John Isbell, King & Spaulding
[Guest speaker at the NFA Atlanta Meeting February 25, 2010]
John Isbell is a counsel in the Atlanta office of King & Spalding and a member of the Financial Restructuring Practice Group. Mr. Isbell’s practice includes representation of debtors, secured lenders, and unsecured creditors in bankruptcy cases, receiverships, and workout matters, as well as bankruptcy and insolvency-related litigation in federal and state courts. He appears regularly in Georgia state and federal courts and also is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Alabama.
Mr. Isbell earned his bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of the South in 1996, and obtained his law degree summa cum laude from the University of Alabama in 2000, where he received the Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award, the Order of Jurisprudence/ Order of the Coif Scholarship, the Dean M. Leigh Harrison Award, was a Hugo Black Scholar, and was elected into the Order of the Coif and the Bench and Bar Legal Honor Society. Mr. Isbell was also a senior editor on the Alabama Law Review.
Mr. Isbell is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Alabama State Bar, the American Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the Atlanta Bar Association.
In the last year, Mr. Isbell has represented secured lenders and creditors, such as SunTrust Bank, General Electric Capital Corporation, Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., and Lockheed Martin Corporation, in workouts, restructurings, and bankruptcy cases, while also representing Chapter 11 debtor corporations, such as Centennial HealthCare Corporation and LJM2 Co-Investment, L.P.