Kenneth Eckstein Named Legal Advisor of the Year by the M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards; Firm Also Receives Award for Industrial Manufacturing/Distribution Deal of the Year

Kenneth H. Eckstein, Co-chair of Kramer Levin’s Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Department, will be recognized as the “Legal Advisor of the Year” at the 9th annual M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards, M&A Advisor announced. The award recognizes Mr. Eckstein’s leading role this past year in many of the largest reorganization cases, including leading the Kramer Levin team representing Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd. in its Chapter 11 proceedings.

Kramer Levin will also be a recipient of the award for “Industrial Manufacturing/Distribution Deal of the Year” for the firm’s representation of Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd. in its Chapter 11 proceedings. The Kramer Levin team on the $1.4 billion Genco restructuring was led by Mr. Eckstein and included, among others, Adam C. Rogoff and P. Bradley O’Neill; litigation partners Philip S. Kaufman, Jeffrey Trachtman and Alan Friedman; and corporate partners Thomas E. Molner, David J. Fisher and Abbe L. Dienstag.

Nominations, representing over 250 participating companies, were judged by an independent jury of industry experts. The awards will be presented at the M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards Gala on Monday, February 23 in Palm Beach, Fla.

Kramer Levin’s Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Group has been actively involved in most of the major bankruptcy cases in the United States over the last 20 years, and has the resources and expertise necessary to tackle complex problems and yield tangible and practical results for clients. The group comprises 45 lawyers and is chaired by Kenneth H. Eckstein and Thomas Moers Mayer, both fellows of the American College of Bankruptcy. Kramer Levin was named Corporate Restructuring Law Firm of the Year by Legal 500 US 2014, and Bankruptcy Law Firm of the Year at the M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards in 2014. The firm was named the Creditors Restructuring Law Firm of the Year for 2014 by the Global M&A Network, and Law360 selected the department as a Top Practice Group of  the Year for 2014.