Kevyn Orr - Dallas Bar Association

Kevyn Orr
Jones Day, Washington D.C.
Partner
Kevyn Orr has practiced in the areas of business
restructuring, financial institution regulation, and
commercial litigation since 1984. Throughout his career
he has demonstrated the ability to handle all aspects of
complex and precedent-setting matters and has
successfully tried numerous jury trials to verdict. Kevyn
also has served as both the chief government legal
officer of a failed financial institution and a special master to oversee the operations
of a real estate development firm. He also has assisted clients with government
RFPs and inspector general audits.
Representative matters include counseling and representing: Chrysler LLC with
regard to all aspects of its bankruptcy, URS/WGI against claims by the Department
of Justice for alleged FAA/FCA and related common law contract claims, health care
financier National Century Financial Enterprises in its bankruptcy and asserting that
company's claims in the health care provider bankruptcies of PhyAmerica
Corporation and DCHC/Greater Southeast Hospital, Laidlaw Corporation in its
defense of a $1 billion claim by the purchaser of its environmental cleanup division,
investment banks and advisors in bankruptcy matters, and sellers and bidders in
bankruptcy-related auctions.
Kevyn is a member of the bars of Florida and the District of Columbia, the ABA, and
the American Bankruptcy Institute, where he serves on the institute's law review
advisory board. He is a frequent lecturer at professional conferences and law
schools and has testified before the U.S. Congress regarding bankruptcy and
financial institution regulation.