Profile: Alan W Kornberg

Insolvency and Restructuring

Biography: Insolvency & Restructuring

Chair of the bankruptcy and corporate reorganization department and a member of the firm's management committee, Alan W Kornberg handles chapter 11 cases, cross-border insolvency matters, out-of-court restructurings, bankruptcy-related acquisitions, bankruptcy-related litigation and insolvency-sensitive transactions.

Mr Kornberg's clients include debtors, official and unofficial creditors committees, lenders and other creditors, equity holders, court-appointed fiduciaries and investors that focus on distressed situations. His recent assignments include advising Time Warner on its acquisition of cable TV assets from Adelphia Communications Corporation, serving as committee counsel in the NorthWestern Corporation and Navigator Gas chapter 11 cases, acting as debtor's counsel in Foamex and Garden Ridge, and representing the second lien debtholders committee in the Calpine chapter 11 case and the Intermedia noteholders committee in the WorldCom chapter 11 case. He also represented the California Public Utilities Commission in the Pacific Gas & Electric Company chapter 11 case. In connection with that matter, in 2003 The American Lawyer named Mr Kornberg one of its 'Dealmakers of the Year'.

Mr Kornberg serves as the Second Circuit Regent of the American College of Bankruptcy and is the chair of the committee on bankruptcy and corporate reorganization of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is a past member of the City Bar's committee on legal education and admission to the Bar and has served as an adjunct instructor at Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law. He frequently mediates bankruptcy-related disputes and lectures on bankruptcy-related topics. Mr Kornberg was a delegate to a bankruptcy law reform mission in Beijing sponsored by the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies in 1995.

Mr Kornberg received an AB, magna cum laude, from Brandeis University in 1974 and a JD from New York University School of Law in 1977, where he was a senior editor of the Moot Court Board.