Brad Kahn

About Brad Kahn

I am a financial restructuring practitioner, focused on large, complex in-court and out-of-court corporate restructurings. My experience includes representing ad hoc and official creditors’ committees, as well as debtors, in high-profile chapter 11 cases. I also advise clients in multijurisdictional and cross-border insolvency proceedings.My work extends across a variety of industries, including energy, telecommunications, shipping, technology and printing.

Experience

1. Partner

   Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

   Sep 2007 — Present

   I am a financial restructuring practitioner, focused on large, complex in-court and out-of-court corporate restructurings. My experience includes representing ad hoc and official creditors’ committees, as well as debtors, in high-profile chapter 11 cases. I also advise clients in multijurisdictional and cross-border insolvency proceedings. My work extends across a variety of industries, including energy, telecommunications, shipping, technology and printing.Some of my recent engagements include:• Advising Constellis in a comprehensive out-of-court debt deleveraging and recapitalization transaction.• Advising the first lien minority group of J.C. Penney Company, Inc. in the company’s chapter 11 cases. • Advising an ad hoc group of creditors of Intelsat Jackson Holdings S.A. in the chapter 11 cases of Intelsat S.A. and its affiliated debtors and debtors-in-possession.• Advising debtor FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. in connection with its complex chapter 11 filing, one of the largest filings of 2018.• Representing an ad hoc group of second lien noteholders of Erickson, Inc.• Representing the official committee of unsecured creditors of SandRidge Energy, Inc. in connection with the company’s complex chapter 11 cases.• Representing the official committee of unsecured creditors of Nortel Networks Inc. in connection with the company’s cross-border insolvency proceedings.

Education

• New York University School of Law

  J.D.

  2004 — 2007

• Yale University

  B.A.

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Restructuring
• Creditors' Rights
• Bankruptcy
• Courts
• Cross-Border Transactions
• Corporate Law
• Legal Research
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Governance
• Civil Litigation
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Appeals
• Securities Litigation
• Due Diligence
• Chapter 11