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What the Team is Known For

K&L Gates has an outstanding bankruptcy and restructuring group. It primarily represents creditors, including creditors' committees, in matters such as litigation, workouts and other restructurings, leveraging the superb nationwide capabilities of the firm. The team frequently appears before bankruptcy courts, as well as state and federal trial courts. The firm also offers experience representing an array of secured lenders and investors.

Work Highlights

  • K&L Gates represented Helicore Bioventures I in connection with the section 363 sale in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy case of 9 Meters Biopharma.

Strengths

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K&L Gates is super responsive and gets back to us almost instantly.

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K&L Gates has deep experience with cutting-edge cases.

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K&L Gates has excellent technical expertise and is highly responsive. They are able to present practical solutions to complex issues.

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The team is knowledgeable, creative and thorough.

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Notable Practitioners

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A Lee Hogewood III
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A Lee Hogewood III
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Lee Hogewood offers extensive experience representing creditors in disputes, insolvency and bankruptcy matters in courts throughout North Carolina and beyond. He currently serves as the managing partner of the Raleigh office of K&L Gates.

Lee is very experienced.

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Margaret R Westbrook
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Margaret R Westbrook
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Margaret Westbrook serves as the head of the restructuring and insolvency practice group at K&L Gates. She focuses her practice on counseling creditors on both contentious and noncontentious restructuring and insolvency matters, regularly appearing in bankruptcy courts and advising on risk management for clients. Westbrook also offers additional strengths in campaign finance work, acting for businesses on corporate political activity issues.

Margaret is bright, experienced and has a very good client manner.

Margaret has a comprehensive understanding of the issues and risks involved and is easy to work with.

Margaret has a high level of expertise in many areas, is super responsive and provides practical solutions to complex issues. She is truly a joy to work with.

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John Gardner
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John Gardner
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John Gardner is held in particularly high esteem for his creditor-side practice in bankruptcy mandates and restructuring matters.

He is phenomenal in understanding the nuances of various jurisdictions and comes up with innovative solutions.

John is knowledgeable and has been doing insolvency for a long, long time.

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A Lee Hogewood III
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A Lee Hogewood III
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Margaret R Westbrook
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Margaret R Westbrook
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John Gardner
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John Gardner
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