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Senior Associate
Financial Restructuring
/ Private Credit & Special Situations
Chris Coleman is a senior associate in the Finance and Restructuring practice group and is a member of the firm’s Private Credit & Special Situations team. Chris represents key stakeholders in all aspects of financial restructuring matters, both in- and out-of-court. He has experience advising across several industry sectors, including manufacturing, aviation, healthcare, retail, restaurants, financial services, and infrastructure.
Chris’s transactional practice includes regularly advising clients on distressed m&a transactions, out-of-court restructurings, workouts, winddowns, and special situations financings. Chris’s in-court experience includes representing companies, bank and non-bank lenders, strategic investors, liquidators, and other stakeholders in complex bankruptcy cases, offshore liquidations, receivership actions, and insolvency litigation.
Prior to joining King & Spalding, Chris was an associate in the financial restructuring practice of another AmLaw 100 firm. Chris is an active member of Turnaround Management Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute.
J.D., University of Tennessee College of Law, cum laude
M.Div, Wake Forest University
B.A. Political Science, Carson-Newman College
Georgia
North Carolina
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
Judicial Clerk, Marcia Phillips Parsons, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
American Bankruptcy Institute
Georgia State Bar
North Carolina State Bar
Turnaround Management Association
English
January 24, 2025
King & Spalding Advises on M&A Advisor’s Chapter 11 Reorganization of the Year
October 5, 2024
K&S’s representation of Red Lobster is mentioned in a profile on Damola Adamolekun, the new chief executive for the company
September 18, 2024
Red Lobster Emerges From Bankruptcy with New Owners
Served as Debtors' counsel to Red Lobster Management LLC, a seafood casual dining chain, in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the Middle District of Florida and companion proceedings in Canada.
Advised AHF Products in its acquisition of certain operating lumber mills pursuant to a federal receivership in the Northern District of West Virginia.
Advised an operator of electric vehicle charging stations in connection with the winding down of its business operations.
January 27, 2025
8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.
December 9, 2024
Invitae Bankruptcy Court Disallowance of Make-Whole Claim Cautions Against LME Debt Pricing Pig Out
April 30, 2024
Lender Liability Quarterly – April 2024
January 24, 2025
King & Spalding Advises on M&A Advisor’s Chapter 11 Reorganization of the Year
October 5, 2024
K&S’s representation of Red Lobster is mentioned in a profile on Damola Adamolekun, the new chief executive for the company
September 18, 2024
Red Lobster Emerges From Bankruptcy with New Owners
Served as Debtors' counsel to Red Lobster Management LLC, a seafood casual dining chain, in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the Middle District of Florida and companion proceedings in Canada.
Advised AHF Products in its acquisition of certain operating lumber mills pursuant to a federal receivership in the Northern District of West Virginia.
Advised an operator of electric vehicle charging stations in connection with the winding down of its business operations.
January 27, 2025
8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.
December 9, 2024
Invitae Bankruptcy Court Disallowance of Make-Whole Claim Cautions Against LME Debt Pricing Pig Out
April 30, 2024
Lender Liability Quarterly – April 2024
January 24, 2025
King & Spalding Advises on M&A Advisor’s Chapter 11 Reorganization of the Year
October 5, 2024
K&S’s representation of Red Lobster is mentioned in a profile on Damola Adamolekun, the new chief executive for the company
September 18, 2024
Red Lobster Emerges From Bankruptcy with New Owners
J.D., University of Tennessee College of Law, cum laude
M.Div, Wake Forest University
B.A. Political Science, Carson-Newman College
Georgia
North Carolina
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
Judicial Clerk, Marcia Phillips Parsons, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
American Bankruptcy Institute
Georgia State Bar
North Carolina State Bar
Turnaround Management Association
English