Profile
Kevin Hoyos is a member of the Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Miami office, and focuses his practice on bankruptcy reorganizations, out-of-court financial restructuring workouts, distressed M&A, and liquidations. Prior to entering private practice, Kevin served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Louis A. Scarcella in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Kevin handles complex bankruptcy and restructuring legal issues relating to fraudulent transactions, digital assets, cross-border insolvencies, liquidating and litigation trusts, real estate investment trusts, asset purchase agreements, restructuring financing, portfolio company asset sales and acquisitions, LIBOR transition, and distressed municipal finance. His corporate restructuring and bankruptcy experience spans a variety of sectors and includes the financial, technology, real estate, chemical, energy, aviation, retail, petroleum, structured finance, health care, and manufacturing sectors.
Capabilities
Experience
- Assisted in the representation of the largest monoline creditor in a series of high-profile involuntary bankruptcy cases.°
- Assisted in the representation of the single largest creditor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its public corporations in restructuring proceedings under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (“PROMESA”), the largest-ever U.S. municipal debt restructuring.°
- Assisted in the representation of prominent financial institutions in a variety of regulatory, compliance, transactional, and risk management matters.°
- Assisted in the representation of secured lenders in connection with the origination and securitization of complex bankruptcy-remote commercial mortgage loans and asset-backed financing transactions.°
- Assisted in the representation of secured creditor in the chapter 11 cases of an international airline.
- Assisted in the representation of financial institutions on the safe harbor provisions for financial contracts under multiple insolvency regimes.°
- Assisted in the representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 cases of Path Medical, LLC and its affiliate.
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Hoyos prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
Recognition & Leadership
- Member, American Bar Association,
- Member, Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida
- Member, Business Law Section of the Florida Bar
- Member, Miami Dade Bar Association
- Chair, Bankruptcy Committee
- Chair, International Law Committee
Credentials
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J.D., Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
- Business Law Honors Concentration
- Associate Editor, Hofstra Law Review
- B.S., Florida International University
- Hon. Louis A. Scarella, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York, 2019-2020
- Florida
- New York
- Spanish, Native
- German, Fluent
- Portuguese, Conversational