Christopher K. Coleman

• Represented Fortress Investment Group in acquiring a 300-plus location restaurant chain out of bankruptcy for $50 million.
• Representing Qatar Airways and its subsidiary, Qatar Airways Investments (UK) Ltd., in negotiating and documenting a $1.150 billion DIP loan to LATAM Airlines Group S.A., Latin America’s leading airline group currently operating in Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Handling all litigation related to objections to the facility filed by various stakeholders, including the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors and the Ad Hoc Bondholder Committee.
• Represented certain holders of unsecured notes of a South American automotive conglomerate in the prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
• Representing a grocery and food service supply chain leader in multiple restaurant franchisee bankruptcy cases currently pending in bankruptcy courts across the United States.
• Representing liquidators based in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands as U.S. counsel in a major fraud liquidation involving more than a dozen jurisdictions.
• Representing a precious metals producer in defending against multimillion-dollar avoidance action pending before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
• Representing an insurance premium financing lender in multiple actions to recover assets and assert deficiency claims.
• Representing a regional hospital system in defending against an avoidance action pending before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Georgia.
• Representing a former officer of a bank holding company before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in defending against certain claims asserted by the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
• Represented a real estate fund in acquiring historic midtown Atlanta property out of bankruptcy.
• Represented a Japanese manufacturer in defending against an avoidance action before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, achieving dismissal of claims with no asserted liability to client. 
• Represented a court-appointed Chapter 11 trustee of seven critical access rural hospitals in jointly administered cases before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, culminating in a 363 sale of each of the hospitals.
• Represented a debtor drilling and blasting company in Chapter 11 case in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.        

Chris Coleman is an associate with Alston & Bird’s Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Group. He represents distressed asset purchasers, creditors, debtors, and trustees in bankruptcy proceedings. Chris also represents clients in insolvency-related litigation, including state and federal court receiverships, avoidance actions, and commercial litigation. He also advises parties on insolvency issues stemming from strategic wind downs, workouts, and other significant transactions. 

Chris began his legal career as a term clerk for the Honorable Marcia Phillips Parsons, former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee. In law school, Chris served as the managing editor for Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law and as an articles editor for the Tennessee Law Review.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• North Carolina

Education

• University of Tennessee (J.D., 2018)
• Wake Forest University (M. Div., 2015)
• Carson-Newman University (B.A., 2012)

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