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Steven J. Reisman

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Steven J. Reisman

Steven J. Reisman

Co-Chair, Restructuring & Insolvency Group
 
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
101 Park Avenue
New York, New York  10178-0061
(New York Co.)

Telephone: 212-696-6065
Cell Phone: 516-398-4001
Fax: 212-697-1559
www.cm-p.com



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Practice AreasRestructuring; Insolvency
 
EducationSt. John's University School of Law, J.D., with honors, 1990, State University of New York College at Oneonta, B.S., magna cum laude, 1987
 
Admitted1990, New Jersey; 1991, New York; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut; U.S. District Court, Eastern Districts of Michigan; U.S. District Court, District of Wisconsin
 
MembershipsThe Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Committee; New York State (Member, Business Law Section; Committee on Bankruptcy Law, 1995—) and American (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Business Law) Bar Associations; New Jersey State Bar Association; American Bankruptcy Institute; Commercial Law League of America; Turnaround Management Association.
 
BornNew York, N.Y.
 
BiographyPhi Alpha Delta. Author: "Calendar Marketing Agreements: How Much Longer Till the Soda Spills?" 4 St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary 121, 1988. Speaker: "Valuation in Out-of-Court and Chapter 11 Restructuring," 7th Annual New York City Bankruptcy Conference, New York, New York, May 2005; "Confirmation Issues: New Value Plans, Releases, Plans for Administratively Insolvent Debtors, Replacing the Board," New York City Bankruptcy Conference, New York, New York, May 2003.
 
ISLN902205565
 
TransactionsConflicts Counsel for Chapter 11 Debtor-In-Possession in Calpine Corporation, Musicland Holdings Corporation and Northwest Airlines Chapter 11 cases; NorthWestern Energy in connection with significant litigation relating to challenge to confirmation order and defense of alleged fraud claim; Majority 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 Winn-Dixie Chapter 11 cases with respect to U.S. $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 U.S. $1 billion exit financing to US Airways in connection with its first emergence from Chapter 11 and the consideration of the U.S. $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, which is one of the largest owners and operators of full and limited hotel services properties in the United States, with approximately U.S. $1 billion of debt; The Emergency Loan Guarantee Board in connection with its guarantee (and post-default work) on a U.S. $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; The Emergency Loan Guarantee Board in connection with its guarantee on a U.S. $250 million secured term loan to Wheeling-Pittsburg Steel Corporation in emerging from Chapter 11; Glencore Ltd. in the purchase of significant alumina assets from Kaiser Aluminum's Chapter 11 cases; European bank in negotiating purchase of intellectual property from U.S. debtor; Don King in the Mike Tyson Chapter 11 case; Mexican telecommunications company in connection with several Chapter 11 cases in the U.S.; Public and private distressed and par debt traders in significant Chapter 11 cases; Numerous parties to asset securitization transactions involving forward sales of current and future receivables and other assets; Creditors serving on significant Chapter 11 creditors' committees; Wilmington Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee, in several Chapter 11 cases; The Trust Company of Bank of Montreal, as Indenture Trustee, in the Loewen Group Chapter 11 cases; The largest unsecured creditor and Co-chairman of the Creditors' Committee in the Crowley Milner and Steinbach Stores 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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