Understanding Enforcement Issues in Bankruptcy Make-Whole Provisions in 2015

Ben Rosenblum represents debtors, creditors, and other parties in interest in court supervised proceedings, out-of-court restructurings, distressed acquisitions, and distressed counterparty risk assessment and management. He also has extensive experience representing major financial institutions with respect to the application of bankruptcy law to derivatives.

Most recently, Ben played a significant role in representing the City of Detroit, Michigan in its chapter 9 case, the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.  In connection with the firm's engagement as special counsel to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and its affiliated debtors,  Ben represented Lehman Bros. in various derivatives litigation and prelitigation matters.  Ben also was part of the team of Jones Day attorneys that represented Chrysler LLC in connection with its successful chapter 11 reorganization.

 

Peter Kaufman is President of Gordian Group and heads the firm’s Restructuring and Distressed M&A practice.  He has been ranked the #1 national investment banker in financial restructuring by The Deal. 

Mr. Kaufman is also a Co-founder and a Managing Partner of Bacchus Capital Management, a private equity fund providing strategic capital in the wine industry.

With Henry Owsley, Gordian Group’s Chief Executive Officer, he is the co-author of the definitive work in the field, Distressed Investment Banking: To the Abyss and Back, Beard Books LLC, 2005, and the recently published Equity Holders Under Siege: Strategies and Tactics for Distressed Businesses, Beard Books LLC, 2014; both books are “must-read” for boards of directors, management teams and shareholders and/or owners of financially stressed situations, as well as for buyers and professionals.

Mr. Kaufman is national TV’s go-to authority for restructuring and bankruptcy views.

Mr. Kaufman has long history advising banking and insurance institution regulators, state governments and federal agencies over Gordian’s more than 25 years as a firm. Gordian Group has had over 275 engagements on behalf of companies, boards of directors, and shareholders (including entrepreneurs and private equity firms).

Mr. Kaufman received a B.A. with honors in History and Art History from Yale College (won letters in varsity lacrosse), and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, (top quarter of his class).