https://www.bakerlaw.com/

 

Recognized as one of the top firms for client service, BakerHostetler is a leading national law firm that helps clients around the world to address their most complex and critical business and regulatory issues. The firm has more than 960 lawyers located in 14 offices coast to coast and is widely regarded as having one of the country’s top 10 tax practices, a nationally recognized litigation practice, an award-winning data privacy practice and an industry-leading business practice which includes our highly-praised bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors rights team. The firm is also recognized internationally for its groundbreaking work recovering more than $11 billion in the Madoff Recovery Initiative, representing the SIPA Trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.

 

www.blankrome.com.

Blank Rome LLP is an Am Law 100 firm with more than 600 attorneys and 13 offices in the United States and in China. Secured and unsecured creditors, trustees, financial institutions, private equity and hedge funds, and officers, directors, managers and strategic investors look to us for insightful and forward-looking advice on funding and purchasing assets and businesses in distress as well as structuring, proposing and implementing plans under insolvency laws. Our attorneys aim to maximize successful outcomes for clients by taking a pragmatic approach in an efficient manner, combining experience and creative strategies that address the nuances of each situation, as well as providing risk assessment and counsel on alternatives to and structure of transactions, litigation and dispute resolution. Learn more about our firm’s exceptional skill in helping clients navigate complex business and financial challenges at blankrome.com.

 

 

 

Bradley is a national law firm with a global perspective. Our firm has more than 500 attorneys serving established regional, national and international companies, emerging businesses and individuals. Our offices — strategically located in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the District of Columbia — provide an extensive geographic base from which to best accommodate our clients. Recognized across the country, our attorneys serve as national, regional, and statewide counsel for clients across many industries. Clients rely on us for innovative legal services that reflect a deep understanding of their business objectives.

http://brownrudnick.com/

Brown Rudnick combines ingenuity with experience to achieve great outcomes for our clients. We deliver partner-driven services, with a focus on collaboration in the client’s best interest. Brown Rudnick is an international law firm, serving clients around the globe. With more than 250 lawyers and government relations professionals, the Firm has offices in key financial centers across the United States and Europe. We are recognized for our market-leading practices covering several targeted industries, including bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, life sciences, technology, litigation and arbitration, white-collar defense and government investigations, civil fraud, special situations, corporate finance, strategic capital, distressed debt, intellectual property, real estate, M&A, and cross-border deals and disputes.

 

www.bclplaw.com

The attorneys in Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s Restructuring and Insolvency practice group are located and practice in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle East, and provide a range of business-advisory and crisis-management skills, including insightful and practical guidance to parties in situations where companies face the risks and implications of insolvency. Our team regularly advises on a wide range of financial, corporate, and real estate restructuring and insolvency matters, and with a particular focus on multi-jurisdictional, highly complex, and challenging cases.

Members of our restructuring practice have long been known for their creative problem-solving abilities, responsiveness, and networks with financial institutions, restructuring advisors, and other attorneys. The combination of these resources allows us to develop the most appropriate business solutions based upon our clients’ needs and goals. We have the ability and experience to resolve, promptly and cost-effectively, novel and difficult legal issues in restructurings, out-of-court loan workouts, Chapter 11 reorganizations, distressed sales, litigation matters, and other insolvency proceedings.

 

https://www.burr.com/

As one of the largest bankruptcy and restructuring groups in the Southeast, Burr & Forman has distinguished itself as a “go-to” firm capable of handling sophisticated and complex matters.  Burr has been actively involved in major bankruptcy proceedings in almost every industry.   With more than 40 dedicated attorneys who are located throughout the Southeast and Delaware, Burr is able to work with its clients to staff cases with the professionals best suited to achieve the desired results.

Bush Ross, P.A. is a full service, mid-sized law firm located in Tampa, Florida. With a rich tradition of legal excellence and a commitment to providing the best and most effective representation for its clients, Bush Ross, P.A. has established itself as one of Florida’s leading law firms. The experience and expertise of the Firm’s attorneys equips them to handle a broad range of legal issues and challenges. The centerpiece of Bush Ross' success is the commitment made to their clients. The Firm continues to adhere to the philosophy crafted by their founders in 1981 that clients want caring, insightful, ethical, and skilled problem solvers who will add measurable value to their businesses.

 

Butler Snow LLP is a full-service law firm with more than 350 attorneys and advisors collaborating across a network of 26 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.  The firm provides a full range of services in bankruptcy cases and restructurings, representing debtors, creditors, trustees and committees across the country. Our attorneys represent business and individual clients in all transactional and litigation aspects of out-of-court workouts, bankruptcy, business reorganizations and debtor-creditor matters. In addition to providing representation to creditors and debtors, our experienced team also works with clients seeking to invest in or acquire key assets or on-going business operations from troubled entities or those in bankruptcy.

Our team also routinely litigates a wide array of bankruptcy issues including avoidance actions, issues relating to relief from the automatic stay, adequate protection and use of cash collateral, assumption or rejection of executor contracts or unexpired leases, sale of property, adequacy of disclosure statements, confirmations of reorganization plans, discharge and dischargeability complaints, and defense of avoidance actions.

Butler Snow provides bankruptcy and restructuring clients with the knowledge and expertise of attorneys and professionals across practices within the firm, enabling clients to efficiently receive full representation in areas such as real estate, lending and finance, healthcare, tax, labor and employment, M&A, banking, and intellectual property.  For more information, visit ButlerSnow.com.

Covington 

In an increasingly regulated world, Covington has an exceptional ability to help clients navigate their most complex business problems, deals, and disputes. Our distinctively collaborative culture allows us to be truly one team globally, drawing on the diverse experience of lawyers and advisors across the firm by seamlessly sharing insight and expertise. What sets the firm apart is our ability to combine the tremendous strength in our litigation, investigations, and corporate practices with deep knowledge of policy and policymakers, and one of the world’s leading regulatory practices. This enables us to create novel solutions to our clients’ toughest problems, successfully try their toughest cases, and deliver commercially practical advice of the highest quality. The firm has more than 1,000 lawyers in offices in Beijing, Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and Washington.Learn more at www.cov.com.

https://www.cozen.com/

Cozen O’Connor has more than 750 attorneys in 31 offices across two continents who help clients manage risk and make better business decisions. A full-service firm with nationally recognized practices in litigation, business law, and government relations, our attorneys have experience operating in all sectors of the economy. Cozen O’Connor’s Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Practice has a particular focus on domestic and international insolvency, creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, out-of-court restructurings, and reorganization. Our lawyers have experience representing parties on all sides of bankruptcy matters, which means they are quick to anticipate the needs and priorities of divergent constituencies and devise a winning strategy for the client. They also serve as mediators in high-level disputes, so they are adept at focusing negotiations and navigating smoothly around potential roadblocks.

 

https://www.cr3partners.com/

https://www.dinsmore.com/

Dinsmore is a full-service law firm with more than 725 attorneys in 29 cities across the country. Our bankruptcy attorneys provide services to public and private corporations seeking to restructure their business and/or finances, including debt and equity financing, sale of partial or all the business assets, or pursing other strategic alternatives.  We represent corporate debtors, equity holders, purchasers of assets, bondholders and secured and unsecured creditors, including lenders, trade creditors, lien creditors and creditors' committees. To learn more, visit www.dinsmore.com  

https://www.duffandphelps.com/

https://www.faegredrinker.com/en

 

With more than 40 attorneys located in New York, Delaware, Texas, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, Indiana, Colorado, Pennsylvania and the United Kingdom, Faegre Drinker’s corporate restructuring team helps clients achieve the most favorable outcomes in difficult financial circumstances. We represent all types of stakeholders in bankruptcy and out-of-court restructuring matters — debtors, creditors, investors, servicers, landlords, indenture trustees, receivers, bankruptcy trustees, private investment funds, distressed asset and business purchasers, bondholders and creditors’ committees — and we handle pre-bankruptcy counsel, reorganization plans, post-petition financing, asset sales, intercreditor disputes, claims litigation, avoidance actions, creditors’ recoveries, securitization defaults, corporate trust transactions and corporate debt securities restructuring.

www.friedfrank.com

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP advises the world's leading corporations, investment funds and financial institutions on their most critical legal needs and business opportunities. The Firm's approximately 500 lawyers are based in North America and Europe. The Firm’s Restructuring and Insolvency Practice is multidisciplinary with integrated resources that cover all fronts and a reputation for excellence, broad-based experience, creative and efficiency.  With attorneys resident in the Firm's New York and London offices, the practice represents a wide range of clients in US, UK and cross-border matters, including both formal bankruptcies/insolvencies and out-of-court restructurings of financially troubled companies. Clients include creditors’, bondholders’ and equity committees, secured and unsecured creditors, corporate debtors, trustees, lenders and other sources of financing and parties interested in acquiring assets and businesses from chapter 11 debtors and other financially troubled companies.

 

 

Frost Brown Todd is a full-service law firm comprised of more than 525 attorneys in 14 markets in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. We provide unparalleled service to meet clients’ needs; deliver the insights and solutions available only from a diverse group of professionals; and support the communities in which they operate. FBT’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring team helps clients pursue the best strategy for complex restructuring and insolvency scenarios, bringing to bear our broad-based experience in the fields of creditors' rights, workouts, corporate reorganizations and liquidations. We also develop practical exit strategies by leveraging the firm's strengths in related service areas, such as international law, tax, securities, banking, insurance, environmental, real estate, labor, employment law and litigation.
To learn more, visit https://frostbrowntodd.com/

https://www.gordonbrothers.com/

Gordon Brothers is a global advisory, restructuring and investment firm founded in 1903 that helps lenders, operating executives, advisors and investors move forward through change. The firm brings a powerful combination of expertise and capital to clients, developing customized solutions on an integrated or standalone basis across four services areas: valuations, dispositions, operations and investments. Whether to fuel growth or facilitate strategic consolidation, Gordon Brothers partners with companies in the retail, commercial and industrial sectors to put assets to their highest and best use.

 

https://www.goulstonstorrs.com/

Goulston & Storrs is a modern, vibrant firm where the practice of law is pursued with deep expertise, wide diligence and inspiring camaraderie. As an Am Law 200 law firm, we have a rich bench of lawyers, paralegals and business professionals collaborating across multiple disciplines and industries. Known for its roots as a real estate powerhouse, the firm includes leading corporate, litigation, and private client and trust practices.

Haynes and Boone, LLP is a full service law firm with a national presence and an international reach. With more than 575 lawyers located in Texas, New York, California, Chicago, Denver, Washington, DC, London, Shanghai and Mexico City, we are trusted advisors, zealous advocates and creative strategists. We have a client-first philosophy, defining our success as providing exceptional value and practical business-minded solutions to our clients and innovative contributions to their businesses. The Restructuring Practice Group at Haynes and Boone has long been recognized as one of just a handful of teams in the nation fully equipped to handle the largest and most complex out-of-court financial restructurings and Chapter 11 reorganization cases. Clients, whether debtors, creditors, lenders, equity security holders or agent banks, benefit from a team with significant experience, diverse skills and deep bench.

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is an international law firm with 1,000 lawyers in 19 offices across the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. We serve clients across a broad range of complex transactional, litigation and regulatory matters and believe in delivering exceptional client service; it’s one of our core values, and it’s the way we’ve done business for over 100 years. Our Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights practice regularly represents clients in federal and state courts across the United States, including the traditional bankruptcy forums of the Southern District of New York and the District of Delaware, and more than 35 other jurisdictions nationwide. Our attorneys have extensive experience representing debtors, lenders and creditors across a full spectrum of industries including energy, retail, financial services, hospitality and healthcare and we have been involved with several of the most high-profile, notable bankruptcy/restructurings of the past few years.

https://www.huronconsultinggroup.com/

https://www.jamsadr.com/

 

Founded in 1979, JAMS is the world's largest private provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services.  JAMS mediators and arbitrators have deep and diverse experiences in all facets of restructuring, workouts and Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. From neutral evaluations and mediation to mock trials and arbitration, JAMS neutrals help debtors and creditors find new channels of communication to address complex and hard-fought positions. ADR helps parties find workable paths forward – either by reducing the number of issues that must be litigated or by avoiding litigation entirely.  

 

 

Jones Walker LLP (www.joneswalker.com) is among the largest 120 law firms in the United States. With offices in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, and Texas, we serve local, regional, national, and international business interests. The firm provides legal services to major multinational, public, and private companies and individuals doing business in the United States and abroad.

https://www.kbkllp.com/

Keller Benvenutti Kim LLP is a corporate bankruptcy, restructuring, and crisis management law firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm’s small size and lean staffing model assures KBK clients of the personal attention and active involvement of experienced senior lawyers who relish the role of counselor, advisor, and advocate in our fields of expertise. KBK attorneys represent distressed companies, creditors’ committees, investors, purchasers, and others in restructurings, bankruptcies, and other risk-laden situations, including litigation. The firm’s experience spans a range of business sectors, including technology, biotech, construction, energy, real estate, hospitality, healthcare, municipal debt, retail, transportation, telecom, and professional services.

KTBS Law LLP, f/k/a Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, is a national, boutique law firm that specializes in business reorganizations, corporate insolvency, commercial litigation, bankruptcy related asset acquisitions, bankruptcy litigation and appellate advocacy, expert witness services in the bankruptcy field and corporate transactions. KTBS represents debtors, creditors, equity holders, committees, trustees, landlords, potential acquirers of assets, and other parties with interests in financially distressed businesses. The members of KTBS have decades of experience practicing in the bankruptcy field, and are actively involved in teaching and writing. KTBS’s lawyers are headquartered in Los Angeles, California, but regularly handle matters and appear in bankruptcy proceedings throughout the United States. KTBS is widely recognized as a national leader in its field.

https://kttlaw.com/

Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton is consistently recognized for its handling of both corporate restructuring and insolvency-related proceedings. The firm is involved in most of the major Chapter 11 cases in South Florida, including in the real estate, construction, retail, healthcare, and hospitality sectors. It represents the key players in Chapter 11 cases such as corporate debtors, creditors, committees, asset purchasers, and fiduciaries. It is also one of Florida’s leading law firms in litigating fraud-related claims and Ponzi schemes in the bankruptcy context. Some of the firm’s most successful cases are out-of-court workouts for companies and high-net-worth individuals.

https://www.kramerlevin.com/en/

https://lnbyb.com/

https://www.lighthousemanagement.com/

Lighthouse Management Group is a Twin Cities-based corporate renewal advisor, helping clients and their stakeholders navigate and resolve difficult business issues, where an objective viewpoint and expertise can create a positive outcome. From turnaround, crisis and interim management to debt restructuring and asset disposition consulting, Lighthouse works directly with businesses and their investors, creditors, legal counsel and other key stakeholders.

 

http://www.mackinacpartners.com/

Mackinac Partners is a nationally recognized turnaround, restructuring and financial  advisory firm serving companies and their stakeholders across a wide spectrum of industries and sizes. Mackinac Partners provides clients with C-level and seasoned professionals who have deep expertise in overcoming liquidity and operational challenges, creating value, improving company performance, driving new growth and reducing risks. We have offices in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit and Los Angeles, and our core services include CRO and restructuring advisory, turnaround and interim management, M&A advisory and integration, brand performance improvement, investigations and forensics, corporate security, litigation support and dispute advisory services. We have a twenty-year history of working with clients and firmly believe in developing long-lasting relationships by delivering strong results.

https://www.mwe.com/

Our diversified business practice enables us to represent a wide range of commercial, industrial and financial enterprises, both publicly and privately held. We represent some of the world’s largest corporations, small and medium-sized businesses, and individuals.

 

https://www.mofo.com/

https://www.mto.com/

For more than 55 years, Munger, Tolles & Olson attorneys have been partnering with clients on their most important and complex cases and deals. Munger, Tolles & Olson regularly represents Fortune 500 companies, leaders in their respective industries, large financial institutions and some of the most sophisticated and respected hedge funds, investors and financial players in the world. During the last several years, the firm has represented a variety of constituents in bankruptcies across a broad spectrum of industries and restructuring situations.

www.orrick.com

Orrick focuses on serving clients globally in the finance, technology & innovation, and energy & infrastructure sectors. Founded more than 150 years ago, the firm today has 1,100 lawyers in offices across the U.S., Europe and Asia. Financial Times singled out Orrick as the “Most Innovative Law Firm in North America” in 2016, 2017 and 2018, and Fortune has named the firm among the “100 Best Companies to Work” for each of the last four years. For over a century, Orrick has advised leading financial institutions at the forefront of innovation – from creating new financial products to resolving high-stakes litigation and compliance matters. Drawing on a long history of leadership in the structured finance and public finance markets, the firm is recognized in markets worldwide for excellence in restructuring, both in- and out-of-court. The firm combines that market knowledge with a deep bench of leading trial, appellate and compliance lawyers to help financial institutions and borrowers navigate complex litigation and enforcement matters.

The Paul, Weiss Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization Department serves as a critical advisor in almost every major, complex restructuring matter, helping companies, creditors and investors facing rapid market transformation respond to business challenges with comprehensive and innovative strategies. Diversity of matters and clients, senior-level attention and seamless delivery of multidisciplinary services distinguish the practice. For more information, please visit www.paulweiss.com.

http://www.phoenixmanagement.com/

Reed Smith is a global relationship law firm with more than 1,700 lawyers in 27 offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. We are an entity as diverse as the continents across which we practice and the clients that we serve.  Founded in 1877, the firm represents leading international businesses, from Fortune 100 corporations to mid-market and emerging enterprises.

 

Reed Smith is a preeminent advisor to industries including financial services, life sciences & health, energy & natural resources, entertainment & media, and shipping. Our lawyers provide litigation and other dispute-resolution services in multi-jurisdictional and high-stakes matters, deliver regulatory counsel, and execute the full range of strategic domestic and cross-border transactions.

www.reedsmith.com

.​http://www.rlf.com/

Richards, Layton & Finger, Delaware’s largest law firm, has been committed from its founding to helping sophisticated clients navigate complex issues and the intricacies of Delaware law. The firm has participated in many of the groundbreaking cases defining Delaware law, and its lawyers have long played crucial roles in drafting and amending the state’s influential business statutes. Richards Layton assists clients locally and around the world with issues involving bankruptcy and restructuring, corporate law and governance, mergers and acquisitions, alternative entities, fiduciary relations, commercial, and other civil matters. Clients, including local businesses, global law firms, and Fortune 500 companies, count on the firm’s exceptional service and deep, practical understanding of Delaware law.http://www.rlf.com/

http://www.rc.com/

Sidley’s  Global Restructuring Group consists of over 55 full-time restructuring lawyers, located principally in our Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Munich and New York offices. Our role is typically one of the primary roles in a restructuring, ranging from lead debtor’s counsel, committee counsel or lead counsel to the senior debt syndicate, and our matters generally involve the restructuring of large and mid-size companies throughout North America, Europe and Asia. We have extensive experience in navigating our clients through some of the largest and most challenging restructurings and Chapter 11 bankruptcies in the U.S. and globally. Our capabilities extend to virtually every aspect of the reorganization practice, but we have practical experience in guiding our clients through comprehensive consensual restructurings and recapitalizations, both in and out of court.

www.stroock.com

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Stroock provides strategic transactional, regulatory and litigation advice to advance the business objectives of leading financial institutions, multinational corporations and entrepreneurial businesses in the U.S. and globally.  With a rich history dating back 145 years, the firm has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, D.C. For more, visit www.stroock.com

http://www.vlpc.com/

Verdolino & Lowey, P.C. (“V&L”) is organized as a business consulting and accounting firm. Our Distressed Business division has over 30 years of experience and specializes in all facets of businesses in financial distress. V&L provides a full range of services tailored to pursue a course of action that will meet a client’s distinct needs.   Our consulting, Interim D&O advisory, liquidation and wind-down services, as well as complete back-office support services, are intended to navigate through the business and financial issues facing a company during its closure or reorganization, to provide pre-bankruptcy consulting and analysis services, to maximize assets, limit liabilities and exposure to potential risks, and to implement strategic tax-planning and compliance.  V&L’s diverse staff positions the Firm to effectively handle all the various issues that may arise and prides itself on its responsiveness and results-oriented approach. Our principals are regularly appointed in numerous fiduciary roles acting as: Administrators, Interim Fiduciaries, Officers and Directors, Chief Restructuring Officers, Assignees and Examiners, and State and Federal Court Trustees and Receivers. In addition, V&L also functions as Accountants and Financial Advisors and provides support to numerous other professionals acting in these same roles, on a regular basis. 

 

V&L’s expertise expands far beyond our Distressed Business practice and includes:

• A sophisticated tax practice; 
• Extensive back-office and bookkeeping services;
• Political committee compliance and financial services;
• High net worth family office services;
• Higher education advisory services.

 

For more information, please visit www.vlpc.com

https://www.velaw.com/

At Vinson & Elkins, our people are our strongest asset. Collaborating seamlessly across 13 offices worldwide, we provide outstanding client service.  Vinson & Elkins offers clients widely recognized legal excellence as well as efficiency and market insights in a manner that reflects the firm’s entrepreneurial spirit.

 

https://www.willkie.com/