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Steven T. Hoort
Partner
Ropes & Gray
One International Place
Boston, MA 02110-2624
T + 1-617-951-7470
F + 1-617-235-0054
+ 1-617-854-2133 secretary
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Practice
Steven Hoort is co-head of the Bankruptcy & Business Restructuring Department and has been a partner at Ropes & Gray since 1984.
Professional Experience
Steven has a transaction and litigation practice in the bankruptcy context. He has represented numerous bondholder committees, including in the tax-exempt context bondholders of health care and retirement facilities and the bondholder committee for the Denver Aquarium (Colorado’s Ocean Journey) and in the high yield context the bondholder committee for bonds secured by residuals of securitized mortgages in Delta Financial Corporation.
He has a nationwide practice acquiring leases and assets out of bankruptcy proceedings, including purchase of substantially all assets of Communications Dynamics, Inc./TVC Communications in Delaware, Bob’s Stores by an affiliate of The TJX Companies, Inc. in Delaware, Impath by Genzyme Corporation in the Southern District of New York, the acquisition, financing and resturcturing of General Roofing in Dallas, Texas and the acquisition of multiple leases and subleases in Service Merchandise, Ames II, Pharmor, and others. Steven regularly conducts complex litigation in the insolvency context, including the defense of Orbital Corporation in the Orbimage Chapter 11 case in the Eastern District of Virginia, which involved the application of the Federal Arbitration Act to stay adversary proceedings in the bankruptcy case, D&O claims, including D&O defense in St. Johnsbury Trucking that led to sanctions proceedings against the plaintiffs, prosecution of a disputed senior debt claim in the House2Home bankruptcy in the Central District of California, the defense of leveraged buy-out fraudulent conveyance case, and recharacterization of real property leases as debt. He has represented major creditors in a number of cases, including the English administrators of Drexel’s subsidiaries on intercompany debt which was one of the largest claims in the Drexel Burnham Lambert Chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of New York.
Honors & Awards
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The Best Lawyers in America (1997-2007)
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Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2006-2008)
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Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2004-2006)
Professional & Civic Activities
Steven has been an adjunct professor at Northeastern University School of Law and on the faculty of a number of continuing legal education programs.
Memberships & Affiliations
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- American Bar Association
- Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors
- Boston Bar Association (Steering Committee of the Bankruptcy Section)
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts, 1978
- Michigan, 1977
Courts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Clerkships
- Honorable James Harvey, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1975 - 1978)
Education
- 1975,
J.D., magna cum laude, The University of Michigan Law School; Order of the Coif
- 1972,
B.A. (Philosophy), High Honors, Grand Valley State University
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