Mr. Feldman is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Co-Chair of the firm's Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. Mr. Feldman's practice focuses on the representation of distressed investors, lenders, bondholders and creditor committees in a variety of bankruptcy cases, out-of-court restructurings, and distressed asset and debt transactions.  A brief description of Mr. Feldman’s practice areas is set forth below.

Committees and Bank Groups

Mr. Feldman has 15 years of experience representing creditor committees, bondholders, bank groups and equity committees in some of the largest and most complicated chapter 11 cases. Most recently, Mr. Feldman represented the majority bondholders of Ainsworth Lumber, a major US/Canadian forest product company, in connection with Ainsworth's restructuring pursuant to the Canadian Business Corporations Act,  the bank group of M. Fabrikant & Sons, a leading national diamond wholesaler, in connection with the chapter 11 case of Fabrikant & Sons (SDNY), the holders of the subordinated debt of Credit-Based Asset Servicing and Securitization LLC ("C-BASS") in connection with the out-of-court restructuring of C-BASS, the agent for the First Lien Lenders of Performance Transportation Services/Leaseway in connection with PTS's first bankruptcy case (WDNY), and the Official Equity Committee of Footstar, Inc. (SDNY), a national shoe supplier to mass market retailers, including Kmart.  Over the past several years Mr. Feldman has represented the following creditors: Pennsylvania Fashions, Inc. (pre-petition and DIP lenders); Newcor, Inc. (pre-petition bondholders and post-petition creditors’ committee); Questron Technology, Inc. (pre-petition bondholders and post-petition creditors’ committee); Big V Supermarkets (creditors’ committee); Glenoit Corporation (pre-petition and DIP lenders); and American Architectural Products (creditors’ committee).

Distressed and Special Situations Lending

Mr. Feldman  regularly represents financial institutions and hedge funds as lenders in connection with cutting edge loan transactions, including DIP loans, chapter 11 exit facilities, second lien loans, mezzanine loans, bridge loans, acquisition facilities and other transactions.

Distressed Mergers and Acquisitions

Mr. Feldman often represents sophisticated hedge funds in connection with their acquisitions of companies in and out of bankruptcy. Such transactions often involve new debt and equity components.

Mr. Feldman was named by the Investment Dealers Digest as one of the Top 40 Under 40 Dealmakers of 2007.  He is the author of “Appointing Equity Committees: Insolvency Is One of Several Factors Courts Consider in Making Determination,” New York Law Journal, Corporate Restructuring & Bankruptcy Special Section, August 8, 2004.

Mr. Feldman received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, in 1993.  He graduated from Cornell University in 1989.  Mr. Feldman clerked for Chief Judge William H. Gindin, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey, for two years following law school.  Mr. Feldman is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York.

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1996
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1995
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1993

Professional Affiliations

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
New York County Lawyer's Association

*Representations occurred prior to Partner's affiliation with Gibson Dunn.