Larren 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 also represents financial institutions in leveraged financings, including asset-based lending, secured and unsecured lending, and other forms of debt financings.

Mr. Nashelsky is one of the firm-wide Managing Partners of Morrison & Foerster LLP. He also serves as the Chair of the firm-wide Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice group, and heads the 75-person Business Department in the New York Office. Mr. Nashelsky is an author of numerous articles and professional materials and frequent lecturer concerning Chapter 11 process, out of court restructurings and workouts, and transnational bankruptcies.

Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster as a partner in 1999, Mr. Nashelsky was a member of the Bankruptcy, Finance and Restructuring group in the New York office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

• Represents an investment bank as agent for a $236 million syndicate of secured banks in a restructuring of loans to a cross-border steel company.
  
  
• Represents one of the leading money-center banks as a secured creditor in the Chapter 11 case of a chain of 100 plus gas and convenience stores in the Southeast.
  
  
• Represented SkinMedica, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, in its $40 million acquisition of all U.S. rights and certain international rights to VANIQA® out of the Chapter 11 case of Womens First Healthcare, Inc.