White Knights in Pinstripe Suits.Massive debt, restive creditors create opportunity for crop of top lawyers, investment bankers and consultants REORGANIZATION and restructuring -- these words were used sparingly during the economic boom of the last decade. But with the list of troubled companies growing, a cadre of LA. professionals is being pressed into service to help out distressed companies and their creditors. Business is booming these days for the turnaround artists. The following is a list. of some of the best and most sought after. PAUL ARONZON Age: 46 Firm: Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy Specialty: Financial restructuring Background: Cal State Northridge, B.A., cum laude cum lau·de adv. & adj. With honor. Used to express academic distinction: graduated cum laude; 25 cum laude graduates. , political science, 1976... Southwest University Southwest University(西南大学), founded in Chongqing, China in the year 2005, is a key national public university. It was created from a merger of the former Southwest Agricultural University and Southwest China Normal University. Law School, 1979... Partner at Gendel Raskoff Shapiro & Quittner, 1980-1989... Joined Milbank in 1989, heads its financial restructuring practice... Charges $675 an hour... L.A. native, grew up in San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. ... Lives in Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. with wife, two sons ... Avid golfer Rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell, indicating the highest levels of legal and ethical standards. Accomplishments: "When you need to unload debt and you bet the company, this is where you come," says Aronzon... "Paul's an incredibly quick study," said M. Freddie Reiss, managing partner of Price Waterhouse Cooper's corporate recovery practice. "He understands both the business and financial issues more quickly. than any attorney I've ever met."... Represents official unsecured creditors' committee creditors' committee A group of lenders who seek to protect their interests in connection with a borrower that experiences financial difficulties. in PG&E bankruptcy, who hold more than half of the utility's $13.5 billion in outstanding debt Also represents Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. s bank group, which is owed about $1.3 billion... Has been active in the telecommunications industry, organizing the sale of GST GST abbr. Greenwich sidereal time GST (in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) Goods and Services Tax Telecommunications for more than $700 million in summer 2000... Says he fell into the troubled-company practice.. "As (bankruptcy) lawyers, we come in and help companies find solutions to their problems," he says. Anthony Palazzo BRUCE W. BALLENGER Age: 57 Firm: Ballenger, Strike and Associates LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control Specialty: Reorganization and turnaround consulting Background: University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati is a coeducational public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ranked as one of America’s top 25 public research universities and in the top 50 of all American research universities,[2] , College of Business Administration, B.B.A, honors, 1966... Completed advanced courses at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. and UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX ... Chief financial officer, real estate developer J.W. Colachis Co., 1978- 1984... Independent insolvency and reorganization consultant, Ballenger & Associates, 1984-1988... Partner, Arthur Young Arthur Young is the name of several notable people
Accomplishments: Has provided interim management to a number of troubled companies. Recent stints include Quentra Networks, where he served as chief executive, and Fields Aircraft Spares... "He did an excellent job helping us focus on some of the hard decisions that needed to be done," says Fields' Chief Executive Alan Fields Alan Fields (born March 29, 1914) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL during the 1940's. Fields was a defender and debuted in 1939, appearing for the club 19 times in his first two seasons before missing the 1941, 1942 and 1943 seasons. . "There's an aura of confidence about him (that made me listen)."... Got into restructuring via real estate, helping Colachis owner of Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and Surf and Sand Hotel in Laguna Beach-renegotiate its exposure to variable-rate loans. that went upwards of 18 percent... After fixing Colachis' portfolio, he turned to acquiring other properties with problematic financing, helping Colachis grow its assets to more than $300 million from $20 million. Anthony Palazzo MARC A. BEILINSON Age: 43 Firm: Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones Specialty: Represents large public companies during bankruptcy proceedings bankruptcy proceedings n. the bankruptcy procedure is: a) filing a petition (voluntary or involuntary) to declare a debtor person or business bankrupt, or, under Chapter 11 or 13, to allow reorganization or refinancing under a plan to meet the debts of the party Background: B.A. in Political Science from UCLA (magna cum laude) in 1980... J.D. from UC Davis in 1983... Joined Buchalter, Nemer Fields and Younger as associate in 1983... Became shareholder in 1989... Joined current firm as shareholder in 1992... Gives lectures on insolvency for accounting groups andtrade organizations... Born and raised in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ... Married for 22 years, three children... Estimates that 80 percent of his work is done on the East Coast, "but when I'm home, I'm really home." Accomplishments: Currently lead counsel for creditors' committees of Loews Cineplex Entertainment, GC Companies Inc. (the parent of General Cinema) and Mann Theatres...Loews' creditors owed about $1 billion, while General Cinema's are owed $350 million... Negotiated 25 cents on the dollar debt payment to secured creditors while lead counsel for TreeSweet Juice Co. in 1995-96, reducing company debt by $100 million ... Estimates that two-thirds of his work is done out of court... "An extraordinarily hard worker, and very practical," says attorney Tom Walper. "He doesn't threaten to turn to litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. in order to carry out his solution." ... Finds the process of improving the financial position of an ailing company extremely gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. . "if it wasn't for the travel," he says, "I'd be the luckiest human being alive." Danny King RUSSELL A. BELINSKY Age: 41 Firm: Chanin Capital Partners Specialty: Helping private equity firms restructure distressed portfolio companies Background: B.S. in business administration from Wayne State University Wayne State University, at Detroit, Mich.; state supported; coeducational; established 1956 as a successor to Wayne Univ. (formed 1934 by a merger of five city colleges). in Detroit... J.D. from Georgetown Law School... Went to work at then-fledgling Los Angeles office of big New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of law firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in 1985... Got involved in corporate finance legal work connected to high-yield debt In finance, a high yield bond (non-investment grade bond, speculative grade bond or junk bond) is a bond that is rated below investment grade at the time of purchase. ... Then financial restructurings... In 1990, was invited by Jeffrey Chanin and Skip Victor to join with them in co-founding Chanin Capital Partners... Married... Two children, daughter and son. Accomplishments: Co-founder of a firm that has grown from a three-person operation in a tiny office to one of the nation's pre-eminent restructuring outfits, with 50 professionals in three offices -- L.A., New York and Dallas... Represents various parties in multiple billion-dollar-plus restructurings, including reorganizations of Covad Communications Group ($1.4 billion and Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corp. ($1.3 billion). Has solid history dating back to reorganization of such venerable L.A. companies as Carolco Pictures Carolco Pictures, Inc. was an independent production company, that within a decade went from producing such blockbuster successes as and the Rambo series to being made bankrupt by bombs such as Cutthroat Island and Showgirls. Inc. and Carter Hawley Hale Stores Carter Hawley Hale Stores was an American retailer based in Southern California. Known through its history as Broadway-Hale Stores and Broadway Stores, over time, it acquired other retail store chains in regions outside California home base, and became in certain retail sectors a Inc., the latter of which Belinsky helped position for sale to billionaire Sam Zell. Michael Stremfel IRWIN GOLD Age: 44 Firm: Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin Specialty: Restructuring financially distressed companies Background: B.A. Economics, Duke University... J.D. University of Virginia '82 ... Started career in corporate department of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Century City... Became vice president and director of corporate finance of Wood Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Homes Inc., and negotiate a workout and sale of the company.... Started Seneca Group, an investment banking and financial advisory firm, in '86... Co-founded Houlihan's financial restructuring group in 1988... Engaged... Lives in Los Angeles. Accomplishments: Credited with being a skilled negotiator -- someone who knows how to get a deal done ... Represented Covad Communications Group in a deal with the company's bondholders to retire $1.4 billion in debt with cash and preferred stock Stock shares that have preferential rights to dividends or to amounts distributable on liquidation, or to both, ahead of common shareholders. Preferred stock is given preference over common stock. Holders of preferred stock receive dividends at a fixed annual rate. through a prenegotiated Chapter 11 filing... Represented NorthPoint Communications Group in the $135 million sale of virtually all its assets to AT&T. Conor Dougherty STEVEN J. GREEN Steven J. Green (born 1945) is a businessman and Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Singapore in Miami, Florida, United States. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from 1997 to 2001. Age: 48 Firm: Kibel Green Issa Inc. Specialty: Financial restructuring and turnaround consultation. Background: Born in Boston, raised in Swampscott, Mass... BS in business from Northeastern University, 1977... MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from USC, 1978... Self-employed turnaround consultant, 1978-84... Co-founded and named president of Kibel Green Issa Inc. in 1984... Married with one daughter... Enjoys sailing, racquetball racquetball, sport played indoors by two or four players, combining elements of court handball and such racket games as squash racquets. It is played on a standard handball court 40 ft (12.2 m) long, 20 ft (6. , snow skiing, traveling to tropical resorts. Accomplishments: In 16 years, Green and partners oversaw restructuring of more than 1,000 middle-market companies with annual revenues of $20 million to $1 billion... Associates say he's able to come into a difficult environment and quickly assess what has to be done to save the company ... Pulled Tustin-based aerospace parts maker Kayner Micro Dot out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1993 by negotiating agreement with bank to convert $85 million debt into equity and a $20 million line of credit, setting the stage for the company's sale six years later for more than $200 million. David Greenberg ROBERT GREENFIELD Age: 60 Firm: Stutman Treister & Glatt Glatt may refer to:
Specialty: Bankruptcy and corporation reorganization law Background: Born and raised in L.A... B.S. in business, UCLA, 1963... Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Law is considered one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. , 1966... Clerk with current firm in 1965... Joined practice in 1966... Married with four children and four grandchildren... Enjoys reading fiction, movies, traveling to Europe, doing crossword puzzles... Co-owns art gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica. Accomplishments: Lead reorganization counsel for Southern California Edison in its successful efforts to avoid Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after accruing $3.3 billion in debt... Negotiated $56 million investment from Anschutz Corp. and Oaktree Capital Management Oaktree Capital Management LLC is a US investment management corporation which operates a number of investment entities commonly known as hedge funds of approximately $40 Billion. for 51 percent of bankrupt Edwards Theatres Circuits Inc. of Newport Beach. That investment and oversight of corporate restructuring helped Edwards erase $280 million debt and climb out of bankruptcy last year... "Definitely a fighter but he's straightforward and honest," says one bankruptcy lawyer who has faced Greenfield. "If both sides can't settle, he's not afraid of putting the question to a judge, unlike some lawyers." David Greenberg KENNETH KLEE Age: 52 Firm: Kle Tuchin Bogdanoff & Stem Specialty: Financial restructuring and business Bankruptcy Background: Stanford University, B.A. economics, 1971... Harvard Law School, 1974... Associate counsel to House Judiciary Committee, 1974-77... Associate at Shutan & Trost, 1977-80... Associate and later partner at Stutman Treister & Glatt, 1980-97... UCLA School of Law The UCLA School of Law is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. It is generally regarded as the top law school in Southern California, as well as one of the top fifteen law schools in the United States. professor, 1997 to present... Born and raised in L.A... Married with two sons... Spends free time doing yoga, meditation, reading books on metaphysics and listening to classical music. Accomplishments: One of principal draftsmen of U.S. Bankruptcy Code 1974-77... "It substantially updated a law that had been written in 1898 and amended in 1938 to provide distressed businesses with important new powers to turn their fortunes around," said Klee... "Ken is probably the smartest bankruptcy lawyer in the country," says a rival attorney. "He's very well respected and tough and brought into some of the biggest cases because of that."... Helped obtain loan guarantee package from Michigan and federal government in 1979-80 that restored Chrysler Corp.'s ability to borrow amid restructuring to eliminate hundreds of millions of dollars in debt... As special counsel for Barney's New York Inc., he helped negotiate restructuring plan with banks and foreign creditors to pull company out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1995-97... Worked on sale of L.A. Kings franchise by debt-ridden owner Bruce McNall in 1996. David Greenberg ANDREW MILLER Age: 40 Firm: Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin Specialty: Buying and selling troubled companies Background: Originally from Woodland Hills... B.S. UC Berkeley in Business Administration... Received J.D./M.B.A. from University of Chicago '87... Started career at Bain & Co., management consulting firm in San Francisco... Moved back to Los Angeles in 1990 and started at Houlihan Lokey... "I wanted to do deals' he says, "and in 1990 the only deals getting done were distressed deals"... Says he was "bored" with management consulting... Management consulting, he said, had too much "hand holding" for him... "Instead of thinking about strategy and brainstorming, I'm doing deals, I'm getting things done"... Married, first child on the way... Lives in Santa Monica... Makes furniture in spare time... Also plays bass guitar. Accomplishments: Represented Bugle Boy Industries in the $68.6 million sale of its wholesale business to Schottenstein Stores... Represented Outboard Marine Corp. in the $95 million sale of the company's Evinrude and Johnson engine manufacturing operations and certain boat manufacturing operations to affiliates of Bombadier Inc. and Genmar Holdings Inc. ...Handled PageNet's $1.9 billion sale to Arch Communications Group... Built Houlihan's distressed company M&A practice from scratch... "Andrew is a true expert at distressed M&A' said one lawyer who has dealt with him. "There are only so many ways you can restructure a company. If you're selling an asset or selling and entire company, Andrew is truly one of the best." Conor Dougherty RICHARD M. PACHULSKI Age: 44 Firm: Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones Specialty: Business reorganizations and debtor/creditor litigation Background: B.A. from UCLA, summa cum laude sum·ma cum lau·de adv. & adj. With the greatest honor. Used to express the highest academic distinction: graduated summa cum laude; a summa cum laude graduate. , in 1976... J.D. from Stanford in 1979... Associate with Shutan & Trost (which became L.A. office for Sidley Austin Brown & Wood in 1980) 1979-1983... co-founded current firm with fellow Shutan & Trost associate James I. Stang in 1983... Lectures 3 to 4 times a year to organizations like the American Bankruptcy Institute The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) is the largest multi-disciplinary, non-partisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to provide the United States Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of and the real estate and criminal law section of the L.A. County Bar Association. ..Raised in Los Angeles... Recently married, no children. Accomplishments: Santa Clara-based broadband services company Covad Communications, which is attempting to satisfy $1.4 billion in debt with $250 million... Lead counsel in reorganization of Sizzler siz·zler n. 1. One that sizzles. 2. Informal A very hot day. International Inc. in 1996-97. Reduced company's $200 million debt by more than half by restructuring franchise system while helping company get out of leases at 200 locations. "To a great extent, we owe the company's emergence to the work of him and his company," said Michael Green, vice president, general counsel of Worldwide Restaurant Concepts Inc. (formerly Sizzler International)... Lead attorney for creditors' committee in multi-billion dollar First Executive Corp. case... Built reputation by being "unbelievably aggressive on behalf of his clients," according to fellow Pachulski shareholder Marc Beilinson, who also praised his acute understanding of financials. Danny King JONATHAN ROSENTHAL Age: 46 Firm: Saybrook Capital Specialty: Insolvency and workouts Background: Native Angeleno... Attended Cal State Northridge... J.D. Southwestern University... Started career as law clerk in Washington... Moved to Denver in 1980 to work in real estate and securities litigation at Brownstein Hyatt... Started NetAir International, aviation and aerospace firm, in upstairs bedroom in 1983... Took company public in 1985... Moved headquarters from Denver to Los Angeles in 1988... Sold controlling interest controlling interest The ownership of a quantity of outstanding corporate stock sufficient to control the actions of the firm. Controlling interest often involves ownership of significantly less than 51% of a firm's outstanding stock because many owners fail in 1989... Joined current partners John Schotz and Jonathan Thomas at newly-formed Saybrook in 1990... Firm has gone from five to more than 25 employees today... Married, two children... Resident of Brent-wood Park... Has been a pilot since he was 16. Accomplishments: Initiated the firm's restructuring business in 1991... Represented Japanese and domestic banks throughout turmoil of early and mid-1990s... Estimates that the firm restructured $9 billion in assets between 1991 and 1995... Leading the firm's efforts in representing unsecured creditors in PG&E bankruptcy case... Firm represented Orange County investor pool in $7 billion Orange County bankruptcy case... Also involved in securing financing for multi-billion dollar Playa playa or pan or flat or dry lake Flat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. Vista mixed-use project near Marina del Rey... "He's a banker, he's an attorney and he was an entrepreneur, so he has a style that's conducive to getting the deal done," says film producer and former client Robert Fried. "A reference that comes to mind is a point guard in basketball - you can always throw him the ball when it gets messy underneath but he's comfortable managing the flow." Conor Dougherty SKIP VICTOR Age: 45 Firm: Chanin Capital Partners Specialty: Restructuring debt in default, dealing with creditor constituencies, developing plans of reorganization Background: B.A. in economics from Cornell University... MBA from UCLA... Joined Drexel Burnham Lambert Drexel Burnham Lambert was a major Wall Street investment banking firm, which first rose to prominence and then was driven into bankruptcy in the 1980s by its involvement in illegal activities in the junk bond market, driven by Drexel employee Michael Milken. Inc. in 1985 out of graduate school... Worked in Drexel's corporate finance group in Beverly Hills under Jeffrey Chanin... When Drexel shut down in 1990, Chanin and Victor, along with Skadden Arps attorney Russell Beliasky, co-founded Chanin Capital Partners... Keeps in touch with many Drexel alums, including Michael Milken Michael Milken As an executive at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. during the 1980s, Milken used high-yield junk bonds for financing and corporate takeovers. While his personal wealth was enormous, he spent two years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of securities fraud. ... Has two daughters. Accomplishments: Co-founder of what has grown into one of the nation's pre-eminent restructuring firms... In recent years has served as adviser in restructuring almost every major movie theater chain ... Represented bondholders of Regal Cinemas in selling $400 million (face value) of bonds to billionaire Phillip Anschutz, getting the bondholders four times market value and avoiding reorganization that engulfed rest of company... Served as lead adviser to creditors' committee in Orange County's $10 billion bankruptcy, getting them 100 cents on the dollar... Regarded as one of the nation's top reorganization advisers by such big-name investment firms as Oaktree Capital Management, Hicks Muse Tate & Furst, Trust Co. of the West and others. Michael Stremfel THOMAS B. WALPER Age: 47 Firm: Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol Specialty: Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation Background: B.S. from USC, 1976... M.B.A. from USC in 1977... J.D. from Loyola University in 1980... Joined Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP as associate in 1980... Joined Stroock & Stroock & Levan in 1982, becoming a partner in 1989... Left to become partner with Munger, Tolles & Olson in 1991... Co-founder of Debtor Assistance Program, which has 150 local volunteer attorneys helping indigent indigent 1) n. a person so poor and needy that he/she cannot provide the necessities of life (food, clothing, decent shelter) for himself/herself. 2) n. one without sufficient income to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case. debtors... "The most successful bankruptcy case is the one that never gets filed," he says Raised in Pasadena... Married, three children. Accomplishments: Lead counsel for Edison International during recent settlement with Public Utilities Commission and resulting payment plan of $3.3 billion in debts... Southern California Edison vice president general counsel Stephen Pickett praises Walper for his "calm, common sense and dispassionate dis·pas·sion·ate adj. Devoid of or unaffected by passion, emotion, or bias. See Synonyms at fair1. dis·pas reasoning in a crisis?'... "Would rather resolve issues on a consensual level based on business reality than fight about it in court," adds attorney Marc Beilinson... Represented Berkshire Hathaway in its joint venture acquisition of 51 percent of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Finova Group for $6 billion in assumed debt. Danny King HOWARD WEG WEG Wohnungseigentumsgesetz WEG World Equestrian Games WEG West End Games (gaming company) WEG Wicked Evil Grin WEG Woodbine Entertainment Group WEG Wright Entertainment Group WEG Weapons Evaluation Group WEG Water-Ethylene Glycol Age: 46 Firm: Peitzman, Glassman & Weg Specialty: Business bankruptcy and corporate reorganization Background: Born and raised in L.A... B.A. in political science and economics, UCLA, 1976... Southwestern University Law School, 1979... Masters of law degree, Yale Law School Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars and several legal research centers. , 1980... Practiced business or bankruptcy law at four L.A. law firms from 1980 to 1999... Married with two children... Enjoys golf, reading history books, traveling to Europe and Middle East. Accomplishments: Chairman of Official Committee of Participant Creditors representing nine creditors seeking more than $1 billion from Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. ("One of the most important and complex cases I've been involved in;' he says) ... "He's a very worthy adversary," notes a turnaround consultant. "He's good at educating his client to understand what needs to be done. It speeds up the process and saves both parties sometimes millions of dollars in fees and lost opportunities?'... Organized 1996 sale of L.A.-based producer Carolco Pictures Inc.'s 75-film library, including "Rambo" series, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," "Basic Instinct," to pay off $125 million debt that forced company to file for Chapter 11 protection. David Greenberg RICHARD L. WYNNE Age: 43 Firm: Kirkland & Ellis Specialty: Bankruptcy and restructuring Background: Originally from New York... B.A., Political Science, Indiana University... J.D. Columbia University '82... Started career in New York doing litigation and corporate bankruptcy... Moved to Los Angeles in 1985, started at Levene & Eisenberg, a boutique bankruptcy firm...Left in 1995 at partner level... Founding partner of Wynne Spiegel Itkin in 1995... Merged with Kirkland & Ellis in June 2001... Active in amateur auto racing... Races a BMW BMW in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. 325 and an Acura NSX NSX New Sportscar eXperimental (concept name for Acura vehicle; originally NS-X) NSX Namespace Extension (Windows Shell Programming) NSX N Syndrome NSX Network and Security Experts NSX New Sports Experimental ... Married, no children... BelAir resident. Accomplishments: Represented creditors committee in Carolco Pictures Chapter 11 case... Negotiated sale of film library, including "Terminator 2," "Total Recall;' "Basic Instinct," "Cliffhanger cliff·hang·er n. 1. A melodramatic serial in which each episode ends in suspense. 2. A suspenseful situation occurring at the end of a chapter, scene, or episode. 3. " and the "Rambo" series, for more than $100 million... Represented McNall Sports & Entertainment as debtor in Chapter 11 case involving more than $400 million in claims... Currently represents creditors committee in the $600 million Reed Slatkin bankruptcy case ... Focused on getting the maximum value for his clients. "There is some science to it, but there's a lot of art in being able to estimate what something will cost versus how much can be recovered," said a client. "I find his counsel to be extremely insightful in those areas. I just want to maximize my return, Rick is very focused on doing that for his clients." Conor Dougherty |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion