Russell J. Kestenbaum
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Band 4 : Tax
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Russell Kestenbaum is a partner in the New York office of Milbank and Practice Group Leader of the firm’s Tax Group. Mr. Kestenbaum’s practice focuses on advising on tax issues relating to bankruptcies and out of court debt restructurings, tax aspects of IPOs (including UpREITs), mergers and acquisitions (both domestic and cross-border), structuring for private equity funds, and debt issuances. Mr. Kestenbaum is a past member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, where he co-chaired the Committee on Bankruptcy and Operating Losses and authored several reports. He is a vice chair of the ABA Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Industries Section where he has co-authored semi-annual reports each year.
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Russell Kestenbaum is the head of the tax practice. He has particular experience in bankruptcy-related tax issues and also acts on the tax aspects of M&A.
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Milbank Advises Creditors in Complex Recapitalization Transactions by J. Crew
Milbank has advised an ad hoc committee of certain financial institutions in a multi-prong recapitalization of the J. Crew group of companies, significantly reducing the group’s debt burden and exchanging substantially all of the unsecured PIK Notes into secured debt obligations.
Milbank Advises Creditors in Complex Recapitalization Transactions by J. Crew
Milbank has advised an ad hoc committee of certain financial institutions in a multi-prong recapitalization of the J. Crew group of companies, significantly reducing the group’s debt burden and exchanging substantially all of the unsecured PIK Notes into secured debt obligations.