Brad M. Kahn
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Financial Restructuring
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Media, Entertainment & Sports
- Technology
- Digital Assets, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
- Film, Television & Digital Media
- Private Capital
- Advises clients in complex corporate restructurings and bankruptcies, including multijurisdictional and cross-border matters.
- Represents creditors, debtors, bondholders, hedge funds, institutional investors and ad hoc and official creditors’ committees.
Brad is a financial restructuring practitioner, focused on large, complex in-court and out-of-court corporate restructurings. Brad’s experience includes representing ad hoc and official creditors’ committees, as well as debtors, in high-profile chapter 11 cases. He also advises clients in multijurisdictional and cross-border insolvency proceedings.
Brad’s restructuring matters encompass a variety of industries, including financial services, energy, telecommunications, shipping, technology and printing.
- SVB: Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 case of SVB Financial Group, the former parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, involving more than $3.4 billion in liabilities.
- Steward Health Care: Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the chapter 11 case of Steward Health Care, the largest private, physician-led health care network in the U.S.
- Talen Energy: Counsel to an ad hoc group of first lien creditors in the chapter 11 cases of Talen Energy and its affiliates, one of the largest power generation and infrastructure companies in North America, involving $4.455 billion in liabilities. Successful Restructurings of the Year (Turnarounds & Workouts)
- Nordic Aviation Capital: Counsel to an ad hoc group of noteholders in the chapter 11 case of Nordic Aviation Capital Designated Activity Company, the fifth-largest aircraft leasing company in the world, involving $6 billion in liabilities. Chapter 11 Reorganization of the Year - Over $1B (M&A Advisor)
- FirstEnergy Solutions: Counsel to the debtors in the chapter 11 cases of FirstEnergy Solutions and its subsidiaries, an electric utility that services roughly one million residential, commercial and industrial customers, involving $3.8 billion in liabilities.
- Intelsat: Counsel to an ad hoc group of creditors in the chapter 11 cases of Intelsat and its affiliates, one of the largest satellite services providers in the world, involving $14.7 billion in liabilities. Restructuring of the Year - Over $10B (M&A Advisor)
EducationJ.D., New York University School of Law, 2007
B.A., Yale University, 2004
J.D., New York University School of Law, 2007
B.A., Yale University, 2004
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
- American Bankruptcy Institute, 40 Under 40, 2022.
- The Legal 500 US, Finance: Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Corporate, 2022-2023.
- Turnarounds & Workouts, Outstanding Young Bankruptcy Lawyer, 2019.
- Panelist, “Recent Development in DIP Financing,” American Bankruptcy Institute's New York Bankruptcy Conference, (Conference, May 9, 2024).
- Moderator, “A Conversation with Judges About Today’s Hottest Topics,” American Bankruptcy Institute’s VALCON, (Conference, March 20, 2024).
- Panelist, “Cryptocurrency Management Strategies in Bankruptcy,” American Bankruptcy Institute’s Caribbean Insolvency Symposium, (Conference, February 8, 2022).
- Presenter, “Bankruptcy and Distressed M&A Transactions,” Deal Maker’s Boot Camp, (Webinar, November 11, 2020).