Our Litigators of the Week are Kirkland & Ellis partners Rush Howell, Ravi Shankar and Yates French for their work on behalf of telecom company Windstream in a complex and fast-moving fight with billions of dollars and their client’s future on the line. 

Last year, Windstream filed for bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York. Soon after, the company’s lawyers from Kirkland sued Uniti Group—a real estate investment trust that had been spun out from Windstream in 2015—seeking to “recharacterize” a $650 million a year lease arrangement as a disguised financing.

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