Michael Schneidereit is a partner of the New York office of Gibson Dunn. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice Groups. He focuses on high-stakes liability management transactions, complex corporate reorganizations, and distressed debt litigation, representing creditors and debtors in a wide range of cases including matters relating to the financial, retail, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, logistics, real estate, sports, health care, and oil and gas industries.
Michael has represented lenders in litigating and negotiating many prominent liability management transactions, including lenders to Incora and J. Crew. Michael also represented a group of term lenders to Endo International and the largest group of lenders to Intelsat S.A in its in-court restructuring of $15 billion of debt.
Michael represented the litigation trust established by the chapter 11 plan of MF Global in a lawsuit against that company's former officer. Earlier in his career, he represented chapter 11 debtors including the Los Angeles Dodgers and California Coastal Communities. He also represented creditors or other parties-in-interest in numerous chapter 11 cases including DBSI, Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Hawaii Medical Center, and Namco Capital Group.
Michael received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and Senior Production Editor of the Hastings Law Journal. He received his LL.M. in Trade Regulations from New York University School of Law.
Representative Experience:
- Represented the ad hoc group of Intelsat Jackson unsecured noteholders in the Chapter 11 restructuring of Intelsat S.A., a global satellite communications provider with a $14.7 billion prepetition capital structure, resulting in the group receiving approximately 96% of the equity of the reorganized company.
- The €1.9 billion cross-border restructuring of Swissport, a global aviation services provider, through an English scheme of arrangement and pre-packaged administration, comprehensively deleveraging the company's balance sheet and refinancing €500 million of liabilities through a new long-term facility.
- Represented a group of lenders holding approximately $1 billion of secured term loans in the Chapter 11 restructuring of Monitronics International, a home security and monitoring services provider, including the provision of a $245 million debtor-in-possession financing facility.
- Represented Langur Maize, L.L.C. in the Wesco Aircraft Holdings, Inc. (Incora) adversary proceeding, obtaining a favorable ruling at the trial court.
- Represented the MF Global Litigation Trust, established pursuant to the Chapter 11 plan of MF Global Holdings, in litigation against former officers and directors arising from the company's collapse.
*Includes representations prior to Michael’s association with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- New York Law School - 2005 Master of Laws (LL.M.)
- University of California, San Francisco - 2004 J.D., magna cum laude
- University of California, Santa Cruz - 2000 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- California Bar
- New York Bar