<p>Ed specializes in corporate restructurings and mass tort insolvencies, routinely advising debtors, lenders and mass tort future claimants representatives in out-of-court workouts, complex foreign and domestic restructurings, pre-planned bankruptcies and chapter 11 cases. 
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His current representations include counsel to the chapter 11 debtors in Randa Luggage, counsel to the administrators in the chapter 15 case of Nortel Networks UK Limited, and co-counsel to the chapter 11 debtors in R.H. Donnelly. He is also co-counsel to Barclays Bank as first lien agent and plan proponent in the recently-confirmed Landsource case. Ed and Young Conaway also currently represent the asbestos future claimants’ representatives in over a dozen cases, including Federal-Mogul Global, Mid-Valley (Halliburton), Kaiser Aluminum Corporation, Met-Coil Systems Corporation, and Pittsburgh Corning Corporation. 
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Ed lectures and writes on various bankruptcy and business restructuring topics, primarily focusing on the use of trusts to resolve overwhelming mass tort liabilities.