Kent is a partner in Moses Singer's Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights practice group and Co-Chair of the Corporate Trust and Loan Agency practice. He regularly represents financial institutions in Chapter 11 cases and related proceedings. Kent has particular experience representing indenture trustees, administrative gents and collateral agents in stressed and default situations and in complex domestic and international insolvency proceedings, including unwinding defaulted structured finance products.
In addition to representing debtors, Kent represents creditors’ committees, senior and junior secured lenders in connection with subordination, and intercreditor agreements and landlords in all phases of Chapter 11 cases. He also counsels clients on minimizing their risk when conducting business with distressed entities and maximizing their recoveries from debtors. Kent routinely represents clients in fraudulent conveyance and preference litigation.
While pursuing his LL.M. in Bankruptcy from St. John’s University School of Law, Kent served as counsel for the Amici Curiae Professors in cases before the United States Supreme Court and Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Ninth Circuits and completed a clerkship for the Connecticut Superior Court.
