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JORDAN
A. KROOP
is a partner in the Reorganization and Restructuring Group
of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P in Phoenix. He
represents corporate debtors, official committees, and
significant creditors including secured lenders, commercial
lessors, and financial institutions, in some of the largest
Chapter 11 cases in the nation. Mr. Kroop has served as
counsel for debtors and creditor committees in restructurings
in several industries, including manufacturing, retail,
high-tech, hospitality, health care, gaming, and non-profit.
He also handles disputes concerning corporate and real
property taxation, asset-based financing, consumer protection
laws, and partnership liability. Mr. Kroop has appeared
before federal and state courts throughout the nation
and has accumulated substantial courtroom experience in
evidentiary hearings, motion practice, and appellate proceedings.
He has also represented client interests in arbitration
and mediation proceedings, receiverships, and foreclosures.
The national restructuring publication Turnarounds
& Workouts named Mr. Kroop as one of twelve Outstanding
Young Bankruptcy Lawyers in the nation. He is the co-author
of Bankruptcy Litigation & Practice: A Practitioner’s
Guide (3rd ed. Aspen 2000), The Executive Guide
To Corporate Bankruptcy (Beard Books 2001), is a contributor
to the 2001 Bankruptcy Law Update (Aspen 2001)
and the 2002 Bankruptcy Law Update (Aspen 2002),
and has authored or co-authored many articles on bankruptcy
and business law topics in several national publications,
including most recently, "Revisiting Retentions For Professional
Preferences," ABI Journal (December 2002/January
2003), "Putting the Brakes on Federal Court Jurisdiction,"
ABI Journal (June 2002), "A Ponzi Scheme and a
‘Pointless Technicality,’" ABI Journal (March 2002),
and "Item! Debbie Reynolds To Play Fox, Guard Hen House,"
ABI Journal (October 2001).
In
addition to lecturing on business law topics at Arizona
State University, Mr. Kroop has spoken at, and prepared
materials for, numerous national and regional seminars
and symposia on bankruptcy and restructuring issues. He
is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the American
Bankruptcy Institute and the Bankruptcy Section of the
State Bar of Arizona. Mr. Kroop is a graduate, magna
cum laude, of Brown University and the University
of Virginia School of Law. Mr. Kroop is admitted to practice
in Arizona, New York, the United States Supreme Court,
the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,
and the United States District Court for the District
of Arizona and the Eastern and Southern Districts of New
York.
Thomas
J. Salerno, Esq. is
a partner in, and co-chair of, the Reorganization and
Restructuring Group in the Phoenix office of the international
law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, and Chair of
the International Insolvency Practice Group. Mr. Salerno
graduated from Rutgers University (B.A., summa cum laude)
and Notre Dame Law School (J.D., cum laude), where he
served as an editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.
Throughout the last nineteen years Mr. Salerno has represented
debtors, creditors committees, lenders and other parties
in interest in complex Chapter 11 reorganizations involving
public debt and equity securities throughout the United
States, and has represented parties in insolvency proceedings
in the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Germany and the United
Kingdom.
Tom
Salerno has authored numerous tomes about bankruptcy (Appellate
Structure and Procedure Under the New Bankruptcy Rules,
1984; Bankruptcy Litigation and Practice: A Practitioner’s
Guide, 2000; Bankruptcy Court Decisions, 1999;
Pre-Bankruptcy Planning for the Commercial Reorganization:
A Brief Guide for the CEO, CFO/COO, General Counsel and
Tax Advisor 1997 (which won the ABI’s Publication
Award in 1997); The Ins and Outs of Foreclosures, 1996;
and as executive editor of Advanced Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Practice – 2nd Edition, 1997. He is also
a contributor to Norton Bankruptcy Law & Practice,
the Commercial Law Journal, Real Property, Trust and
Probate Journal, Journal of Business Strategy, and
Bankers Monthly.
Mr.
Salerno is a member of the board of directors and the
executive committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute
and the American Bankruptcy Board of Certification, Inc.,
both based in Washington, D.C., and was co-chairman of
the Subcommittee on Uniformity in Professional Fees in
Bankruptcy of the ABI. He is member of the faculty for
McGeorge School of Law’s International Law Program, where
he teaches International Commercial Arbitration and Comparative
International Insolvency in both London and Salzburg,
and is a guest lecturer at Arizona State University of
Law. Mr. Salerno has been included inThe Best Lawyers
of America since 1992, and named as one of the twelve
Outstanding Bankruptcy Lawyers by Turnarounds and Workouts
(1998). He is also a frequent speaker on reorganization
matters throughout the United States and Latin America.
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