Brent Truitt is Of Counsel in the bankruptcy practice at Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP in New York. He joined the firm in 2003 after fourteen years with Latham & Watkins in New York, where he was a partner in the Finance Department and Insolvency Practice Group.

He has represented clients on all sides of distressed company workouts and chapter 11 proceedings, including chapter 11 debtors, troubled companies outside chapter 11, official committees of bondholders, major secured and unsecured creditors and agents for bank syndicates in chapter 11 cases and workouts, purchasers of assets from chapter 11 debtors, and foreign administrators and banks in cross-border insolvency proceedings.

Since joining Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP, his representations have included ad hoc committees of bondholders in the Adelphia and Oglebay Norton chapter 11 cases, and Onex Corporation in connection with its equity investment in Magellan Health Services. In 2007, he defended New Century Financial Corporation in litigation commenced by certain of its "warehouse" lenders and represented the chapter 7 trustee for Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in litigation and other efforts to recover funds for distributions to creditors.

Education
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1989, magna cum laude
Harvard College, B.A., 1984, cum laude

Professional Activities
Admitted: New York, District of Columbia

Articles and Publications:
Mr. Truitt's published writings include articles on the use of bankruptcy as a mergers and acquisitions tool and "Bankruptcy Issues in Securitizations" (published by Law Journal Press), which he co-authored with Ben Murphy, co-head of the firm's bankruptcy pratice.