Jones Day Hires Kirkland Restructuring Team
Seven bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers, including two partners, leave Kirkland & Ellis for rival firm.
May 29, 2009
Jones Day has added seven attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis to its global business restructuring and reorganization practice.
The group includes partners Bennett Spiegel and Richard Wynne and of counsel Erin Brady and Lori Sinanyan, who join Jones Day's Los Angeles office. Four associates -- two in Los Angeles and two in New York -- also left Kirkland for Jones Day.
Spiegel led the restructuring teams advising Calpine Corp. and its affiliates in the company's Chapter 11 process. He was also the lead Chapter 11 bankruptcy counsel for RBS Greenwich Capital in connection with its debtor-in-possession financings for Oakwood Homes Corp., New Century Financial Corp. and American Business Financial Services Inc.
Wynne, who was previously the head of Kirkland's West Coast restructuring practice, is representing Station Casinos' bondholders committee in an out-of-court restructuring. He also represented a group of Adelphia Communications lenders during that company's bankruptcy proceedings.
Kirkland, meanwhile, rehired noted restructuring attorney and banker James Sprayregen in December. Sprayregen had left Kirkland in 2006 to join Goldman Sachs as co-head of U.S. restructuring.
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