Stephen M. Blank, Counsel
joins the Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Group

90 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(O) 212.210.9472 | (C) 203.257.1738
stephen.blank@alston.com

Alston & Bird has strengthened its restructuring and finance practices with the addition of counsel Stephen Blank, who joins the firm's Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Group in the New York office. Stephen counsels borrowers, lenders, investors, agents, ad hoc lender groups, and creditors on distressed and non-distressed financial situations, including debt restructurings and workouts, financing and securitization transactions, and distressed merger and acquisition transactions. Stephen's practice also encompasses forbearance agreements, debt-for-equity exchanges, intercreditor arrangements, 363 asset sales, out-of-court distressed investing, Chapter 15 and cross-border proceedings, and all aspects of prepackaged and prearranged Chapter 11 cases. Stephen earned his law degree, cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School, where he served as the managing editor of the Journal of Law & Policy.  Stephen also previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable James M. Peck in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.