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Mr. David M. Posner

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Mr. David M. Posner

David M. Posner is a partner with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP in New York and focuses his practice on bankruptcy and insolvency matters. He represents companies, creditors? committees, chapter 11 trustees, acquirers, financial institutions and other significant parties-in-interest in complex reorganizations and financially distressed situations, as well as debtor/creditor rights and commercial litigation. In addition, he has substantial litigation experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial litigation inside the context of complex reorganization cases, and in state and federal courts across the country. Mr. Posner has been involved in all aspects of pre-trial proceedings, preliminary-injunction hearings, motion practice, applications, mediation, objections and othercontested matters. He has tried both jury and non-jury trials in bankruptcy, state and federal courts.Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Posner was a member of the Insolvency and Creditors? Rights group of aNew York City law firm where he represented creditors? committees in chapter 11 reorganization proceedings, commercial corporations and financial institutions as both secured and unsecured creditors in chapter 11 reorganization proceedings, and in litigations pending before federal courts. He also worked extensively representing clients in the areas of lender liability, debt collection, judgment enforcement and bankruptcy appellate practice. Previously, Mr. Posner was a partner in the Lending, Bankruptcy andCreditors? Rights group in the New York City office of an international law firm, where he practiced in the areas of bankruptcy, creditors? rights, business restructuring, asset-based lending and commercial litigation. He is listed in the 2021 edition of Chambers USA: America?s Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of Bankruptcy/Restructuring and was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in 2021and 2022 for Bankruptcy Litigation. In addition, he was recognized as a New York Metro Super Lawyer in the area of Business Bankruptcy in 2021, and he received the Turnaround Management Association?sLarge Company Turnaround Award in 2020. Mr. Posner received his B.A. magna cum laude in political science and philosophy from Syracuse University in 1984 and his J.D. cum laude in 1988 from SyracuseUniversity College of Law, where he was senior editor of the Syracuse Law Review.