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Abid Qureshi

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+1 212.872.8027 aqureshi@akingump.com

Work Department

Partner; Financial Restructuring

Position

Abid Qureshi is a partner in the financial restructuring group, and the partner in charge of the New York office, at Akin. He is a dedicated financial restructuring litigator, giving him comprehensive experience in virtually every issue that arises in the course of a complex restructuring. Abid has litigated cutting-edge issues in the highest-profile chapter 11 cases, complex restructuring-related issues in state and appellate courts and has extensive experience in cross-border insolvencies and chapter 15 proceedings. Some recent highlights include: Travelport Worldwide Ltd., Frontier Communications Corporation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Aeroméxico, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Intelsat Corporation.

To learn more about Abid, please visit his profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/abid-qureshi.html

Career

Abid routinely advises on the full range of complex financial restructuring litigation in bankruptcy, state, and appellate courts and leads litigation teams in hotly contested proceedings. He represents debtors, creditors, bondholders, hedge funds, institutional investors, and ad hoc and official creditors’ committees. Abid serves as president of the United Nations Association of New York and as the firm’s liaison for Lawyers Without Borders.

Languages

German

Memberships

Bar of New York; Solicitor, England and Wales; Law Society of British Columbia.

Education

B.A., University of British Columbia, with highest honors (1991); J.D., University of Toronto (1994); LL.M., London School of Economics and Political Science, with merit (1996)

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate

Akin‘s financial restructuring practice, operating out of New York, Washington, D.C., and Texas, is well known for representing companies, ad hoc groups, creditors’ committees, and investors in relation to high-profile, multi-billion-dollar restructurings. Practice co-head Ira Dizengoff has an excellent reputation for advising creditors’ and bondholder committees in major corporate restructurings, and also has considerable experience representing debtors in possession, post-petition lenders, and acquirers of distressed assets. Practice co-head Philip Dublin has worked on deals involving nearly $27 billion in liabilities in the past year, and has led teams representing debtors, secured term lenders, first and second lien lenders, bondholder groups, creditors’ committees, and DIP lenders. Michael Stamer has considerable experience representing creditors, lenders, and companies in both in- and out-of-court reorganizations, and has recently led teams representing bondholders, senior unsecured noteholders, and unsecured noteholders. Abid Qureshi focuses on litigation in corporate reorganizations, while Arik Preis has been at the forefront of the major opioid manufacturer restructurings. All lawyers mentioned are based in New York.

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