2024 Patrons
The American College of Bankruptcy would like to acknowledge and thank the following firms for their commitment of $2500 for 2024:
2024 Patrons and Sponsors
Accordion is a private equity-focused financial and technology consulting firm. Working at the intersection of sponsors and management teams, Accordion partners with clients at every stage of the investment lifecycle. The firm’s services span the entire CFO function within the private capital sector, including turnaround & restructuring, operational and technical accounting, strategic financial planning and analysis, CFO-driven transformation, CFO technology, transaction execution, data & analytics, and interim leadership. With a focus on hands-on, results-oriented execution, Accordion is widely recognized as the go-to PE consultancy and the premier digital-enablement partner for portfolio CFOs. In addition, Accordion has been recognized as an employer of choice for pioneering a better way to work in finance. Accordion has a total of 11 offices across the globe – including its headquarters in New York City.
R. Neal Batson
Dennis J. Connolly
Grant T. Stein
https://www.alston.com/en/offices/atlanta
Founded in 1893, Alston & Bird is a leading international law firm with offices in Atlanta, Beijing, Brussels, Charlotte, Dallas, Fort Worth, London, Los Angeles, New York, Raleigh, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. The firm’s attorneys provide a full range of services to domestic and international clients conducting business around the world. Alston & Bird has been ranked on Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 24 consecutive years, an unprecedented accomplishment among law firms in the United States. Alston & Bird’s core practice areas include intellectual property, complex litigation, corporate, financial restructuring, and tax, with national industry focuses that include financial services, technology, health care, manufacturing, and life sciences.
Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is an independent global expert services and advisory firm that delivers end-to-end solutions to manage conflict, crisis, performance, risk, strategy, and transformation. Ankura has over 2,000 professionals serving 3,000+ clients across 55 countries. Collaboration and experience drive our multidisciplinary approach to Protect, Create, and Recover Valueᵀᴹ. For more information, please visit: ankura.com
Brian A. Bash
Elizabeth A. Green
Jimmy D. Parrish
BakerHostetler helps clients around the world address their most complex and critical business and regulatory issues. With six core national practice groups – Business, Digital Assets and Data Management, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Litigation, and Tax – the firm has more than 1,000 attorneys located in 17 offices nationwide. BakerHostetler is recognized for its role as court-appointed counsel to the Securities Investor Protection Act Trustee in the recovery of billions of dollars lost in the Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard L. Madoff. Additionally, BakerHostetler is widely regarded as having one of the country’s top 10 tax practices, a nationally recognized litigation practice, a data privacy practice and an industry-leading middle-market business practice. Our attorneys have broad knowledge and experience spanning many industries, including energy, media, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services and insurance, consumer products, and hospitality. We distinguish ourselves through our commitment to the highest standard of client care. By emphasizing an approach to service delivery as exacting as our legal work, we are determined to surpass our clients’ expectations.
Jay Bender
Robert B. Glenn
William L. Norton III
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.
B. Riley Advisory Services works with lenders, law firms, private equity sponsors and companies of all types. Our Advisory Services are a unique mix of Valuation and Appraisal Services including asset-based lending (ABL) Valuations; Restructuring and Turnaround Management; Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support; Operations Management; Compliance, Risk & Resilience Services; and Transaction Support Services including Due Diligence and Quality of Earnings Reviews. B. Riley Advisory Services is the trade name for GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group, LLC, Great American Group Advisory & Valuation Services, LLC, Great American Group Machinery & Equipment, LLC, and Great American Group Intellectual Property, LLC.
Brown Rudnick is an international law firm that serves clients around the world from offices in key financial centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. We combine ingenuity with experience to achieve great outcomes for our clients in high-stakes litigation and complex business transactions. We deliver partner-driven service; we incentivize our lawyers to collaborate in the client’s best interest; and we put excellence before scale, focusing on industry-driven, client-facing practices where we are recognized leaders.
Brown Rudnick has one of the nation's leading restructuring practices. Our Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring practice regularly represents official committees, ad hoc committees, debtors, and other key parties in many of the nation’s largest restructurings. Brown Rudnick was named a "Bankruptcy Group of the Year" by Law360 in 2022, 2020 and 2014.
Laurence M. Frazen
Sharon Zemel Weiss
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.
George L. Cass
William H. Schorling
A recognized leader in bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors’ rights, Buchanan's Bankruptcy Practice is proud to be ranked by Law360 as one of the largest practices in the country. Focused on delivering innovative solutions in chapter 11 reorganizations, non-judicial loan restructurings, chapter 7 liquidations, chapter 15 ancillary proceedings, the acquisition of assets from distressed borrowers, and the prosecution or defense of related actions, our team seamlessly partners with the Firm's 450 attorneys and government relations professionals to provide holistic solutions tailored to the needs of our clients. Representing a diverse client base, we are regularly recognized by Chambers US from our work with clients in the real estate, energy, healthcare and technology industries.
Burr & Forman has one of the largest bankruptcy practice groups in the Southeast, with over 30 attorneys concentrating in this area of law in the Southeast and beyond. Burr’s creditors’ rights and bankruptcy experience is extensive in the manufacturing, real estate development, automotive, mining, food and beverage, health care, agriculture, retail, and construction industries, professional organizations, among others. On the creditor side, Burr represents financial services institutions, asset-based lenders, and local, regional, and national banks, as well as REITs, equipment sellers, and lessors. Along with the firm’s expanding representation in creditors’ rights cases, Burr also counsels and represents business entities experiencing financial distress. On the Debtor and Committee side, our attorneys have substantial experience in the representation of Debtors and estate fiduciaries in the areas of manufacturers, educational institutions, professional services organizations, retailers, real estate developers, private equity, OEMs and auto parts manufacturers, and health care providers in workouts and insolvency proceedings. For additional information, please visit www.burr.com.
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.
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.
Suzanne B. Roski
William Knight Snyder
CR3 Partners is a national financial advisory consulting firm serving organizations and stakeholders across a broad range of industries during times of transition, opportunity, or distress. Our team consists of seasoned executives and industry veterans who bring a profound bias for action and exceptional results, with a keen focus on turnaround management, restructuring, forensic accounting, litigation support, and operational improvement services. From our offices in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and Richmond, CR3 Partners infuses agility, passion, experience and value creation into everything we do. To discover how we can transform the future of your business, please visit us at www.cr3partners.com.
James R. Irving
Samuel R Maizel
Dentons is designed to be different. The challenges that our clients are navigating and the opportunities they are advancing are changing at an accelerating pace. We are a law firm that embraces change and can help you grow, protect, operate and finance your organization. This is why Dentons is organized to offer more than legal insight; we help you find business solutions, in a seamless fashion, across the globe. Our award-winning Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy group is full-service and global, with broad experience on behalf of a wide range of clients. Our lawyers' experience covers every aspect of in-and out-of-court restructuring, bankruptcy, reorganization and creditors’ rights representation, and includes some of the largest and most complex cases. We advise clients as to their best option in a particular situation
Anne Marie Aaronson
Lawrence G. McMichael
Dilworth is a Northeast regional law firm with offices in Philadelphia. New York, New Jersey and Wilmington, Delaware. It has a large bankruptcy practice for its size and handles all types of bankruptcy matters including large debtors, secured lenders and individual debtors.
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Jay Jaffe
Andrew C. Kassner
Dennis M. Ryan
Michael R. Stewart
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.
Brad Eric Scheler
Rachel C. Strickland
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.
Ronald E. Gold
Kim Martin Lewis
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/
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Gibson Dunn specializes in representing creditor and stakeholder groups in the nation’s largest and most complex restructurings. Our attorneys regularly represent lender groups, bondholder groups, and other large stakeholders in out-of-court and Chapter 11 restructurings. Given the significant depth of our nationally recognized departments and our substantial expertise in numerous industries, we believe that Gibson Dunn is one of the few international law firms able to provide a full array of services to any creditor group in any distressed situation, no matter how large or complex.
Mitchell H. Cohen
Kenneth S. Frieze
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.
Douglas B. Rosner
James F. Wallack
https://www.goulstonstorrs.com/
Goulston & Storrs is an Am Law 200 law firm, with offices in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. With over 225 lawyers across multiple disciplines, Goulston & Storrs is a real estate powerhouse with leading-edge bankruptcy, corporate, capital markets and finance, litigation, private client and trust, and tax practices. Our Bankruptcy & Restructuring Group is recognized regionally and nationally for its expertise in complex corporate restructurings and insolvency proceedings.
Stephen J. Spencer
Eric M. Winthrop
Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. The firm serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. Independent advice and intellectual rigor are hallmarks of the firm’s commitment to client success across its advisory services. Houlihan Lokey is the No. 1 investment bank for global M&A transactions under $1 billion, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past eight consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past nine consecutive years, and the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 25 years, all based on number of transactions and according to data provided by Refinitiv
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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.
Joan N. Feeney
Randall J. Newsome
Phillip J. Shefferly
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.
Elizabeth J. Futrell
Kristina Michelle Johnson
R. Patrick Vance
Jones Walker LLP 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.
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Peter J. Benvenutti
Tobias S. Keller
Jane Kim
Berry D. Spears
Keller Benvenutti Kim is proud to be a Patron of the College. KBK is a San Francisco-based corporate bankruptcy and restructuring boutique law firm, advising and representing clients in in-court and out-of-court insolvency and distressed situations and proceedings. Four of KBK's partners are Fellows of the College, including all three of the firm's name partners
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Daniel J. Bussel
Kenneth N. Klee
Thomas E. Patterson
David M. Stern
Michael L. Tuchin
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.
Eve H. Karasik
Gary E. Klausner
Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Golubchik L.L.P. (“LNBYG”) is a nationally recognized insolvency law firm located in Los Angeles, California. The firm’s team of award winning lawyers has earned a reputation for proactive and successful resolution of bankruptcy, insolvency and business reorganization issues facing a wide-range of clients. LNBYG consistently finds innovative and cost-sensitive ways to achieve the best results for its clients. The members of LNBYG have experience in handling complex and difficult cases in all aspects of bankruptcy and insolvency practice including debtors, creditors' committees, equity committees, purchasers, principals and secured and unsecured creditors from a broad spectrum of industries including retail, real estate, entertainment, manufacturing, distribution and service.
https://www.lighthousemanagement.com/
Lighthouse Management Group is a Twin Cities-based corporate renewal advisor with over 30 years as an industry leader helping clients navigate and resolve difficult business issues. From turnaround, crisis and interim management to debt restructuring and asset disposition consulting, we work directly with businesses and their investors, creditors, legal counsel, and other key stakeholders. Lighthouse has broad experience across several industries and sizes from small family-owned business to large publicly traded companies.
Malek Capital Advisors is a multi-disciplinary firm providing transaction, strategic, engineering and expert witness services to its national and international clientele comprising major public and private companies and their legal counsels. The firm has a track record of significant value-added services for established and growth companies, as well as companies experiencing underperformance and restructuring
McDermott Will & Emery partners with leaders around the world to fuel missions, knock down barriers and shape markets. Our team works seamlessly across practices, industries and more than 20 locations to deliver highly effective solutions that propel success. More than 1,200 lawyers strong, we bring our personal passion and legal prowess to bear in every matter for our clients and the people they serve. At McDermott, our mantra is #AlwaysBetter. It means that we wake up each morning thinking about how we can be that much better than the day before. This drive for constant improvement is in our DNA—and it pushes us, every day, to be a better partner for you.
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.
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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.
http://www.phoenixmanagement.com/
Phoenix Management joined forces with J.S. Held, LLC in late 2023, where it brings its 35+ years of operational turnaround and restructuring experience to a team with 1,700 experts across a myriad of scientific, technical and financial disciplines. Phoenix’ ability to assist and lead troubled, distressed and struggling firms has been significantly enhanced with the additional resources of JS Held.
https://www.kroll.com/en/services/restructuring-administration
Prime Clerk is a leading bankruptcy and restructuring claims and noticing agent based in New York and was founded by veteran restructuring attorneys and consultants with the vision of bringing next generation technology, leading professionalism and reliable service into a stagnant industry. Prime Clerk delivers tailored, practical and client-collaborative solutions to bankruptcy administration.
Omar J. Alaniz
Keith M. Aurzada
Derek Baker
Kurt F. Gwynne
Paul M. Singer
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.
Our Bankruptcy and Reorganizations team has extensive experience representing all key players in the bankruptcy process including debtors, official and unofficial committees, indenture trustees, potential purchasers, and individual secured and unsecured lenders. However, we have become the “go to” shop for creditors’ committees in large mass tort bankruptcy cases including asbestos and talc. We practice in all areas of domestic and international restructurings, crisis management, financings, acquisitions in distressed situations and asset recovery litigation, often involving challenges to complex corporate transactions. Our clients include hedge and private equity funds, acquirers of assets from financially distressed companies, real estate and equipment lessors, special servicers, equity holders, franchisees, and other parties in need of specialized advice regarding the debtor-creditor relationship
Vinson & Elkins is a law firm of global distinction, working with leading companies on wide-ranging matters in key industries across the economy. Drawing on deep knowledge and experience, we engage closely with our clients, providing forward-thinking counsel that positions them to achieve their goals. For a century and counting, we’ve built our firm on simple foundations: delivering excellent work and service, advising on complex matters, succeeding as a team, and caring for our clients, colleagues, and communities. Our clients trust us to guide them through some of their most important opportunities and challenges. We make it our mission to return that trust with sound advice, thoughtful strategy, and innovative solutions
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