Ungerman, Josh O.

Al LaFiandra has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of lending and business reorganizations. He represents borrowers (including portfolio companies of private equity funds) and lenders in various types of credit arrangements, including cash flow, secured, asset-based, and mezzanine loans. Many of these transactions include complex intercreditor arrangements and multiple tranches of debt. A significant portion of Al's practice focuses on workouts and restructurings of troubled credits. He represents lenders (including secured creditors and bondholders) and debtors in complex out-of-court workouts, debt restructurings, and chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. Al leads the Banking & Finance Practice in the Atlanta Office.

Al recently completed the successful debt restructuring of Georgia Gulf, which involved $1.5 billion of debt, consisting of a senior secured credit facility, three bond issues, and an account receivables securitization facility. In addition, while at his former firm, Al played a vital role in the bankruptcy court-ordered investigation of Enron, by serving as the editor-in-chief for each of the reports filed with the court. Among his many responsibilities, Al analyzed complex structured finance transactions, the third-party roles in such transactions, and the corporate governance issues presented by such transactions.

Al is listed as a leading practitioner in many legal publications such as Georgia Trend magazine's "Legal Elite." He has written and lectured on numerous topics of interest to the financial community and has served as director and president of the Turnaround Management Association (Atlanta chapter) and is currently a director of the Association of Certified Turnaround Practitioners (ACTP).