Aaron Hammer Email & Phone Number

Aaron is an award-winning, nationally recognized corporate restructuring attorney and partner in the Bankruptcy & Reorganization Practice Group at the international law firm of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton ("KTS"). He is also a successful entrepreneur and investor, recognized civic leader, and frequent author and speaker on cutting-edge legal and business issues.Aaron devotes his law practice to solving his client's most challenging insolvency and creditors' rights issues by emphasizing a practical, business-oriented, relationship-based approach in both distressed transactions and related litigation. Over more than twenty-five years, Aaron led major engagements on behalf of corporate borrowers, lenders and financiers and, most notably, bankruptcy committees in hundreds of significant bankruptcies and workouts across the country and in many foreign countries. Prior to KTS, Aaron was a name partner at Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Hammer LLP and Chairman of its Executive Committee. Twice, he led his firms in receiving the Turnaround Management Association's ("TMA") prestigious Large Transaction of the Year. In 2014, the award was granted for his work on behalf the official equity committee for AgFeed Industries USA, LLC, et al. (Bankr. D. Del.), and in 2009, the award was given for his representation of the official creditor's committee in Trinsic, Inc. (Bankr. S.D. Ala.). In 2020, Aaron and his team received the association’s Small Business Turnaround of the Year for its representation of RED South Beach.Aaron also serves as a principal, partner and investor in special situations and healthy transactions, with a focus on hospitality, professional services and real estate. He is an owner or investor in everything from fast casual to Michelin-starred restaurants. Perhaps most notably, Aaron is the managing partner of Red South Beach, which is consistently recognized among the top steakhouses in America. Aaron is a member of Young Presidents Organization and served on his chapter and regional Boards. He is an active participant in the Anti-Defamation League, having served on its Board of Directors and as Director of Development. In 2015, Aaron served as President of the TMA's Chicago/Midwest Chapter. For almost a decade, he taught complex bankruptcy transactions as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern Law School. He has lectured extensively on current domestic and cross-border insolvency issues at the University of Chicago and The Canadian Institute, and has published countless topical articles including contributions to several leading treatises.

Listed skills include Restructuring, Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights, Turn Around Management, and 7 others.