Kramer Levin won the Corporate Turnaround of the Year ($500+ million) Award for Cooper-Standard Holdings, and the Industrial Products & Manufacturing Award of the Year for Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. at the Global M&A Network's 2011 Distressed M&A Deal Forum and Turnaround Atlas Awards Gala.

The Kramer Levin Cooper-Standard Holdings team included: Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy partners Kenneth H. Eckstein, Thomas Moers Mayer and Robert T. Schmidt and associate Yekaterina Chernyak; Corporate partner Abbe L. Dienstag and associate Sarah Schindler-Williams; and Litigation partner Gregory Aaron Horowitz.

The Kramer Levin Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. team included: Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy partners Thomas Moers Mayer, Robert T. Schmidt, Philip Bentley and associates Elan Daniels, Juliana Oliveira, Jason S. Rappaport and Jennifer Sharret; Litigation partner Gregory Aaron Horowitz and associate Peggy J. Farber; Banking and Finance partner David J. Fisher; Corporate partner Kenneth P. Kopelman and associate Jodi Rosensaft; Tax partner Barry Herzog; and Employee Benefits partners Christine Lutgens and Paul M. Ritter.