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Jeffrey R. Barber is a partner in Jones Walker LLP’s Litigation Practice Group. He focuses on bankruptcy, restructuring, and creditors’ rights matters and regularly represents a variety of clients in bankruptcy proceedings, state and federal receiverships, and other state and federal proceedings involving debtor-creditor relationships throughout the United States. Barber has served as an adjunct […]

Jennifer B. Lyday is a partner at Waldrep Wall Babcock & Bailey PLLC and the firm’s human resources partner. She has represented secured creditors, distressed businesses, unsecured creditors’ committees, and trustees in business bankruptcy cases. She has also represented buyers and sellers of assets in bankruptcy and has counseled clients in complex civil litigation. Lyday […]

Steve Kluemper is the founder and president of AgriStrategies LLC, headquartered in East Lansing, Michigan. The firm assists agricultural producers, processors, suppliers, and co-ops with improving their cash flow, profitability, and financial management by helping them communicate their vision for their company’s future; manage their business, especially their finances; facilitate discussions with customers, vendors, lenders, […]

James C. Lanik is a partner at Waldrep Wall Babcock & Bailey PLLC. He is board certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the North Carolina State Bar and by the American Board of Certification. He has represented trustees, creditors, and debtors in all aspects of business bankruptcy and is currently on the panel of Chapter […]

Matthew K. Kelsey is a partner with Alston & Bird’s Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Group. He focuses his practice on complex in-court and out-of-court Chapter 11 matters for ad hoc creditor groups, financial institutions, agents and trustees, official committees, and debtors. Kelsey provides distressed investing advice to investment firms, hedge funds, and other financial institutions, […]

Eric Wise is a partner with Alston & Bird’s Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Group. He has a wide range of experience with Chapter 11, workouts, rights offerings, recapitalizations, restructuring, post-petition and exit financing, and distressed debt purchases and sales. Wise’s restructuring clients include first lien credit groups, junior lien creditor groups, official committees of unsecured […]

Katherine Drell Grissel is a senior associate with Vinson & Elkins. Her practice focuses on restructuring and reorganization, both in and out of court, including representing debtors-in-possession in cases under Chapters 11 and 9 of the Bankruptcy Code, creditors in cases under Chapters 7 and 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, and parties to adversary proceedings […]

David Simonds is a partner with Hogan Lovells. For 30 years, he has advised on financial restructuring matters across numerous industries in the U.S. and abroad, representing distressed debt investors (including noteholders and lenders), creditors’ committees, financially troubled companies, special situations lenders, and acquirers of financially distressed businesses in out-of-court restructurings, liability management transactions, and […]

Kristie Torkildsen Duchesne is an associate with Vinson & Elkins. Her primary area of practice includes all aspects of restructuring and reorganization work, including the representation of debtors, lenders, creditors, landlords, and trustees under Chapters 7 and 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, as well as in out-of-court restructurings. Duchesne holds a law degree from St. […]

Faraz Naqvi is a counsel in Hogan Lovells’ London Asset Finance practice. He focuses on aviation, acting for lessors, banks, and airlines on a broad range of transaction types, including sale and leasebacks, operating leases, and restructurings. Naqvi is an aviation enthusiast and, as a result, has been recognized by leading operating lessors and airlines […]