Mr. G. Christopher Meyer

G. Christopher Meyer is a senior partner in the Sarasota, Fla., office of Squire Patton Boggs and con- centrates his practice on bankruptcy and insolvency issues. He has significant experience in workouts, restructurings and bankruptcy reorganizations including representing both debtors and creditors in com- mercial cases. He also has experience in general real estate and commercial lending and in troubled-loan issues. Mr. Meyer was named in The Best Lawyers in America in 2011 as Cleveland Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Lawyer of the Year, and has been listed in it every year since 1995. He also ap- pears in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, PLC Which lawyer? Yearbook, The Legal 500 US and Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers. In addition, he has been selected by Thomson Reuters as an Ohio Super Lawyer each year since 2005. Mr. Meyer's recent experience includes representing debtors and creditors in hapter 11 reorganization cases, secured creditors in loan workouts, and parties proposing acquisitions and other business transactions with troubled businesses. He is a member of a number of professional associations and organizations, including the American Bar Association's Business Bankruptcy Committee. He is also a past member, treasurer and trustee of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and a past mem- ber and chair of its Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section. Mr. Meyer is a member of ABI and the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, a Fellow and chair of the American College of Bankruptcy, a past director of the College's Foundation and past chair of the College's Board of Regents. In addition, he is a member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) and a past president and trustee of TMA's Northeast Ohio Chapter. In 2011, Mr. Meyer received the Chapter's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. For more than 10 years, he served as an adjunct professor of law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He is also a past trustee of the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, and a past trustee and board president of the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center. Mr. Meyer is admitted to practice in Ohio, Florida, the Third and Sixth Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts for the District of Arizona, the Eastern Districts of Wisconsin and Michigan, and the Northern District of Ohio. He attended Grinnell College and received his B.A. in 1970 from the University of Kansas and his J.D. in 1973 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.