Norman N. Kinel, Esq.

Norman N. Kinel is a partner in Squire Patton Boggs’ Restructuring & Insolvency Practice group inNew York and is national chair of the firm’s Creditors’ Committee Practice. With more than 30 years of experience as a bankruptcy practitioner, he has successfully represented and litigated on behalf of clients in some of the nation’s largest and most intricate bankruptcy cases, involving numerous industries. Mr.Kinel regularly represents debtors, creditors, bondholders, trustees and committees of creditors, equityholders and retirees. He also often advises clients in out-of-court default, workout and restructuring matters. Mr. Kinel has experience in bankruptcy asset sales and mergers and acquisitions, as well as cross border insolvency proceedings. His practice includes complex bankruptcy litigation and appeals involving contested confirmations of plans, DIP financing, cash collateral and adequate protection, relief from the automatic stay, assumption and rejection of executory contracts and leases, exclusivity and substantive consolidation. He also has litigation expertise in connection with director and officer liability, breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent conveyance and preferential transfer actions. Mr. Kinel is listed on the Register of Mediators of the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of NewYork and the District of Delaware, and was a court-approved mediator in the Lehman Brothers cases. He received his undergraduate degree in 1980 from Yeshiva University and his J.D. in 1983 from AmericanUniversity Washington College of Law.