Mr. Kenneth H. Eckstein

Kenneth H. Eckstein is a partner with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in New York and co-chairs its Bankruptcy and Restructuring department. He has played a prominent role in many of the largest and most complex chapter 11 reorganizations over the past 35 years, including most recently two large, complex restructurings of the pharmaceutical companies at the heart of the opioid crisis, as well as the bankruptcies of household names in the consumer products, automotive, media and entertainment, financial services, telecommunications, energy and airline industries. Mr. Eckstein represents creditors? committees, bondholders and other stakeholders in both in- and out-of-court restructurings, as well as trustees, examiners and third parties seeking to acquire the assets or businesses of financially troubled companies. He also counsels and represents debtors in the complex legal, financial and operational issues arising in reorganizations, including obtaining debtor-in-possession financing; negotiating forbearance agreements; negotiating plans of reorganization with secured lenders, creditors? commit-tees and other stakeholders; and conducting sales of businesses. A Fellow of the American College ofBankruptcy, Mr. Eckstein has been repeatedly recognized by Chambers USA and Legal 500 as one of the preeminent bankruptcy practitioners both in New York and in the United States. In 2014, Mr. Eckstein was named to Global M&A Network?s list of Global Top 100 Turnaround Professionals and to Law360?sMVP List, one of only eight lawyers named in the area of Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring, and he was listed as one of the Outstanding Restructuring Lawyers by Turnarounds & Workouts in 2011 andRestructuring Lawyer of the Year by Global M&A Network in 2010. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Mr. Eckstein received hisB.A. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978 and his J.D. from New York UniversitySchool of Law in 1979, where he was research editor of the Journal of International Law and Politics.