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Harris Winsberg Joins King & Spalding's Bankruptcy Practice
| Source: King & Spalding
ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire - November 13, 2009) - King & Spalding, a leading international law
firm, announced today that Harris B. Winsberg, a bankruptcy and corporate
restructuring lawyer with significant experience in bankruptcy litigation
matters, has joined King & Spalding as a partner in its financial
restructuring practice group in Atlanta.
"Harris's addition provides us with additional depth and capacity to handle
sophisticated company-side engagements and secured creditor
representations," said Paul Ferdinands, leader of King & Spalding's
financial restructuring practice group. "His skill as a litigator helps us
expand our bankruptcy litigation capabilities and will allow the bankruptcy
team to capitalize on insolvency-related litigation opportunities."
In addition to creditor and secured creditor representations, Winsberg has
handled company-side restructuring matters, including serving as debtor's
counsel in Allied Holding, Inc.'s Chapter 11 case. He joins King & Spalding
from Troutman Sanders in Atlanta.
Winsberg is chairman of the bankruptcy section of the State Bar of Georgia
and a member of the board of directors of the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law
Institute. He received J.D. and B.A. degrees, with honors, from the
University of Florida.
Winsberg said: "I am excited to have joined King & Spalding. I have known
and respected the firm's bankruptcy and financial restructuring partners in
Atlanta and look forward to contributing to the firm's growth and success."
King & Spalding has one of the nation's preeminent financial restructuring
practices. This practice group brings valuable knowledge and in-depth
experience to all facets of corporate reorganizations, in-court and
out-of-court debt restructurings, bankruptcy and insolvency litigation and
distressed mergers and acquisitions transactions. The firm is regularly
retained in large bankruptcy matters and workouts to represent debtors,
creditors' committees, secured and unsecured creditors, and potential
acquirers of businesses and substantial assets. The practice covers all
segments of the economy, with particular emphasis on manufacturing, retail,
real estate, healthcare, insurance, energy and telecommunications.
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