Michael Pera

Michael Pera is Restructuring counsel with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York, where he represents companies, creditors, hedge funds, banks and other strategic parties in a wide range of corporate restructuring transactions. These include prepackaged and traditional bankruptcies, out-of-court workouts, debtor-in-possession and exit financing transactions, asset sales, cross-border insolvencies and liability-management transactions. Mr. Pera received his A.B. in history from Duke University and his J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was admitted to the Order of the Coif and served as articles editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.