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K&L Gates’ Restructuring and Insolvency practice offers clients creative solutions by combining the firm’s bankruptcy experience with its proficiency in related areas like mergers and acquisitions, asset-based lending, secured transactions, distressed real estate, and intellectual property.  The lawyers in this practice are leaders in their fields and include several members of the American College of Bankruptcy. The U.S. News — Best Lawyers survey ranked K&L Gates as a national first-tier law firm in the areas of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law.

The group’s collective experience on both the debtor and creditor side allows us to understand all sides of an issue and to structure creative, informed, and practical solutions to protect and advance our clients’ interests. When appropriate, we can call on the firm’s substantial resources in other practice areas, such as energy, health care, environment, securities, tax, and ERISA, among others. Our clients include companies in virtually every industry, including oil and gas, manufacturing, financial services, health care, technology, engineering, publishing, entertainment, construction, and real estate.
 

Pension plan and restructuring experts Suzanne Kelly and Mo Garfinkle, KGSR provides clients with the gold standard in this highly specialized field with our consummate knowledge of defined benefit plans and the best processes for navigating through the complex field of pension issues.

Our expertise includes defined benefit pension liability workout for both private and public defined benefit plan sponsors of single, multiple and multi-employer plans. KGSR advises companies, unions, plans, investors (and their advisors) facing current or future pension challenges or seeking opportunities for change.

KGSR provides comprehensive support for pension plan termination, both inside and outside of bankruptcy. We have in-depth knowledge of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), including its Early Warning and 4062(e) programs, Reportable Events and Minimum Funding Waivers.

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP with more than 500 attorneys offers the strength and resources of a full service law firm experienced in a range of services. Our attorneys provide advice and counsel in litigation, corporate, economic development, securities, finance, intellectual property, government relations, regulatory, and other needs of clients ranging from private individuals to large businesses, including many publicly held companies. 

The Nelson Mullins Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Practice represents clients in numerous industries.  Our attorneys have particular experience representing banks, bankruptcy trustees and receivers as well as companies in financial distress. We also represent distressed asset purchasers and committees in bankruptcy courts across the United States and in proceedings in foreign jurisdictions.  The firm's attorneys have been involved in major regional and national reorganization and liquidation cases, representing mass media companies, technology companies, retailers, manufacturers, insurers, franchisors, law firms, and landlords. 

Odin, Feldman & Pittleman’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights attorneys represent corporate debtors, financial institutions, lenders, and creditors in all aspects of bankruptcy and debt restructuring. We work with our clients to devise creative and cost-effective solutions to the complex problems that arise in bankruptcy and distressed transactions. Based in Reston, Virginia, our attorneys frequently represent clients before the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in addition to representing companies in bankruptcy and commercial litigation matters in the federal, state and municipal courts of Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

Find out more by visiting us at www.ofplaw.com or contacting Lauren Friend McKelvey at (703) 218-2135 or Lauren.McKelvey@ofplaw.com.

Arnold & Porter’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice provides comprehensive services in all aspects of restructuring and insolvency proceedings from pre-workout phase through litigation, if necessary. Our team of more than 30 insolvency and restructuring practitioners, located in Washington, DC, New York, Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles, has been at the forefront of some of the largest and most complex multinational restructurings and insolvencies of recent past.

The firm and its bankruptcy partners have been recognized by numerous publications as being among the leading bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers in the United States, including Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers, BTI Client Service All-Stars, The Best Lawyers in America, Legal 500 US: Corporate and Finance, Guide to the World's Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers, and other publications.

For more information: http://www.arnoldporter.com