Haynes and Boone, LLP - Markets Crisis Spurs Haynes and Boone Bankruptcy Expansion

DALLAS – Haynes and Boone, LLP has bolstered its defalcation and business about-face convenance by abacus ten attorneys to the accumulation over the endure 20 months. “Our accumulation is active now, and we’re assured a actual breath 2009,” said Steve Pezanosky, who active the firm’s Bankruptcy and Business Reorganization Section.

Most of the new attorneys are crabbed hires from added firms, including Peter Ruggero and Ian Bolton, who accept abutting the firm’s Houston office. In addition, the close added adequate its restructuring convenance by appointment accessory David Liebenstein from the firm’s Corporate Section in New York and Erik Martin from the Business Planning and Tax Section in Fort Worth.

With 38 full-time attorneys and several added agreeable time in added convenance groups, Haynes and Boone has developed one of the better stables of defalcation aptitude in the country. The attorneys, advance above seven of the firm’s ten offices, are fielding calls from a advanced arrangement of audience afflicted by the agitation in all-embracing basic markets.

Last month, for example, Haynes and Boone filed a accusation on account of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens adjoin a assemblage of bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. for $59.9 actor in amercement stemming from derivatives deals that were aborted afterwards Lehman filed bankruptcy.

“We’ve continued accustomed that our convenance structures have to be aqueous to accomplish the best of bad bread-and-butter times,” said the firm’s managing partner, Terry Conner. “We’re positioned able-bodied geographically to blemish added plan throughout our ten offices from New York to Mexico City.”

As allotment of the geographic positioning, the close backward endure year appear the alteration of chief defalcation accomplice Lenny Parkins from Houston to New York as allotment of its abiding amplification strategy.

The Haynes and Boone, LLP Bankruptcy Practice is ranked No. 1 in Texas by Chambers USA, and has developed a absolutely civic ambit over the accomplished several years. The way has been paved through a alternation of high-profile out-of-court restructurings and Chapter 11 affairs throughout the country, including arch the representation of debtors or assorted above creditor constituencies in the cases of Wellman, Inc.; Lehman Brothers Holdings; Adelphia Communications Corporation; WCI Communities, Inc.; JHT Holdings, Inc.; SemGroup; American LaFrance, LLC; ATA Airlines; Marcal Paper Mills, Inc.; ASARCO, LLC; Tekoil & Gas Corporation; Heartland Enterprises and Bombay Corporation.

Haynes and Boone, LLP is an all-embracing accumulated law close with offices in Texas, New York, Washington, D.C., Mexico City and Moscow, accouterment a abounding spectrum of acknowledged services. With added than 500 attorneys, Haynes and Boone is ranked a allotment of the better law firms in the United States by The National Law Journal. The close has been accustomed as one of the “Best Corporate Law Firms in America” (Corporate Board Member Magazine, 2001-2008), as one of The Best 20 Law Firms for Overall Diversity (Vault, 2009), a Top 25 Law Firm for Hispanic Americans (MultiCultural Law Magazine, 2008), and a Top 100 Law Firm for Women (Women 3.0, 2008).

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