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| Contact Info | Telephone: 212-696-6065
Cell Phone: 516-398-4001
Fax: 212-697-1559
www.cm-p.com
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| University | State University of New York College at Oneonta, B.S., magna cum laude, 1987 |
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| Law School | St. John's University School of Law, J.D., with honors, 1990 |
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| Admitted | 1990, New Jersey; 1991, New York; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin; U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court |
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| Memberships | The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Prior Member, Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Committee); American Bar Association (Member, Litigation Section; Member, Business Law Section); International Bar Association (Member, Insolvency & Creditors' Rights Committee; Vice-Chair, Reorganization and Workouts Committee); New York State Bar Association (Member, Bankruptcy Law Committee); New Jersey State Bar Association; Turnaround Management Association; American Bankruptcy Institute; Commercial Law League of America. |
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| Born | New York, N.Y. |
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| Biography | Mr. Reisman is co-chair of the firm's Restructuring and Insolvency group and participates in a wide range of domestic and international matters involving bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors' rights on behalf of governmental, public company and private clients. Mr. Reisman has represented clients of the firm in all facets of bankruptcy cases as well as insolvency issues in business transactions and out-of-court restructurings. Mr. Reisman has represented Chapter 11 debtors, Chapter 11 trustees, secured lenders, governmental entities, creditors' committees, indenture trustees, liquidators, secured and unsecured creditors (including chairperson of creditors' committees), shareholders, distressed investors, defendants in avoidance actions, as well as landlords and tenants in bankruptcy cases, and investors seeking opportunities in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases through the purchase of bankruptcy claims, acquisition of assets or as a proponent of a plan of reorganization. Mr. Reisman also has worked on several cross-border insolvency proceedings involving Mexico, Canada, Argentina and other countries. |
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| ISLN | 902205565 |
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| Transactions | Conflicts Counsel for Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession in, among other major cases: Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., FGIC Corp., CIT Group, Readers Digest Association, Inc., Charter Communications, Inc., Lear Corporation, Star Tribune Holdings Corporation, Bally Total Fitness, Calpine Corporation, Musicland Holdings Corporation and Northwest Airlines; Golden Gate Private Equity, Inc., as plan investor and acquirer of Atrium Window Holdings, LLC, one of the largest US manufacturers of doors and windows pursuant to a Confirmed Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization; GB Merchant Partners in the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Urban Brands and related debtors, the owner and operator of over 200 retail stores; Marquis Jet as special counsel in connection with it's strategic merger with NetJets; Cygnus Business Media in its successful pre-packaged Chapter 11 restructuring which won the Turnaround Atlas Awards "Pre-Packaged Chapter 11 Reorganization of the Year" for companies with less than US$1 billion in assets ¿ emerging from Chapter 11 a mere 35 days after filing Chapter 11; Jason Incorporated in its successful out-of-court restructuring of over US$330 million in funded debt composed of over 85 lenders avoiding a Chapter 11 filing; Isis Venture Partners in the acquisition of well-known Hamptons and Manhattan Community Papers "Dan's Papers" and the "Montauk Pioneer" from the bankruptcy estate of Brown Publishing; DBSD North America, Inc. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in its Chapter 11 case; Flextronics International as co-chair of the official committee of unsecured creditors in the Nortel Networks, Inc., et al. Chapter 11 cases; Major liquidators in various asset purchase transactions as well as fee and equity agency agreements; Gordon Brothers Group in the out-of-court creditor composition of CompUSA, Inc; Major liquidator in connection with its successful bid to liquidate substantially all of the assets of Whitehall Jewelers, Inc; Fairchild Corporation in its successful filing and confirmation of a Chapter 11 Plan of Liquidation; Major liquidators in their successful joint bid to liquidate certain assets of retail chain Steve & Barry's; Various private equity funds in Chapter 11 restructurings to protect equity and creditor interests as well as advising the boards of directors of numerous companies on Chapter 11 restructuring matters; NorthWestern Energy in connection with significant litigation relating to challenge to confirmation order and defense of alleged fraud claim and post-consummation Chapter 11 litigation and bankruptcy matters; Equity owners of Chapter 11 debtor in connection with mass tort Chapter 11 reorganization and funding of debtor-in-possession financing for reorganization and exit from Chapter 11; Wilmington Trust Company as Indenture Trustee in the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation Chapter 11 cases; Wilmington Trust Company as Indenture Trustee in the Winn-Dixie Chapter 11 cases with respect to US$300 million issuance; The co-chair of the official committee of unsecured creditors in both the Delphi Corporation and Kaiser Aluminum Chapter 11 cases; The Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB) in all facets of its loan guarantee program including, among other matters, the US$1 billion exit financing to US Airways in connection with its first emergence from Chapter 11 and the consideration of the US$1.6 billion loan guarantee for United Airlines; engagements include outside counsel for the ATSB in the US Airways, ATA Airlines and Aloha Airlines Chapter 11 cases; Numerous creditors, SWAP counterparties, purchasers of assets and defendants in the Enron Corp., et al. Chapter 11 cases; The Chapter 11 trustee in one of the largest partnership fraud-based bankruptcy cases in the Southern District of New York; Lodgian, Inc., a Chapter 11 debtor, one of the largest owners and operators of full and limited hotel services properties in the United States, with approximately US$1 billion of debt.; The Emergency Loan Guarantee Board in connection with (i) its guarantee (and post-default work) on a US$110 million secured term loan to Geneva Steel in emerging from bankruptcy, as part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's 1999 Emergency Oil and Gas and Steel Loan Guarantee Programs and (ii) its guarantee on a US$250 million secured term loan to Wheeling-Pittsburg Steel Corporation in emerging from Chapter 11; Major commodity company in its bidding to purchase significant assets from the Asarco, Inc. and Kaiser Aluminum Chapter 11 cases; European bank in negotiating purchase of intellectual property from U.S. debtor; Mexican telecommunications company in connection with several Chapter 11 cases in the U.S.; The Trust Company of Bank of Montreal, as indenture trustee, in The Loewen Group Chapter 11 cases; The majority equity owners in a successful private infrastructure restructuring project; A major Japanese bank in pursuing a successful involuntary Chapter 11 case and in obtaining full payment of principal owed; Defendants in numerous bankruptcy cases involving the pursuit of preferential transfers, fraudulent conveyances, subordination and other causes of action. |
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