Mr. Kenneth Epstein

Kenneth Epstein, CIRA, CDBV is an investment manager and legal counsel at Backlit Capital Solutions in New York, where he is responsible for leading the company’s initiatives in bankruptcy and insolvency-related matters. He serves as a resource for debtors, creditors (including hedge funds, private-equity funds and alternative asset managers), bankruptcy estate representatives and other stakeholders seeking to maximize the value of litigation claims. Mr. Epstein has experience advising and managing debtors-in-possession, individual creditors and creditor groups (ad hoc and official committees) and financial institutions in insolvency and bankruptcy-related litigation matters nationally and internationally. He began his career as a lawyer in the financial restructuring group of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Prior to joining Backlit Capital, he was managing director in the restructuring and remediation group at MBIA, a publicly listed financial institution. Mr. Epstein has taught bankruptcy law as an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School and has served as a panelist and author on bankruptcy-related topics. He is named in Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders – Third Party Funding Guide (2020-21) and in Lawdragon Global Restructuring Advisors & Consultants Guide (2020). Mr. Epstein received his J.D. cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 2000, where he served on the Journal of Law and Public Policy.