Michael S. Stamer concentrates on debtors’ and creditors’ rights, corporate restructurings and bankruptcy law.
Mr. Stamer represents official and unofficial committees of unsecured creditors, debtors, secured creditors, DIP lenders and acquirers of business and assets in large, complex chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. He has served as lead counsel in the representation of—
- the creditors’ committee in the chapter 11 case of General Growth Properties, Inc.
- the informal secured lender group in iStar Financial
- the creditors’ committee in the chapter 11 case of Calpine Corporation
- the informal secured lender group in the restructuring of YRC Worldwide, Inc.
- the informal noteholder committee in the chapter 11 case of R.H. Donnelley Corp.
- the informal noteholder group in the chapter 11 case of Visteon Corporation
- the creditors’ committees in the chapter 11 cases of several large international telecommunications companies, including Flag Telecom
- the creditors’ committee in the chapter 11 case of Magellan Health Services, the largest behavioral health care company
- Call-Net Enterprises, a large international telecommunications company in connection with the restructuring of $1.5 billion in bond debt
- the noteholder committee in the chapter 11 case of Fountain View (n/k/a Skilled Health).
Mr. Stamer has been recognized in 2011 by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading lawyer in the area of bankruptcy/restructuring.
Mr. Stamer received his B.A. from the University of Vermont in 1986 and his J.D. from the Rutgers School of Law - Newark in 1989. After law school, he was a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Daniel J. Moore, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of New Jersey. Mr. Stamer is admitted to practice before the state courts of New York and New Jersey and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey.