Mr. Barrett has 35 years of experience as a corporate restructuring lawyer, guiding companies and their constituents through financially challenging situations, including out-of-court workouts, bankruptcy cases, assignments for the benefit of creditors, and receiverships. Mr. Barrett has represented unsecured creditors and secured lenders in middle-market Chapter 11 cases. Mr. Barrett has represented petitioning creditors in contested involuntary cases, and has served as special litigation counsel to the trustee in several of those cases upon the entry of an order for relief.