Gordian Group announced Brian K. Gart will join the firm as a managing director and its general counsel. Gart has been a restructuring and insolvency professional for more than 30 years.

Gart has been a restructuring and insolvency professional for more than 30 years as a partner at the Florida-based law firm of Berger Singerman LLP since 2008, and before that, as a principal shareholder at the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig LLP, where he helped start that firm’s business reorganization department. Gart has in-depth experience in all manner of complex business bankruptcy cases, distressed transactions, out-of-court restructurings, and other types of insolvency proceedings. Over the last 15 years, Brian has focused a significant amount of his professional time structuring the purchase and sale of assets and distressed businesses under §363 of the Bankruptcy Code and structuring DIP financing in connection with such transactions.

Peter S. Kaufman, Gordian Group’s president, and Henry F. Owsley, CEO, jointly commented, “We have developed a long-term professional and personal relationship with Brian, and look forward to working with him to expand our practice in the Miami, South Florida, Florida, and the Southeast and Latin American markets. They continued saying that, Brian will help deepen our presence in these regions. Our primary focus here, as elsewhere, will be private equity sponsors, entrepreneurs and boards of directors nationwide; these groups constitute the core of our overall restructuring client base, both middle market and otherwise, for whom we work to preserve and enhance existing equity value.

Gart said, “I believe that the market we are addressing has long been underserved in respect of the sophisticated caliber of restructuring, transactional and corporate governance skills Gordian Group brings to the table. I have long admired Gordian Group, and believe that together we will build a very successful practice. I am pleased to have this opportunity to augment Gordian Group’s existing franchise.