John Sigel

John Sigel is a retired partner in the Corporate Department of WilmerHale, where he was a member of the debt finance practice and the bankruptcy and restructuring practice. He served on the firm’s pro bono committee for many years and represented Boston-based not-for-profit institutions on a pro bono basis in obtaining institutional financing for their operations and capital improvements. He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.

John is a member of the council of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is a former secretary and trustee of the Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust. John is a graduate of Middlebury College and Cornell Law School. 

As an Access to Justice Fellow, John will partner with the WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, working in the Project on Predatory Student Lending.