
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
767 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10153
Phone: 212-310-8500
Fax: 212-310-8077
email: harvey.miller@weil.com
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HARVEY R. MILLER, Esq.
Harvey R. Miller, born New York City, March 1, 1933; admitted to bar, 1959, New York. Admitted: United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Circuits; United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; New York State. Education: Brooklyn College (A.B., 1954); Columbia University (LL.B., 1959). Harvey R. Miller currently is a Partner in the New York City based international law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP where he had been a member of the Firm’s Management Committee for over 25 years and created and developed the Firm’s Business Finance & Restructuring Department specializing in reorganizing distressed business entities and representing creditors, investors and purchasers of distressed businesses and assets. From September, 2002 to March, 2007, he was a Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Greenhill & Co., LLC, an international investment banking firm. Adjunct Associate Professor of Law 1974-76, and Adjunct Professor of Law 1976 to present, New York University Law School; Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School, 1983-84; Lecturer in Law 2000 to present, Columbia University School of Law; Member, Board of Visitors Columbia University School of Law through 2002; Member, Dean’s Council Columbia University School of Law 2003-present; Member, National Bankruptcy Conference; Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy; Fellow of the American Bar Foundation; Trustee, Committee on Economic Development.
Publications include: A Practical Guide to the Bankruptcy Reform Act (1979), together with the 1982 and 1986 Supplements to the Guide (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich); Collier Forms Manual for Proceedings Under the Bankruptcy Act and the Securities Investor Protection Act, 2d Edition; Contributing Editor, Collier on Bankruptcy, 15th Edition, and Federal Attorney Fee Awards Reporter, Bankruptcy Fee Section. Contributor to: Labor Law and Business: Theoretical and Transactional Perspectives, Quorum Books (1988); Real Estate Titles, New York State Bar Association, 1984 (1990 Update), (2d Ed. 1994); Workouts and Turnarounds I: The Handbook of Restructuring and Investing in Distressed Companies, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993; Bankruptcy: An Invasion of Private Rights?, Workouts and Turnarounds II, Global Restructuring Strategies for the Next Century, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999, Author and Co-Author; Looming Financial or Business Failure: Fix or File – A Legal Perspective; Corporate Governance in Chapter 11: The Fiduciary Relationship Between Directors and Stockholders of Solvent and Insolvent Corporations, 23 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1467 (1993); Team Leader of 2d Circuit Bankruptcy Law Project, including publication of The Development of Bankruptcy Reorganization Law in the Courts of the Second Circuit of the United States (Matthew Bender) (1995); Author, The Changing Face of Chapter 11: A Reemergence of the Bankruptcy Judge as Producer, Director, and Sometimes Star of the Reorganization Passion Play, 69 Amer. Bkcy. L.J. 431 (1995); Disinterestedness – The Chapter 11 Paradigm!” 7 J. Bankr. L. & Prac. 359 (1998); Chapter 11 Reorganization Cases and the Delaware Myth, 55 Vanderbilt L.R. 1987 (2002); and Does Chapter 11 Reorganization Remain a Viable Option for Distressed Businesses for the Twenty-First Century, 78 Amer. Bkcy. L.J. 153 (2004); The Future of Chapter 11, 47 Boston College L.R.129 (2005); and The Implications of the Third Circuit’s Armstrong Decision On Creative Corporate Restructuring: Will Strict Construction Of The Absolute Priority Rule Make Chapter 11 Consensus Less Likely?, 55 American University L.R. (5) 1345 (2006).
Lecturer for The Federal Judicial Center Workshop for Bankruptcy Judges; American Law Institute/American Bar Association; NYU Workshop on Bankruptcy and Business Reorganization; Practicing Law Institute; Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute; Southwestern Legal Foundation; American Bankruptcy Institute; New York Law Journal Seminars; Banking Law Institute; National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges; Stetson College of Law Bankruptcy Seminar; Distressed Debt Conference; Commercial Finance Association; INSOL; California Bankruptcy Bar Forum; International Insolvency Institute; Delaware Inns of Court; Prentice Hall Law & Business, Inc.; New York State Bar Association, Euromoney Restructuring Conference, and various local bar associations and numerous law schools and business schools.
Major representative cases include:
Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., et al. – Attorneys for Debtor
General Motors Corporation – Attorneys for Debtor
Pacific Gas & Electric, Inc. – Attorneys for Parent Holding Company
Texaco Inc. – Attorneys for Debtor
Global Crossing, Inc. – Attorneys for Debtor
Safety-Kleen Corporation, et al. – Attorneys for Bank Lenders
Sunbeam Corporation – Attorneys for Debtors
Carmike Cinemas, Inc. – Attorneys for Debtors
Bruno’s, Inc. – Attorneys for Debtors
Arch Wireless, Inc. – Attorneys for Bank Lenders
Bethlehem Steel Corp – Attorneys for Debtors
Green Mountain Power Company – Attorney for Utility
Donald J. Trump, et al. –Attorneys for Bank Lenders
Continental Airlines Corp. – Attorneys for Debtors (1st chapter 11)
Braniff Airways – Attorneys for Bank Lenders
Federated Department Stores, Inc., et al. (Campeau) – Attorneys for Bank Lenders
Southland Corporation -- Attorneys for Bank Lenders
John C. Portman, Jr., et al. – Attorneys for Bank Lender
Global Marine, Inc., et al. – Attorneys for Debtor
Western Company of North America – Attorneys for Debtor
Revco D.S., Inc., et al. – Attorneys for Largest Equity Security Holder
W. T. Grant Company – Attorneys for Trustee
Mortgage and Realty Trust – Attorneys for Insurance Company Lenders
and Creditors’ Committee
Best Products Co., Inc. – Attorneys for Debtors (1st and 2nd chapter 11 cases)
Eagle-Picher, Inc. – Attorneys for Debtors
R.H. Macy & Co., Inc. – Attorneys for Debtors
Zale Corporation – Attorneys for Debtors
F & M Distributors, Inc. – Attorneys for Debtors
EII – Attorneys for Lenders
Weiner’s Stores, Inc. – Attorneys for Debtors
Circle K Corporation – Attorneys for Debtors
Orange County – Attorneys for Merrill Lynch
Rockefeller Center Properties, Inc. – Attorneys for REIT as Mortgagee
Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. – Attorneys for Debtors
Edison Brothers Stores, Inc. – Attorneys for Debtors
Tosco Corporation – Attorneys for Bank Lender
Payless Cashways, Inc. – Attorneys for Secured Lender
Storage Technology Corporation (STC) – Attorneys for Bank Lenders
Global Broadcasting Co., Inc. – Attorneys for Acquiror
BAESA/PepsiCo (Argentina) – Attorneys for Bank Lender
CRIMII MAE – Attorneys for Bank Lender
United Companies Financial Corp. – Attorneys for Debtors
Factory Card Outlet – Attorneys for Debtors
County Seat, Inc. – Attorneys for Debtors
PennCorp Financial Group – Attorneys for Debtor
Ionica plc (United Kingdom) – Attorneys for Parent Holding Company
Integrated Health Systems Network – Attorneys for Bank Lender
Next Wave Telecom, Inc. – Attorneys for Debtor
Loral Space & Communications, Ltd. – Financial Advisor for Debtor
AMR, Inc. – Financial Advisor for Company
Delta Air Lines, Inc. – Financial Advisor
Tishman Speyer – As Mortgagee – Financial Advisor
Delphi, Inc. – Advisor for General Motors
Collins & Aikman Corp. – Advisor for General Motors
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