Stanley Samorajczyk Joins Annapolis Office
November 29, 2011, Annapolis, MD.... McNamee Hosea announced today that Stanley Samorajczyk has joined the firm as Senior Counsel in the firm's Annapolis office specializing in financial restructuring and corporate reorganization work. For more than 15 years Samorajczyk was Manager of Akin Gump's Financial Restructuring Practice in Washington D.C. He served for the past three years as the Independent Trustee of the Van Metre Family Trust which holds interests in more than 180 highly successful entities, with assets valued at approximately $850 million, engaged in residential and commercial construction and development, construction supply, financial services, and related businesses.
"I was attracted to McNamee Hosea because in working with the firm on numerous matters I was impressed with their exceptional skills and experience. The firm offers me the opportunity to provide clients with solutions to complex business problems in a cost effective manner. It has all the resources to support corporate restructuring", said Samorajczyk.
Samorajczyk has represented clients in complex national and cross-border restructuring, bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors' rights cases. Among his recent cases, he has represented a major insurance company in connection with its exposure in asbestos bankruptcy cases, a senior secured lender with more than $1 billion in loans to a group of utility companies in Chapter 11, a major international telecommunications company in connection with troubled U.S. telcom entities, major creditors in pending telecommunications and technology company cases, and an unofficial committee of worldwide companies pursuing extensive claims against a sovereign nation.
"We are delighted to have Stan join us, his knowledge, experience and stature in the world of business restructuring gives McNamee Hosea added depth and experience, which will be of great benefit to our clients", said Jim Greenan, head of the firm's Bankruptcy/Reorganization Group.
Samorajczyk received his A.B. from Georgetown and his law degree from Catholic University. He is a member of the D.C. and Virginia bars as well as other federal and bankruptcy courts. He has lectured nationally and internationally on business bankruptcy, restructuring and reorganization and is a Fellow and a former member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Bankruptcy, a co-founder of the Mid-Atlantic Institute on Bankruptcy and Reorganization Practice and a member of the Board of Visitors of the Columbus School of Law. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for more than 10 years, in Chambers, USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business since 2004, and in the 2011 edition of the International Who's Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers, in Corporate Counsel's Top Lawyers - 2008, in Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition for 2011, in Top Attorneys for Virginia, and in Top Attorneys in the Washington, DC, Metro Area 2011.
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McNamee Hosea was founded in 1982 in Prince George's County, where the firm currently occupies offices in the Capitol Office Park in Greenbelt adjacent to the federal courthouse for the Southern District of Maryland. The firm continued its expansion into Anne Arundel County, Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore areas when it opened its first Annapolis office in 1993. McNamee Hosea, currently with twenty-eight lawyers, has a tradition of the highest standards of client service and responsiveness. Personalized and individual attention is based on a team approach, allowing clients to benefit from the combined expertise and years of experience. The firm's website is available at www.mhlawyers.com.
