Kaye Scholer

Significant representations include:

• Debtor corporations in Chapter 11 cases including GSC Group, Inc., Insight Health, JHT Transportation, Pappas Telecasting, Maax Corp., Spinnaker Industries, Nutritional Sourcing Corporation and Questhaven/Runningbrook Venture.
  
  
• Numerous entities acquiring insolvent companies, including the purchasers of Ganton Technologies, Colfor Manufacturing Co., Colmach Manufacturing Co., Domore Corporation, Alma Desk Co. and Medcare HMO’s assets in its Chapter 11 case.
  
  
• Management groups in the sale of operations, including the Worldwide Business Consulting practice of Andersen Worldwide SC and related partnerships, STS Consultants and Kotler Industries.
  
  
• Senior lender groups and agents in workouts and Chapter 11 cases including WCI Communities, Aladdin Gaming, Pioneer Corporation of America, Formica Corporation and Holmes Group.
  
  
• Van Kampen Funds throughout the United States, including Vencor, Inc., Breed Technologies, MobileMedia, Decision One, Camelot Music, Marvel Entertainment, Color Tile and the London Fog restructurings.
  
  
• Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the PG&E National Energy Group bankruptcy case.
  
  
• Bondholders and creditor committees, including those represented in the Reliance Acceptance and We Care Chapter 11 cases.
  
  
• The Chapter 11 Trustee in the Grabill and related corporate Chapter 11 cases in the sale of the debtors’ operating companies, for an amount in excess of $72,000,000, as well as appeals to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on various matters.
  
  
• Balcor in its successful appeal to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in In re Windsor on the River, which rejected a confirmed plan of reorganization because it artificially impaired the accepting creditor class.

Mr. Solow is the author of Lease Terminations and Mortgage Foreclosures as Fraudulent Conveyances and co-author of Buying Assets in Bankruptcy: A Guide to Purchasers and Considerations in Dealing with the Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation in Chapter 11 and Lender Liability and Equitable Subordination in the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education’s Secured Transactions 2001. He is a frequent lecturer on various topics relating to dealing with insolvent entities. Mr. Solow serves on numerous boards of directors for both public and private companies, including TransWorld Entertainment and the Western Golf Association. He was named as one of the leading practitioners in Who’s Who Legal USA: Insolvency & Restructuring 2006. Mr. Solow has been recognized as a Leading Individual in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business since its inception. This year’s edition of Chambers USA says that “[Michael Solow] has a reputation as a deal maker, and his knowledge of the US bankruptcy code was singled out for praise by commentators.”