John A. Pintarelli

Associate

New York, (212) 336-4133

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Education

Rutgers University (B.A., 1992)
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Fordham University (M.B.A., 1998)
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Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 2006)

Practices

Business Restructuring + Insolvency

Bar Admissions

New Jersey
New York

Mr. Pintarelli represents debtors and creditors in complex domestic and international bankruptcy and insolvency matters, including judicial and out-of-court restructurings. John also represents banks, investors and lenders in debtor-in-possession (DIP) and exit financings, loan restructurings, asset sales, and other aspects of bankruptcy cases.

John regularly advises clients on distressed trading and derivatives contracts, including interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, total return swaps, f/x trades, and structured products, and bankruptcy issues related to the termination, valuation and monetization of such contracts.

Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Mr. Pintarelli was a vice president in The Bank of New York's Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa Group where he served as the New York-based client executive responsible for the bank's Arabian Gulf relationships. Prior to that, Mr. Pintarelli held various positions in the bank's Trade Finance product management and operations groups.

MF Global Holdings Ltd.

(Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Counsel to Louis J. Freeh, former Federal Judge and former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as Chapter 11 Trustee for MF Global in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. With $41 billion in assets at the time of filing, MF Global was the largest bankruptcy filing of 2011 and the eighth-largest in U.S. history. This case involves a wind-down of an extremely complex global operation and the realization of value from various entities in the MF Global Group, many of which are in their own administration or liquidation proceedings domestically and internationally.

Residential Capital, LLC

(Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Counsel to Residential Capital, one of the largest residential real estate finance companies with assets and liabilities each in excess of $15 billion, whose business is comprised primarily of loan servicing and origination, and its subsidiary companies, in their pending chapter 11 cases. Residential Capital was the largest bankruptcy filing of 2012 and the case represents the first time ever that a mortgage servicer was able to successfully continue servicing and originating mortgages in bankruptcy and be sold as a going concern.

Madoff Proceedings

Representation of the liquidators of several hedge funds that invested directly or indirectly in BMIS in proceedings in the United States, Cayman, BVI and Europe.

FGIC Corp.

(Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) Representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of FGIC Corporation in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. FGIC had guarantied more than $300 billion of municipal and structured finance debt before the 2007 credit crisis.

The Resolution Committees of Glitnir Bank hf. and Landsbanki Islands hf.

Representation of two of the largest banks in Iceland, on issues related to securities matters, restructuring of assets, cross-border conflicts of law, and litigation matters as well as providing advice related to the global settlement of claims. In addition, MoFo worked with the Icelandic banks to harmonize their winding-up procedures with those of the United States, the European Union, and Canada.

Sumitomo Corporation

We represented Sumitomo Corporation in the Apex Silver Mines Limited Chapter 11 case as pre-petition secured lender, DIP lender, and acquirer (from Apex's non-debtor subsidiaries) of Minera San Cristobal, the largest silver, zinc, and lead mine in Bolivia.