Keith M. Aurzada

Keith M. Aurzada is a partner with Reed Smith LLP in Dallas and advises public and private corporations, boards of directors and management teams regarding matters most important to their business. His industry experience includes representing companies involved in the technology industry, health care, real estate, retail, manufacturing, health spas, restaurants, and oil and gas. Mr.Aurzada has served as a court-appointed receiver in the Texas state and federal courts. He regularly assists clients on matters involving significant corporate transactions, the preservation of intellectual property, civil litigation and the restructuring of indebtedness (both in and out of court, including bankruptcy where necessary). He also has assisted his clients with numerous employment concerns relating to discrimination in both the administrative regulatory context and in court, as well as in other labor matters, including non competition agreements and the protection of trade secrets. Mr. Aurzada lectures frequently on a variety of topics before bar associations and professional organizations. He also recently served as an adjunct professor of law at the University ofWyoming. Mr. Aurzada has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation - Bankruptcy for 2009-22, and was ranked in Chambers USA for Texas Bankruptcy/Restructuring in 2021. He received hisB.S. in 1993 from the University of Wyoming and his J.D. with honors in 1996 from the University of Wyoming College of Law, were he was admitted to the Order of the Coif.