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Akin Gump Among Shortlisted “Large Firms That Impressed” for 2019 GRR Awards

May 21, 2019Global Restructuring Review

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(Washington, D.C.) – Akin Gump has made the shortlist of “Large Firms That Impressed” at Global Restructuring Review’s GRR Awards 2019. The awards celebrate “the people, places and matters that made an impact in the cross-border restructuring and insolvency sector over the past year.”

The firm was nominated on the basis of its outstanding work in a string of matters, including:

  • its role as advisor to the ad hoc group of creditors in Hong Kong-headquartered Noble Group’s restructuring
  • its representation of noteholders of U.K.-based Avanti Communications in that company’s restructuring
  • its work on behalf of the ad hoc group of noteholders of Greece-based Aegean Marine Petroleum in Chapter 11 proceedings
  • its role as counsel to U.S.-based Payless in the company’s second Chapter 11 filing in two years.

Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in Barcelona on June 15.

This is the latest in a series of recognitions for the firm’s financial restructuring practice and its lawyers. Most recently, Akin Gump was nominated for Restructuring Deal of the Year, among other categories, for The Deal Awards. Learn more here.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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