Mr. Richard E. Mikels

Richard E. Mikels is an attorney with Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones in New York and is experienced in commercial law, workouts and reorganizations. He is known for representing significant debtor companies (both in chapter 11 and in out-of-court workouts), but he also represents creditors? committees, boards of directors, insurance companies, hedge funds, claims traders and acquirers of businesses. Previously, Mr. Mikels was chair of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC?s Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Commercial Law Practice in Boston. He is an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Law and has been listed in Chambers USA directories since 2003, The Best Lawyers in America since1983 and Massachusetts Super Lawyers since 2004. Boston Best Lawyers named him Bankruptcy andCreditor-Debtor Rights Lawyer of the Year in 2010 and Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year in 2013. In2004, Boston University awarded Mr. Mikels the Silver Shingle Award for Distinguished Service to theSchool of Law. He also holds an AV-Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Mikels has con-ducted several mediations of commercial law disputes and co-chairs ABI?s Mediation Committee. He also chaired the subcommittee that drafted ABI?s Model Bankruptcy Rules for Mediation, and he is on the faculty of the ABI/St. John?s University?s 40-Hour Mediation Training Program. Mr. Mikels is often cited in The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Dow Jones and the Boston Globe, and he has also appeared onCNBC. He received both his B.S. and J.D. cum laude from Boston University.

Richard E. Mikels