Mr. Edward S. Weisfelner

Edward S. Weisfelner is currently a Senior Managing Director at the Algon Group, a specialized financial advisory firm. He is theformer head of Brown Rudnick LLP?s Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Practice Group in New York. He has more than 30 years of experience representing official and ad hoc creditors? committees and equity-holders? committees, individual creditors, indenture trustees, equity-holders and other parties in many of the nation?s largest in- and out-of-court restructurings. He also regularly represented buyers of assets and claims in chapter 11 proceedings, and has served as a court-appointed liquidation trustee, mediator and examiner. A frequent lecturer in the areas of bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, Mr. Weisfelner is a five-time recipient of the ?Outstanding Restructuring Lawyers? award from Turnarounds & Workouts, and has been recognized as a top restructuring attorney in the Eleventh Edition of The K&A Restructuring Register and in Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America. He was also honored by the UJA-Federation of New York Bankruptcy and Reorganization Group with the 2015 Professor Lawrence P. King Award. Mr. Weisfelner is a member of ABI, the New York and American Bar Associations and the Turnaround Management Association. He received his B.A. from New York University Washington College and his J.D. with honors from Brooklyn Law School, where he was senior editor of the Brooklyn Law Review.