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Practice Experience

Sam J. Alberts leads the Washington, DC Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Group. Mr. Alberts has significant experience in complex domestic bankruptcies and cross-border business restructurings. He has represented debtors, creditors, committees, trustees, lenders, foreign entities, sovereigns, landlords, financing companies and purchasers of distressed assets in all phases of reorganization.

Mr. Alberts has represented parties in some of the largest cases in the United States and around the world. Among other matters, he is representing several creditors in various Lehman Brothers cases pending in the United States and Europe, The International Finance Corporation (IFC) on a debt restructuring of an airport in Costa Rica, a Russian company that is the largest creditor in related bankruptcy cases pending in Colorado and Switzerland, and several European space agencies on a satellite company in bankruptcy proceedings in Washington, DC and the British Virgin Islands. Mr. Alberts was part of the team that represented the debtor in the Mirant Chapter 11 cases, one of the largest restructurings ever filed in the United States.

Mr. Alberts also has particular experience in distressed health care systems and committees. He currently represents the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Hospital Partners of America Chapter 11 cases pending in Delaware, he serves as the post-confirmation trustee of the successfully-reorganized Doctors Community Healthcare Corporation and five affiliate hospitals (and served as counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in those Chapter 11 cases pre-confirmation), and is counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in MCSi, Inc., pending in Baltimore, Maryland. He has represented the debtors in the Response Oncology Inc., Chapter 11 cases in the Western District of Tennessee, the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Greater Southeast Community Hospital Chapter 11 cases in Washington, DC, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the AHERF Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (which was one of the largest health care cases ever filed).

Mr. Alberts is an experienced litigator with first-chair trial experience in a variety of business-related matters in state and federal courts. He argued a bankruptcy case of first impression concerning creditor rights in the Ninth Circuit in Glass v. Hitt, 60 F.3d 363 (9th Cir. 1995).

A well respected authority on these issues, Mr. Alberts has been quoted in leading publications including the Financial Times and has appeared on CNN with Lou Dodds.

Bars and Courts
District of Columbia Bar
Virginia State Bar
Washington State Bar
US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
US District Court for the Western District of Virginia
US District Court for the District of Maryland
US District Court for the District of Columbia
US District Court for the Western District of Washington
US Court of Federal Claims
US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Fourth and Ninth Circuits

Education
JD, George Washington University, with Honors, 1992
BA, New York University, cum laude, 1987

Professional Associations and Memberships
Board of Directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute's "Views from the Bench" series

Awards and Recognition
Washington Business Journal, Top Bankruptcy Attorney (2006, 2007), Finalist (2008)
Chambers USA Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers, Bankruptcy/Restructuring Leaders

Publications
Co-author, "Healthcare Cases – Get Thee to a Specialist, Stat," The Bankruptcy Strategist, November and December 2008 (with Malka Resnicoff)
Author, "After Takeover Comes Hard Part," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 2008
Co-author, "Enhancing Value without US Tax Consequences through Restructuring," White & Case Global Tax Report, September 2008 (with Gerald Rokoff)
Co-author, "Foreign Debtors Beware! Globopar Recognizes That You May Be Hauled into a US Bankruptcy Case Involuntarily," American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, March 2006 (with Jeffrey Schmitt)
Co-editor, American Bankruptcy Institute, Health Care Insolvency Manual, 2d Ed., 2005
Contributing Author, Mid-Atlantic Institute on Bankruptcy and Reorganization Practice, 1996-2001

Speaking Engagements
"Economy," Atlantic Television Network, Washington, DC, September 2008
"The State of the US Economy," Atlantic Television Network, The American Dream, Washington, DC, July 2008
"Deeping Insolvency," panelist at the Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association's 11th Annual Spring Break Weekend, Annapolis, MD, May 2007
"The Distressed Energy Market Roundtable: Uncertainties, Risks, Opportunities," co-host at client seminar organized by White & Case, New York, February 2006
"New Developments in the Law of Executory Contracts," panelist at the Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association's 9th Annual Spring Break Weekend, Annapolis, MD, May 2005
"Treatment of Malpractice Claims in Bankruptcy Court: Putting the Lid on Pandora's Box," panel discussion at the American Bankruptcy Institute's Annual Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, April 2005
"Claims against Professionals in Bankruptcy," panel discussion presented by the Washington DC Bar Association, Washington, DC, March 2005
"Developments in Cross Border Insolvency: Yukos, Globopar and the European Union," the Washington, DC office presented a day-long series of seminars, Washington DC, March 2005

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States