Michael S Stamer

Practice Areas

Michael Stamer represents official and unofficial committees of unsecured creditors, secured lender groups, debtors, boards of directors and special committees, debtor-in-possession lenders, plan sponsors and acquirers of businesses and assets in large, complex Chapter 11 cases and domestic and international out-of-court restructurings. Michael has played a leading role in many high-profile recent restructurings in the energy, oilfield services, power, healthcare, retail and media industries.

His recent engagements include advising the ad hoc noteholder committee in PG&E, an informal committee of certain unaffiliated holders of senior unsecured notes of Weatherford International, an informal second lien noteholder group in the chapter 11 cases of Rex Energy; an informal noteholder group in Parker Drilling; an informal secured noteholder group that served as plan sponsor in the chapter 11 cases of CHC Group; the creditors’ committees in Calpine Corp. and General Growth Properties; Hercules Offshore, as Debtor, in its chapter 11 cases; the independent governance committee of the board of each of NRG Rema and Genon Mid-Atlantic; an informal secured lender group in the out-of-court restructuring of Outcome Health/Context Media; and the creditors’ committees in Cumulus Media and Quiksilver, Inc.