Grant T. Stein

• Debtor’s counsel to a hospital in its Chapter 11 case, resulting in the sale of the debtor and resolution of a complex WARN Act class action through a plan settlement directly to the claimants.
• Counsel to acquirers of health care businesses and to sellers of hospitals.
• Counsel in numerous past and pending bankruptcy suits and investigations dealing with director and officer claims, avoidable transfers, and Barton doctrine issues and in the liquidation of a private equity fund. 
• Debtor’s counsel to a manufacturing company in its financial restructuring and Chapter 11 case, resulting in the sale and survival of the debtor.
• Counsel to shopping center developers dealing with hundreds of millions of dollars of debt with numerous lenders and complex joint venture structures restructured out of court.
• Counsel to home builders dealing with hundreds of millions of dollars of debt with numerous lenders restructured out of court.
• Counsel to senior lenders in real estate workouts, foreclosures, and bankruptcies, including a major lender on its $1.2 billion in claims resolved in the General Growth bankruptcy case.
• Bankruptcy litigation counsel for a national company in parallel bankruptcy and district court litigation concerning bankruptcy plan confirmation and lender liability issues. 
• Counsel to a Chapter 11 trustee in an investigation that led to bringing claims for breach of fiduciary duty and violations of bankruptcy disclosure requirements and confirming a plan that generated general unsecured creditors’ recovery of 47 percent of their claims. 
• Counsel on several different commercial fraud cases dealing with more than $200 million in embezzled funds and Ponzi schemes. 

Grant Stein is a senior partner with Alston & Bird’s Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Group. His diverse practice includes representing debtors, fiduciaries, secured and unsecured creditors, and asset purchasers in complex and difficult out-of-court debt restructurings, bankruptcy cases, and financial transactions throughout the U.S. and internationally. He regularly represents officers, directors, and other parties in insolvency-related litigation of all kinds. His restructuring experience includes health care, manufacturing, real estate, wholesale, retail, aviation, communications, technology, and intellectual property issues, and he has done substantial work in receiverships and assignments for the benefit of creditors. 

Grant is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and currently is a vice president of the College. He is a past president of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors and the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute, and is currently serving as master of the bench and counselor for the Drake Georgia Bankruptcy American Inn of Court. He is identified as a top practitioner in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and has been listed by Best Lawyers^® since 1999 and Super Lawyers magazine since 2004. 

Grant served as law clerk to The Honorable W. Homer Drake, has written numerous articles, and regularly lectures around the country.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• University of Georgia (J.D., 1981)
• Emory University (B.B.A., 1978)

Memberships