Christopher K. Coleman

• Represented Trive Capital and its portfolio company, Cascade Services, as successful stalking horse purchaser of East Coast Mechanical (South Florida's largest air conditioning, plumbing, electrical, and home warranty business) in the chapter 11 cases of AFH Air Pros, LLC.
• Represented Paceline Equity Partners and its portfolio company, AHF Products, as secured lender and successful stalking horse purchaser of a Cartersville, Georgia-based manufacturer of rigid core flooring in the chapter 11 cases of Wellmade Floor Coverings International, Inc.
• Served as Debtors' counsel to Red Lobster Management LLC, a seafood casual dining chain, in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the Middle District of Florida and companion proceedings in Canada.
• Represented AHF Products in its acquisition of certain operating lumber mills pursuant to a federal receivership in the Northern District of West Virginia.
• Advised an operator of electric vehicle charging stations in connection with the winding down of its business operations.

Chris Coleman represents private credit funds, financial institutions, private equity sponsors, and private and public companies in all aspects of financial restructuring matters, both in- and out-of-court, including representing buyers and sellers in distressed M&A transactions. As a complement to his restructuring practice, Chris also represents private credit funds, financial institutions, and corporate borrowers on a broad range of distressed and non-distressed secured lending transactions.

Chris Coleman is a senior associate in King & Spalding's Finance & Restructuring practice, where he regularly advises clients on a diverse selection of restructuring mandates, including distressed M&A transactions, commercial workouts, out-of-court restructurings, strategic wind-downs, as well as debtor-in-possession and special situations financings. A former clerk for a federal bankruptcy judge, Chris routinely represents clients in complex bankruptcy cases, offshore liquidations, receivership actions, and insolvency litigation.

In addition to his restructuring practice, Chris also represents clients at the origination stage, where he advises private credit funds, financial institutions, and corporate borrowers in non-distressed financings, including leveraged finance, commercial real estate finance, and asset-based lending transactions.