January 20, 2016
HOUSTON - Bracewell Partner Kurt A. Mayr was elected to the International Insolvency Institute, which is a non-profit, limited-membership organization dedicated to advancing and promoting insolvency as a respected discipline in the international field.
Mayr, who was named managing partner of the firm's Connecticut office in October 2015, represents creditors, debtors and other major stakeholders in domestic and cross-border financial restructuring matters. His assignments have included restructurings not only throughout the United States, but in Australia, Canada, Europe, and South America. In addition, Mayr has experience counseling parties in complex commercial and insolvency litigation.
Mayr was recently engaged to represent investors in connection with the restructuring of the debt of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. In October 2015, he closed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case for Optim Energy, an independent power producer and a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Cascade Investment, LLC, which is the investment vehicle of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
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