Mr. Edward M. King

Edward M. King is a member of Frost Brown Todd LLC in Louisville, Ky., and serves as chairman of the firm?s Finance Committee. He also practices in the firm?s Indianapolis office and participates in both the firm?s bankruptcy and restructuring and commercial transactions practice groups. In bankruptcy matters, Mr. King manages the firm?s New Markets Tax Credit Business and helps lead the Firm?s New Mar-kets Tax Credit Practice, which includes work for community development entities, tax audit interests, leverage lenders and borrowers (QALICBs) in new markets transactions. Mr. King represents debtors, creditors and committees in insolvency proceedings. He assists clients in complex business bankruptcy matters, developing plans of reorganization and advising on strategies to maximize recoveries for clients at all stages of the bankruptcy process. In transactional matters, Mr. King concentrates in all aspects of financing and secured transactions, leasing, structured financings, workouts and reorganizations, and general corporate practice. Some of his recent engagements include co-counsel for the debtors in the Jillian?s Entertainment Holdings, Inc. bankruptcy case and co-counsel for the official committees of unsecured creditors in the Buehler Foods Inc., Critical Access Health Services Corp. and Summitt Logistics chapter 11 cases. Mr. King was named the ?Top Business Bankruptcy Lawyer in Louisville? in the 2014edition of The Best Lawyers in America and was selected as one of the top ?Ten Lawyers in Kentucky?overall by Kentucky Super Lawyers in bankruptcy, and he has been consistently selected as a KentuckySuper Lawyer in Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights. He is Board Certified in Business BankruptcyLaw by the American Board of Certification and serves on its board of directors, and he is a frequent speaker at bankruptcy conferences. Prior to joining Frost Brown Todd LLC, Mr. King clerked for Hon.William C. Lee, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Indiana. He received his A.B. magna cum laude in 1993 from Wabash College and his J.D. magna cum laude from Indiana University MaurerSchool of Law in 1996, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif, a senior notes editor for theFederal Communications Law Journal and a research assistant for Prof. William J. Hicks revising the multi-volume treatise Exempt Transactions Under the Securities Act of 1933.