Mr. Kris M. Hansen

Kristopher M. Hansen is co-chair of the Financial Restructuring practice at Paul Hastings LLP in New York. Throughout his career, he has guided clients through proceedings in bankruptcy and appellate courts across the country, as well as through many out-of-court situations. Mr. Hansen helps sophisticated investors in distressed credit formulate and execute complex strategies involving mergers and acquisitions, financing and litigation in and outside of actual bankruptcy. He represents official creditors’ committees in complex corporate chapter 11 cases, and corporate debtors in connection with formal bankruptcy proceedings and informal negotiations to restructure their debt obligations. Mr. Hansen is admitted to practice before the courts of the State of New York, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He frequently lectures and has published articles on the distressed marketplace. Mr. Hansen received both his B.S. in finance in 1992 and his J.D. in 1995 from Fordham University.