Evan D. Flaschen

Partner

P 860.256.8537
F 860.760.6310
E evan.flaschen@bgllp.com

Assistant

Noris Fair
860.256.8545

Evan Flaschen is the chair of the Financial Restructuring Group at Bracewell & Giuliani LLP. His practice includes representation of many of the world's largest institutional investors, private investment funds, Wall Street desks, fund managers, leveraged finance participants and financial services companies in out-of-court restructurings, in-court proceedings and distressed M&A transactions, both domestically and internationally. Various international surveys have described Evan as "one of the globe's leading practitioners," "articulate, focused, commercial, affable and highly respected," and "feared and revered." A nationwide survey of industry participants and peers recently honored Evan as one of the ten "Most Admired Bankruptcy Attorneys in the United States."

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Mr. Flaschen has represented noteholder and bondholder groups, first and second lien lender groups, official creditors' committees or bank agents and syndicates in numerous high profile U.S. and international restructurings, including Washington Mutual Bank, Tribune, TOUSA, Centro Properties, Cemex S.A.B., American Media, BearingPoint, Australian Educational Trust, Parmalat, U.S. Shipping Partners, Abitibi, DURA Automotive, Tembec Industries, Scotia Pacific, Pliant, Remy International, Interstate Bakeries, Sons of Gwalia, Intermet, Star Gas, Kaiser Aluminum, NRG Energy, Liberty Electric, AT&T Canada, Asia Global Crossing, Loewen Group, Boston Chicken, Telex Chile, Burns Philp, Pasminco, Global TeleSystems, Metromedia Fiber, Teleglobe, Consumers Packaging, Chilesat, Henry Walker Eltin, and Western Metals.

Mr. Flaschen has also served as lead counsel, special international counsel or "foreign representative" (a role he pioneered) for a number of multinational Chapter 11 debtors, including Owens Corning, Polaroid, Nextel International, Comdisco, Montgomery Ward, Singer Sewing and Exodus Communications. Mr. Flaschen has appeared in courts in four continents and, in his spare time, Evan serves as blogger-in-chief and poet laureate for Bracewell's restructuring blog, http://basis-points.com/.

Publications and Speeches

Mr. Flaschen has published over 95 articles and book chapters in several different countries on workout, restructuring and international insolvency topics. He has also been a lecturer or panelist at more than 150 restructuring, insolvency and distressed debt programs around the world and his legal writings have been cited by courts around the country and in more than 100 scholarly journals and treatises globally, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, England, Germany, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain and Sweden. They have also been required reading in a number of graduate school courses.

Education

J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, 1982
B.A., Wesleyan University, 1979

Bar Admissions

Connecticut
Registered Foreign Lawyer, The Law Society of England and Wales

Court Admissions

U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Circuits
U.S. District Court Connecticut
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Affiliations

Elected fellow of American College of Bankruptcy, American College of Investment Counsel, American Law Institute, International Insolvency Institute and James W. Cooper Fellowship

Noteworthy

Chambers Global: Bankruptcy/Restructuring, 2011-2012
Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, 2007-2011
US Legal 500, Corporate Restructuring, Leading Lawyer, 2008-2011
Named three times on Euromoney's list of the Top 25 "Best of the Best" insolvency lawyers in the world
Selected five times as one of the 20 lawyers on Who's Who Legal list of the "Most Highly Regarded" insolvency lawyers in the world
Named to Legal 500's list of the top 10 "Leading Lawyers" in the US for corporate restructurings
Selected in a survey by Law360 of restructuring industry participants and practice group heads at the 100 largest law firms as one of the ten "Most Admired Bankruptcy Attorneys" in the US
Named three times as the only US restructuring lawyer on Asialaw Legal's list of "Leading Lawyers"
Chair or member of advisory groups concerning the creation or updating of insolvency legislation for Canada, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia
Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law, teaching an annual seminar entitled "International and Comparative Corporate Insolvency Law," since 1994 (www.evanflaschen.net)