Mr. Larry G. Halperin

Larry G. Halperin, CPA is a partner in Chapman and Cutler LLP?s Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group and co-office leader of the firm?s New York office. He focuses his practice on the financial restructuring of distressed companies, high-yield and distressed-debt transactions, commercial lending transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Halperin typically represents agents, private funds, investment banks and financial institutions in connection with their investments in, and financing transactions to, mid-cap companies. He also represents special restructuring committees of boards of directors and independent directors of distressed companies in restructuring matters. As part of his M&A practice, Mr. Halperin has counseled clients who desire to acquire portfolio companies in need of restructuring by acquiring such companies? distressed debt. He has advised lenders in connection with an orderly exercise of remedies to achieve a practical, business-oriented restructuring solution for the company and the acquiring fund. He also advises clients participating in the global secondary market for troubled and non-performing loans and claims. Mr. Halperin speaks at industry conferences on distressed investing and restructuring topics, including ABI?s VALCON conference, American College of Investment Counsel (ACIC) conferences, and Turnaround Management Association (TMA) conferences and chapter programs. In addition, he teaches a corporate restructuring class as an adjunct professor at the Darden School of Business at theUniversity of Virginia, and he is a popular restructuring class guest lecturer for undergraduate business and M.B.A. students at Columbia University and the University of Michigan, as well as the University of Michigan Maize and Blue Fund and the University of Michigan Entrepreneur & Venture Club. Mr.Halperin received his B.B.A. in 1982 with distinction from the University of Michigan and his J.D. cum laude in 1987 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.