Ron E Meisler

Practice Areas

Represents companies experiencing financial difficulties, purchasers of and investors in distressed companies, lenders to and creditors of troubled companies and creditors’ committees in connection with all stages of complex restructurings throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America.

Company-side representations of note include: Armstrong Flooring, Inc., Atlas Resource Partners, Blue Bird, Comdisco, Delphi Automotive, Eagle Food Centers, Globalstar, McLeodUSA Incorporated, Melinta Therapeutics, Inc., Montgomery Ward & Co., OneGas, Pennfield Corporation, Synergy Pharmaceuticals Inc., The GEO Group, Inc., The Singer Company N.V., Titan Energy, LLC, Triangle USA Petroleum Corp., TriRx Pharmaceutical Services, LLC, True Value Company, L.L.C., various upstream and midstream oil and gas companies and WeWork.

Representations of purchasers (including financial and strategic buyers, as well as insiders seeking to buy back their businesses) and distressed investors include: Altaris Capital, APTIM, Black Diamond Capital Management, L.L.C., Blackstone Capital Partners, Callidus Capital Corporation, EF Capital, Equity Group Investments LLC, Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd., Health Evolution Partners, Hermitage Management LLC and PPM America, Inc., Iconical Investments II LP, JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., Key Safety Systems, Inc., Leerink Intermediate Holdings LLC, Lucid USA II, Inc., Norwest Equity Partners, second-lien lenders and certain funds affiliated with Patriarch Partners, third-lien lenders in the Entegra Power Group, LLC chapter 11, Padagis LLC, Silver Point Capital, L.P., The Washington Group, TTAM Research Institute, Veritas, Zell Credit Opportunities Master Fund, L.P., and Ziff Brothers Investments.

Has extensive experience regarding the intersection of U.K. pension law and U.S. bankruptcy law, and in that regard has advised a Fortune 500 company regarding mitigation of U.K. pension regulatory risk. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan Law School and a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and the Wharton School of Business.

Personal

JD, University of Michigan Law School, 1999; MBA, University of Michigan, 1999; BA, University of Michigan, 1994.