Brett Miller is a partner in the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group and the co-chair of the Distressed Real Estate Group. He handles Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, bankruptcy-related acquisitions and litigation, cross-border insolvency matters, and insolvency-sensitive transactions. He has represented parties in restructurings in industries such as real estate, transportation, retail, manufacturing, food service, oil and gas, and media.
Mr. Miller's clients include official and ad hoc creditors' committees, bank groups, individual lenders, court-appointed fiduciaries, debtors, and investors that focus on distressed situations. His recent assignments include representing Louis Freeh as Examiner in the SemCrude investigation, the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Hawaiian Telcom restructuring, advising the $2.6 billion corporate credit agreement lender group in the General Growth Properties case, advising Wachovia Bank, N.A. in the Extended Stay Inc. case, representing Qimonda AG as U.S. restructuring counsel in its Chapter 15 case and representing numerous financial institutions in the Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. case.
Mr. Miller is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and a former co-chair of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Turnaround & Workouts Magazine named him an “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer” from 2003 through 2006. While earning his law degree at Georgetown University Law Center, he served as articles editor of the journal Law & Policy in International Business.