Keith J. Shapiro

Keith J. Shapiro is the Vice President of Greenberg Traurig. He is also Chairman of the Chicago office, National Chairman of Strategic Recruitment and Co-Chair of the firm’s Business Reorganization & Financial Restructuring Practice. Keith has more than 30 years of bankruptcy and restructuring experience. Keith appears worldwide in corporate bankruptcy matters and workouts representing troubled companies, financial institutions, creditors' committees, hedge funds and private equity funds. He has played central roles in the bankruptcies and restructurings of Conseco Finance Corp., Ashton Woods USA LLC, United Airlines, DBSI, Inc., Sportsman's Warehouse, Inc., Renew Energy LLC, Tropicana Entertainment, LLC, Kmart Corporation, ICO Global Communications, Montgomery Ward and many others.

A leader in the restructuring community, Keith is a member of the International Board of Directors of the Turnaround Management Association. He was previously Chairman of the Board and President of the American Bankruptcy Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of INSOL International, and Chair of the Chicago Bar Association's Bankruptcy and Reorganization Committee. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.

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Areas of Practice 1) Business Reorganization & Financial Restructuring, 2) Real estate, 3) Hedge funds, 4) Health care, 5) Cross-border insolvencies, 6) Technology, 7) Airlines and 8) Retail
Law School J.D., Emory University School of Law, 1983
Education B.S., Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980
Bar Member / Association state bar of Illinois
Most recent firm Greenberg Traurig LLP
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