 MICHAEL S. FOX
Partner / New York
Mr. Fox is the senior partner of the firm's Business Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group. Mr. Fox regularly represents parties in Chapter 11 reorganization cases, out of court workouts and restructurings of financially troubled companies on a national basis. His clients span many industries including Retail, Consumer Electronics, Manufacturing, Health Care, Food, Service and Toys. Mr. Fox's clients include creditors' committees, creditors, hedge funds, debt and equity security holders and the companies themselves. He also counsels buyers and sellers of financially distressed assets and provides strategic counseling on business opportunities, the implications of transactions and enterprise structuring and financing. He has a reputation for being innovative, effective and efficient in his representations.
Mr. Fox has been selected as a Super Lawyer by the publisher of Law and Politics Magazine for 2007 and 2008.
Mr. Fox has represented clients in a wide variety of bankruptcy-related litigations. He is an active member of the Turnaround Management Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He was a founding partner of the boutique bankruptcy firm Traub Banacquist & Fox LLP, practicing there from 1987 to 2005, when he moved his practice group to Olshan.
Mr. Fox earned his J.D. from Washington College of Law in 1982. He received his B.S. from the University of Albany in 1978, graduating suma cum laude.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
Mr. Fox currently or has recently represented creditors' committees in cases such as KB Toys, Inc.; FAO Schwarz Inc.; Superior Telecom, Inc.; Happy Kids, Inc.; Outsourcing Solutions, Inc.; Interliant Inc., Museum Company, San Francisco Music Box Co.; OMNA Medical Corp.; Physicians Health Corp.; and Regional Diagnostics LLC.
BAR ADMISSIONS
1983, New York
1983, U.S. District Court
1983, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York
1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
MEMBER
American Bar Association (Member, Section on Insolvency and Litigation)
Association of Banking and Commercial Law Firms
Nassau and New York County Lawyers Association
Commercial Law League of America
(Member, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Section)
American Bankruptcy Institute
Turnaround Management New York Chapter Association (Board Member) |
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Bankruptcy
Creditors' Rights
Corporate Reorganization |
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Retail
Manufacturing
Health Care
Telecommunications
Technology |
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My Articles |
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June 2000, Author, "Representing Creditors' Committees in Health Care-Related Bankruptcy Cases," Bankruptcy Strategist, Vol. XVII, No. 8
January 2001, Author, "Debt Restructuring Agreements Find Favor in Preference Cases," Bankruptcy Strategist, Vol. XVIII, No. 3
Limits on Avoidance Actions: In re Cybergenics. Bankruptcy Strategist, Vol. XIX, No. 12, October 2002 |
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