Kay Standridge Kress

Kay S. Kress is a partner in the Finance & Restructuring Practice Group of Troutman Pepper HamiltonSanders LLP in Detroit and has experience in restructuring debt and representing secured creditors in federal receivership actions. She also focuses on representing debtors, creditors’ committees, secured creditors, trustees, individual creditors and parties in interest — both as lead counsel and co-counsel —in out-of-court workouts and bankruptcy courts in the Eastern District of Michigan, Western District ofMichigan, District of Delaware, Southern District of New York and other bankruptcy [districts] nation-wide. Ms. Kress co-authored Chapter 83, “Creditors’ Committees,” for Colliers Bankruptcy PracticeGuide; co-wrote “Alternatives to Bankruptcy Under Federal and State Law,” a chapter in Navigating inToday’s Environment; and authored the “Federal Receiverships” chapter in Guide to Receivership andForeclosure. She also has written articles for the Michigan Business Law Journal; the American Bar Association (ABA) Business Bankruptcy Committee Newsletter, Business Law Today; and the AmericanBankruptcy Institute Journal. Ms. Kress has moderated and spoken on a variety of topics, including federal and state receiverships, both locally and nationally. Additionally, she served as ABA BusinessLaw Section advisor to the Uniform Law Drafting Committee for the Uniform Commercial Real EstateReceivership Act. The act was approved by the Uniform Law Commission in July 2015 and has been enacted in seven states. She testified before Michigan House Committee on Judiciary prior to the enactment of the act in Michigan. Ms. Kress is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and theAmerican College of Finance Lawyers, a council member of the Business Law Section of the ABA, and vice-chair of the Committee on Committees. She received her B.A. cum laude from Bowling GreenState University in 1978 her J.D. cum laude from Wayne State University Law School in 1986, where she was a member of Order of the Coif.