Michael M. Beal

Michael M. Beal is a practitioner with Beal, LLC in Columbia, S.C., and works primarily with dis-tressed companies, committees and creditors in out-of-court restructurings, chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, and related litigation and transactional matters. He has led debtor restructuring engagements in manufacturing, distribution, hospitality, retail and commercial real estate; led creditor engagements or creditors’ committee engagements in hospitality, commercial real estate, health care and manufacturing; and represented an indenture trustee in the chapter 9 restructuring of a toll road. He also has served as counsel to state and federal court receivers and bankruptcy trustees in numerous matters, including fraud cases. Mr. Beal enjoys mediating complex commercial and bankruptcy matters and is approved to serve as a Circuit Court Mediator by the South Carolina Board of Arbitration and Mediator Certification. He also has completed the ABI/St. John’s University School of Law 40-hour Bankruptcy Mediation Training Program. Prior to founding Beal, LLC, Mr. Beal led the bankruptcy practice at McNair Law Firm and clerked for Hon. J. Bratton Davis, Chief U.S.Bankruptcy Judge for the District of South Carolina. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America from 2003-22 and in was featured in South Carolina Super Lawyers from 2008-21. Mr. Beal received his B.S. in 1981 from the College of Charleston and his J.D. in 1984 from the University ofSouth Carolina.