Profile: Grant T Stein

Insolvency and Restructuring

Biography: Insolvency & Restructuring

Grant Stein is a partner in Alston & Bird's bankruptcy, reorganisation and workouts group. His diverse practice includes the representation of debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors' committees and fiduciaries in complex and difficult out-of-court workouts, debt restructurings, bankruptcy cases and financial transactions throughout the United States and internationally. He also regularly represents officers, directors and other parties in bankruptcy litigation of all kinds. He serves as national bankruptcy counsel for two major lending institutions. His restructuring experience includes manufacturing, real estate, wholesale, retail, distribution companies, healthcare, communications, technology and intellectual property issues.

Mr Stein is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and serves as a director and president elect of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (AIRA). He is also a director and president elect of the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute. And he recently served as a member of the executive committee of Emory University's board of visitors. He has written numerous articles on bankruptcy and workout issues, and regularly lectures across the United States.

Mr Stein served as law clerk to the Honourable W Homer Drake, the senior judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia, following his graduation with honours from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1981. He received his BBA, with high honours, from Emory University in 1978.