STEPHEN H. CASE, Esq.

Mr. Case is a partner in the Davis Polk & Wardwell Corporate Department in New York. He represents clients in workouts and restructurings, bankruptcy cases, business combination transactions, and bank loan and other investment transactions. His work has included representation of a major shareholder in two large, privately held companies in a protracted contest for control, representation of Johns-Manville as a Chapter 11 debtor, representation of a group of banks in enacting amendments to the Trustee Indenture Act of 1939 and numerous representations of investment banking firms, commercial banks and industrial corporations in a wide variety of complex transactions.

Mr. Case joined Davis Polk in 1968 and became a partner in 1975. He graduated from Columbia College in 1964. He studied philosophy at the University of Michigan for one year as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. In 1968 Mr. Case received his LL.B. from Columbia School of Law, cum laude, where he was editor in chief of the Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems.

He acted as a Senior Advisor to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in 1996 and 1997. He is a member of the board of trustees of Columbia University.

An adjunct professor for Georgetown University Law Center, Mr. Case has also taught advanced Chapter 11 continuing legal education courses. His publications include "The Trust Indenture Act Needs No Conflict of Interest Revisions," in 35 The Business Lawyer 161 (1979); "Comparison of Approximate Hourly Costs of Legal and Other Professional Service Providers," in 41 Federal Bar News & Journal 216 (1994); "Report of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Uncertificated Debt Securities," in 46 The Business Lawyer 909 (1991); "Current Issues in Prepackaged Chapter 11 Plans of Reorganization and Using the Federal Declaratory Judgment Act for Instant Reorganizations," 1991 Annual Survey of American Law 75. He has also published numerous short papers for lawyer education programs. He is a member of the American Law Institute and the National Bankruptcy Conference for which he served as a vice chair of the Committee on Legislation from 1992 to 1996.