Larren M. Nashelsky is a partner in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, where he serves as the Chair of the firm-wide Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group. The group has approximately 25 members in 9 cities worldwide, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Tokyo. Mr. Nashelsky is one of the firm-wide Managing Partners and also heads the 75-person Business Department in the New York office. The Business Department includes attorneys in the Bankruptcy & Restructuring, Corporate, Financial Transactions, Financial Services, Project Finance, Real Estate and Technology Transactions Practice Groups.

Mr. Nashelsky's bankruptcy, finance and restructuring practice focuses on representing financial institutions and other creditors and debtors in complex transactional, litigation and advisory work relating to Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, non-bankruptcy workouts and restructurings and finance transactions. Mr. Nashelsky also has extensive experience in real estate restructurings and distressed M&A transactions.

Mr. Nashelsky has represented secured and unsecured creditors in major bankruptcy cases, including Refco, Inc., Delphi Corp., Mirant Corp., WorldCom, Inc., Enron Corp., Global Crossing, NorthWestern Corporation, Key 3 Media, Excite@Home, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Fas Mart Convenience Stores, Inc., Conti Financial Corp., Golden Ocean Group Limited, Unitel Video, Inc. and In re Recycling Industries, Inc.

Mr. Nashelsky has also represented debtors in such Chapter 11 cases as In re Olympia & York Realty Corp., In re NBL Development Group Limited Partnership (the owner of a Jack Nicklaus signature golf course and residential development), In re Olympia & York Maiden Lane Company and Olympia & York Maiden Lane Finance Corp. and In re Consolidated Hydro, Inc.

Mr. Nashelsky is the author and co-author of numerous articles and professional materials and frequent lecturer concerning Chapter 11, out of court restructurings and workouts and transnational bankruptcies. Mr. Nashelsky was listed in The National Law Journal’s “40 Under 40:” Achievements and Influence. He is also listed among the top attorneys in the Bankruptcy industry in TheDeal.com’s Scoreboard: Bankruptcy, currently coming in at number 23.

Prior to joining the firm as a partner in 1999, Mr. Nashelsky was a member of the Business, Finance and Restructuring Department in the New York office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.