About
I am a partner and government committee member. I view my activity very simply: to make money for customers every time feasible and to defend their pastimes at every flip. My transactional paintings includes serving as outdoor fashionable counsel to carefully-held organizations and their principals; representing personal fairness price range and others in their M&A sports; and structuring new businesses, enterprise lines, joint ventures, and different giant commercial relationships. I frequently suggest clients on a extensive variety of topics consisting of fiduciary obligations, corporate structuring problems (between shareholders, members, joint ventures, etc.), credit score negotiations, fashionable contract troubles, succession making plans, employee matters, and litigation. I even have sizable revel in in guiding agencies and their parts through a variety of hard situations. represent businesses in distress, their owners and forums of directors, reliable and ad hoc creditor committees, shoppers, their assignees, receivers, trustees, and different stakeholders in financial ruin instances, assignments for the gain of lenders, receiverships, and out-of-courtroom workout routines. While I am now not a trial lawyer, my clients believe me in directing my litigation companions on such matters.
After regulation college, I clerked for a federal decide before entering personal practice. I changed into an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management on the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business for numerous years and changed into the first Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law Visiting Professor of Business Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law.
I have been profiled, interviewed, and/or quoted in severa courses, and am the lead author and editor of numerous considerable treatises, several chapters in other treatises, and masses of articles on law and commercial enterprise. I am additionally the founding father of a web issuer of persevering with education, records, and business intelligence for enterprise proprietors, traders, and their relied on advisors.
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- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Bankruptcy
- Chapter eleven Bankruptcy, Chapter thirteen Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Debt Relief
- Corporate Restructuring, Insolvency & Special Situations
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- General Corporate Law
- Commercial Litigation Finance
- Portfolio Company Representation
Costs
Certificates
Languages
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Partner
Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLP
2013 - Partner
Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC
2007 - Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
2007 - Partner
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
1999 - Visiting Professor
University of Tennessee College of Law
2006 - Associate
Schiff Hardin LLP
1997 - United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois
Law Clerk
1994
Educations
Graduation year: 1991
Graduation year: 1988
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