Ron E. Meisler
Ron E. Meisler is a partner in the Corporate Restructuring practice of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Chicago, where he represents companies experiencing financial difficulties, purchasers of and investors in distressed companies, lenders to and creditors of troubled companies, and creditors’ committees in connection with all stages of complex restructurings throughout the U.S. Mr. Meisler’s representations include Black Diamond Capital Management, L.L.C. in its $178 million acquisition of<br>the assets of White Birch Paper Co. as part of its cross-border restructuring; affiliates of Blackstone Capital Partners in connection with a proposed acquisition of a power company; Equity Group Investments LLC in connection with subordinated financings to a subsidiary of Emmis Communications Corp.and in the chapter 11 bankruptcy of MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Health Evolution Partners and affiliates in connection with the chapter 11 of its portfolio company MacKeyser Holdings, LLC, including with respect to originating a DIP loan; Delphi Corp., one of the largest global automotive suppliers,in connection with numerous dispositions of billions of dollars of assets; Zell Credit Opportunities Master Fund, L.P., in the debt-for-equity swap in the chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Delta Petroleum Corp.; Comdisco, Inc., formerly a leading multibillion-dollar leasing and technology company, in connection<br>with its chapter 11 case; Globalstar, Inc., a leading satellite telecommunications company, in connection with its out-of-court exchange; and Montgomery Ward & Co., in connection with its chapter 11 liquidation. He also has experience regarding the intersection of U.K. pension law and U.S. bankruptcy law, and in that regard advised a Fortune 500 company regarding mitigation of U.K. pension regulatory risk, and<br>previously represented the Reader’s Digest U.K. pension trustee and the Visteon U.K. pension trustee,respectively, in each of the Reader’s Digest and Visteon chapter 11 cases. In addition, Mr. Meisler has extensive experience with respect to U.S.-defined benefit pension plans and has solved complex issues and negotiated resolutions with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) in connection with numerous pension plans (both large and small). He was also among the partners leading the representation of the unsecured creditors’ committee of AMR Corp., the parent company of American Airlines, in the company’s chapter 11 case. Mr. Meisler has repeatedly has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and was selected in The Best Lawyers in America in 2015<br>and 2016. He was also twice named one of the country’s “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyers” by Turnarounds & Workouts magazine. Mr. Meisler is a member of the Turnaround Management Association. He received his B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1994 and 1999, respectively, and his J.D. in 1999 from the University of Michigan Law School.