Kenneth P. Kansa

Kenneth P. Kansa is a partner in the Restructuring group of Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago, where here presents clients in a wide range of in-court and out-of-court restructuring matters, with particular areas of experience in representing corporate clients in connection with their restructuring proceedings, masstort-driven restructuring proceedings and cross-border insolvency matters. His public and nonpublic representations have included providing strategic advice and long-term restructuring advice for companies in addressing their liabilities; negotiating, drafting and implementing chapter 11 plans of reorganization; drafting and negotiating sale documents and requests for court approval of § 363 asset sales; negotiating and securing court approval of debtor-in-possession financing facilities; preparing companies for chapter 11 filings; and advising companies in connection with numerous bankruptcy-related real estate, tax and corporate issues. Mr. Kansa is listed in Who’s Who Legal: Restructuring and Insolvency for 2017and sits on the advisory board for the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences at Cleveland State University. He is also a frequent speaker to professional organizations and on CLE matters for restructuring and insolvency, including those relating to the treatment of commercial leases in bankruptcy proceedings, the administration of cross-border insolvency proceedings, equipment lease financing and similar issues. Mr. Kansa received his B.A. in 1993 from The George Washington University, his M.A. in 1994from Cleveland State University, and his J.D. in 1999 from the University of Virginia School of Law.