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Michael S Stamer

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+1 212.872.1025 mstamer@akingump.com

Work Department

Partner; Financial Restructuring

Position

Michael Stamer represents official and unofficial committees of unsecured creditors, secured lender groups, debtors, boards of directors and special committees, DIP lenders, plan sponsors and acquirers of businesses and assets in large, complex chapter 11 cases and domestic and international out-of-court restructurings. He has led many high-profile recent restructurings in the energy, oilfield services, power, real estate, healthcare, retail and media industries.

His recent engagements include advising an ad hoc group of first lien lenders of Pacific Drilling S.A.; Franklin Advisors, Inc. as the largest funded debt holder and a plan sponsor in the chapter 11 cases of Chesapeake Energy Corporation; an ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders in the chapter 11 cases of CBL & Associates; an ad hoc noteholder group in the simultaneous restructuring of Highpoint Resources and merger with Bonanza Creek Energy; an ad hoc noteholder group in the PG&E chapter 11 cases; an ad hoc noteholder group in the chapter 11 cases of Weatherford International; an informal second lien noteholder group in the chapter 11 cases of Rex Energy, Hercules Offshore, as Debtor, in its chapter 11 cases and the independent governance committee of the board of each of NRG Rema and Genon Mid-Atlantic.

To learn more about Michael, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/michael-s-stamer.html

Career

For many years, Michael has been recognized as a leading lawyer by various industry publications/directories, including Chambers Global, Chambers USA, The Legal 500 US and Turnarounds & Workouts.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate

Akin‘s financial restructuring practice, operating out of New York, Washington, D.C., and Texas, is well known for representing companies, ad hoc groups, creditors’ committees, and investors in relation to high-profile, multi-billion-dollar restructurings. Practice co-head Ira Dizengoff has an excellent reputation for advising creditors’ and bondholder committees in major corporate restructurings, and also has considerable experience representing debtors in possession, post-petition lenders, and acquirers of distressed assets. Practice co-head Philip Dublin has worked on deals involving nearly $27 billion in liabilities in the past year, and has led teams representing debtors, secured term lenders, first and second lien lenders, bondholder groups, creditors’ committees, and DIP lenders. Michael Stamer has considerable experience representing creditors, lenders, and companies in both in- and out-of-court reorganizations, and has recently led teams representing bondholders, senior unsecured noteholders, and unsecured noteholders. Abid Qureshi focuses on litigation in corporate reorganizations, while Arik Preis has been at the forefront of the major opioid manufacturer restructurings. All lawyers mentioned are based in New York.

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