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Kristopher Hansen

Work Department
Financial Restructuring
Position
Kris Hansen is Co-Chair of the Financial Restructuring group at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Hansen is a dealmaker and a consummate tactician renowned for his strong judgment, financial IQ and expansive market knowledge.
Career
Throughout his career, Mr. Hansen has guided clients through proceedings in bankruptcy and appellate courts across the country, as well as through many out-of-court situations.
Mr. Hansen helps sophisticated investors in distressed credit formulate and execute complex strategies involving mergers and acquisitions, financing and litigation in and outside of actual bankruptcy. He represents official creditors’ committees in complex corporate chapter 11 cases, and corporate debtors in connection with formal bankruptcy proceedings and informal negotiations to restructure their debt obligations.
Education
Fordham University School of Law, J.D. 1995
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
(Leading partners)Having recently absorbed the restructuring practice of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, the New York-based team at Paul Hastings LLP‘s cross-jurisdictional group represents a range of parties including unsecured creditor committees, banks, sponsors and ad hoc groups of creditors. The firm also benefits from its debtor-side practice, while also providing on-the-ground restructuring advice across the globe with lawyers situated across the U.S. Attorneys, such as co-chair Kristopher Hansen , who was noted by one client as a ‘rockstar‘ in the field, and has been involved in a series of bankruptcies including those related to crypto and the pharmaceutical industry. co-chair Jayme Goldstein specializes in representing a range of parties in chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings, alongside Jonathan Canfield who has led the representation of creditors in complex restructuring matters. Daniel Fliman has a diverse practice on both the debtor and creditor side, whereas Gabe Sasson represents official committees of unsecured creditors and has led on a range of restructuring and bankruptcies. Lindsey Henrikson joined the Chicago office from King & Spalding LLP in September 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Tax > International tax
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Project finance
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism