Kent is a partner in Moses & Singer's Business Reorganization, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights and Corporate Trust and Agency groups. 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.
- Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation 2016 Edition: Chapter 18 Intercreditor Agreements, January 2016
- Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation 2013 Edition: Chapter 18 Intercreditor Agreements, January 2013
- Enforcing Intercreditor Agreements: 'Silenced' Juniors Aren't Always Quiet, June 2012
- "Sections 1113 And 1114—Recent Developments In The Law Regarding The Rejection Of Collective Bargaining Agreements And The Modification Of Retiree Benefits," Norton’s Ann. Surv. Bankr. L., at 1235-1245 (2011)
- "Vendor Payments in Bankruptcy Proceedings," Moses & Singer CLE Program, November 2010
- "Bankruptcy - Anticipating and Negotiating the Filing," Third Corporate Counsel Institute, November 2009
Kent is a partner in Moses & Singer's Business Reorganization, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights and Corporate Trust and Agency groups. 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.
- Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation 2016 Edition: Chapter 18 Intercreditor Agreements, January 2016
- Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation 2013 Edition: Chapter 18 Intercreditor Agreements, January 2013
- Enforcing Intercreditor Agreements: 'Silenced' Juniors Aren't Always Quiet, June 2012
- "Sections 1113 And 1114—Recent Developments In The Law Regarding The Rejection Of Collective Bargaining Agreements And The Modification Of Retiree Benefits," Norton’s Ann. Surv. Bankr. L., at 1235-1245 (2011)
- "Vendor Payments in Bankruptcy Proceedings," Moses & Singer CLE Program, November 2010
- "Bankruptcy - Anticipating and Negotiating the Filing," Third Corporate Counsel Institute, November 2009
- University of Connecticut, School of Business (M.B.A.) (currently pursuing)
- St. John's University School of Law (LL.M. in Bankruptcy)
- Hofstra University School of Law (J.D., Dean's List)
- University of Connecticut, School of Business (B.S. Marketing)
- U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- New York
- Connecticut
- Capmark
- Odebrecht
- OGX
- Petroplus
- Weatherford
- Pacific Drilling
- Kaupthing
- Landsbanki
- Glitnir
- Lehman Brothers
- Altelgrity
- Whitehall Jewelers
- Abengoa
- Friedmans Jewelers
- Constellation
- Cambrian Coal
- Breitburn
- Mexico City Airport
- Madoff
- Excel Maritime
- Qimanda
- “No Action” Provision Requires Notice To Trustee of Servicer’s Event of Default — Alden Global Value Recovery Master Fund, L.P. v. KeyBank, N.A.
- Second Circuit Decision—In re Momentive Performance Materials Silicones
- Trustee Duty To Avoid Conflicts With Security Holders
- Exchange Offers May Be Limited to Qualified Institutional Investors
- Supreme Court Kills "Structured Dismissals" While Saving Interim Distributions Favoring Trade Creditors over Bondholders
- Bankruptcy Court Decision Concerning Reimbursement of Indenture Trustee’s Fees
- 2017 Edition of Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation, 2d
- Second Circuit Reverses Marblegate, Clarifying Meaning of TIA Section 316(b)
- "Make-Whole" Provisions Are Enforceable In Bankruptcy According To The Third Circuit
- Trustees Post-Bankruptcy Counsel Fees not Allowed as Part of its Unsecured Claim against the Bankruptcy Estate
- Potential Expansion of Trustees' Duty to Give Notices of Default
- In re XTO Energy Inc., Timberland Gathering & Processing Company, Inc., and Bank of America, N.A., No. 05-14-01446-CV, 2015 WL 4524197
- Indenture Trustee Cannot Remove Bondholder Class Action to Federal Court
- Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation 2013 Edition: Chapter 18 Intercreditor Agreements
- Enforcing Intercreditor Agreements: 'Silenced' Juniors Aren't Always Quiet
- Potential Distributions In Madoff Case
- Caveat Venditor: Building Strategy Based on Recent Reclamation and Section 503(b)(9) Developments