Professor of LawBiography
Vince Buccola is an associate professor at the Wharton School. He focuses on corporate financial and managerial law, with an emphasis on leveraged finance, distress, and reorganization. Before joining the Wharton faculty, Buccola was a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and was a trial lawyer at Bartlit Beck. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School (JD) and Wesleyan University (BA).
Education
University of Chicago Law School
JD, with High Honors (2005–2008)
Wesleyan University
BA, with High Honors in History (1999–2003)
Experience
The Wharton School | University of Pennsylvania
Co-Director, Wharton Debt and Restructuring Project (2022–)
Associate Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics (2021–)
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics (2014–2021)
NYU School of Law
Visiting Professor of Law (Spring 2024) [planned]
University of Chicago Law School
Visiting Associate Professor of Law (Autumn 2023) [planned]
University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law
Lecturer in Law (Spring 2022)
University of Chicago Law School
Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law (2012–2014)
Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP
Special Counsel (2012–2014)
Associate (2009–2012)
Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook
Law Clerk (2008–2009)
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Summer Associate (2007)