Vinson & Elkins adds Howard to restructuring, reorganization practice

By Sarah Lizee

Olympia, Wash., June 15 – Vinson & Elkins added George Howard as a partner in the firm’s restructuring and reorganization practice, according to a press release.

Howard, who joins from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, represents companies, banks, secured lenders, distressed debt investors, asset purchasers and other significant constituencies in distressed situations, with an emphasis on out-of-court restructurings, Chapter 11 reorganizations, secured financing transactions, distressed M&A and cross-border insolvency proceedings.

Howard advises on structuring and consummating Chapter 11 restructurings, secured financings and distressed sales and acquisitions, as well as ring-fencing transactions, spin-offs and other major corporate transactions. He also has experience counseling clients on corporate formalities, fiduciary duties, fraudulent conveyance, illegal dividend, mass tort, environmental, pension and other legacy liability issues.

He will be based in the firm’s New York office.

The law firm is based in Houston.

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