Steven N. Serajeddini

Steven N. Serajeddini is a partner in the Restructuring Group of Kirkland & Ellis, based in Chicago. He advises companies, private-equity sponsors, distressed-debt funds, ad hoc committees, and other investors with respect to public, private and portfolio companies in financial distress, including liabil- ity management transactions, amend and extend transactions, refinancings, out-of-court exchanges and restructurings, and bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings. Mr. Serajeddini has been involved in some of the largest and most complex corporate restructurings of all time. He also advises boards of directors and senior management of distressed companies regarding fiduciary duties and corporate governance. Mr. Serajeddini has expertise across a broad range of industries, including energy, oil and gas, power, retail, telecommunications, health care, manufacturing, hospitality, real estate, publishing, media and pharmaceutical. He is a member of ABI and the Turnaround Management Association, and co-authored ABI's A Practitioner's Guide to Prepackaged Bankruptcy (2011). Mr. Serajeddini received his B.A.S. in computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, his M.A. in applied economics from the Uni- versity of Michigan, and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was an article editor for the Michigan Law Review and a semifinalist in the Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition.