Editors

Amrit Khosa is an of counsel based in the London office of Morrison Foerster and a member of the Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group. Amrit advises clients on complex UK and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters including distressed investing, loan to own strategies and M&A. He has experience advising a range of stakeholders in distressed situations, including financial institutions, investment funds, bondholders, ad hoc committees, corporate debtors and insolvency practitioners.

Howard heads the Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group in the London office. He has more than 25 years’ experience in UK and international restructuring and insolvency work and has acted for banks, other secured and unsecured creditors, ad hoc committees, trade creditors, debtors, and acquirers of business and assets from insolvent companies. Howard’s experience covers every type of UK restructuring and insolvency procedure and he is one of the few English lawyers with hands on experience with the U.S. Chapter 11 process.

The Honorable James M. Peck is head of Morrison Foerster’s Cross-Border Restructuring practice. Before joining Morrison & Foerster, former Judge Peck served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York from 2006 to 2014. During his judicial service, former Judge Peck presided over the chapter 11 and SIPA cases of Lehman Brothers and its affiliates and a number of other major chapter 11 and chapter 15 cases. As a judge, he has written multiple legal decisions that have helped to define the impact of the safe harbors on qualified financial contracts.

Lorenzo is global co-chair of the firmwide Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group. Lorenzo represents debtors, creditors, and creditors’ committees in complex bankruptcy cases, workouts, and litigation. His cases have spanned the United States as well as countless industries, such as airline and cargo transportation, mortgage origination and servicing, retail, banking and finance, energy, oil and gas, and telecommunications.