Are Hedge Funds and Private Equity Firms Different Than Other Case Parties?

Mr. Vonnegut is a partner in Davis Polk’s Restructuring Group. He represents creditors, debtors, agent banks, hedge funds, lenders, bondholders and other strategic parties in a range of corporate restructurings, financing transactions, bankruptcy litigation, asset sales and acquisitions, as well as advisory matters relating to investments in complex distressed businesses. He also advises numerous financial institutions including all eight of the U.S.’s global systemically important banking groups (G-SIBs) and trade groups in connection with Dodd-Frank Resolution Planning.

Brent Herlihy is the Vice President of Restructuring at PJT Partners, Inc.

David Dunn is Managing Partner, co-Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of Cross Sound Management LLC.

Prior to co-founding Cross Sound in April 2016, David was a senior investment professional at Arrowgrass Capital Partners, from December 2010 to April 2016, where he was responsible for many of the firm’s distressed and stressed credit investments. Prior to Arrowgrass, David was Counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (2006-2010) in the Financial Restructuring Group, responsible for many of the firm’s Ad Hoc and Official Creditors’ Committee engagements. David served as an Associate at Sidley Austin LLP (2004-2006) in the bankruptcy group, working on the firm’s representation of Chapter 11 debtors and large creditors in several large bankruptcy cases. From 2002-2004, David started his career as an Associate at Greenberg Traurig LLP in the Restructuring Group, focusing on the firm’s roles representing several Chapter 11 debtors and Official Creditors’ Committees. David currently serves on the Board of Directors for Amplify Energy and the advisory boards of the LyondellBasell and RadioShack Liquidating Trusts.

James Savin is a Partner at Akim Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. His practice focuses on corporate restructurings and bankruptcy law with an emphasis on official and informal creditor groups. He has more than 20 years of experience advising on contentious and non-contentious restructuring matters in a range of industries.

James represents official and informal committees of creditors (secured and unsecured), debtors, debtor-in-possession lenders and acquirers of businesses and assets in large, complex Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. His restructuring matters encompass a wide variety of industries and often involve multijurisdictional and cross-border issues.

Mr. Mark Kronfeld is a Managing Director of Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC.

Prior to joining TCP, Mr. Kronfeld was a Partner at Plymouth Lane Capital Management where he ran the firm’s distressed and special situations investment strategy, with a primary focus on legal, structural, and process value-drivers and investor activism. Prior to Plymouth Lane, Mark was a managing director at BlueMountain Capital, a partner at Owl Creek Asset Management and, before that, a senior analyst at Aurelius Capital Management.

Prior to his career in finance, Mark practiced law for over ten years as a litigator and bankruptcy lawyer. Mr. Kronfeld serves as an independent director on the board of Reorg Research, Inc.