George B. Hofmann

George B. Hofmann is a shareholder with Cohne Kinghorn, P.C. in Salt Lake City, where his practice encompasses all aspects of the debtor/creditor relationship with a focus on bankruptcy law. He has rep-resented debtors, creditors, trustees, committees, bondholders, indenture trustees, and a variety of other parties with interest in bankruptcy proceedings, and was appointed to the panel of chapter 7 trustees for the District of Utah in March 2011. Mr. Hofmann’s bankruptcy experience includes plan confirmation and objections to confirmation, asset sales, avoidance litigation, claims litigation and executory con-tract disputes. In addition to his bankruptcy practice, he has prosecuted and defended lender-liability litigation, and has represented lenders and borrowers in loan documentation from origination through workout. Mr. Hofmann is admitted to practice in Utah, New York, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Utah and Massachusetts, and the Northern, Southern andWestern Districts of New York. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the category of bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights law, is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, and has been included in “Utah’sLegal Elite” in the area of bankruptcy/workout by Utah Business magazine. He is also listed in Mountain States Super Lawyers for Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor rights, which also selected him as one of the top 100 lawyers in all practice areas in Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Mr. Hofmann received his B.S. from the University of Utah and his J.D. from the University of Utah College of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and served on the Utah Law Review.