Konstantinos Armiros

Partner

Mr. Konstantinos (“Dino”) Armiros is a Partner in the firm’s Bankruptcy Restructuring and Creditor’s Rights Group and also serves as a co-chair of the Commercial Solutions Service Group, a cross-disciplinary group recently formed by Arnstein & Lehr to serve the needs of clients in the current climate of financial distress. In that capacity, he has represented lenders and borrowers in complex work-outs of significant credits. Typically, such negotiations result in a restructuring of the credit by the mechanism of a forbearance agreement; negotiating and drafting forbearance agreements have become something of Dino’s stock-in-trade in these matters. In addition to commercial lenders and borrowers, Dino has also represented other constituents in distress situations, including asset purchasers, trade creditors and contractors. He provides leadership in running distress transactions, calling on the various specialties that Arnstein & Lehr offers (be they labor, environmental, tax, commercial finance or real estate counseling) to satisfy his clients’ needs. Such out of court restructurings also may involve assignments for the benefit of creditors – and Dino has represented a number of assignees in recent years.

In addition to his work in matters involving financial distress, turnarounds and restructurings, over his career Dino has accumulated extensive experience in commercial litigation, typically representing secured lenders in state, federal and bankruptcy court and in commercial lawsuits, consumer finance litigation, class action defense, injunctions and other complex civil litigation. He also serves as informal “general counsel” for a number of mid-market, typically family owned businesses in the food service and hospitality sector, real estate concerns and entertainment clients. For those clients he provides counsel to the business owners and oversees their legal needs by employing attorneys from Arnstein’s cadre of specialists as appropriate.

Professional Activities and Achievements

Mr. Armiros is the immediate past President and Director of the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center, an ethnic museum that will be building a permanent facility at Halsted and Van Buren Streets in Chicago’s Greektown. Additionally, he is a Director and past President of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, an organization that provides free legal services to artists and arts organizations in need. He is also a member of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (AIRA) and the Family Firm Institute (FFI), a multi-disciplinary organization of advisors to family owned businesses.

Education

Boston University School of Law (J.D., 1977)
University of Wisconsin (B.A., 1974)

Bar Admissions

State of Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin; Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals