Aug 5 – Hughes Hubbard announced today that Kathryn Coleman has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office. She joins the firm from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP where she practiced for more than 20 years, leading the San Francisco office from 2000-2005 and serving most recently as a partner in the New York office.
Ms. Coleman has extensive experience representing Chapter 11 debtors in possession, creditors’ committees, secured lenders groups, acquirers of distressed assets in and out of bankruptcy court, and equity stakeholders in connection with troubled investments and portfolio companies. She is particularly known for her work as lead counsel to Scotia Pacific in its highly contentious chapter 11 case, which was one of the first cases to be directly certified to the Circuit Court of Appeals from the Bankruptcy Court and set a number of important precedents.
Ms. Coleman was recently named one of the 100 “Most Influential Women in Business” by the San Francisco Business Times and is ranked by Best Lawyers in America as a leading bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights lawyer.
Hughes Hubbard’s corporate reorganization and bankruptcy lawyers have played a leading role in some of the most widely publicized insolvency cases in the past twenty years. The firm is currently representing James Giddens, the co-chair of the practice, as Trustee of Lehman Brothers, Inc., and is also playing major roles in numerous high profile chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts.