Bankruptcy/Restructuring
USA Guide 2024 : Georgia
Band 2
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Provided by Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Companies faced with changes in the competitive global economy and within their own industries are turning increasingly to financial restructuring as an option. Greenberg Traurig's internationally recognized Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice provides clients with deep insight and knowledge acquired over decades of advisory and litigation experience. The group has a broad and diverse range of experience developing creative and effective strategies to address the highly complex issues that arise in connection within- and out-of-court reorganizations, restructurings, workouts, liquidations, and distressed acquisitions and sales, both domestically and in cross-border proceedings. With offices in commercial centers across the United States and throughout the world, we utilize our invaluable business network to offer critical advice and counsel to multiple constituencies in insolvency situations:
- Debtors
- Official and ad hoc committees of creditors
- Investors and purchasers of assets, debt instruments, or equity of troubled companies
- Secured and unsecured creditors, pre-and post-bankruptcy lenders, and equity security holders
- Boards of directors and board committees
- Trustees, receivers, examiners, indenture trustees, and other fiduciaries
- Foreign liquidators and administrators appointed in proceedings outside of the United States
- Post-confirmation fiduciaries in litigation and asset disposition
- Foreign representatives of distressed business entities outside of the United States
Chambers Review
Greenberg Traurig has a strong Georgia-based offering within the firm's highly experienced national bankruptcy practice. It is able to tackle complex in-court and out-of-court bankruptcy and restructuring matters for fiduciaries, investors and a range of other clients. The group's expertise covers distressed acquisitions and sales. The firm is recognized for its representation of creditors' committees, most notably with respect to bankruptcies in the energy sector.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The Greenberg team is experienced with complex matters."
"They respond in a timely manner every time."
"The team is efficient when it comes down to making a deal."
"The Greenberg team is experienced with complex matters."
"They respond in a timely manner every time."
"The team is efficient when it comes down to making a deal."
Notable Practitioners
David Kurzweil cochairs the global restructuring and bankruptcy practice at Greenberg Traurig. He is recognized for his longstanding Chapter 11 expertise and he also handles out-of-court restructurings.
"David is very talented."
John Elrod is a well-recognized bankruptcy practitioner whose practice exhibits strength in litigation, out-of-court restructurings and creditors' rights.
"John is pragmatic in complex situations."