Mr. Michael H. Ahrens

Michael H. Ahrens is a partner in Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP's Finance and Bank- ruptcy Practice Group in San Francisco, where he specializes in business bankruptcies. He has represented debtors, creditors, creditors' committees and asset purchasers in a wide variety of in- dustries. He has also represented lenders, creditors and committees in bankruptcies and workouts. Mr. Ahrens has served as director for the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum and is a former co-chair of the California Bankruptcy Conference's Committee to the Ninth Circuit, as well as a member of the Northern District of California Bankruptcy Advisory Committee, and has been appointed as a me- diator for the past 20 years in the Northern District of California's Bankruptcy Dispute Resolution Program. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and has been listed as a leading bankruptcy lawyer in Chambers USA from 2004-present and in The Best Lawyers in America since 2003. Mr. Ahrens received both his B.A in 1967 and his J.D. in 1969 from the University of San Francisco.