Locke Lord has been listed in the Global Restructuring Review’s 2024 edition of the GRR 100, the publication’s guide to the world’s leading law firms for cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters. This is Locke Lord’s sixth consecutive year on the list, which is compiled based on the results of an annual survey and includes the top firms capable of handling insolvencies and restructurings as well as related matters such as banking and sovereign debt crises.
Locke Lord lawyers specifically mentioned for their achievements include:
Steven Bryant, Partner in the Firm’s Austin office, has experience spanning a broad range of industries. Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, he has represented both corporate debtors as well as secured and unsecured creditors in complex business bankruptcy cases across the United States. Bryant also represents plaintiffs and defendants in bankruptcy-related litigation.
David Grant, member of Locke Lord’s Executive Committee and Managing Partner of the Firm’s London office, has a globally regarded international insolvency and restructuring practice with an emphasis on insolvency and recovery actions, including cross-border asset tracing and asset and security recoveries. Grant has 30+ years’ experience of fraud and forensic investigations by regulators and enforcement agencies.
Marc Abrahams, Partner in the Firm’s London office, focuses on contentious and non-contentious insolvency law, including corporate restructuring, cross-border and personal insolvency matters for a wide range of clients. He also has extensive experience acting in commercial disputes and international arbitration under the LCIA and ICC Rules.
Rick Kuebel, New Orleans Partner and Co-Chair of Locke Lord’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group, has extensive experience as the architect of corporate restructuring and bankruptcy solutions in multiple economic sectors, including energy, manufacturing, gaming, health care and retail. Kuebel has represented numerous companies in business litigation, arbitration matters and regulatory disputes involving oil and gas exploration, development, transportation, refining and marketing.
Chelsey Rosenbloom List, Partner in the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office, focuses her practice on corporate restructuring, insolvency, bankruptcy and related litigation matters. She represents a wide spectrum of clients, including secured and unsecured creditors, corporate debtors, indenture trustees and other interested parties in bankruptcy-related transactions and out-of-court workouts. She advises clients on creditors’ rights, distressed acquisitions and dispositions, debtor-in-possession financing, loan-to-own strategies and other matters.
Jonathan Young, Washington, D.C., Partner and Co-Chair of Locke Lord’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group, regularly advises investors, lenders, noteholders, directors, equity sponsors and portfolio companies in connection with their rights and obligations relative to financial distress, insolvency and bankruptcy situations. He also advises trustees, receivers and other fiduciaries charged with reorganizing, restructuring or liquidating financially distressed entities.
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NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper has been awarded the Best Professional Development Initiative at the 2024 American Lawyer Industry Awards for its Client Development and Executive Leadership Program (CDEL). This award honors an organization that has defined and executed on an initiative or overall mission that supports, enhances, and systematizes the professional development of its members.
The CDEL program is an intensive, nine-month initiative that brings together a diverse group of partners for comprehensive training and personalized coaching. The program focuses on enhancing client relationships, expanding business opportunities, and developing effective teams. It has also laid the groundwork for several other professional development initiatives at the firm, including advanced programs for CDEL alumni, new partner and practice group-specific training, and the “Business Development Blueprint” series for attorneys at all levels.
The CDEL program is led by senior counsel Nina Gussack and coaches Daniel Pulka, Patricia Ellard, Erin Murphy, and Linda Sanders from the marketing, business development, and client experience department.
The American Lawyer Industry Awards honor the most exceptional lawyers, law firms, legal departments, and organizations in the country. The winners were recognized at an awards reception on Nov. 13.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with 1,100+ attorneys strategically located in more than 20 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
WILMINGTON, Del. – Evelyn Meltzer, a partner in Troutman Pepper’s Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group, has been selected to serve as Chair of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) effective Jan. 1, 2025.
“I am honored to serve as Chair of IWIRC for 2025 and look forward to working with our dedicated board, networks, and members around the world to further IWIRC’s mission of connecting and advancing women in the insolvency and restructuring profession,” Meltzer said. “As Chair, my focus will be on executing IWIRC’s strategic plan to ensure that we meet the evolving needs of our members and remain an industry leader and valuable resource for years to come. Together, we will make IWIRC more impactful and resilient.”
Founded in 1993, IWIRC works to connect, promote and advance women in the insolvency and restructuring professions worldwide. With over 2,200 members and 58 networks spanning Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, South America, and North America, IWIRC provides extensive global connections, enhancing business development and referral opportunities for its members. Additionally, IWIRC provides a variety of educational resources, including webinars, conferences, and workshops, to help members stay informed about the latest industry trends, best practices, and regulatory updates.
Meltzer focuses her practice on corporate bankruptcy, distressed M&A and creditors’ rights. She has significant experience guiding corporate debtors, creditors’ committees, secured and unsecured creditors, and others through all aspects of complex Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 proceedings. Meltzer routinely represents companies, assignees and key constituents in connection with assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC) proceedings in the Delaware Chancery Court and throughout the United States. She regularly represents sellers and purchasers in distressed M&A transactions, including Article 9 sales, asset sales conducted as part of an ABC, and sales conducted pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code. Her clients also include both plaintiffs and defendants in bankruptcy-related litigation matters, including avoidance actions.
Troutman Pepper’s Financial Restructuring + Insolvency Practice Group provides clients with creative solutions in financial restructuring and insolvency matters that prioritize recovery or return on investment. The team’s deep understanding of pre- and post-insolvency issues from every stakeholder’s perspective enables the group to help clients prevent and prepare for financial crises and to serve as trusted advisors to effectively respond to financial distress.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with 1,100+ attorneys strategically located in more than 20 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Pete Jeydel, an attorney with extensive experience in international trade and national security regulatory matters, has joined Troutman Pepper as a partner to lead the firm’s growing Sanctions + Trade Controls team. Based in the Washington, D.C. office, Jeydel brings a wealth of knowledge to the firm, particularly in the increasingly complex and high-profile areas of export controls and economic sanctions. Jeydel joins Troutman Pepper from Steptoe LLP.
“Pete’s deep understanding of export controls and sanctions, and other emerging regulatory regimes at the intersection of trade and national security, makes him an invaluable addition to our team,” said John West, chair of the firm’s Business Litigation department. “Adding this experience within our White Collar + Government Investigations practice will greatly benefit our clients that are facing more and more complex regulatory and enforcement challenges in their global operations. Pete has a remarkable ability to simplify for clients how to think about these often daunting, technical, and frequently quite sensitive national security regulatory issues.”
Jeydel’s practice focuses on U.S. export controls, economic sanctions, and related areas such as the Department of the Treasury’s new Outbound Investment Security program and the Department of Justice’s proposed Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and U.S. Government-Related Data regulations. For many years, he has been advising clients on compliance with the Commerce Department’s Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the State Department’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the Department of Energy’s Part 810 nuclear export controls, and the economic sanctions programs of the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). He also has experience with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the EAR’s anti-boycott regulations, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), and other areas.
“With the upcoming change of administration, this is an opportune moment for me to be joining Troutman Pepper,” Jeydel said. “The firm’s clients are facing increasingly complex regulation and enforcement in longstanding areas like export controls and sanctions, not to mention entirely new regulatory regimes that are emerging in this area, as the U.S. government’s view of the world is continuing to go through profound changes. Troutman Pepper has top-tier teams in AML and financial services regulation, CFIUS, privacy, cyber, government contracts and false claims, anti-corruption, IP, corporate espionage, and so many other areas that intersect with my practice. Bringing to the table my experience in international trade and national security regulation will enhance the full-spectrum compliance, transactional, and enforcement services we offer to our clients with exposure to these complex regulatory risks.”
Jeydel earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and his undergraduate degree from Princeton University.
“Peter’s arrival is a strategic move for our firm to keep building our presence in Washington in critical regulatory areas, and we are thrilled to add his knowledge in national security and international trade,” said Christopher Jones, managing partner of Troutman Pepper’s Washington, D.C. office.
Troutman Pepper’s White Collar + Government Investigations Practice Group includes former government prosecutors, in-house compliance counsel, and seasoned white collar defense attorneys who manage the most sensitive government investigations, internal compliance matters, and commercial transactions.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with 1,100+ attorneys strategically located in more than 20 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
Troutman Pepper and Locke Lord have agreed to combine effective January 1, 2025. With a deeper bench of more than 1,600 lawyers across 35 offices in the United States and Europe, the combined firm — Troutman Pepper Locke — will be better positioned to help clients solve complex legal challenges, while also broadening its reach into new industries and geographies at the frontlines of change.
NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper client Hachette Book Group, a leading U.S. general-interest book publisher, recently announced the purchase of Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. from Barnes & Noble, the largest retail bookseller in the United States. Read company press release about the acquisition.
The Troutman Pepper team advising Hachette Book Group in its largest deal since 2021 was led by Nanette Heide and included Zach Corenblum.
Consistently recognized as a top-tier national practice, Troutman Pepper’s corporate attorneys regularly handle multimillion- and multibillion-dollar transactions. Core areas of service include capital markets transactions and other significant domestic and cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities laws compliance, and corporate finance. The firm has particular expertise in the private equity and private fund services space, advising clients on matters from fund formation to investments and exit transactions.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with 1,100+ attorneys strategically located in more than 20 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
Locke Lord’s Dallas office has once again been named by The Dallas Morning News as one of the Top Workplaces in Dallas/Fort Worth, recognizing businesses at the top of their game that are making North Texas a better place to work. With over 200 professionals and employees, the Firm’s Dallas office is strongly committed to providing premier legal services, while maintaining a collaborative and family culture. Locke Lord’s Dallas office has long been active in local business organizations and supports numerous civic and charitable groups dedicated to community affairs, education, arts and culture throughout the state.
Now in its 16th year, the Top Workplaces in Dallas/Fort Worth list is compiled based on an extensive survey process that evaluates various aspects of workplace culture, including company leadership, benefits, work-life balance and overall employee satisfaction.
ATLANTA – Troutman Pepper client Quikrete Holdings, Inc. announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Summit Materials, Inc. for $52.50 per share in cash, for a total enterprise value of approximately $11.5 billion, including debt. The transaction combines Summit’s leading aggregates, cement, and ready-mix concrete businesses with Quikrete’s leading concrete and cement-based products. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2025, subject to Summit shareholder approval, regulatory approvals, and other customary closing conditions. Read a press release about the transaction.
A team of Troutman Pepper attorneys, including Partners David Ghegan, Steven Khadavi, Brad Boericke, and Mark Wilhelm, and Associates Tricia McNeill, Hannah Offerle, and Monica Vu are serving as legal counsel for the transaction. Dozens of other Troutman Pepper partners, associates, and legal professionals contributed to this transaction.
Quikrete is a privately owned family business founded in 1940. It is a leading building materials company based in Atlanta, Georgia. From the original yellow bag of premixed concrete, today Quikrete’s portfolio of brands includes Quikrete, Spec Mix, Rinker Materials, U.S. Pipe, Contech Engineered Solutions, Keystone Hardscapes, Pavestone, Custom Building Products, QPR, and other leading brands. The products produced by the collection of brands include packaged cementitious products, pavers, retaining wall systems, masonry units, tile grouts and thin sets, concrete pipe, box culverts, corrugated metal pipe, ductile iron pipe, engineered storm water systems, structural precast, and steel pedestrian and vehicular bridges. The company services the US and Canadian commercial construction, residential, and infrastructure markets.
Consistently recognized as a top-tier national practice, Troutman Pepper’s corporate attorneys regularly handle multimillion- and multibillion-dollar transactions. Core areas of service include capital markets transactions and other significant domestic and cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities laws compliance, and corporate finance. The firm has particular expertise in the private equity and private fund services space, advising clients on matters from fund formation to investments and exit transactions.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with 1,100+ attorneys strategically located in more than 20 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
Elizabeth Mack, Gerry Pels and Susan Rainey, Partners in Locke Lord’s Environmental Section, have been recognized as standout lawyers in the Lawdragon Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law list. The list is the product of two years of research on leaders across the environmental spectrum and is based on journalistic research, nominations and vetting with peers and environmental law experts, according to Lawdragon.
Locke Lord’s environmental team includes dedicated practitioners who understand the many dimensions of environmental law and the different ways these laws affect businesses and individuals. Our extensive environmental experience helps clients navigate and respond effectively to regulatory compliance issues, environmental liability concerns, civil and criminal enforcement actions and citizen complaints.
Nina Huerta, Co-Chair of the Firm’s Board of Directors and Managing Partner of the Firm’s Los Angeles office, was named a finalist for Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2020 Leaders in Law for Labor and Employment. Selected from a pool of 250 nominees, Huerta was one of only four employment lawyers featured as finalists. The publication outlines Huerta’s leadership from her appointment as Managing Partner in June 2016 as one of the first Latinas to serve in this role for any major law firm to her current position as Co-Chair of the Firm’s Board of Directors. Huerta has also made a significant impact for clients amid the COVID-19 pandemic as a Co-Leader of Locke Lord’s COVID-19 Task Force, which provides a coordinated response to clients’ range of needs and maintains the Firm’s COVID-19 Resource Center.
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December 8, 2020 – Locke Lord is pleased to announce the launch of its new, user-centric website, which features an efficient navigation and clean, modern design and branding to create a more engaging experience for current and prospective clients, our attorneys, laterals, law students and other visitors.
“As the legal landscape and the world around us continue to shift, we are excited to introduce our revamped and streamlined website to more seamlessly connect clients to our services, our lawyers and our Firm,” said David Taylor, Chair of Locke Lord. “With dynamic imagery and visual updates to Locke Lord’s brand, the look and feel of the site better reflects the energy and agility of our people while also offering performance improvements to enhance the overall experience.”
The new website provides easier access to services and resources offered by the Firm, including Locke Lord’s five Key Sectors: Energy and Infrastructure; Finance and Financial Services; Insurance and Reinsurance; Pharmaceutical; and Private Equity. With redesigned and updated practice group and lawyer biography pages, visitors can more effectively learn about the Firm’s experience and capabilities while quickly accessing publications and other resources relevant to them. In addition, information about the Firm, its leadership and rich history is featured alongside an overview of Locke Lord’s long-standing commitment to furthering diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and beyond, community service and pro bono work.
Powered by upgraded and new technologies, the website also provides performance improvements and new features geared to optimize user experience across the board. Locke Lord was previously one of the first law firms to introduce a responsive website design, and the new site also further enhances responsiveness across devices and browsers.
To experience Locke Lord’s elevated online presence, visit www.lockelord.com.
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About Locke Lord LLP
Locke Lord is a full-service law firm with global reach and 20 offices designed to meet clients’ needs in the United States and around the world. The Firm has a history that spans more than 130 years and is a leader in the middle market arena. Locke Lord focuses on providing the highest levels of commitment, quality and service to clients across its five Key Sectors: Energy and Infrastructure; Finance and Financial Services; Insurance and Reinsurance; Pharmaceutical; and Private Equity. In addition, the Firm advises clients across a broad spectrum of other industries, including fund formation, venture capital, health care, public finance, real estate, technology, cybersecurity and white collar, while providing a wealth of experience through its complex litigation, intellectual property, tax, regulatory and transactional teams.