NEW YORK (August 27) – Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of Gianfranco Finizio to the firm’s New York office. Mr. Finizio joins the firm as an associate on the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Team in the firm’s Litigation Department.

Mr. Finizio joins David M. Posner, who leads the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Team in New York, and Shane G. Ramsey, a partner on the team in New York, and is part of the firm’s expansion and growth of the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Team in New York. Messrs. Posner and Ramsey believe that the addition of someone with Mr. Finizio’s skills and background further strengthens the practice area and positions the firm and the team to compete for new business and provide top quality service to clients and prospective clients in the Northeast and beyond.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Finizio was an associate at Otterbourg. He focuses his practice on bankruptcy and insolvency matters. Mr. Finizio has experience representing, among other parties in interest, official committees of unsecured creditors, whose members include trade creditors, service providers, bondholders, indenture trustees, unsecured lenders, landlords and class action plaintiffs in all facets of insolvency proceedings. In 2015, he was recognized by Super Lawyers Magazine as a New York “Rising Star” for Bankruptcy: Business.

Mr. Finizio earned his J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law. While attending law school, he served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Stephen A. Bucaria in the New York Supreme Court. Mr. Finizio was also a staff member of the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review. He received his B.B.A. from George Washington University, cum laude.

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