Ken is Head of the U.S. restructuring group. He concentrates on multi-jurisdictional business reorganizations and financial restructurings, including chapter 11 proceedings, cross border proceedings under chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and out-of-court restructurings. In addition, Ken regularly advises clients on insurance and reinsurance matters and the insolvency aspects of derivative products, acquisitions, and corporate, project and structured financings.
Ken is listed in Chambers USA 2011 as a notable practitioner and in Chambers Canada 2012 as an Expert Based Abroad - the only person to have been ranked in the category this year.
J.D., cum laude, Syracuse University College of Law, 1981
A.B., Georgetown University, 1978
'Current Developments in Cross-border Insolvency Law: The Contours of Discretionary Relief Under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code,' Banking & Finance Law Review, September 2010, with Rowena White and Amélie Baudot
'Objectivity through Flexibility: Chapter 15 Continues to Impress,' American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, September 2009, with Amélie Baudot
'Letter to the Editor on Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code,' American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, September 2009, with Amélie Baudot
'Making Sense of Jurisdictional Chaos: Chapter 15 Protects the Corporate Group,' American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, September 2009, with Lisa Kraidin and Amélie Baudot
'United States-Canadian restructurings: finding COMI with a sense of comity', published in the September 2008 issue of the IBA's Insolvency and Restructuring International, Ken Coleman and Dan Guyder
'Recognition Under Chapter 15,' Bankruptcy Strategist, December 2007, Ken Coleman and Daniel Guyder
'Too much of a good thing? Solvency and s.304 relief for insurance companies,' published in Insurance and Reinsurance Law Briefing, September 2005 as well as in Mealey's Litigation Report: Reinsurance, September 22, 2005, with John Wardrop and Stephen Doody
'The New Chapter 15,' New York Law Journal, May 26, 2005, with Kelle Gagne
'Restructuring Principles Gaining Global Acceptance,' New York Law Journal, February 17, 2004, with Marc Bennett and Eric Froman
'Insolvency Regimes in Latin America Undergo Change,' New York Law Journal, November 3, 2003, with Marc Bennett
'The Ordinary Course of Business Preference Exception,' Banking Law Journal, June 1998
'Secured Consumer Debt: The Fourth Option,' Banking Law Journal, April 1998
'Purchasing Claims to Control a Vote: The Difference Between Self-Interest and Ulterior Motives,' Banking Law Journal, Feburary 1998
'How to Tell If A Transaction Is A True Lease Or A Disguised Secured Transaction,' Banking Law Journal, Nov. – December 1997
'Courts Divided on Dischargeability of Claims for Punitive Damages Under Bankrutpcy Code Section 523(a)(2)(A),' Banking Law Journal, September 1997
'The Scope of the Single Asset Real Estate Exception,' Banking Law Journal, June 1997
'Conduits, Good Faith, and the Recovery of Preferences and Fraudulent Transfers Under Bankruptcy Code Section 550,' Banking Law Journal, April 1997
'Judicial Activism as an Art: Drexel Case,' New York Law Journal, June 7, 1991