Greenberg Traurig Continues Growth in Texas, Adds Two Bankruptcy and Restructuring Pros, Karl D. Burrer and Lenard M. Parkins
Houston, TX (PRWEB) June 16, 2016 -- Bankruptcy and restructuring attorney Karl D. Burrer has joined global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder in the firm’s Houston office and a member of its Business Reorganization & Financial Restructuring Practice. Burrer and colleague Lenard M. Parkins, who also recently joined Greenberg Traurig, will help to expand the firm’s bankruptcy and restructuring practice in Texas. Parkins will split his time between the Houston and New York offices. Both attorneys previously practiced law at Haynes and Boone.
“Growth in Texas is a high priority for Greenberg Traurig,” said Douglas C. Atnipp, Greenberg Traurig co-regional operating shareholder for Texas and Houston co-managing shareholder. “We are thrilled to be able to attract such top-notch legal talent as Karl Burrer and Lenny Parkins. They will help serve our clients’ needs in this important and growing practice.”
“The addition of Karl and Lenny underscores our firm’s commitment to recruiting talented attorneys in areas to address the needs of our clients,” said Nancy A. Mitchell, co-managing shareholder of the New York office and co-chair of the firm’s Business Reorganization & Financial Restructuring Practice. “Lenny and Karl bring strong restructuring experience to the firm and further strengthen our impressive bench of attorneys.”
Burrer focuses his practice on corporate financial restructuring. He has represented corporate debtors and senior and junior secured creditors in all phases of corporate debt restructurings, including negotiating out-of-court workouts and litigating in-court chapter 11 bankruptcy cases with assets ranging from $20 million to over $1 billion. Burrer often advises parties on debt and equity financing as well as asset sales, and has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial litigation matters pending in federal courts across the country.
Parkins focuses his practice on the counseling and representation of large and medium sized corporations, bondholders, indenture trustees, secured lenders, numerous funds, oil and gas interest holders, and creditors’ committees in financial restructurings, litigation, workouts, and formal reorganization cases throughout the United States. He has also represented debtors regarding issues of dealing with collective bargaining agreements and the requirements needed to reject collective bargaining agreements under Section 1113 of the bankruptcy code.
Both attorneys represent clients in a wide range of industries, including energy, real estate, and manufacturing.
About Greenberg Traurig, LLP – Texas
Greenberg Traurig has more than 100 attorneys in Texas, serving clients from offices in Austin, Dallas and Houston.
About Greenberg Traurig, LLP – Business Reorganization & Financial Restructuring Practice
Greenberg Traurig’s Business Reorganization & Financial Restructuring Practice provides clients with the insight and knowledge that come with decades of advisory and litigation experience handling highly complex issues that arise in reorganizations, restructurings, workouts, liquidations and distressed acquisitions and sales as well as cross-border proceedings. The team offers clients a broad multidisciplinary approach supported by a nationally recognized practice that has been engaged in many of the key complex restructurings and bankruptcies of our time.
About Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, multi-practice law firm with approximately 1,900 attorneys serving clients from 38 offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The firm is No. 1 on the 2015 Law360 Most Charitable Firms list, third largest in the U.S. on the 2015 Law360 400, on the 2015 Am Law Global 100, and among the 2015 BTI Brand Elite. More information at: http://www.gtlaw.com.
Lourdes Brezo Martinez, Greenberg Traurig, http://www.gtlaw.com, +1 (212) 801-2131, [email protected]
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