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Foley & Lardner LLP announced that Harold L. Kaplan and Mark F. Hebbeln are joining the firm's Chicago office as partners in the Business Reorganizations Practice. Their practices have a primary focus on the representation of indenture trustees and bondholders. Both Kaplan and Hebbeln join the firm from Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. Kaplan will lead Foley's Corporate Trust and Bondholders Rights practice. He recently served as co-chair of Drinker Biddle's Corporate Restructuring practice group and head of its Corporate Trust and Bondholder Rights practice group. He previously served as chairman of Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP, playing an instrumental role in the firm's merger with Drinker Biddle & Reath in 2007. Hebbeln will also serve as a member of the firm's Corporate Trust and Bondholders Rights practice. He has represented indenture trustees and bondholder interests in national bankruptcy cases and in health care reorganizations, insolvencies and other proceedings. He currently serves as co-chair of the American Bar Association's Trust Indenture Act Annotation Project.
Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP has elected Andreas P. Andromalos, Jeremy B. Coffey, Lisa M. Kresge and Steven B. Smith to partnership. Andromalos practices in the firm's Commercial Finance Group. He has been responsible for structuring and documenting a number of large syndicated financings for financial institutions. He has also restructured a significant amount of distressed debt and counseled clients on a variety of workout related issues. Coffey practices in the firm's Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Group and has represented a variety of creditors committees, equity committees, debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, asset acquirers and trustees. Kresge is also a member of the firm's Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Group. Her practice involves all aspects of the bankruptcy and post-bankruptcy process, including claim objections, plan confirmation disputes, cash collateral and debtor-in-possession financing proposals, and fraudulent transfer and preference litigation. Smith concentrates his practice in the area of corporate restructuring and creditor's rights. He has represented official committees, hedge funds, asset and claims purchasers, tort and trade claimants and other parties-in-interest in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.
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