Mr. Michael Friedman

Michael Friedman is a partner and practice group leader of Chapman and Cutler LLP?s Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group in New York, and head of the firm?s Israel practice. He focuses his practice on special-situation financings, investments and acquisitions, bankruptcy, and financial restructurings, including the representation of investors and debt-holders in event-driven debt financings, equity investments, acquisitions, financial restructurings and bankruptcy proceedings. Mr. Friedman regularly represents credit funds, hedge funds, private-equity funds, alternative lenders, investment banks and financial institutions. He also advises Israeli financial institutions, investment funds and trustees on U.S.-based special-situation finance and restructuring matters. Mr. Friedman?s broad finance, M&A, bankruptcy and restructuring experience allows him to help clients structure event-driven and special-situation financings and investments in a manner that will allow them to achieve their business objectives in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. He regularly speaks at industry conferences on distressed-investing and restructuring topics, and lectures to undergraduate business and M.B.A. students on restructuring topics; he is currently an adjunct professor teaching a class on corporate restructurings at Yeshiva University. In addition, he has co-authored three case studies, one of which has been published, that high-light restructuring concepts in both for-profit and nonprofit entities and have been presented in business schools and at industry conferences. Mr. Friedman received his B.A. in 1988 from Yeshiva University and his J.D. cum laude in 1991 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.