Mr. William W. Kannel

William W. Kannel is chair of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.?s Bankruptcy & Re-structuring Practice in Boston, where he focuses his practice primarily on commercial law and litigation, workouts, and corporate and municipal restructurings. He has represented various institutional lenders, indenture trustees, bondholders, and other creditors, debtors and trustees in all manner of insolvency proceedings in courts throughout the U.S. His industry experience encompasses municipalities, airlines, hospitals and other health care facilities, retail, telecom, energy and clean tech, waste disposal, military housing, hotels and educational institutions. Mr. Kannel has experience in all phases of bankruptcy litigation, practice and case management from both the debtor?s and creditor?s perspective, including relief from stay, adequate protection, valuation, preference, fraudulent transfer, subordination, competing plan and appellate litigation. One of his specialty areas is in negotiating sales of troubled companies and as-sets, both in and out of bankruptcy. His practice also includes addressing bankruptcy and documentation issues in securitizations, receivable sales, bond transactions, and structured financings generally. Mr.Kannel is active in the American College of Bankruptcy, ABI and the Turnaround Management Association, and he frequently lectures and writes on insolvency issues in front of these groups and numerous other bar, trade and industry groups, including the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and its constituent societies and the Municipal Bond Buyers Conference. Mr. Kannel served as editor-in-chief of the first edition of ABI?s Health Care Insolvency Manual and is a former co-chair of ABI?s Health Care Insolvency Committee. He received his B.A. in 1981 from Wesleyan University and his J.D. in1985 from Boston University.